The Breakfast Club - The Breakfast Club Best Of Episode(Stacey Lee Spratt Interview, Tamika Mallory Interview + More)

Episode Date: January 15, 2024

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Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God.

What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. We need help! That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast

Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay.

Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, y'all. Niminy here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove, The Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop.

Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone. The tip of the cap, there's another one gone. Each episode is about a different, inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it.

And it began with me. Did you know, did you know? I wouldn't give up my seat. Nine months before Rosa, it was called a woman. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you

listen to podcasts. You guys have built a platform that influences. Get out of here. It's the world's most dangerous morning show. Wake the f*** up breakfast club. DJ Envy. Envy playing my record, I made it. Charlamagne Tha God. Tha God will get you. What made you think that you were liking the controversial questions we take your thoughts? I like this show.

Thanks breakfast club. This is my favorite show. Wake that ass up. Breakfast club is on. Good morning, USA! posting memes about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but instead of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., y'all are using Jonathan Majors. And I want all of those images of Jonathan Majors to be in black and white, okay?

That's what I need from y'all today. All right, well, of course, we are not in today, so today is a best-of show. We're going to give you some of the best-of material. We just got back. We've only been back a week. It's not our fault it's a federal holiday. Oh, I'm definitely taking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Well, keep it locked. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Break it up. This is your time to get it off your chest. Keep calling. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? What's happening? Yes. Get it off your chest. I can't really

connect you with y'all. We out here. But yes, I just want to get off my chest. It's nothing wrong with a 9-to-5. Like, you got to do what you got to do to get to where you need to be. Hey, do what you got to do. You know, people be trying to downplay 9-to-5. Like, it's not what's popping no more. But I just got off my 9-to-5.

My 9-to-5 is getting me a crib. It's getting me a car. So, yeah, people out there, do nothing with your 9-to-five my nine-to-five is getting me a crib there you go so yeah people out there do nothing with their nine-to-five i bet you i bet you you're making more money at your nine-to-five than these so-called entrepreneurs are making that that own their own businesses that don't have no boss that's facts no for real no for real but hey if you want to be an entrepreneur you know it's working for you like do what works for you everybody be seeing stuff on the internet and they be like oh let me do this let me do this but you know like i said be your own person do what works it's the

it's such a ridiculous narrative when uh people are ashamed to have a job nowadays you know what i mean like one of the things that i've always encouraged people to do is man go to trade school pick up a trade because we need people out here that know how to do hvac we need people out here that know how to you know uh do be to be electricians we need plumbers you know what i'm saying no it's the truth we need we need we need contractors we need these people who know how to do things with their hands and guess what y'all always gonna eat yeah no always think about it right now it's winter time and who's probably one of the first people on the phone lines the hvac guy to make sure the heat work that's right the plumber to make sure that the pipes don't

freeze. That's right. Or mechanics to make sure your car's running through the winter. So absolutely positive. I gotta go get my oil changed today. Okay. Alright. I'm literally going to go get my oil changed today. And guess what? I be having to get my oil changed every other month. So clearly, they always eating. That's right. Get it off

your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, call us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. That's right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, call us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's a new day. This is your time to get it off your chest. Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed. It's time to get up and

get something. Call up now. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Top of the morning, Envy. What's cracking? It's Montana. Montana, what's up?

Where you calling from, brother? I'm calling from the hallway right now. I'm a truck driver. I'm crossing the White Stone, but I just wanted to check in and say what's cracking to you and Uncle Charlotte, man. Peace, King. It was a long three weeks without y'all. Oh, man.

Oh, man. We back, though. How you doing? How you feeling, brother? I'm feeling blessed back in Holly's favor. Uncle Charles, I got a raise right before the new year. My kids are healthy. That's right. And I'm at work.

I can't complain. There you go. There you go. We'll be safe out there. You in that truck now? Yeah, man. You know what I need? Hey, can I get a quick shout-out? Can I get a quick shout-out? Go ahead, brother. All right. We'll give a shout-out to my daughter, shout out To my kids please Alright we'll give a shout out to my daughter Princess To my daughter Brooklyn To my son Blake and my oldest son Tyrell

I love you guys Alright brother you have a good one Be safe on that road Hello who's this This is Laura how are you doing this morning Hey Laura good morning get it off your chest We want to get off my chest You asked about the gamers being home And how old your kids have to be How are you doing this morning? Hey, Laura. Good morning. Get it off your chest. I want to get off my chest about this.

You asked about the gamers being home and how old your kids have to be. Yeah, yesterday we had a topic of, you know, at what age would you leave your kids home alone? Yes. 15 for me is a good age to leave home. It all depends on your kids. But as far as a gamer, definitely not 10. My son is 24. He plays in in his room he has a noise blocking headphones he hears absolutely nothing the alarm goes off he hears nothing i have to go into his bedroom

look his life on and off in the turnaround to even notice i'm even in the house i've been in the house for a whole hour he doesn't even know i'm in there yeah that's what i said about my son he don't hear nothing with them headphones on you could be screaming his name he don't hear nothing you got a damn my alarm shake him and he gets scared but yeah nah i i feel you i agree with you mama yeah so don't leave him home but by the way you say you say your child is 24 goddamn kid that's a grown-ass man right and's a grown-ass man. Right. And my 30-year-old will come over. Right. My 30-year-old will come and play with him too.

They don't know. They have no idea I'm in the house. None. With those headphones on. Don't leave them alone. None of them. I don't trust none of them. They'll burn your house down.

I just want you to know, Queen, if you can't trust a 24-year-old and a 30-year-old, then something happened along the way that you might want to reevaluate. What? I don't trust him at all. Damn it. All right. Y'all have a good one. You too.

Yes, ma'am. Don't call up here talking about your kids won't leave the house in the evening. How about 24 and 30? Big, grown-ass kids. She said, I can't leave my home alone. It ain't 24 and 30. What? What was the comedian saying when she was like, that penis too big to be in my house.

You got to get a job. Who was that? The lady from Abbott Elementary? I can't remember the sister name. She's funny as hell, though. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent,

hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Yes, now our next guest is an American comedian, actor, and radio host. He is best known

as the cast member of the Comedy Central sketch comedy TV series Chappelle's, and radio host. He is best known as the cast member of the Comedy Central Sketch Comedy TV series, Chappelle's Show. Is that how he's best known? You also might have seen him on The Wire and even did a little stick in Spider-Man. No, no, no. Why is your energy changing? He grew up in Alexandria, Virginia.

Why is your energy changing? Why are you a journalist now? I don't need to buy your son. People know who I am, son. Ladies and gentlemen, you might know him from the Chappelle Show and other works like The Corner, Guy Code, Guy Court, and again, like I said,

he was even in Is this the new Envy? Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. I think they cloned him. Is this the new Envy? We bring to you Donnell Rawls.

I don't want that one. Morning, everybody. Welcome, Donnell. How are you? How are you, sir? Pretty good today. Good to see you I love your red socks

Thank you sir If y'all don't know That's what it is That's right Take a look at it That's the new Donnell Nice suit Thank you sir

You know what I'm saying Good fella Spiffy DILF DILF And if people don't know What the acronym is It's for

Dedicated Involved Loving Father I know And one of y'all Reported me on Instagram Somebody reported me

It was either you or you Because I posted a picture I posted a meme Which I always do I posted a meme reported me on Instagram. Somebody reported me. It was either you or you. Because I posted a picture. I posted a meme, which I always do. I posted a meme and it was weird because usually when I post memes

to disrespect y'all, it goes ham. And this meme, get a close up on this. This one right here. And this was just... Oh, I saw that one. Right.

It got five comments. Five likes. And what happened? One of y'all reported me for abuse. Reported me? Yes, it was. Ibi, did you do that? Five likes. And what happened? One of y'all reported me for abuse. Reported me? Yes, it was. Ibi, did you do that? Ibi, you reported that?

You reported me. I ain't gonna lie, I was kind of mad that you took my face out of my picture and put it on a woman's picture and then you put him on my face. The only reason is complexion. You know who the top is? They got light skin. This picture got light skin legs, so it fits. It fits you. It fits you. That's when it went. It fits you. It fits you.

Look at that. It got light skin legs. I was actually wondering why that picture didn't go far. No, I didn't reply. I know you did. It got deleted for real. No, I deleted it because I was like, it's not getting the engagement that I want. Is that why you wore your lawyer suit today, man?

No, this is not my lawyer suit. Black people, we have more than one suit. No, I got more. As soon as I wear a suit, people are like this. You got caught? You all right? Somebody getting married? No, I'm just trying.

This is a new day. It's a new dawn. It's a new life. And I'm feeling good. This is my new thing. Yeah. Can we start this over? How are you doing?

