The Breakfast Club - The Breakfast Club REWIND (Humble The Poet, Druski, Childhood Obesity and More)

Episode Date: January 16, 2023

Today, we debut the Humble The Poet interview where he speaks on vulnerability, giving love, nurturing yourself and more. We also flash back to the Druski interview where he discusses testing jokes, troublemaking, Jack Harlow, Chloe Bailey and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. 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 Zaka Stan. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-A-S-T-A-N 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. It's Teresa, your resident ghost host. And do I have a treat for you. Haunting is crawling out from the shadows, and it's going to be devilishly good. We've got chills, thrills, and stories that'll make you wish the lights stayed on. So join me, won't you? Let's dive into the eerie unknown together. Sleep tight, if you can. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha. And I go by the name Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other. So join us each Saturday for Civic Cipher on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Good morning, Charlemagne. Peace to the planet. It's Monday.

Martin Luther King Day. That's right. We have a scheduled set of vacation days. Martin Luther King Jr. Day happens to be one of them. Yes. So we're not here. And I know you're like, oh, y'all just took four weeks off. You know why we took four weeks off?

Why? Because we have vacation days. That's correct. And we use them. Correct. And since today is a corporate holiday and a holiday all across the country, we're not here either. No, no, no, no. Right now, I probably just finished doing a party with me and Martin Luther King on a flyer together.

That's so disrespectful. You're too old for that at this point. You know what I'm saying? And listen, I'm going to tell you something else. Mind your business. And what I mean by that is I know you're upset that we've been gone for four weeks and we taking another vacation day off. But mind your business. OK, do we come to your job and complain to you about you taking your vacation days? That's true. All right. All right. Well, Humble the Poet will be joining us this morning.

That's right. Humble got a new book out called How to Be Loved. OK, or how to be loved because the D is in parentheses. You like the D in parentheses. No, I don't like the D in parentheses. I like my D to be loved Okay Or how to be loved Cause the D is in parentheses You like the D in parentheses No I don't like the D in parentheses I like my D to be Prominent Okay But how to be loved Goodness gracious

Loved By Humble the Poet And he'll be here to talk about love this morning Alright We'll get into that and more So don't move It's the Breakfast Club Good morning

Wake up Wake up Wake your ass up This is your time to get it off your chest Damn Damn Whether you're mad or blessed We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club Hello Who's this? With your ass up This is your time to get it off your chest Damn, damn, damn Whether you're mad or blessed

We wanna hear from you on The Breakfast Club Hello, who's this? Johnny DeLong What? You sound like you need a nose job I can't hear you clearly Yo, shut up, man I want you to be able to speak clearer

Can you hear me now? Yes, I can That was a quick nose job What up, man? Get it off your chest, bro Oh, how you doing? I'm Rebel Jesus from Detroit. You mind doing some poetry? Your name is Rebel Jesus and you want to do poetry?

Yes. Go ahead. Go. Oh, Lord have mercy. I call it adopted, but February 28th, birth of alleged man, that's what they prophesied many, many, many, many, many years ago I would even speak biblical

but whatever's true would you believe that? I would choose to save you I got you blind followers you can believe that God said I can't it's a funny use yo bro

I can't Moses and Noah yes you sound like Silly Bone listen to me man um that wasn't poetry that was rap sir

they're virtually the same thing yeah rap is poetry but i mean it is poetry but the way poets deliver it is a little bit different than you did just now yeah okay i was i wasn't a fan well might about do a different one no we would appreciate if you say thank you for the opportunity that's right and you go figure out something else to do with your life but you have a blessed day brother your life. Have a blessed day, brother. Rebel Jesus. Have a blessed day, silly boy. Hello, who's this?

Yo, I want to say one thing. What? Why you didn't give the girl who hit the guy with the bowling ball donkey of the day? That's a good question. I haven't seen the video. I heard about it, though.

Yo, that was some bulls**t. But you gave Dana Howard... What's the white guy's name? Dana White. Dana Howard sang a song called Freak Like Me back in the day. Love with Dana Howard. Yeah, I know.

I love that song, too. But why you don't give that b**ch Donkey of the Day? I don't even know her name. I'm going to look it up. I think she might be deserving of a donkey of the day. I think you're right, sir. She got to get two donkeys of the day. I don't even know her name. I'm going to look it up. I think she might be deserving of a donkey today. I think you're right, sir. She got to get two donkeys of the day.

OK, why are you drinking at this time of morning, bro? You just leaving the club? Why you ain't drinking? . That's when you know somebody's drunk. Why you ain't drinking? Why you drunk? Why you ain't drinking?

Hello, who's this? This is Nick the Trucker out of the IntermediN-Bitty Tri-City Floor. Nick the Trucker. Nick, you in your truck now, bro? Oh, God, don't tell this man to blow nothing. Yes, sir. I got you right here. What in the hell was that type of horn?

You just ready to blow. That was my big horn. That was not no big horn. That's my new horn. My big horn. What's up, Nicko? Get it off your chest, brother. Man, I just want to let everybody know, man, it's a new year.

Stop working so much, man. It's more important to spend time with your family and friends. Cut it out. All that extra stuff y'all working for is really not worth it. It's better to spend time with your family. I agree with you, but how are we going to make money? I'm not saying stop working. Let me rephrase. I'm not saying stop working i'm not let me

rephrase i'm not gonna stop working you just said stop work let me rephrase myself charlemagne work to pay your bills after that all that overtime all that extra stuff to buy some gucci or whatever it is you spend your money on it's not worth it oh yeah ain't nobody you know what i agree with that because you got some idiots out here who, you know, who buy designer shirts and then act like they purchased some damn property. Okay? So I agree with you on that. Yeah, I agree with you. I agree, too, Nick.

Spend the time with your family. Find the time to spend time with your family. If you find time for everything else, make sure you raise them babies and make sure you spend time with your significant other. Yeah, if you're working overtime for food, you're doing something wrong. Absolutely. Let me shout out my wife real quick. Her anniversary is next month. Let me shout out my wife real quick. Our anniversary is next month.

Let me shout out Daniela. She's in school. She just started school yesterday to be a teacher. I want to wish you all the praise and happiness, babe. Our anniversary is next year, or next month on Valentine's Day. It's going to be our 10th year together. I'm 29. She's 29. We've been together for 10 years, and I'm trying to see 50 more. Hey together. I'm 29. She's 29.

We've been together for 10 years, and I'm trying to see 50 more. Hey, that's a lot of pressure, man, having an anniversary on Valentine's Day. Lord have mercy. Now, I look at it as killing two birds with one stone. Well, I know one thing. You better get back to work so you have some money for Valentine's Day and the anniversary. You're going to need that extra cash. Goodbye, Nick.

See, that's what it is. It don't take that money, though. Oh, God. She's going to be happy just if we and the anniversary. You're going to need that extra cash. Goodbye, Nick. See, that's what it is. And don't take that money, though. She's going to be happy just if we're at the park. All right, you play if you want. There's going to be somebody else taking it to the park. Well, blow the horn one more time for me, Nick. Hey, who is that? That ain't DJ Envy.

You can't even tell his voice no more because he got a nose job. I don't know who that is. Who is that? Goodbye, man. 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.

This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club okay go Go. Okay, I think you need to get a job. Listen, I think you need to get a job. There's a lot of temp jobs available because it's the holiday season.

You know what I mean? But I'm glad you didn't go to the gym. You ain't lot of temp jobs available because it's the holiday season. You know what I mean? I'm glad you didn't go. You ain't like that MV? Nah, it was trash. It was just garbage. But I like the content that you're saying. You're saying you got a Nissan Rogue and you work for your Nissan Rogue and them brothers on the block with the Bentleys and

Roses, they're going to jail. That's right. I think that's what you were saying. You wasn't cosigning, stealing, right? No, he wasn't. You were against PPP. No, I'm saying, I can't compete. This girl teasing me

about the car support for PPP. I'm putting them inside roads. They got businesses and all that stuff on my block. I never seen no cars

in my life. And that's why we gotta, you gotta contact the proper authorities when you see people that have participated in these PPP scams. No, you should.

You should contact the proper authorities, man. You see something, say something. Hello, who's this? Hey, good morning. How you doing? What's up, brother? Get it off your chest.

Oh, first things I want to just say, I called last year around actually one year ago to this day. Yeah, last year I called and I told you guys I forgot my mother's birthday. I just want to wish her a happy birthday again. It was yesterday. I'm done. Forget this, Tom. I just want to wish her a happy birthday. And I want to ask y'all something about this economy, man.

Like, what do you think is going to go on with this economy for the next year? I'm in a truck. I'm a truck driver. I own my own truck. I'm trying to figure out, you know, if I even want to stay in this or I want to get out of this. I think it's going to get tight. I think inflation is going to raise a lot when it comes to interest rates on homes, interest rates on cars. I think grocery prices are going to go even higher.

I think a lot of people are going to lose their homes. I think a lot of people are going to lose their high-end things. And I think we need to rebound and get things back to normal. I think it's crazy that we can send billions and billions of dollars to all these other countries, but we can't help our own and make sure things level out here. I think it's going to be tight. So if you got money, hold on to it.

Right, right, right. And NBA. Hey, hold on. About the economy, if they don't figure out this debt ceiling thing, we're going to really be in trouble. I'm telling you. I'm telling you. And, you know, it's another thing, too,

is like these people don't understand how, hey, the American trucking industry is like, it seems like it's going to fall. It's going to fall. And if it falls, what are we going to do? Yeah, now you're right. How are we going to get goods and services? It's going to be hard getting goods and services. It already takes a long time to get goods and services now. Yeah, nobody's going to be doing work for free out here. They're trying to box you guys out anyway because they're trying to create electric trucks that electric 18 wheelers that they won't actually need drivers.

So, I mean, that's that's going to be real tough on your industry. Let me ask you something. Do you trust the Trump going down the road 80,000 pounds with no driver in it? I don't. I don't. But if you see what they're doing on the bridges and tolls, there's no more people there anymore. Now it's all electric, so all those people lost their jobs.

If you look at what they're doing in the trains and the buses, a lot of those people have lost their jobs. So it's going to be real difficult out there. Robots take it over. Yeah, that's true. Hey, Envy, I got an idea for you, though. I know you're still doing the car show stuff, right? Yes, sir. All right. I know. I got a crazy idea. Not a crazy idea. an idea for you though i know you're still doing the um the uh the car show stuff right yes sir

all right i know i got i got a crazy idea not a crazy idea but i will stay on hold why would you tell the world that i did man you ain't even trademarking nothing yet i'm sure the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club is your country falling apart feeling 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 Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition.

The Waikana tribe own country. My forefathers did that themselves. 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.

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So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love.

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As they say, those that cannot do, teach. Actually, I think I finally got it right, so take the failures I've had the second or even third or whatever, maybe the fourth time around. I'm Jenny Garth. 29 years ago, Kelly Taylor said these words, I choose me. She made her choice. She chose herself. When it comes to love, choose you first.

Hi, everyone. I'm Amy Robach. And I'm TJ Holmes. And we are, well, not necessarily relationship experts. If you're ready to dive back into the dating pool and find lasting love, finally, we want to help. Listen to I Do Part 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. So you went to Georgia Southern University. Yes. And you wanted to be in sports broadcasting

yeah and what happened um i think i just wanted to be on tv man it wasn't really about doing sports broadcasting it was just like something i knew i could go to school for to like you know entertain i just i didn't know i knew my parents wanted me to go to school so i'm like i'm gonna figure out a way to stay in school and do some cool shit. That was the go-to, just to do that. But I ended up doing what I really wanted to do. How did you make that pivot?

Dropping the shit out of high school. Dropping out of high school, dropping out of college. What year did you drop out? I think I did one year at GGC, which is like a close school to where I'm from. Then I went to Georgia Southern, and I did like half a semester. Jesus.

And just stopped going to classes, just all in general. Let's talk about that mindset. I never went to college, period. So what made you realize that college isn't the move for me? I think, bro, just going going up those classes are so big you don't even have like a real like like connection with none of the teachers i think when i started out at the smaller school i was cool because i still knew people where i was from everybody's still cool with each other you know it felt like high school again you know that's another year high school you get up to those big colleges i thought it was about to be like a party.

You know what I'm saying? You watch movies like ATL or Drumline and stuff, and you see, like, kind of like the college type. You're like, okay. Right, right, right. All right. And I thought it was going to be like that. But, nah, man, I went all the way out there to that party school, and I ended up hating it, bro. I didn't like it.

What made you hate it? It just wasn't. I went out there for other reasons i went out there thinking this is like the lifestyle i could live like yeah this is the real college lifestyle and i ended up just hitting me in the mouth with it like but you thought it was gonna be like partying and women what you thought yeah i wanted that man i wanted a real college experience because when you go to those small colleges you don't get that it's just like like i said like it's high school again so i was like okay i going to step out here.

I'm trying to get my deal on, you know? But yeah, I needed that though because I ended up figuring out that I wanted to be a comedian when I didn't go to class that other semester. So basically you went to college and was like, damn, we still got to do work. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's actually worse because the teachers don't, they don't give a crap about you. You even got to show up. You got to do your work. Yeah, you walk in. It's actually worse because the teachers don't give a crap about you. You even got to show up. You got to do your work. Yeah, yeah. If you don't, you fail. You walk in, there's a lecture, there's a thousand people sitting in here. They don't care who you are.

You walk in, man. Listen, man. It ain't fair about it. Let's go back to... Oh, go ahead. I was going to say, when are you going back? I was going to say, let's go back before college. Let's go back before high school.

Because you just don't start being funny. Like, I can watch you and tell this guy is naturally funny. Right. He's not performative. You had to be the class clown and disruptor in school or something. Yeah, I was always the class clown, man, since I was, like, elementary school. But I didn't know that's what I wanted. I actually, I wanted to do that, but I didn't know it was a real profession that could be my career.

I'm young, and I used to go to second, third grade, and I used to ask kids, who do you think the funniest in our class is? They'd be like, oh, you're so funny, man. I thought that was the cool thing, so every year my goal was to make sure I'm the funniest in this whole grade. I want everybody to agree that I'm the funniest. It was just something my small I would put in the back

of my head but I never thought I would really end up making it a career honestly I just didn't think too deep into it but I definitely

have always been a class clown what'd you do back in the day that you realized like okay when you think about it now like I went too far back then

all them ass whoopings my dad was whooping my ass really not ass what did you go too far on what did I go too far on what in elementary school then? All them ass whoopings, man. My dad was whooping my ass. Really? Not ass. What did I go too far on? What? In elementary school? Yeah, like prank wise.