We have Donnell Rollins in the building. Come on in, Donnell. I was so excited to come up here Everybody's like get him get him get him get him get him. I didn't want to do it cuz with too much beef I mean, so can you tell me about your comedy show please? The comedy show I have I'm doing a New York Comedy Festival this weekend Right, it's 9th through 11th, but bigger than that on the 10th. I'm taping my Netflix special produced by Dave Chappelle. I'm coming son. I'm excited about that pause. I'm coming. I want to hear that pause. I'm taping my Netflix special produced by Dave Chappelle. I'm coming, son. I'm excited about that pause. I'm coming, Paul. I want to hear that pause.

I'm coming. I'm coming to the show. It's going to be... I'm excited about it. I did it. I spoke about this before on this platform. I did it before for some reason. We just said we're going to shelve it and we're going to can it. We want to start all over. When I did the first one, Dave said,

Donnell, you're funny, but just being funny does not make a great special. this was two years ago so i had to go back to the drawing board you know not reinvent myself but say okay what's gonna uh make this special special so the stuff that i'm talking about is self-reflective of me why why did it take so long for you to finally get a special done now um because it wasn't the right time okay as a performer or entertainer and this is where people go crazy when you try to compare yourself to what other people are doing and you see somebody else getting a certain amount of acknowledgement or whatever, like, why is it not me? And years ago, I felt that way.

I said, it's not me because it's not the right time. You know? And you're doing it in New York? I'm doing it in New York. You're doing your special in New York. I'm doing my special in New York at the Hard Rock Hotel. They got a beautiful ballroom space here. We're going it out shout out to ricky hughes shout out to dave chappelle shout out to stan latham but i'll just put it like this it's just the right time

but you're not like other comedians who go out there and have been doing the same material for years right every time i see you you got different material i i because for the most part i'm a road comic right so if you're a road comic and you're going to these different places every year people are going to be like i'm sick of him doing the same thing and i tell you there's a lot of comics out here today that they just go for the money grab i've heard so i won't say any names but i heard people like oh man i i've seen them i see the same thing but i always challenged myself to come up with different material uh to to elevate and i'm like you said a lot of people that come to my shows they would agree with it i'm always doing something different that's why when dave told me he wanted to do the

special over i could have been like what are you talking about it was funny but this is the same guy that got over like four grammys emmys so if i'm going to take advice from anybody i'm gonna take it for him and his words were donnie i could put you in front of a room and your ribbit doesn't make it a great special but i think where i'm at now with my stand-up um like i say it's reflective of me it's my life i'm talking about stuff that people can relate to co-parenting you know i'm saying i'm talking about and i know this is your favor i'm talking about mental health you know i'm saying i'm talking about stuff that people can relate to and i think this go around it's going to pop you change a little bit because at one time i'm supposed to change we all change charlamagne you should change too you didn't think charlamagne was serious when it came about mental health but

now you believe it because one time i knew he was always serious about it i was just sick of it oh i i was just like because i came up from place i did not understand mental health any issues and it was a stigma and i gotta say you have done a great job of exposing that and let people thank you feel comfortable to really talk about it because i grew up in an era where we didn't understand any of that what we needed to do fix it all just get a shot of hennessy that's right you know i'm saying smoke a joint you know i'm saying blow a load or whatever that's how we dealt with it so i do i do agree with you but now i think people being abusive with it now you You can't have a conversation without it triggering some type of mental thing.

You're gaslighting me. Respect my boundaries. My baby mother hit me with a new joint the other day. You would know this triangulation. Triangulation. It's another mental health word. This mental health word she hit on me was so good. What was the context?

An argument. Okay. She was like, oh, that's triangle. I don't know what it is. You mental. Yeah. But it was so, she hit me with, it was so good. What was the context? I, an argument. Okay. She was like, oh, that's, I don't know what it is. You mental, yeah. But it was so good. Three days later, I called her and said, what was that mental health, new mental health words you gave me? So I do understand that, but I think people lean on it and just make excuses for stuff. And I think that, you know, sometimes people got to toughen up a little bit.

Triangulation is when a toxic or manipulative person. God damn. Often a person with strong narcissistic traits. God damn. Brings a third person into their relationship. That's what it was. In order to remain in control. Right. That sounds like you. There will be limited or no communication between the two triangulated individuals.

Except through the manipulator. Oh, we talking about words? Are you gaslighting me now? No, I'm not gaslighting you. Do you care about my mental health? Okay, what about this? Delusional? Do you care about my mental health right now?

I do care about your mental health. I do. You're gaslighting me right now. I'm not gaslighting you. I care about my mental health? Okay, what about this? Delusional? Do you care about my mental health right now? I do care about your mental health. The gaslighting meme right now. I'm not gaslighting. I'm hurt. All right, all right. I'm not going to get into this, too, because I know y'all got a relationship. And Charlamagne, whatever you do, don't love bomb him. Do you know what love bombing is?

I do know what love bombing is. All right, give us a definition of love bombing. Love bombing. I forgot what it is. What is love bombing? Look it up. You got a computer? I do know what it is.

I can't remember what the technical definition is. You know who's not love bonding right now? And I want them to come together? Who? It's DJ Academic and Saucy Montana. Whatever his name is. Yo, son. This is the strangest beef I've ever heard on the internet.

I have never, ever heard of a she- disrespecting a he- and challenging him to a fight. Yes, you have. No, not like that. Well, not yes, you have. Yo, this she- is a he. What? Forget it. All, not like that. Well, not yes, you have. Yo, this shit is a move. So, it's not a shit.

It's a he. What? Forget it. All right, we got more with Donnell Rawlins when we come back. 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're still kicking it with Donnell Rawlins. Charlamagne?

Because even with that clip you sent me, I did not know that was announcing your special. I didn't know that you sent it just now. I watched the clip. You didn. Charlamagne? Because even with that clip you sent me, I did not know that was announcing your special. I didn't know it. You just said it just now. I watched the clip.

You didn't watch the clip? I did watch the clip. But you know why? Because your brain wanted to hear something else. Yeah, because I read the headlines, so I'm expecting to hear something else. But I'm like, I've seen this before. I feel like I've seen them do this in person. Yeah, I mean.

You got rich, bitch. But that was the whole clip. Get them in there. But, you know, we'll see. But I'm telling you, when I say I'm excited about taping a special, a comedian, most comedians are like this. I want a special. And years ago, I felt stronger about me wanting a special. But when that didn't happen and I kept grinding and I kept building my fan base, Everything now, it's like my fans wanted to have me.

Well, people who do specials, they have the type of career you've had. Yeah. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine.

I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of 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 trade 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. What is that?

Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know

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out. Hey y'all, Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history, like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And it began with me. Did you know, did you know?

I wouldn't give up my seat. Nine months before Rosa, it was Claudette Colvin. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hola, mi gente. It's Honey German, and I'm bringing you Gracias, Come Again. The podcast where we dive deep into the world of Latin culture, musica, peliculas, and entertainment with some of the biggest names in the game.

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and badder than ever. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's so funny you say that because not being cocky, I said, I don't need a special. You know, like, the last couple of years is probably the most money I've been making in my career.

I'm showing difference in my attendance or whatever. And the thing that I like what I'm building now is that with that, you can never cancel me. You know what I'm saying? If I don't work for a network, if I'm not bonded to one thing, you can't cancel me. Because I got people that I've been building these relationships with for 30 years that are going to continue to come out. And right now, with the fact of me taping one before, me going again right now,

I'm not excited about this because anything could happen. Anything could happen between now and me taping it, then what do I have to fall back on? The fact that after 32 years of doing comedy, I could put my name on the marquee and people would still come out

and check for me. And I'll tell you one thing, when they come see me, everybody says, I think he's one of the funniest comics to do it. I tell you that all the time but you don't even believe me. No, you don't. You just started it. That is not true. I've been saying this for years. You just started it. It's a lie. No, you just started it. When I first came up here, you tried to compare everybody to me and I was like,

wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, wham. I said Donnell is one of the funniest stand-ups No, you just started. When I first came up here, you tried to compare everybody to me. That's not true. Nope. I said Donnell is one of the funniest stand-ups on the planet. I said verbatim. I saw Donnell on stage with Dave Chappelle, Marlon Wayans. Who else came out that night? I don't remember. Cedric Entertainer, maybe?

Maybe. This was a few years ago when y'all did Radio City. Right. And I said Donnell was the funniest person on that stage. That night. And it's not because i am the funniest it's just that i just when i go up there i just have a different energy i've after i've never phoned it in anytime i go on stage and we're talking about hundreds of thousands of shows every time i go on stage i'm going up there to kill it and it's not too many people that can say i've had nights nights where it wasn't as good as other nights,

but I mean, in regard to consistency, I think I'm one of, I don't think, I know I'm one of the most consistent. We just did a show in Atlanta. It was one of Dave's arena shows.

It was me, Marshall, Brandon, Kevin Hart, and Dave, right? And I went up on stage and I just, it was just like bombs, right? And then when I get off stage, and you're looking at like Dave, multimillionaire, Kevin, multimillionaire, you know?