Let me give you an example. I'd rather hear about the trauma from the ass whooping. Let me give you an example. He used to make fun of this kid that was mentally challenged. And he would make fun of this kid all the time until one day the kid turned around

and beat Charlamagne's ass. He didn't beat my ass. He choked me. It's a difference. He put me in a dope feed. He put me in a sleeper. You know they strong, though. What?

Hey, I'm telling you. Drewski? No, they strong. You have no idea. You got to see how they built. They stature built. They always got big booties. So you should know,

not, hey, I'm telling you. I never, see, that's why I never did that. They just go into the bathroom. You know, when they go into the bathroom, they pull their pants all the way down. And I could tell from stature, okay, this dude built up. He got some strong hind legs.

You know, you don't mess with them, man. I'm telling you right now. He just don't. He post you up in the paint real well. Yeah, man. You know, I just always knew not to message him. I can tell. Alright, we got more with Drewski when we come back. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Morning, everybody. It's D-E-J-N-V. Charlemagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Drewski. Charlemagne? Do you feel the need to prove yourself to I guess the OG comics? Because there was this thing one time where OG comics would be like, oh, people from the internet aren't real comics. Yeah. Why do you think I bring this tea up here, though?

To look like. Because, yeah, to look like I know what I'm talking about. I seen the OGs coming up here doing that. I seen, like, Kevin Hart and them. You know, I seen them bring tea. So I'm like, all right. Let me make a statement. Yeah, let me bring the hot cocoa up here, you know.

That's true. That's true. That's true. That is true. And you know, that's one of my, you know, that's one of my things I knew I was going to do when I came up here.

Drink tea. Yeah, I was going to bring something just to look like I'm noble. Just to look. Now, when you go on the road with drama and Wiz Khalifa and all those, how is doing that?

Because you're a comedian amongst all these artists. Is that difficult? Because they want to see people perform. You're saying like when we're just chilling, hanging out? No, when you're on tour, when you're working. Oh, when I'm on tour. Nah, that's not hard, man.

You know, those are the ones that show love the most. Yeah, I like when people come out and come to shows and stuff. Yeah, that's nothing. But you never answered the question about do you feel, you know, you got to get these OGs respect as a comedian. Yeah, I think that always happens, man. And I think you just got to go through the hard work. The first thing Kevin Hart told me when I went to his show and I went backstage

and I was like, I was just watching him, you know, everybody congratulating him like, oh my God, it was a great show. Oh my God. And I was just looking at him from across the room because they invited me to the green room and I'm just like, all right, when's my moment to say what's up?

You know, like I was kind of nervous, you know, and I'm expecting just to be like, yo, you did, you had a great show. Dude breezes past me and he looks at me, he said, stop being a bitch. I was like, what the hell is he talking about, man? And I had my hand extended out. Like, hey, what's up, man?

I thought he was going to be like, hey, you're killing this shit, man. He walked past me again. He said, I'm telling you, stop being a bitch. And I'm like, what the fuck? So I'm asking his boys. I'm like, yo, what is Kevin talking about for real? And he walked up to me. Get on that stage.

And he said, get on that stage. He said, stop acting like you're too good to do stand-up. He was like, you're doing all the little hoes in the tours. He said, but you ain't doing what you're supposed to be doing. He said, see, y'all scared, man. He said, these new cats, y'all scared. Y'all think y'all got all the fame. Y'all think y'all the shit.

He said, stop being a bitch. I'm like, man. That hit my soul, man. I started going to these open mics working on my set you know and uh yeah you you gotta fail before you we always ask you remember your best show in your worship what was the worst show let's go um i had a really really terrible terrible experience more recently um i tried to say a joke. What city? This was in Atlanta.

I was just going on an open mic. And yeah, it just fell very flat. What was the joke about? I'm trying to remember. I think I told a story. That traumatizing? You had to forget? Yeah, yeah.

I just wanted to erase that from my mind. I can't think of the joke I said, but it was something about my past. Yeah, it fell flat, though. I think somebody clappedapped like in a kind of an agreement with me, and I knew I said okay that wasn't The spectacle of laughing Your drew ski yes recent so this is yeahski Drewski. Millions of followers. You're on tour. You go on stage.

They cheering because they're excited to see you. I said it straight. I tell them as soon as I get out there, I say, hey, man, I'm working on stuff. Y'all don't expect nothing because, you know, people try to stand up to you. They're standing ovation. But, you know, when you're working on your set for like a big show that's coming up, you got to say, hey, I just walked out there and say, hey, y'all know, hey, I am Drewski, yes, but I'm working on stuff.

Don't expect no big, you know, my best jokes right now, you know. But that's how you get better, though. That's the best way to... How'd you walk off stage after they did that? Did you just end right there? I think I tried to say something else. And, yeah, I thought, I said, that's my time.

You know, just try to say, you try to do something and just, yeah, that's my time, y'all. Thank y'all. I want to go back to what you said about Kevin. We're talking about the best show. We're talking about the worst show. Oh.

Why? We're talking about positive stuff. What was the best show? Do you remember your best show you had? I think my best show, I did a piece of Coulda Been when I was on the Lil Baby and Chris Brown tour. And I had this dude come out who was previously on my Instagram live. And he came out and danced.

And, like, the crowd loved it. It was hilarious. Like, I was just reacting to everything he did. And that was a really good show. So you wasn't telling no jokes? Nah, it was a whole bunch of, yeah, it was like improv, you know? It was like, I was just out there just wilding out. Like, I was f***ing with the crowd and, you know, all that.

Sorry for cussing. No, go ahead. But to that point, I knew exactly, when Kevin said stop being a bitch, I knew exactly what he was saying to you because that's what all OGs do. But do you have to hit the stage? That might not be your thing. Yeah, I mean, but he's saying stop being a bitch as in, like, go out there and try it before you act like you're too good to be doing.

Or don't be out here acting like you, you know, don't be acting like you the shit. And you ain't even tried something that, you know, could be potentially huge for you. So he's not necessarily saying I have to be a stand-up comedian. He's just saying like, yo, go try it out. What are you scared? Because on the flip side, there's stand-up comedians that can't do what you do online. They can't do it.

They're not good in sketch. Like, you might be a great sketch performer. I'm not saying that you can't be both. I'm just saying you might be, that might be your lane. You're right.

Only time will tell. Only time will tell. We'll see if I get booed off another stage, or not even booed, another clap like that. Yeah. Another clap like that,

that might wrap it up. Well, Drew, we appreciate you for joining us, stage. Or not even booed. Another clap like that. Yeah. Another clap like that. That might wrap it up. Well, Drew, we appreciate you for joining us, brother. Give me your Instagrams. So we can wrap this up. Jesus Christ. I don't even want to do it, man. That won't be the last time. That won't be the last time.

That won't be the last time, man. You on your way. Drew's kids absolutely, positively going to be a big star in this industry. Everybody sees it. Everybody knows it. All you got to do is keep your head on straight and the sky's the limit. And we might need you for a couple of days, too. Yeah.

We're going to have some celebrity hosts with us and some guest hosts and stuff like that. So we might need you for a couple of days if you're in town. All right, man. Yeah, definitely. Let's do it. No, for real. Man, we serious. Where?