But the praises they gave me and the respect they gave me after that, you know, I'm like, you know what, Donnell? You're doing something right. It's one thing to be accepted by your fans, but it's another thing to be accepted by your peers, especially the ones that are super successful. Because it's easy for somebody that's up here to look down at you and try to compare how much money they're making to you. But me and Kevin, we talked, he looked at my face, he said, Donnell, man, I'm so proud of you.

I've been following your journey. The brotherhood that you and Dave have have it was a very humbling experience because i remember me personally paying kevin hart seventy five dollars to do a show fifty dollars to do a show when he came from philly and when he was doing what a lot of black comics gonna do he was playing both sides not just a black circuit but he was playing the main street circuit and i seen the work he put in and he could easily be like whatever donnell but it felt like back in the day i was sitting in the green room and having those conversations that's dope yeah you treat you treat all stages like they're your own after 32 years i still love doing it not just to make the money but i love challenging myself i love finding that new joke

that and i'm i'm telling you if all goes well with this special the material that i'm doing and what i'm about to do i'm about to pop it because i really believe that comedy is about to make a flip last four or five years everybody's i can't say this they're going to cancel me i can't say this now you're starting to get watered down comics and people are editing themselves before they even go up there but i think with everything there's a shift and i think people are fed up with it there's a lot of people that uh like they don't subscribe to council culture and i think it's gonna go back to you know what raw comedy and i'm not saying like off-color comedy just somebody speaking from their

heart and what they feel i don't think that i don't think y'all have ever stopped doing that though i think i think the problem with the game now is everybody's trying to be edgy on purpose, and it's fake. Right. Because everybody's like, oh, I'm going to be real. I'm going to be the shocking president. It's not coming from a real place. Back in the day, even when we was doing it, it was shock, but we was just having a good time. In the day, what it is is stop using gimmicks.

Just be funny. That's right. When I first started, it was a thing like, we knew it was gay comedians out there. But nobody wanted to say it. They wouldn't say that. They was like, oh, the crowd's going to look at me a certain way. And then, so when you had a comedian that went up there and said, I'm gay, it was like, oh.

But now, some of the comics from certain communities, that's all they want to talk about. Yeah, yeah. I got what you're saying. That's all they want to talk about. Don't talk about that. Just be funny. You know what I'm saying? I like, like, you got to, like, comedians.

Don't be funny. Be funny. Be funny. Yeah. And just be, and stick to stuff that's true to you. But, you know, somebody told me a long time ago, and I was like, why these people don't do this? Why these people don't do that?

And Big Tigger told me this. He said, Donnell, everything you say, he said, that's what makes you special. You know? And I, and that's what I want to make special about this special. Because there's a lot of people that are getting specials. And I can watch them. And not to be critical of people. And I watch them like this.

Oh, they just wanted to do an hour worth of material. They didn't have a beginning, middle, end. They just wanted to do that. And they wanted to clear the check. And to be quite honest, there's not too many things that are special about a special. But I want this one to be one where people quoting it, you know what I mean, saying stuff. Back in the old day when Goonie Googled, you know, that type of thing. Yeah.

You know, so I'm excited about it. So what do we got to do Friday to be at the special, man? Is it open to the public? It's not open to the public. If you go to my website, DonairRawlins.com, and then you'll see a list of my dates. It's the New York Comedy Festival. November 10th. November the 10th.

But I'm promoting the entire week a part of the New York Comedy Festival. So November 9th through the 11th. November 9th through the 11th. Thursday is my first show. Friday, I got two shows, which will be taped. Saturday, I got two other shows. I'm very happy about this.

You can go to nycomedyfestival.com and get tickets, or you can go to donnellrawlins.com and get tickets. And I think after I do this, it's time for me to take a vacation. Okay. All right, well, shout out to Donnell for joining us. Make sure y'all check him out at the New York Comedy Festival. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. If y'all talking about it, you know we talking about it. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

Now, if you're just joining us, we were talking about something in front page news earlier today. It was the fact that Florida Border Education approves new black history standards that teach how slaves develop skills for their personal benefit. So we were talking about since they're pulling pretty much black history out of schools now and pulling out the books and don't want to teach black history. What do we need to do as a community to make sure that our young kids actually know what went on in black history and the future generation? And how do we educate them? That was the question that we were having this morning. Well, you know, like I said earlier, you know, you can't depend on white institutions to teach you teach our kids. You know, that is something the Nation of Islam and other great black leaders have been telling us since the beginning of time. For me, I feel like we just got to encourage our kids to read. You know, we have to recommend books for them to read. I was blessed to have a mother who was a Jehovah's Witness and an English teacher. So, you know,

she kept the Bible in my face and watched how I was in the wake. So that was the first literature I was exposed to. Then we had the bookie program when I was a kid in elementary school and I was reading four books to get a free pizza and my mom told me, read things that don't pertain to you. That's when I started reading Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary and all that stuff. And then my pops, you know,

he gave me books like the autobiography of Malcolm X, which led me down a rabbit hole of wanting to know everything I could about the NOI, but also any book that I saw Malcolm X reference, I read it, you know, and I've always done that. If I read a book and then they reference another book in that book, then I'll go read, you know, that book. That's why I thought, you know, when somebody like Nipsey Hussle was alive, you know, he was

so brilliant because Nipsey would always reference different books in his interviews. Nipsey Hussle even had a book list that he put out, you know, and I think that's what you have to do. You just got to encourage, you know, our kids to read and recommend them things to read. Yeah, I agree with you. I said earlier that I think we need to develop more programs, like even in the church. Right. A lot of black families go to church together and and have those days where we teach about our black history and black heroes. But also, I think as parents, I think parents need to to knowledge themselves, you know, because it's very difficult to teach your child if you don't have the proper history. It's like anything else.

Like, you know, my father's a retired police officer. He was able to teach me laws when I was a kid and teach me about just things as far as, you know, what to do if I get pulled over, what what laws mean and how the judicial system works because he was part of it but like you said i think we have to educate ourselves so we can actually educate our children because there's a lot with black history that i'm still learning now same here because i honestly wasn't taught as a child i envy uh people who've gone to african-american studies you know i mean i love the way you know somebody like an amanda seals can just reference history so quickly somebody like a michael eric dyson and you Dyson. And we know the literacy rates in black and brown communities are high. That's a whole other conversation.

That's actually why Kevin Hart and I started our company with Audible SBA Productions. Because I think that sometimes it's not that kids aren't reading. There's just other ways for them to get that information. So instead of reading nowadays, people are listening, you know? So it's like I always had the idea, even though we did put out, you know, Finding Tamika and some of the 85. Some of the 85 is about, you know, what happened, the MOVE organization in Philadelphia. But I always taught that kids,

always thought that kids could take in this information by listening. I lost my train of thought just now. How the hell I lost my train of thought like that? Because you wasn't listening. Oh, I was saying, I think that kids can learn, you know, more by listening now

than actually picking up books and reading. Yeah, and... Oh, and I wanted celebrities, that's what I was going to say. I wanted celebrities to do the audio books. Right? That was an idea we had

when we launched this company, have celebrities reading audio books. Right. And, you know, Audible kind of took the idea and they had Lawrence Fishburne read the autobiography

of Malcolm X but that's fine as long as it happens you know but you know what too and I would also say this for a lot of parents a lot of times

we take our kids to you know on vacation and vacation can mean many different things for many different people it can mean taking them to Six Flags

it can mean taking them to Miami for Disney World or whatever and I think sometimes and that's fine, but we're going to have to think of alternative things to do. You're talking about experiences. Right, but like going to museums, like the museum that just opened up in South Carolina.

International African American Museum. The one that's opened up in D.C. And even the one in South Carolina I want to go to because there's so much history, right? You learn that's where the first ships came that a lot of us touched down on on this land. So I would love to learn that history. I've been lot of that's where the the first ships came that a lot of us you know touch touchdown on on this land so i would learn i would love to learn that history i've been fortunate enough to go to africa and fortunate enough to go to south africa and see these different places that you know from where um from where bob marley was in jamaica to where uh

trying to think of some of the houses that we went to over there so many different houses even with that and you're absolutely right what you're saying but you're speaking from a person who has the financial means right but that's what i'm saying like instead of maybe going to six flags going to the museum and sometimes those museum the prices are not that expensive they're ten dollars for a ticket and i'm sure a lot of times they do it for free just to teach our own but just experiences like that that we can actually see touch and get the proper knowledge how about your how about do something as simple as go get a library card? That's true.

You know what I'm saying? Go get a library card and then go look up some books to go get. I always tell people all the time, start with the autobiography of Malcolm X. There's a great book that I read when I was young called From N Words to Gods by Akil. And the way that he wrote the book, he wrote the book the way we actually talk. You know what I mean? So it was like he's cursing it and he's using street vernacular. Yeah, right. But he's educating at the same actually talk You know what I mean? So it was like he's cursing it And he's using script vernacular But he's educating at the same time

You know what I mean? Like everything don't have to be 18 letter Shakespearean words For you to learn Like I was able to go to Nelson Mandela's house I was able to go to where Nelson Mandela grew up So I was able to see it But I had the means to do it

But before I had the means My mom had me in those museums Let's go to the phone lines We got Jamisha on the line. Jamisha, good morning. Good morning. Good morning, Jamisha. Hey, CJ, Envy, and Charlamagne.