What's the event? No, no. When we're moving. When we booking that? We're moving to a new studio. And Anjali has her own show now. So we're not rushing to get a new co-host. So we're going to rotate guest hosts for a long, long time.

Oh, that'll be dope. Yeah. So, you know, when you're in town and you got something you want to promote, just pull up and do the radio show with us in the morning. Let's do it. All right. I'm done. But for real, give me your Instagram. You like, wrap this up, please.

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year olds that they need to grow up but i do really want to see men grow up i want us to be able to you know have conversations with each other without the conflict that's why i'm always pressing brothers to go to therapy to deal with that hurt that pain that they have inside them but i'm gonna tell you something else but i've been hearing a lot of 40 somethings have conversations about like money and wealth and things of that nature and they're talking about it from the perspective of what they're wearing that sounds so crazy they're like oh such and such ain't getting no money because you know well it doesn't have to be 40 it can be 30 or 20 or even basing their their wealth off of uh jewelry or cars they have in cash that they can hold up to their ear.

Oh, my God. Yeah, I think we need to leave that as well. Salute to my good brother, John Hope Bryant, man. John Hope Bryant says, if the only asset you have is on your ass, you doing something wrong. Absolutely. So, please, can we leave that in 2022 for all ages? All ages. Especially, I cannot believe it's for talking like that.

Nah. That's crazy to me hello who's this my name is lisa hi lisa good morning lisa good morning charlene um i'm calling because i'm leaving behind non-law you ask people and cheating guys because guys do not know how to be committed oh boy well stop dating uh everybody except black men, because black men don't cheat. No, black men are the cheaters. Could you stop? Why are you telling lies like this?

We should leave lying in 2022. Why would you tell such a tale? Well, I'm sorry you got cheated on, mama. Yeah, and you're right. We should leave cheating as women and men in 2022. And ain't no black men cheating. Nope. Young black boys are cheating.

Well, well, well. Black men are not cheating. What do you consider TJ Holmes? Huh? Okay, never mind. Beige. Beige? All right.

Well, what is the age bracket for them not to cheat? What do you mean? I think that we shouldn't. I don't know what you're talking about. No, you just said. How old are you? How old are you? How old are you, mama?

How old are you? I'm 28. And how old was the last white man that cheated on you? The white man. Black man? How old was he? He was 24. He's still a little boy.

That's what I'm telling you. He's still a young man. Okay, so how old does it take to be a grown man? Let me think. Let me see. I got there around 36, 37. That's how long it took you to be a grown man? It took me. i got there around 36 37 oh that's how long it took you to be a grown man it got it took me i got there i got there around 36 but i'm not saying that you should i'm not

saying you should wait that long huh are you married then you've been married before i've been i've been with my i've been with my wife it took him some time 24 years we've been married since 2014 it took us some time but i'm gonna I'm going to tell you the difference, man. All jokes aside, seriously, it's all about being intentional about doing the work on themselves. If you're intentional about growth, if you're intentional about being a good man, you will go do the work on yourself

so you don't have women calling up to the radio station sad like how she sounds this morning. She sounds very sad. Breakfast Club, good morning. Who that? The Breakfast breakfast club you already know morning everybody it's dj envy charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we got a special guest in the building yes and he has a new book how to be loved ladies and gentlemen humble the poet welcome sir thank you so much for having me what's up my guy what inspired this man? Trying to figure out where I kept going wrong in love. So pretty much it's been like, how come I'm not feeling love?

How come I'm not receiving love, even being in beautiful relationships? And then going down this journey and trying to figure out what to do and started reading every love coach, every philosopher, all the religious texts, psychologists, everything. And being at the front of the class, taking as many notes as possible, and the first thing I realized is, like, I have so much love in my life. I'm not receiving it. That built up all these walls.

And I thought all these walls were protecting me, but really they were just serving as a prison, keeping me out. Is it because you don't love yourself? I think I didn't know how to love myself. I didn't understand, even though it's extremely simple, not easy, but simple, I didn't understand how important it is that you don't have love for yourself or you don't cultivate that relationship it doesn't matter what your relationship with anybody else is that's right did you find love did you actually find it or is it still a mission still looking so what i realized is you can't find love love is always there and it's about realizing love so the analogy i like

to use is like love is like a breeze and you have to open your sails to love it's about realizing love so the analogy i like to use is like love is like a breeze and you have to open your sails to love it's not about looking for the breeze it's about doing the work to open the sails do you know the definition of love because in my relationship i didn't necessarily know the definition of love to me like i you know what people tell you what love is but i didn't know the actual definition of what love is so do you know the definition or do you break that down yeah so there's a beautiful quote by naval ravikant that says love is what's left when all other emotions are gone so and i think what that is is actually peace so love isn't something that you have to find acquire earn or win but you clean up the clutter get rid of everything else and then

what's left is love let me ask you a question question. One moment. So if you love somebody, right? And you know how people say, you know, you might be, you might see a couple and the man cheats on a woman or the woman cheats on the man. Can they possibly love that person if they would cheat on him? Or if they get into an altercation or domestic violence, could you love that person and fight him? You know what I mean? Could you love that person and knowingly hurt them?

Is that love so the better way to frame it and this is a peter crone idea is instead of saying i love you you say you show me what love is because again the love is constant and what you're doing is you develop a relationship with somebody and you create a pathway of love but then the problem is what we do to mess up that pathway is we start focusing on things like control power attention validation all of these things that kind of feel like love but they're not actually love because if they were actually love love is like I don't need anything else all these other

things I need more and more and more and more it's not having everything it's not needing anything so we talk about stuff like this you're talking about unhealthy relationship dynamics and that has nothing to do with love and what that's actually doing is closing the pathways of love between you and somebody else like me and you over the years we've chatted we are creating a bond over time now if i do something disrespectful i'm closing that bond i'm closing that pathway so does that mean you you don't necessarily love in the way that you say you do right because if i love something or i'm in love with something well not in love but if i love something right i'm in love with something, well, not in love, but if I love something, right?

I'm going to do everything or I should do everything not to hurt that person or not to show or not to close that pathway. Like you said, because if I close that pathway, that means I'm not showing them love. That means I actually don't love them like I say I do. Yeah. So part of loving yourself is going easy on yourself because none of us are perfect. So we're all going to make mistakes. So it's looking at it from that perspective as well. Not like what I should do when I love somebody a lot of that's going to be culture depends on where you are in the world the definition of marriage is different the

definition of monogamy is different the definition all these definitions are different when you have love for somebody you are you are doing your best to serve them and what you realize is trying to serve one person is completely different than trying to serve somebody else and depending on where they're at you know and it's not something i gotta win i don't have to deserve it i don't have to be worthy of love i don't have to be enough for love everybody we know in our lives that we love we know all their imperfections none of that disqualifies them from love none of that means they don't deserve to be loved and then also you know you guys are both parents you guys have held your children and loved them immediately.

You know, love doesn't require us to do or be anything. You know, when you say a person can show me love, what was the quote? You show me what love is. You show me what love is. I don't know if that can be received if you don't know what love is. I'm talking to Humble. I didn't have Humble on Brewery Nates. It's me and Humble talking.