I want to first say that I love you guys and I listen to you guys every morning. Thank you very much, Jamisha. We appreciate it. Yes. So I just wanted to chime in and just give my advice. I am 37, just to give you guys an idea of where I'm coming from. I'm a mom of a three-thing boy and I try to just share stories with him

because the literature out there is not very fun for the kids to read or interstate. So I feel like it starts at home. We as the parents have to be encouraged to learn it so that we can then simply verbally share those stories with our kids. So that hopefully when they get older, they'll read those stories or watch those movies that we watched when we got older.

Or sometimes when we were even younger and we didn't understand what was going on. Totally agree. So I agree that it's, I just feel like it starts there. Totally agree. All right. Thank you. I totally agree. Starts in the house.

We have Diane on the line. Diane, good morning. Good morning. How are you this morning? Doing well. Talk to us. What's your thoughts, Mama? Okay, well, good morning, first of all, to everyone.

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I'm D.J. I'm D.J. less uh figaro i just want to say good morning but i myself i'm a grandma and my oldest child was older than uh you solomon and god but what happened is because of the climate i'm retired and i was faced with the opportunity to homeschool my 11 and 15 year old grand i've been doing this for a couple of years. We were registered through the Board of Eds in North Carolina. I'm from New York, but my family is from South Carolina. I took it upon myself to incorporate black history as a subject. That's right.

And I teach them. And we've been in all the books. 1619 Black History is our social studies book. We do that. We talk about history. We have, there's a link, blackfacts.com website, which gives you so much pertinent information about history.

We talk about that. We're in the Quran. We're in the Bible. Your book, Shook One, we're just all over the place, but I make sure that they know the foundation. I also, because I've gone through something some years ago, I send out inspirations every morning, six o'clock in the morning. Used to be one or two people. It's now 150 people. And I do it.

Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Laudonia.

I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't I trade 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.

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And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, guys. I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've

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is back and badder than ever. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. One by one, because I don't do two-six. But what I do is I enlighten them on Black history. Not just for February, but for every month. And we talk about things, not just the normal things people would talk about Martin Luther King.

Not that we don't talk about them, but we've gone into everything. We talk about the massacres. We talk about the history. So I do that. Growing up in New York, history was something that black history, we were a part of. There was a lot of feelings. There was a foundation of history. And we were kind of taught that in schools a little bit.

But the rest, we lived. We grew up in that era. It's different now. And it's true. A lot of black families don't know the history. A lot of them don't have time to teach their children. A lot of them do depend on the schools. But you have to be mindful and careful of what's going on in the schools.

I was able to see during the pandemic how they were handling that. And they're not being taught. But you can't blame the parents because a lot of them don't know themselves. You're right, Queen. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. By the way, how old are you as a grandmother?

I'm close to 70. Close to 70. God bless you, grandma. I never thought I would be in this position to be doing this, but I embrace it. I love it. We love it too.

We're glad that God kept you here to be able to do it. That's right, mama. Absolutely. Absolutely. You all have a blessed day. thank you so much keep doing what you're doing have a great weekend mom well what's the moral of the story man the moral of the story is what i said earlier you can't rely on white institutions uh you know to teach your kids black history you know what i mean like you do have to do a lot of self-education at home man and i also want to say please let's stop repeating white propaganda talking points in regards to black people if we start having conversations about black people self-educating

and encouraging each other to read please folks let's not start saying black people can't read and black parents don't teach their kids to read that's not that's nonsense and that's not all the way accurate you know i'm saying all these people who called up here you know telling us how they teach their kids at home the grandma who said she homeschooled her kids is taught in black history. Y'all give me a lot of hope. There's nothing dumb about us. There's nothing uneducated about us. Don't listen to these white propaganda talking points about us and in regards to literacy.

And please don't repeat them. Man. All right. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are 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. Stacey Lee Spratt. Welcome. What's up? How you feeling? Listen, feeling good.

Director of the United Negro College Fund. Yes. Empower me to one. There you go. That's right. I feel like I've been hearing about the United Negro College Fund my whole life, but not that much in recent times. Really? Yeah what what is the united negro college fund do right listen we've been around going on 80 years so that's why you've been hearing about it since

you were little but uh you know we provide educational support um for minority students so with the empower me tour it's a traveling road show where we talk about college readiness. We talk about career readiness and we give millions of dollars in scholarships for people to attend school, not just graduating high school seniors, but also people in college can still get scholarships through the UNCF. I always wonder, you know, like do people, are people as aware of resources like this as they need to be? You know what? I feel like we can always do a better job of making sure people know that resources are there. UNCF is not just to get students to college.

It's our responsibility to get students through college also. So with the resources are coming in all the time to UNCF. So I tell students and parents to visit UNCF.org every other week because we have scholarships that pop up all throughout the month, all throughout the year. And to just know what is actually out there for students to attend college for free. I mean, education is expensive. What are some of the qualifications to get some of these students in college? You know what? It honestly depends on the type of scholarship there is. You know, some have 3.0 GPA qualifications.

Some might even have 2.7 or your 3.5 and above. Some of them you have to write an essay. It really all depends on the type of scholarship that you're applying for. Like with the Empower Me Tour, we have counselors come on-site and give on-site admissions to students on the spot not just that we have college admissions counselors offering full four-year scholarships to students who didn't even know that they could attend college or could attend an HBCU we really try to do the empower me tour in places where there aren't HBCUs so we can educate people an HBCU. We really try to do the Empower Me Tour in places where there aren't HBCUs

so we can educate people that HBCUs exist and scholarships are available. So this is only for HBCUs? You're only giving colleges? Oh no. We give scholarship money to not just HBCUs. People can get a UNCF scholarship and attend any school of their choice. We just want to make sure people know in places and spaces that HBCUs exist. What was so important for you to go to an HBCU? Of course, you went to Clark Atlanta. Well, of course I went to Clark Atlanta. Where are you from? You got to stop blushing.

I'm originally from Mississippi. Oh, you're from Mississippi. Every time you hear Clark, you blush. Listen, that's where my husband came from. So, baby, that's, you know. Okay. My husband at Clark Atlanta. DJ Drama went to Clark Atlanta, you know. Okay. My husband at Clark Atlanta. DJ Drama went to Clark Atlanta, too.

Yes, DJ Drama went to Clark Atlanta. We were there around the same time. My parents went to Clark College. My brother went to Howard. My other brother went to Morehouse. Like, we are an HBCU family. Like, my business partners, you know, went to Hampton, one. Okay.

And the other one went to Clark Atlanta. So, it just fostered relationships HBCUs and just homecoming there was no homecoming like an HBCU facts okay so that's why I love it so what made you want to go was it instilled with your family or is it it was instilled with my family it was you know again I've been attending homecoming at Clark Atlanta since I was two years old you know because both my parents went there. I got you. And just watching the relationships that my parents had with other people from Clark Atlanta University. And like those are my aunts and uncles, extended family. I just fell in love with it.

People don't talk about that aspect enough. The networking that happens at these HBCUs. What did you or who did you meet that led you to end up being the director of the United Negro College Fund? I mean, first of all, my father received a UNCF scholarship. So watching him talk about receiving a UNCF scholarship and watching him work at General Motors and then turn around and give back for other black and brown people and people at Clark Atlanta, Spelman and Morehouse to be engineers and just watching that foster. I always had a good, a loving relationship for UNCF.

But it really is the networking. You have relationships with people. I do business with people that I went to school with. We still have those genuine relationships. You work with them. When you think about, okay, if I have an event taking place, I'm thinking about, well, who can I help that went to Clark Atlanta with me or who, you know, went to another HBCU? A lot of the work that I do, even in the events world, I provide opportunities for other HBCU graduates. Well, what's some advice or tips you can give to help students apply for and receive scholarships from UNCF?

The first thing I would want them to do is to go to uncf.org and set up an account and check back there every other week. Because again, scholarships pop up every day that we're offering. Again, if you're a graduating senior in high school, check it out. Set up an account. If you are in college and looking for an internship, looking for scholarship opportunities, set up an account at uncf.org and just continue to check back. Make sure you have your resume written out. Talk to someone that does resume building.