But your first, last, and best love should be self-love. If you don't know what love feels like, you won't even know what you're being showed. 100%. And it's the same, the exact same recipe. For me and you to develop a stronger bond, it's got to be vulnerability. For you and you to develop a stronger bond, it's got to be vulnerability. You know? For you and your wife to develop a stronger bond, it's got to be vulnerability. You guys have to go out on dates. You have to be share things with you you have to be you

have to be willing to take a risk of getting hurt it's the same thing with yourself journaling being honest with yourself prayer irrespective of what your religious beliefs are when people pray that is the time they are the most honest about what they want and the most honest about what they're grateful for so it's not performative when you do that you become much more vulnerable with yourself instead of looking at this on some surface level stuff where people are literally just outsourcing the antidote to their loneliness by having another person around but the antidote to loneliness isn't having people around you it's being connected now what do you think we get to the point where like you

know one of your Instagram page you know you would come in you know looked up on the book and you posted a picture of yourself with no shirt on right where did we change where people would make fun of or talk about people that weren't in shape right yeah well people were talking about dad bods and i just remember a time growing up as a kid everybody in the beach was all size shapes big small people in shape people not in shape where do we get to that place in society where it's like people only love a certain type of body where they feel like if anything is not that chiseled and eight eight pack a six pack that's why you got the nose job bro it's how personal bro what's next man you gonna get on the steroid it's how personal bro you saw i heard about when do we get to that place as a society where it almost feels like we don't love ourselves that we want to be somebody else and shut up

i didn't get no damn nose jobs i think the first thing is try to figure out where these ideas come from so from a science perspective healthy body weight for a man is between 18 and 22 percent right for a woman it's even higher so um this doctor's out there saying a woman should never have a six-pack and for men you know that should not be a long-term man shouldn't have a six-pack should not all right actually like with that you feel bad about yourself already but however you know so for example like i've you know i've been hired to model in situations before they didn't hire me to model because i'm beautiful it's because i was sample size i'm the size and the shoulder length you know and depending on what i eat, the belly goes down. But at the same time, the question is,

who defines all of this? Where do we get these ideas from? Well, these ideas come from businesses that want to sell you stuff for money. So it's realizing that, look, we're being taught things. You watch a Disney movie, that's teaching you about love. You watch porn, that's teaching you about love. You watch a rom-com, that's teaching you about love. You watch a reality show. All these you about love you watch a reality show all these things are suddenly teaching us about love and we have to realize these ideas aren't ours and i think that's the big thing a lot of times we think we own our thoughts but they're just put into us and then they start sounding like us our parents we grew up our parents whoever raised us that's the first model of love we have no matter how functional dysfunctional and then that becomes comfort so this type of love we saw growing up becomes our comfort food and if it's dysfunctional then

we lean into that and what i'm because people will be like you wrote a book you ain't married you ain't this you ain't that i'm like that's not what this book is about this book is not about finding a partner this book is about not worrying either way and being happy with how your life is and this book is about loving yourself as you are so the purpose of that was because an activity i have in the book is look at yourself in the mirror and not be judgmental and be grateful so i'm like all right i'm gonna do that that video has two million views too many people see me in my underwear and it's like that scared the crap out of me to do it what the print look like though nothing listen because you know you got to factor in everything

you know i'm saying no but you gotta factor these things in because you should look you should look and say okay what does your print look like because if you got a big print people be looking like damn you don't look like he packing all that so if you look like you're packing two million people are watching how did we get here so question do you believe in love languages you know this it's been the the big conversation in the last year people talking about the love language what's your love language what's your thought i think there's only one love, and that's to be seen and understood. And then, you know, they just took that and made it more detailed. To be seen and understood through physical touch, through gifts, through I don't even know what the other ones are.

They just made it specific. I look at it like horoscopes. Everyone just wants to be a part of a certain team, and they want to be, like, unique to that. But as I said, love to me, we should focus on love as the the verb like love is service start focusing on what you require as much as giving it out if you want to realize that's what i'm saying that instead of finding love is more like realizing love you want to realize love the easiest way to do that is by loving people and love them because it's a gift that you have not because it's a loan that you want paid back we got more of one of my favorite young minds on the planet humble theble the Poet, on The Breakfast Club.

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about an ex of yours. Is that true? Well, when I wrote it. So what happened is I wrote... So what happened? Because you love your mom, but you didn't speak to your mom yeah so it's again it's understanding so i was in an extremely serious relationship and then it ended it ended over the pandemic and my mom you know was crazy over her so what would happen is uh i moved to i moved to la after the pandemic so i'd call i call him with my mom every day and every day she would just remind you you know it would have been a year now that you guys would have been together.

Oh, my God. It would have been this. And I was like, look, mom, you're making me feel bad. I understand how you feel, but you're doing this. So that was the last chapter of the book. So what it was, I finished this book, let's say January 2022. You know, you got to go through like a nine-month process editing. The day before the book was due for print, which was this September. I was like,

okay, it's been nine months. I got to write something. So I wrote that last chapter. So in that last chapter, in that September, I had spent like a month avoiding talking to my mom. How did y'all mend that?

I mean, immigrant families, man, just pretend it didn't exist. Tell mom, if you don't cut it out, I'll cut you off. Well,

it's not even, we'll cut you off. It's just like, look, mom, like you're not, I understand you're upset over this breakup and it and and it sucks and it breaks my heart that it's breaking your heart but i can't do nothing and this has been a constant theme of my uh i

think a lot of immigrant kids in general a lot of kids in general it's like your dreams can't include other people's names your dreams and your goals have to be your dreams and goals your dreams can't be for my son to get married and for me to have grandkids that can't be your dream you're just putting pressure on somebody else to be something that they're not where they are right now we can't fall in love with other people's potential you can only fall in love with your potential so that that's what the challenge was so there was just a time where it just got so much where it's like you know i could feel tension every time i saw her call because the questions are always the same. Are you eating? What did you learn how to cook?

How's your puppy? And then, you know what? You would have been better had you just stayed here, had you went and just got married. Why did the relationship end? Was it searching for love? It was through this journey. As I said, like I was in a great relationship with a great person, but I wasn't able to receive, you know, because I did not have a healthy relationship with myself. I had this, as I said, I had all these walls walls up I had this idea that I need to be independent I had all this idea that you know I'm on the grind I had to do all these different things not and then and

then also realizing ideas like codependency so what ends up happening is when you when you break up with somebody what you're really breaking up with is the version of you in that relationship you're not breaking up with the person you're breaking up with who you are in that relationship realizing that what's required for you to keep that relationship up there's there was a tension there because it's like you know family expectations all these different things and that wasn't me living my authentic life and it wasn't for any other reason than me not doing the work internally to be authentic about that and be honest with me. Like, wait a minute, what is this?

And a lot of that's trial and error. And I'm in therapy now. And one of the big things my therapist says is, your goal is to quickly realize somebody isn't good for you. That's your goal. How quickly can you realize there's an incompatibility? And some days are more successful than others. And that goes back to another idea, which is love. A big idea that people, I think, have misunderstood about love is they think it's glue.

I love my partner enough. That's enough to keep us together. Love is not glue. Love is fuel. Relationships, all relationships, romantic, friendships, business, everything require work. The love that you have is the fuel to make you work at it. You can't just be like, I love you. So that's enough to keep us together.

The work that the unsexy work, the day-to-day unsexy work is what's going to keep a relationship together man everything you're saying is so true and uh you know when you talk about sometimes we we say oh we've we've outgrown somebody right and and i'm not even talking about like intimate relations i'm talking about with friends it's not even that you just outgrew that person you actually did break up with that person and the reason you broke up with them is because you broke up you broke off the unhealthy versions of yourself and y'all might have been trauma bonding so sometimes when you we say we are grown people because oh that person's still on the same thing that we used to be on that person hasn't dealt with their trauma yet i've dealt with mine we had a trauma bond now that i broke those parts of me off me and that person

ended up breaking up yeah yeah completely and that's a really good way of putting it where it's realizing that look it's not about the other person it's about you so instead of having expectations of other people just have standards for yourself and like these are my standards the people who live up live up to it i will invest in them and the people that don't you know best of luck to you i can still love you from afar and i think the important thing with that is you're allowed to change and evolve your standards because we don't know what we don't know you know so all of a sudden you know when you've you know i know you're big on investing the idea behind that really is thinking long term

you're deferring gratification you're buying the thing that will let you buy the thing right that's a mindset you know that's that's the marshmallow test that they give kids you know wait five minutes here's a marshmallow if you don't eat it in five minutes then we'll give you two marshmallows just teaching them to defer gratification now you got to be around people who share that mindset even if they're not investing you know and so now that could be your standard of who you're going to devote your time. And because your time is one of the most valuable things you have. So we have to continually,

instead of having expectations of anybody, just define our standards. Like these are my standards. You live up to the standards. You know, I can invest in you. If you don't know disrespect, I accept you as you are,

but I can't invest time, energy, attention, and, and, and work to create a pathway of love with you absolutely you know what else too man i like it that you keep talking about uh vulnerability because i think that sometimes in relationships i don't even know what we think vulnerability is

but i'd be thinking sometimes vulnerability man is letting people see that dark side yeah like like letting people see that that shadow side you know i mean that side that we try to keep to ourselves i'm not talking i'm just talking about like like sometimes you might be thinking some real effed up stuff you know can you tell your significant other that or can you tell somebody you love that or somebody that loves you and they still love you yeah so that's really good because i think the other thing is we always think about zero to 100 it's like either you're not vulnerable with somebody or you're completely vulnerable and there's a lot in between.

So what I learned in therapy is have two vulnerable stories in your pocket that you could tell a stranger that won't scare them away. And that's a way to establish a bond. So one of mine, for example, is speaking about dogs. I had a dog growing up. He lived out his life for 11 years. Broke my heart to put him to sleep. He was 11 years old. His hips went.

Broke my heart to put him to sleep but you know he was 11 years old his hips went broke my heart to put him to sleep avoided getting another dog became everybody's uh backseat dog owner telling them how to raise their dogs and then eventually somebody uh said hey there's this puppy available do you want it and i'm like no no no i'm over dogs i gotta move to america and do all this eventually snap got the dog and it made me super happy this vulnerability in the story not enough vulnerability to scare a stranger away. And what happens is when you're vulnerable with somebody, the reason we fear being vulnerable is we fear judgment. We fear shame. But what I've realized is when I'm vulnerable with people,

it invites them to be vulnerable with me. That may allow someone to tell me a story about a loss that they had. The other one is losing my grandmother. Talking about, you know, being a little kid and sleeping in the bed with her and tracing all the veins or the wrinkles in her hands and, you know, just hearing her stories,

not understanding what she said because she didn't have any teeth and just this beautiful story and how much I miss her. Again, that allows someone to connect with you on a deeper level. You don't got to tell them all the shadow stuff, but you can work your way up.

Gotcha. You know, and I think that's a really important thing vulnerable and again being vulnerable with yourself being like well why did that thing that you know charlamagne say to me why did that bother me and write it out you know and and the easiest way to journal here's a step-by-step way to journal uh step one just write about the event step two write about your feelings about how that situation made you feel just write them all out however how that situation made you feel just write them all out however it made you feel made you feel upset jealous angry happy excited whatever you realize the majority of emotions we have are on the negative side because that's how we learn to

survive step three look at those feelings that you wrote out and write your thoughts about it and be like okay i understand okay the reason i felt insecure about that is because the way he said it sounded like that kid in the seventh grade. And then all of a sudden you start building this thing called self-awareness. You're picking up on your patterns. And now you realize you don't own your emotion. I am not happy. I'm feeling happiness.

I'm not anxious. I'm feeling anxious. You separate yourself from it because every single emotion everybody has ever felt was impermanent. They all go away. Good ones and bad ones. so this journaling will allow you to be vulnerable with yourself and be honest with yourself and you'll build a deeper connection with yourself and then you'll be able to better articulate to other people you know how they can be around you and you're just setting boundaries and your boundaries are about you not about them

all right we got more with humble a poet when we come back don't move it's the breakfast club good morning good morning everybody it's dj envy charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking it with humble a poet you know the last chapter in the book is called the last book i'll ever write yeah now you've written four super successful books you don't really mean that right so the way i try to write so again first i think to myself like what's more important than love what else is it all right um and as i, I wrote that last chapter the day the book was to hit print. So it didn't even get edited. And, you know, that didn't go through the editing process.

And it was like, what else is left for me to say? And I was looking at it, squeezing out, you know, my sponge to hit it. And I try to write books with that idea. So, you know, going into that and then also with just other opportunities coming my way, it's something that I've been exploring. I think recently helping out a couple of friends in the world of anxiety has made me think about anxiety a lot. And the idea of moving to New York was like, oh, there's a beautiful book there. Move to New York and write about anxiety like that fits. So there's a lot of ideas there. And then maybe in the form of an audio book or something like that, just watching how the industry changes and stuff. But I wrote this book with the idea

this is going to be the last book. And I also talked about it being the most expensive book because writing this book meant I had to let go of layers of myself. And it's cool to be vulnerable, but it also does make you vulnerable. And I'm way more emotional than I used to be because I shed a lot of walls.

And then that was cool for writing and creating art. But that ain't cool when you're out reaching out to people, trying to do stuff, trying to get on people's shows, do whatever, hearing no's, all of that. That made me super mindful of it. I'm game to do it. And as I said, I'm thinking a lot about anxiety. And I'll do some research for the next couple of months on that. And there's something good that I want to write about it. I'm heavily inspired by Kendrick.

And I feel like he speaks And there's something good that I want to write about it. I'm heavily inspired by Kendrick and I feel like he speaks when there's something worth saying. I mean, there's a lot of great books on anxiety. There's one called Shook One, Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me. It's a great one. It's a great one. God, this guy, he's a good guy.