It's so important. Make sure that you have your statement written out of why you want to even go to college, whatever college or university that is. So just being proactive and preparing yourself. How early is too early? I know you said senior year, but sometimes senior year might be a little too late because you just don't necessarily know. So how early should parents should be looking into colleges and same thing with students? You know, you can set up your account at UNCF.org. I mean, as a freshman in high school and start looking at different scholarships and looking for what is it that you need to apply for those certain types of scholarships. It's never too early to talk to students about scholarships,

about financial aid. I mean, that is so important for parents and students to fill out that financial aid information. And I know the FAFSA has changed over the course of this year. So it's making sure you fill out your FAFSA. Set up that account at uncf.org. It doesn't matter how old you are. You can start talking to your kids about scholarships in, you know, fifth, sixth, seventh grade. Like we need money for you to attend school. Now, you know, a lot of parents, I don't want to say have problems with scholarships, but have problems with scholarships because they get the scholarship to get their kid into school. Right. But now their kid is in school. They're freshmen. Now what happens sophomore year? Are some of these scholarships four year scholarships or they're just one year scholarship?

You got to get in and you're on your own oh no a lot of scholarships are four-year renewable scholarships as long as you continue to keep that gpa requirement as long as you continue to keep whatever the requirements are for that scholarship and it's so important to look and say okay is this scholarship renewable you know for my student so they can plan accordingly? There are some scholarships that might be a one time. So if you do get that scholarship, that's one time. Then you have to go back to the drawing board and say, OK, let me see about some scholarship money over here, over here, over here. You can also piecemeal it together. It doesn't all have to come from one place.

Gotcha. We have more with Stacey Lee Sprap. She's the director of the United Negro College Fund. We'll talk to her some more when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Alright, we have more with Stacey Lee Spratt. She's the director of the United Negro College Fund. We'll talk to her some more when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Charlemagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Stacey Lee

Spratt. She's the director of the United Negro College Fund. Charlemagne? When you talk about certain requirements, and I didn't go to college so forgive me for my stupidness, but is this scholarship that's like if you 5'6"? You know what? There's a scholarship out there if you're left-handed okay it is scholarship money out there for everything you can think of and i think that's the key to it you have to look for scholarships that you might be thinking like i mean it was a left-handed scholarship but it's

out there there are scholarships for all things whether you play sports whether you don't play sports whether you're majoring in stem whether you play sports, whether you don't play sports, whether you're majoring in STEM, whether you're majoring in marketing, even entrepreneurial scholarships. So it is scholarships available for everyone. It's doing the research, spending the time to do the research, being organized about where you're looking and what you're looking for. I wonder why. Like when you when they why do they have a scholarship for like left handed people?

Listen, I don't know because I didn't create that scholarship. I might have been a left-handed billionaire that says, you know what, I just want to support other left-handed people out there. Listen, you can come up with however you want to do scholarships. When myself and Pinky Cole, we gave scholarship money for 30 graduating seniors at Clark Atlanta University. We had no rhyme or reason. Our reason was that they would not be able to graduate if they didn't pay that dollar amount. So sometimes you have people that just say, you know what, I want to make sure these students graduate. I don't care

what their GPA is. It could be a 2.0. It doesn't matter. I want to make sure they get the money so they can walk across that stage. And that's what we did hey we didn't care it didn't matter you owed money and we wanted to make sure that you were able to graduate in the spring and so that's what we did my daddy said if i get a 2.0 i'm coming back to queens listen you can graduate college still with the 2.0 that's right you graduate and thank your lordy but you're graduating man thank you lordy i didn't go to college thank you lordy that i thank you lordy oh thank you lordy i didn't go to college thank you lordy that i thank you lordy oh now how can students prepare and pay for college especially with the federal student aid deadline coming up oh yeah the deadline is around the corner so they need to apply you must apply to see what you qualify for what kind of scholarships you qualify for.

Again, Google is your best friend. YouTube University is your best friend. Really look up what scholarships are available. But again, go to UNCF.org because we have thousands of scholarships available. We give away millions of dollars. To date, UNCF has probably given out over $4 billion in educating young people. Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. So for that day,

are you guys doing something special for today? Dr. Martin Luther King went to Morehouse College, but we're not doing anything in particular besides what we always do, which is provide an education for black and brown and young people. What are some benefits of going to an HBCU? Because my daughter's 15 now.

And, you know, she's, of course, she's already talking about college. So what's the benefits of going to an HBCU versus a PWI? You know, I think for me, it's seeing people that look like you doing great things. It's, again, that community.

It's a smaller classroom. It's also go where you're celebrated, not where you're tolerated. What's the point of being a Delta? What's the point of being a what? What's the benefit of being a Delta? Don't let him talk to you like that. Don't let him talk to you like that.

He must have AKAs in his family. He must have Zetas in his family. Don't let him talk to you like that. My mother-in-law is a Delta. You crazy. Don't let him talk to you like that my wife's mother is adult what's the point of being a delta wow i mean what's the benefit disrespectful not the point the benefits the benefits of being a girl you let him talk to you like that wow look at the peanut gallery you're opening it up you see how people pop it up listen being a member of delta sigma theta sorority incorporated was one of the greatest decisions for me um they are my sisters my line sisters my big sisters my

little sisters again i not only work with them i love them it is a sisterhood i don't have sisters i have two older brothers um you know i have a sissy that you know is my cousin but it is about the love it's about the sisterhood it's about the community it's about giving back so all of those things are what delta encompasses yeah because i think about if you go to an hbcu that's one level of sisterhood right absolutely and togetherness with your black black people but then you get played delta that's a whole other level listen a whole nother level of sisterhood and brotherhood i mean again that hbcu camaraderie is a sisterhood and brotherhood in itself whether you pledge something or not and even pledging delta i still have akas that i so love i mean my publicist is an aka you know it's okay but you know it's still that love of fratern

fraternities and sororities. Absolutely. Well, we appreciate you for joining us. Hold on. She's also an entrepreneur. That's right. Harlem hops, beer, booze, bites. Is your country falling apart?

Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this.

It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of 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. What is that? Bullets.

Bullets. We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series,

The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together.

You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So, y'all, this is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records.

It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages one you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on september 27th i'm going to toss it over to the host of historical records nemini to tell you all about it make sure you check it out hey y'all nemini here i'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone.

The crack of the bat and another one gone. The tip of the cap, there's another one gone. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history, like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And it began with me. Did you know, did you know? I wouldn't give up my seat. Nine months before Rosa, it was Claudette Colvin. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hola, mi gente. It's Honey German, and I'm bringing you Gracias, Come Again, Get your podcasts. talking real conversations with our Latin stars, from actors and artists to musicians and creators sharing their stories, struggles, and successes. You know it's going to be filled with chisme laughs and all the vibes that you love. Each week, we'll explore everything from music and pop culture to

deeper topics like identity, community, and breaking down barriers in all sorts of industries. Don't miss out on the fun, el té caliente, and life stories. Join me for Gracias Come Again, a podcast by Honey German, where we get into todo lo actual y viral. Listen to Gracias Come Again on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey there, my little creeps. It's your favorite ghost host, Teresa. And guess what? Haunting is back, dropping just in time for spooky season. Now I know you've probably been wandering the mortal plane, wondering when I'd be back to fill your ears with deliciously unsettling stories. Well, wonder no more. Because we've got a ghoulishly good lineup ready for you.

Let's just say things get a bit extra. We're talking spirits, demons, and the kind of supernatural chaos that'll make your spooky season complete. You know how much I love this time of year. It's the one time I'm actually on trend. So grab your pumpkin spice, dust off that Ouija board,

just don't call me unless it's urgent, and tune in for new episodes every week. Remember, the veils are thin, the stories are spooky, and your favorite ghost host is back and badder than ever. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Beach, Beach Sky, they bought us this before. That's right.

You know what I mean? You want to talk about Harlem Hops? Listen, Harlem Hops is a craft beer bar it's in Harlem we also just opened up a second location um at Pier 57 so we have Harlem Hops Chelsea also in the food hall where the Google building is okay so that's our second location and I mean we are 100% African American owned you know first black owned craft beer barn in New York. The reason I love this because it shows that, you know, what you do at the United Negro College when you do that to be of service. Absolutely.

You know what I mean? Absolutely. Do it to be of service to other students so they can also see again. There's nothing like a mirror image to see what it is that you can do and what you can become. And when you see, you know, a brother or sister, and you're like, dang, I can do that also, it's inspiring and it's inspirational. How can people get in contact with you in the UNCF?

Okay, you can reach me on my IG at StacyLee32. That's my maiden name, Lee. I'm a Sprat. You know, on IG, you can reach out to me directly. You know, any kind of questions can reach out to me directly. You know, any kind of questions about education, any kind of questions about scholarships, I will be glad to answer. And United Negro College Fund? UNCF.org. .org.