It looks like Morris Chestnut, but it's a good one. I thought it was Morris Chestnut. I keep hearing it. Don't lie. That guy does not look, nothing like Morris Chestnut. What you said about Kendrick

is interesting too because Kendrick explored a lot of conversations about love that men don't have. And I think one of those relationships is definitely the relationship between a father and a son, because that is the first man that you love and the first man that is supposed to love you but if if you grew up in a certain era like me 44 years old my dad grew up in the time in the 1900s when they definitely didn't know how to love themselves they definitely didn't have the tools in any way shape or form so they instilled that in us and then we're kind of like the first generation that has the luxury of healing and so now we looking at them like, oh, goddamn. Why'd you instill that in me? But you still,

I don't know if you want to call it toxic. It's toxic in the word, but it's like a dysfunctional thing. Because I love you, but you kind of effed me up. And that goes back to this idea of going easy on yourself. When you go easy on yourself and go easy on other people,

and it's like, you knew what you knew. They came from a world like that. Maybe in 40 years, when your children are adults they're gonna be dramatically more evolved as an individual than you are and they're gonna look at you as prehistoric with your mindsets and whatever and we don't even know what those things are you know like back then people used to have lead paint you know i think it was in the 70s people before the 70s people were driving without seat belts there are things that we think are common sense that you realize like there was a

time that people didn't even think about that's right there were no airbags like you said seatbelts lead paint we don't know what 2023's ignorance is we're like oh my we were carrying these devices in our pockets the whole time and now we all wonder like why we got certain diseases or what have you we were eating all this food that messes up so they're gonna look at us the same way it's just you're gonna be like look i knew what i knew and i and i always like think about that with my parents because i definitely grew up in a world that was like my family to this day is the subtle signal they always had my back but i only went to them in emergencies you know i knew if she hit the fan i can go to my family and they will have my back but what if i was like 15 and i had a crush and

needed advice from my sister i wouldn't go to her you know and then you start thinking that you're a burden to other people i don't want to bother them and it took somebody to get bad advice you but i mean just the vulnerability of it yeah you value through the vulnerability i think yeah you should not just go to one person for advice ever you should always triangulate your advice and get as many people who know what they're talking about but the idea of even asking somebody yeah so what i realized in my house was like we only went to each other for emergencies the little things we did and we became overly self-regulated i don't need nobody i don't need nobody and and this was this was a conversation i had with somebody

yesterday like there's no such thing as self-made we all need each other we're all interdependent you know even if you did the grind and it felt like you did it by yourself, you still lived in a part of the world that maybe wasn't at war. So you were able to do it. Somebody paved the roads for you to get around. Somebody kept the subway going for you to move around. We need each other. That's why folks are so anxious now because I can't rely on anybody to keep me secure.

Like when you walk in a room and it's mad people i know red i know envy i know nick i know humble but i still got to make sure all of y'all are good because all it takes is one person to go go i'm using the word crazy to go crazy one person to flip and ruin everybody's day yeah you don't know where that could come from nowadays yeah you know and that's a beautiful way to look at it it's service you're here to serve love is serving people love is a verb and that's why the book is called how to be loved but the d is in parentheses because it's really about how to be loved how to realize you're a source of love and if you want to realize love is looking inwards you can't solve internal issues with external solutions it's never it's never

going to work so instead it's like cultivate a healthier relationship with yourself which means learning how to be by yourself and spending time by yourself isn't being in your room on your phone it's literally being by yourself and then you'll start to realize the difference between loneliness and solitude solitude is the reward for being by yourself loneliness is the punishment and the difference is just getting to know yourself spending time with yourself understanding okay this this is i'm full of anxiety, well, I'm so used to having a device or something giving me some dopamine and a reward. Okay, I'm going through withdrawal. That's cool. I got to do it. Most of the mental health issues we have aren't coming from unpleasant

emotions. They're coming from suppressing unpleasant emotions. I feel anxiety. Let me take a shot. I feel anxiety. Let me smoke something. I feel anxiety. Let me distract myself. All of that, the anxiety is your friend it's a message it's telling you something pain is always a message whether the pain is take your hand off that hot stove whether that pain is hey you heard you know a good example i heard recently is names somebody can mention the name today and if it's one of our exes it's going to trigger us in a different way and we feel it pay attention to that like why did why did that do something oh because it reminded me of so and so okay let me let me go journal about that you know what psychologists do is they make you take your most traumatic experiences and speak about them

over and over and over and over again until the weight reduces i'm not going to say it completely goes away but you're disinfecting it by letting it out yeah you know what you said is so real man and i told you this the other day my therapist said that uh anxiety and faith can't coexist so whenever you start feeling anxious about something that anxiety starts kicking in tell yourself your own hero story literally like tell yourself your hero story like gas yourself up but you're gassing yourself up with the truth like tell yourself about the things that you've succeeded you know tell yourself how you've succeeded about tell yourself where you've how you've succeeded, about, tell yourself where you've come from, you know,

talk about, tell yourself the good that you do for other people, you know what I mean? Like, tell yourself your own hero story and it works. It really does.

It definitely works. And again, the idea, you know, the subtitle of the book is Going Easier on Yourself. The reason we have anxieties is because we're thinking

about the future. Regrets are about yesterday. Anxiety is about tomorrow. And the reason we have to actively tell our're thinking about the future. Regrets are about yesterday. Anxiety is about tomorrow. And the reason we have to actively tell our hero story is because our brains are designed to ignore everything that works and focus on what's out of place. That's why we're always noticing what's out of place in our life. Everything could be lined up. And then we're like, well, that one thing. That's how our brains are designed.

There's nothing wrong with us. That kept us alive in nature forever. And that software isn't going to be, that software is built into us. Recognize it and do activities like this. So I have to actively express gratitude through telling my story. And even the idea of gratitude, I love this from Jay Shetty. It's not say what you're grateful for. It's close your eyes, remember a time you felt gratitude and relive it. Gotcha.

The last book on love you'll ever need man how to be loved that's right humble the poet we appreciate you for joining us give me information hit me up uh social media instagram at humble the poet.com the book is available everywhere you get books uh amazon barnes and noble all them good places indigoigo if you're in Canada. Or just go to my website humblethepoet.com slash love. And also there's an audio version of the book and it was a very emotional experience reading this book because there's some emotional stuff in there. So

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Donkey of the Day does not discriminate. I might not have the song of the day, but I got the donkey of the day. 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? Well, donkey of the day goes to an Arizona priest named Andre Arango. Okay, he is a priest, a Catholic priest, who quite possibly has bought a whole bunch of you a first-class ticket to hell.

There is thousands of y'all walking around right now with illegitimate baptisms. What is Uncle Charlotte talking about this morning? What is the good brother lennard saying in regards to illegitimate baptisms exactly what i said all right some of y'all baptisms are null and boy fraudulent unauthorized unsanctioned unofficial unlicensed un un un whatever okay okay whatever you had happen under the water don't count because priest andre's arango didn't say it right he didn't say the baptism right. It's like a spell.

You know how your iPhone has 10 Harry Potter spells that work with Siri, but they don't work if you don't pronounce it right? That's kind of what happened with your baptism. One word. One word kept you from being cleansed of all your sins. I can't make this kind of foolishness up. Let's go to Fox 10 Phoenix for the report, please. One word has made a divine difference when it comes to the first sacrament in the Catholic faith, baptisms. Phoenix priest, Father Andres Arango, resigned and apologized after he had changed a

pivotal word in the baptismal rite. The priest had been saying, we baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. The correct version starts with, I baptize you. Arango had been part of the Catholic diocese in Phoenix since 2005. He posted an apology letter through the diocese, saying in part he would dedicate his energy to remedy the situation. Other sacraments taken after, like confirmation, marriage, and holy orders, could also be invalid if the baptism itself is invalidated. I can't keep up with this level of perfection y'all got going on in 2022. This kind of perfection you have to have now, I can't deal with it. You know, if this is the kind of perfection you have

to have, I'm screwed. Okay. I'm confused by this. Instead of saying, I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit during back baptism. Priest Andre said we and the issue with using we is that it is not the community that baptizes a person. Rather, it is Christ and him alone who presides at all of the baptisms. And so it is Christ Jesus who bapt baptizes god you know my heart and i try to only say what it is that you want me to say and in this moment the spirit is telling me to scream cap cap cap cap cap where's president joe biden when i need him huh let me hear it oh well pull it up when you can okay there's a cap that's that say it again president there's a cap that's right

priest arango it is i it is i when you're getting baptized as in you you are baptizing people in the name of the holy spirit even if you say we to me means you god jesus the holy spirit that's the collective that's we that's a group that's the collective. That's we. That's a group. That's the Migos. That's Destiny's Child. That's Wu-Tang Clan. It's a collective. Okay?