UNCF.org for all information about scholarships, internships, you know, ways to get to and through college. It's all right there at your fingertips. All right. Well, Stacey Lee Sprat, we appreciate you for joining us. Thank you. It's all right there at your fingertips. All right. Well, Stacey Lee Spratt, we appreciate you for joining us. Thank you. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Sean LeMay, say the game. Don't get out of shape. Sean LeMay. You are a donkey. It's time for Donkey of the Day. Donkey of the Day does not discriminate. I might not have the song of the day, but I got the donkey. So if you ever feel I need to be a donkey man hit it with the heat

it's a breakfast club bitches who's donkey of the day today donkey of the day goes to oscar nominated actress felicity huffman now unless you've been fasting from social media for the last few years and you may not know that felicity huffman served some time in prison and completed court-ordered community service because she broke the law okay she pleaded guilty in 2019 the conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud i don't even know what that is and she served 11 days of a 14-day prison sentence and was ordered to do 250 hours of community service and pay a fine all because she tried to take a shortcut and she quickly learned like most of us learn in life that there are no shortcuts if you take shortcuts you get

cut short can we flash back to what happened what caused felicity to end up in prison let's go to abc news for the report please actress felicity huffman walking out of court today but not free of prison the celebrity brushing past cameras with husband and actor william h macy moments after she was sentenced to 14 days behind bars in front of the judge the prosecutor said most parents have the moral compass and integrity not to step over the line the defendant does not after noting huffman's fame and wealth several times, the prosecutor said emphatically, there's no paparazzi in prison. Prison is the great equalizer. She must go to prison. After pleading guilty to fraud charges in May, Huffman admitted to paying $15,000 to have her

daughter's SAT scores rigged. The judge noting she apologized and accepted guilt early then the sentence 14 days in prison $30,000 fine one year supervised release and 250 hours of community service she paid $15,000 to have someone falsify the results of her daughter's sat score you know what i wonder about this and i probably could find the answer if i cared enough to look her daughter didn't know right so i'm sure her daughter studied and prepared for the sat test what if her daughter would have passed on her own merit was the falsifying of the results just in case she failed what lack of faith did she have in her daughter that she already knew let me go ahead and pay for her to pass because i know she's not too bright okay i've been watching her since she got here i know she's stupid all right my daughter gonna live in the basement for the rest of her life if i don't do something she might have to

join the circus or run for congress same difference either way she ends up being a clown as a child i would have all these questions for my mother if she did this to me i appreciate you going above and beyond mom you know actually committing a crime for me to get ahead but damn you don't got no faith in my intelligence okay and my own abilities to pass this sat test now felicity huffman recently sat with eyewitness news to speak for the first time about her participation in this scandal and why she did it let's go to abc news for the report please when he slowly started to present the criminal scheme it seemed like and i know this seems crazy at the time that that was

my only option to give my daughter a future and i know hindsight is 2020 but it felt like i would be a bad mother if i didn't do it so i did it months later the FBI was at her door they came into my home they woke my daughters up at gunpoint again nothing new to the black and brown community then they put my hands behind my back and asked if I could get dressed and I thought it was a hoax I literally turned to the one of the FBI people in a flak jacket and a gun and I went is this a is this a joke I felt like this was the only option to give my daughter a future Felicity Huffman's net worth is 45 million dollars now I am a habitual pocket watcher.

Okay, I like to know how much money people are making, and I like to know how they're making it. As soon as I heard her make these comments about this was the only option to give my daughter a future, I Googled her net worth because I needed to know why on God's green earth would she feel like her daughter doesn't have a chance at a future. This young woman of privilege will have every single advantage that is provided to a multi-millionaire's daughter okay especially a multi-millionaire who also has the complexion for the protection and connection now listen to me she is taking penitentiary chances for her daughter because she says she wants to give her daughter a chance you know uh to have a future if an actress worth 45 million dollars is thinking like that

how the hell do you not understand what people in the hood are going through okay folks from poor and disenfranchised communities aren't even attempting to give their kids a shot at a better future they're just trying to get their kids an opportunity in the present moment and that opportunity is usually just the basics food clothing some shelter right now okay so when black and brown people are out here doing what they got to do to survive, this system should have some understanding, okay? But they never do.

They throw black and brown people under the jail for much less. 14 days and a fine for mail fraud? Do you know mail fraud carries a sentence of 20 years in prison? And you have to pay a quarter million dollar fine and be required to make full restitution? Like Felicity Huffman would have been some sister from a black or brown community. She would have gotten years, years behind bars for doing what Felicity Huffman did. Guaranteed. But let's talk about the bigger picture.

You know how you set your kids up with opportunities to succeed in the future? How do you set your kids up with opportunities to succeed in the future? By not letting them skip steps now. Okay? Letting them know that you cannot escape the process. opportunities to succeed in the future by not letting them skip steps now okay letting them know that you cannot escape the process if your daughter takes the sat and fails then she just fails study come back harder next time that is what life is about we have to stop coddling these kids especially in a world where they go on social media and see everybody's highlight reel nobody on

social media is showing you the process they're not showing you the times they failed the times things didn't go their way. I truly believe one of the worst things about so-called cancel culture is that nobody wants to tell you about their mistakes anymore. Everybody wants to play perfect and act like they've always gotten it right.

But guess what? Nobody has. Nobody is perfect. We all make mistakes. We say wrong things. We do wrong things. We fall. We get up.

We learn. We grow. We move on. We live. And we thank God for always giving us another chance if we don't allow our kids to fail and learn how to deal with failing then we are truly hindering their chances of being successful in the future felicity right now you have an opportunity to teach your kid a tremendous lesson about failure because you failed but you can't let that failure define you you have to let it shape you and right now your daughter is watching you the way you handle this is how she

is going to learn how to handle failure in the future and when it comes to stuff like failing a test please it's just a test you fail you take it over Maya Angelou said it best courage allows a successful woman to fail and learn powerful lessons from the failure so that in the end she didn't fail at all our greatest glory in life kids is not in never failing but in rising every time we fail please let chelsea handle a gift felicity huffman the biggest hee-haw hee-haw hee-haw that is way too much dan maynays all. How many stories we've heard of, you know, sisters putting their kids in different area codes, are lying about where they live

so their kids can go to better schools and then getting actual prison sentences. How can we not understand what they were trying to do for their children? Will Felicity Huffman get a slap on the wrist for something that has a 20-year sentence? Yeah, know why?

Too much goddamn mayonnaise. Okay? Mm. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today. Mm-hmm. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Our guest co-host, Claudia Jordan, is here. Yes, indeed. And we got a special guest in the building, Miss Tamika Mallory. Welcome back.

Hey, hey, hey. How you feeling? Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here with y'all. Queen Mallory, you got a lot of work that you're doing right now. You gotta get the word out about some things. There's a lot happening. I think, you know, the overall thing that we need to know is that our country is in big trouble and everyone, everybody

is gonna suffer as a result but whenever we in trouble black folks brown people we suffer the most and you tried to tell them we in a state of emergency you see you got your book sitting right here it is a state of emergency indeed and it's getting worse i mean you and i talk about this all the time to me it feels like it's getting worse i think also because a lot of people are so numb they don't really want to focus anymore and that's dangerous because there's just too many things to do too much to know about and we just need to be well informed about what we're up against and i think that you know being able to call it what it is that white supremacy excuse me and white vigilantism is on

the rise and of course we're dealing with issues within our own community with mental health problems and poverty caused and violence. There is it's a tension and a feeling in the country that I'm sure you all feel. And it's really dangerous. It's not a comfortable space. And, you know, I don't think it gets better just by us ignoring the problems how do you think we get around this fatigue because i do notice there was a fatigue right it seemed like we were all hands on deck maybe 2020 in the height of all the george floyd protests and all that everybody seemed like all right we we on this and it seemed like everyone just kind of fell off not everyone people like you thank god for you but it seemed like there's a lot of fatigue right now like people just i'm tired of hearing about it and that's people also first of all movements always are up and down they never stay consistent at one pace it's impossible people have to get back to their lives folks have families and things that they have to do so that's normal but there is a fatigue that unfortunately i think

doesn't change until people feel so uncomfortable that they have no choice but to get back in the game um and you know we try to continuously sound the alarm by making sure folks feel like there's a way for them to fit in and get in. But it's not until you start feeling it on your block in your home that it's like, oh, wait a minute. Where's the where's the protest or who am I supposed to be voting for? You know, what am I supposed to do to jump in the fight? So let's let's start. You know, a lot of people, they don't necessarily run because a lot of people don't know what's going on. Like we get bombarded with so much in the news and half the time we don't know what's

real or what's fake, what's true, what's false. So what should we be focusing on now? What are you focusing on? Well, you know, I wrote these things down so that, you know, we could kind of break things into different parts. You know, in the summer of 2020, since you brought that up, a lot of corporations were talking about their commitment to diversity. That was the whole thing. In fact, corporations made pledges for millions and millions,

probably billions of dollars. And certainly we've not seen that in the movement and across all spectrums of areas where marginalized communities need support. Most companies have have either, you know, gone away. They, you know, what do you call it? Out of sight, out of mind. And then some did a few things. ignore that the recent news on Black Lives Matter has certainly helped people find a way to say, oh, well, you know, maybe I shouldn't be given to those causes, which, you know, we talk all the time about how I call bull on a lot of it. Nonetheless, it has been an issue. It is an issue.

And so one thing I have been focused on is calling corporations back to the table. And I've been working specifically on a company called Panini. And people are like, how did you get in sports and trading cards, sports memorabilia and trading cards? Like, where did that come from? But I always I often remind people that every case we get involved with, we find out from the people. People call us. They call us and say there's a police brutality incident. They say something happened in the jail. That's how we got in Parchment prisons.

With shout out to our family at Rock Nation and Team Rock, because we work to really make change in Parchment. And I'm sure people in Parchment are probably like, what change? You know, it's still slow coming. But we did work with the local community in Mississippi to make some change there. But this all comes from people calling us, elected officials, concerned citizens, scary folks that's like, don't tell nobody that I called. But somebody hit me up and was like, hey, you should check out what's going on at this company, Panini. They have 75% of their trading cards and their talent, if you will, black athletes, black and brown, you will black athletes back black and brown but primarily

black athletes a three billion dollar company with no senior executives that are black people not even one so when we found it out we were like okay well first of all maybe we don't know maybe they just didn't put them on the website we you know we gonna see and um we sent a letter to panini it took them a while to get back to us until it started to pick up in the media, especially after we sent letters to the NFL and the NBA and the players associations and all the others asking, why are you part? Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary?

Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel.

I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson the First, King of Kaperburg. 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? Be part of a great colonial tradition. What could go wrong? I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God.

What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real,

inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So y'all, this is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey y'all, Nimany here.

I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And it began with me. Did you know, did you know? I wouldn't give up my seat.

Nine months before Rosa, it was called a moment. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hola mi gente, it's Honey German and I'm bringing you Gracias, Come Again. Radio app, Apple Podcasts, this is the podcast for you. We're talking real conversations with our Latin stars, from actors and artists to musicians and creators, sharing their stories, struggles, and successes. You know it's going to be filled with chisme laughs and all the vibes that you love.

Each week, we'll explore everything, from music and pop culture to deeper topics like identity, community, and breaking down barriers in all sorts of industries. Don't miss out on the fun, el té caliente, and life stories. Join me for Gracias Come Again, a podcast by Honey German, where we get into todo lo actual y viral. Listen to Gracias Come Again on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there, my little creeps. It's your favorite ghost host, Teresa. And guess what? Haunting is back, dropping just in time for spooky season. Now I know you've probably been wandering the mortal plane, wondering when I'd be back to fill your ears with deliciously unsettling stories. Well, wonder no more.

Because we've got a ghoulishly good lineup ready for you. Let's just say things get a bit extra. We're talking spirits, demons, and the kind of supernatural chaos that'll make your spooky season complete. You know how much I love this time of year. It's the one time I'm actually on trend. So grab your pumpkin spice, dust off that Ouija board, just don't call me unless it's urgent,

and tune in for new episodes every week. Remember, the veils are thin, the stories are spooky, and your favorite ghost host is back and badder than ever. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. With these folks, so allowing them to use your talent is basically our people being exploited. Why this specific company, though? Because there's a bunch of billion dollar companies that don't have black people in the C-suite. So why this specific company?

Well, you know, we've had similar conversations over the years with Walmart, with Verizon, you know. fact with verizon we went to them around colin kaepernick uh to ask them why would they continue to sponsor and you know be partners with the nfl knowing what was happening to colin so we find reasons to approach corporations all the time about their commitments or their said commitments to our communities and from from my perspective black folks in this moment they need jobs like they need jobs any opportunities need jobs and the opportunities. They need a seat at the table. Right. And, you know, some people say, well, entrepreneurship. Yeah. But while you're building, because all of us here are entrepreneurs, but we got jobs, too. Does Panini feel that since they've given so much money away to students and especially college athletes?

I know they do a lot with NIL deals that because they're doing that, they necessarily don't have to because they feel like we're giving the community money well they didn't say that but the from our perspective no like and until freedom our perspective is regardless of how much you give away you're just doing what you're supposed to do so what kind of action plans would you like to see panini do to correct this like lack of diversity what would you like to see yeah so first of all they need to have an advisory committee of individuals from our communities that can help them look at the diversity issues. It's actually been amazing, the dip in what we see. I really felt like there was actually some type of effort being made.

It seems like they're not even giving a damn anymore what it looks like publicly anymore. Well, just on that point, when we did the research to find at every company we sent letters and by companies i'm talking about the leagues and the players associations we sent letters to the ceo we also went to look for the diversity person right because most companies have somebody and we found that most of those people were hired in 2020 like all the different leagues their diversity person came on board around 2020 and was well celebrated by the company so that just goes to show you that movements work that's first of all that you know for those people who think movements don't work it actually provided opportunities for some of our people and i'm sure depending on who the black person is in that seat

um there's more happening within the community but there's so much more that can be done and that means that the movement can't stop because the job is not complete are people getting are they getting the to actually be able to work or is it one of those things or we're hiring them just just for the face but they're not actually being able to contribute well you know what i don't know and i'm sure there's a little bit of all of that happening um you know because i know several diversity folks in different companies and some of them are frustrated others feel like they're really being supported so i think it's a mixture of that but we don't know until unfortunately issues start to come up and you start asking questions that's the reason why we have to have different examples so panini becomes an example which says to other

companies they might be coming my way let me try to get myself together all right we got more with tamika mallory when we come back don't move it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj nv charlamagne the guy we are the Club. We got our co-host, Claudia Jordan, here. And we're kicking it with Tameka Mallory. Claudia. You're on the front lines. Do you ever get discouraged? Hell yeah, I get discouraged. And do you ever feel like, what am I doing?

I get more than discouraged. I get pretty nasty about it. I send text messages in the middle of the night, like, saying words, bad words. So where's your motivation come from on those days when, you know, we see the wins, right? Yeah. But there's the days where you probably... I don't know about the wins.

Well... Wins are... I'm not... Progress. Progress. A little bit of progress. A little bit of progress. Because wins, I don't feel like I'm there yet, you know.

And, you know, whatever. Some people would argue that we should be careful not to appreciate the things we've been able to accomplish and which we have many things. But I think my my I always say that my investment in this movement is very selfish. It's not like, oh, I'm doing it because of the other children and the other people. It's my own family, like my me. You know, I want to be able to drive and feel comfortable and walk around in society and not be treated differently or othered I want my son to be protected and now I have a grandchild you know and here this is a young girl or a baby who's going to grow up in this society

what is it going to look like I don't want to leave here with people saying like well what did you do to contribute and I'm over here pointing at oh well they did no we have a responsibility and I think that's where every you know when I get up and some days Claudia is turned into a situation where I go to bed like I promise you I will not do else for these people because of all the stress that I go through the attacks the lies the this and that. I'd be like, that's it. And then I'd be like, which people? Our people?

Like in the morning when I wake up, I'm like, let me go to work because this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Calling on your life is something. Talk to us about a Jika Owens. Boy, I tell you what. I was on a conference call last night with Angela Rye and Amanda Seals and, I mean, Alicia Garza, Ben Crump, everybody, Jeff Johnson, the names go on and on. All the people, Christy Henderson was the coordinator of it. And first of all, the brilliance in this movement. Oh, wow.

To be on that call, I just wish it could be taped so everybody could see the thoughts and people working together to try to help get justice for this woman's family what happened to her um is it seems to be very clear at least it's clear to me and you know crump before he gets an attorney crump um before he gets involved in things he kind of knows what what happened for the most part so it seems it appears that the neighbor was a menace already. Like she had been harassing This is the story you gave the lady donkey the day too, right? Yes. No, no, no. We just talked about this one.

So it seems that she had already been harassing the children and people in the community. And this particular day, the kids were playing next door, which you guys probably already discussed, but you know the kids were playing next door which you guys probably already discussed but you know um the kids were playing next door in a field and she thinks she owns the field so she's neighborhood karen she thinks she owns the field she tells them when to come and go the ipad was

still in the field when the young man noticed it and all the kids were inside he noticed his ipad was there he ran out to go get it she already had it somewhere along the line she he approached her to get the ipad and he she hit him with something um so uh his and called him the n-word um what age is what he is you know well this young man the young boy is nine nine um and this and and and aj as they affectionately call her aj owens she has four children and so i think the youngest one is two okay um and so uh she so he went and got mama and mama came back to talk to the woman get the ipad probably ask you know what why did you hit my child all of that and um the woman shot her through the door shot her through the door and killed her i mean period you know and though to add insult to injury which is very similar to what happened to jordan nearly uh or at least what happened to daniel perry the man who killed jordan nearly is this

this thing where you can just go down to the precinct they ask you a few questions and then you just white and they say okay you can go home after you've killed somebody. Right. It is amazing that they it's like, do you mind coming in and right to us? Yeah. We just want to ask you for formality and let you go home and then don't release her name. Well, yeah, they didn't release her name, but we know what it is. Her name is Susan Lawrence.

Thank you. I believe that's her name, Susan Lawrence. And, you know, know again people in the neighborhood know her but let me just say on the issue of people getting to go home did she call 911 at all

so she didn't call 911 until after she shot I don't know that's a good question because you know usually it's self defense and if the door was closed if the door was closed

there was no way that she felt like her life was in danger I mean you gotta come on and she'll try to use stand your ground of course it's a lot of things that I think they're going was in danger. I mean, you got to, come on. And she'll try to use Stand Your Ground, of course. It's a lot of things that I think they're going to try to use. I think they're going to have a mental illness thing.

They're going to try a lot of things. So why people are the only people that are allowed to be mentally ill? Because with us, we don't get that grace. No, we don't. But let me say that one of the things I want to make sure we mention is that this is not a new issue or a new concern. If you think about Emmett Till and other cases of the past, there was a time when white people could literally decide that you made them feel uncomfortable or you committed some criminal act. They didn't have to be in law enforcement.

They could decide your punishment, kill you, whatever they want to do. And there was no consequences for it. So we're going backwards to a time when that is now a thing again, that you just go on downtown and tell Billy Bob officer, Billy Bob, everything was cool. You know,

I just shot me a day. That's it. And, and, and, and of course I hope we understand not to say that it's okay when it happens to men because we we fight for black men all the time our entire movement has been focused on black men but now they're killing black women which brings us to brianna taylor

um shout out to brianna taylor and her family look happy birthday she would have been 30 years old man 30 years old uh a young beautiful life taken her boyfriend kenny walker uh thankfully the charges that the officer had against him have been dropped so he's now free and clear to live his life but um yesterday yesterday i don't know when that's the case with standing ground work for a black person right yeah what uh kenny walker case oh yeah right well yes kind of yes yes yes they charged him at first but then they eventually charged him but they dropped it they never admitted it that's the point nobody ever said that he had the right to do what he did or whatever but he did right and i think that they dropped the charges for a different reason

which is because they don't want to have to go to court and lay out the details they're trying to push it you know sweep it under the rug it would make them have to do too much so but anyway um so the the attorney general in kentucky y'all talked about this before his name is daniel cameron this man man was responsible for the prosecution of the officers. He was responsible for finding justice. Right. As the attorney general, because the local government decided that they didn't want to try the case. It was too close with the police department and the local D.A.'s and whatever. So they pushed it to the attorney general. First of all, Daniel Cameron is a cop lover.

He has videos out there talking about how he will defend police and law enforcement until the end. He will do whatever is necessary to stand with police. So he had the case and had a grand jury in panel, which they went and they presented a case to the grand jury. Of course, the and which is what we fight against the grand jury proceedings being secret. That's a problem because you don't know what's happening. You don't know what they're presenting with the witnesses or what's going to happen. So the grand jury comes back and returns their decision, which is to charge one officer with shooting through the wall and that that could have hurt the people on the other side it didn't but it could have and so that charge was called wanton endangerment and that's what the person was indicted on they never came back with any charges

about brianna taylor being murdered we're about to knock on doors until november we're going to put ads up on tv we're going to make sure that everybody, Lottie Dottie and everybody, knows about Daniel Cameron and what he did to Breonna Taylor. All right, when we come back, we have more with Tamika Mallory. Don't move.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's EJ, Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got our co-host, Claudia Jordan, here. And we're kicking it with Tamika Mallory. Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got our co-host Claudia Jordan here. And we're kicking it with Tameka Mallory.

Charlamagne? How do you protect yourself in situations like to go post up in Kentucky and go against this guy who's got a massive support in Kentucky? How do you protect yourself? Well, first of all, we have security 24 hours a day, which is important. But, you know, security is not necessarily able to stop some crazy person from driving a car through the window of your office or whatever. So are y'all being set up? You know, I mean, that's like that.

But but but but but before we even get to the point of physical harm, watching just watch, you're going to be like, you got to come back and talk about this. They don't have articles out in a minute about everything we ever did wrong, who's who paperwork ain't right. What organization did this? Which is why I don't like to get into a back and forth about whether or not somebody bought a house in BLM. I don't like to get into that because I know what that conversation is all about. And I know who it benefits for us to get stuck in that they want to discredit our

movement so that they can make sure that nobody donates to Tamika Mallory either we all criminals I'm not, of course I'm not we said that on this show so many times but you're right, repetition matters, I'm not in the organization

Black Lives Matter but I'm just saying that i i've seen this movie before this is not the first time they they don't they actually don't do anything new they repeat the same script over and over again it's just that there are new players involved so you think you in something new but they literally have intentionality right now around discrediting our movement it doesn't mean you shouldn't ask questions there should be no accountability that's something we're talking about but when we start going down that rabbit hole there's a reason why

they want us to stay there and so what will happen is that in the next couple of weeks especially if daniel cameron feels like our movement is a danger to him you'll start hearing who slept with who Johnny you know shot somebody when he was 12 who went to prison that's what they're gonna do to try to discredit the people locally and nationally who will be there fighting him but we despite it all despite it all we gonna be there we have to stop eating that up though we're so quick to I knew it was a scam

and we have to stop being so skeptical of each other because I saw that happening in real I'm like oh but there are scams there are scams

and guess what white people run them every day that's right but they don't I feel like they air their laundry like we do sometimes

no no you'll never, you will never see. Like I give you an example, the women's movement, right? They got all kinds. I know we were in it, right? In the women's march, we were in it. We were leaders of the women's march. We know all about the stuff that goes on internally. But you don't know who's about people's salaries.

You don't know how much they make in these major women's organizations and other organizations that have or social cause organizations that have people that don't look like us. You tell me what's their salary. It doesn't come up. You don't know what house they have, where they live, how much money they spent. And if there is an issue, they deal with it internally. When it became public that there was a fight, which wasn't even about money, it was because it was women of color at the helm of it. So we just have to be aware of that. That does not mean that you don't have the right to say, I gave $100, $200,000, whatever it is, and I want to know what is being done with my resources. I'm not telling people not to ask those questions. I'm saying that what we see going on right now is not about asking questions.

It is about creating a dissension campaign or whatever against our movement as a whole and and yeah i'm not in blm at all i have nothing to do with the money never received a dime in fact i asked them for a million dollars and i'm still waiting on somebody to respond so i i this is not about that but i'm also i also am clear that i don't get to separate myself from this whole movement because i know i i only raised my organization raised three thousand three million dollars when blm received 90 million so that's why we asked for a million which is not even enough because we was in the street in the summer 2020 and we know that people went on their phone and said i don't i'm not to look for a particular name.

I'm just going to give money to BLM. So I feel they owe me money. Right. I think they have some of my money. So we asked for a million dollars. But I understand that this movement, everything that happens, there are implications for all of us. If something happened with you, Envy envy i've been watching you for the last few days i talked to you you know i'm saying it impacts everybody that's close to you that's just what it is so i i just want to put that message out there be careful what you allow yourself to get dragged into how can people donate if they want to donate to until freedom absolutely child we need y'all donate so bad lord have mercy you can donate to until freedom absolutely child we need y'all to donate so bad lord have

mercy you can donate to until freedom by going to until freedom.com which is the safest best way to get us donations um but of course if you want a cash app and venmo and all of that we're until freedom spell it properly because people have stolen our stole whichever is the right way to say it our um name colonized our name and they put one extra e one the l's or whatever and so a lot of our um donations were going to these other accounts so until freedom u-n-t-i-l-f-r-e-e-d-o-m on all platforms you can give and um did we get everything on on the notepad um i think so let me see oh cop city so cop city for folks quickly is in atlanta basically cop city is a place that is being designed to train police officers from around the country so in dekab county um andre um dickens the

mayor is creating a city and by the way people want me to mention that this was not his plan. It came from Governor Kemp and Keisha Lance Bottoms, and then he had the ability to keep it going or to cancel the project. So they are building this facility. Now this is what they're going to say. It's all first responders. There's going to be people

there from, you know, firefighters. They're going to have... There's an element that cannot be ignored and that is the police training that will take place in the facility and that is a problem the police association i think that's their name excuse me if i got it wrong um they are the ones that's coordinating the whole space and so the the the basically the the the resources that the city council approved are to lease space for the responders and others to be trained. And but the policing situation is the main focus of the facility. Why would you have bottoms on?

Well, because people elected officials, they get nervous and so when they start feeling the pressure from the governor and all these people because a lot of our folks don't understand what true public safety looks like we've been taught that public safety is uh locking people up but the police exist now there's police all over chicago and still there was 50 something people shot memorial weekend so policing is clearly not solving the problem. So we see what needs to be done. And it is it is it is intentionally being ignored. And they are fattening the pockets of the policing system and then not even giving true accountability measures to keep people accountable.

You cannot train racism and white supremacy. You can't out train it. You have to conv people accountable. You cannot train racism and white supremacy. You can't out train it. You have to convict it. You have to lock it up and you have to give it consequences so that people will know I could be as racist as I want at my kitchen table,

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