The lie, the cap, is that it is Christ in him alone who presides at all of the sacraments. And it is Christ Jesus who baptizes. Jesus might be there in spirit, but Jesus didn't dunk you under that water. Jesus not physically there with you, but that priest Andrea standing there. OK, he's there and him dunking you in the name of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. That sounds about right to me. So why is priest Arango getting dunked here today? I'll tell you why. For stepping down, for resigning, for causing all of this fuss for no damn reason. Do you really think God, okay, G-O-D, the Almighty who forgives us for all our sins, if we repent, is tripping because you said we and not I? Seriously, does intention not matter?

Baptism represents the forgiveness and cleansing from sin that comes through faith in Jesus Christ. Okay, baptism publicly acknowledges one's confession of faith and belief in the gospel message. It also symbolizes the sinner's entrance into the community of believers. You think all of that changed because the priest said we and not I? Huh? When if you ask me I is the right thing to say because like I said I as in you priest Andreas are the person doing the baptism and doing it in the name of God Jesus and the Holy Ghost. That sounds like the right thing to do to me. It's like when you accept an award at an award show for someone who is not there.

You say, I accept this award on their behalf. You could even say, we accept this award on their behalf. You could even say, I accept this award in the name of God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost. All that is all good to me. It's fine. The award will get to who it belongs to, just like the meaning of being baptized will get to the person being baptized, regardless of if a priest misses a word. We're in a teachable moment, people. Instead of stepping down, can this priest not talk about how he just made a mistake?

Is this even considered a mistake? Is this something that even has to be acknowledged? Would anyone even notice if he didn't say anything? Like, what are we doing, man? We are holding people to a standard of perfection that Jesus couldn't even reach. And this is why Jesus is not coming back. This is why Jesus sends all your prayers to his spam folder. Why would he come back? Jesus is like, no, like no no no y'all holding people to a standard of perfection that i'm not even familiar with okay jesus even thinks y'all taking this perfection of christ thing way too far and that is why god put it on my spirit to give priest andreas arango a holy hee haw this is ridiculous.

I'm missing a word. You know how many words I miss? How many words I mispronounce? But God knows my heart. He knows my intention. He knows what I'm trying to say. That's why even if I say something and I miss a word or mispronounce it, you still feel it. You still know what I was trying to say.

You can still respond because it's about intention. I don't know. How do you know God? I just don't call you a jerk. He don't call me a jerk. God loves me. He or she loves me. Okay? Trust me when I tell you I am blessed black and highly favored. You see me? Look at me. That's a glow. Do you see me?

That's a jerk. That's a glow. Okay? Alright. Better act like you know. Alright. Do you see me? That's a jerk. That's a glow, okay? All right. Better act like you know. All right. All right, well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Yes, indeed. All right, so don't move.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. yeah i gotta pack the kids lunch and snacks and i've been packing donuts and uh pop-ums and you know fruit snacks and you know ham and cheese or salami and cheese sandwiches and that's just because you're a lazy ass dad who don't know how to cook that's all it is if you knew how to cook you'd be feeding your kids uh you know uh better better meals than that and you want to run you want to run just as much as your kids but people were like yo envy where's the where's the fruit where the carrots where the vegetables so i agree with them this morning i you know i went there and i i got some strawberries i got some grapes i got some of their favorite fruit and i put it in their bags as well but uh on the way in i was reading this thing about fat kids and i guess i can't use fat. Man, who says you can't use fat?

All right. Well, children struggling with being fat and obesity should be evaluated and treated. Obesity is worse than fat. Obesity sounds crazy. I'd rather be fat than obese. And overweight sounds dangerous. As soon as they tell you to play in overweight, you don't want to get on it, right? You're right.

Okay. You're right. They're saying the practice of watchful waiting. That's where you just wait and say, hey, my kid is going to outgrow it that's it that doesn't usually happen they said if your kid is as fat as a kid they're going to be fat as a teen so they're saying 14.4 million young people in the u.s are pretty big and they say it leads to long health problems high blood pressure diabetes and depression well we're not talking about poverty you know let me see the demographics of those kids. Let me see the locations where those kids live at.

And I bet you, I bet you that they live in food deserts. And, you know, there's plenty of studies that show, you know, people who live in food deserts are at an elevated risk for obesity. You know what I mean? If you got inadequate access to food, then you more than likely going to eat cheap, high-calorie stuff. You're going to eat snacks. You're going to eat all the fast foods. You're going to eat from the Chinese restaurant in the hood. You're going to eat cheap high calorie stuff you're going to eat snacks you're going to eat all the fast foods you're going to eat from the chinese restaurant in the hood you're going to do

that constantly you know i mean and that will lead to obesity when you're young i think that the reason a lot of those kids probably do grow out of it you know because hopefully as they get older they get in better financial situations and they pick up more healthier habits some people majority don't end up in better financial situations so they keep those same piss poor habits with them throughout their whole life you know i mean and they spend their whole life trying to survive off snacks but i do agree i do agree that we have to attack this problem at a younger age because you teach habits right and one of those things if you're teaching kids about eating right and exercising and working out they're going to continue to do that when they get older when they're teens and i think we have to create these habits and not just say you know we'll see what

happens or you know a lot of times parents even myself we give our kids foods that are not bad because like you said we're we're running we're doing this we're doing that but we have to make sure we watch what our kids eat as well you're not wrong mb but you're speaking from a place of uh of having something you know what i mean you can't do any of that you just said with no money like these folks are literally just out here trying to survive it's not even a a thing of them practicing bad habits because they want to they're doing these they're eating like this because they have to survive they live in food deserts where there's an adequate access to good food you're right but but you know they can't afford to go to whole foods and buy the fresh fruits and vegetables and all that kind of crazy but as a kid

i didn't you know we didn't have whole foods and things like that but my mom made sure i didn't have mcdonald's every day she cooked whether it was we had some wild stuff as a kid you know dominicans cook a lot well we did have rice and beans but we had you know of course you did you know what forget it princess dominican of course you had rice and beans, but we had, you know. Of course you did. You know what? Forget it. Forget it. Princess. Of course you had rice and beans. Hello? Hey, y'all.

Y'all had me on Family Matters. Good morning. Yes. Good morning. I was thinking Family Matters. Oh, you're talking about the TV theme songs we play. Yes. Good morning.

What's your thoughts? Yes. Good morning to you all. So listen, guys. It's super multifaceted, right? I think the best politically correct word will be overweight, just because people take that and run with it any other kind of way. So just say overweight kid.

That ain't true, though, man, because you can flip overweight to your overweight ass. Tell the man. Tell the man. We're going to let Envy say overweight kid. That just sounds different. You've got too many simple-minded people that's going to go hard on him. You're right. Let the man just say overweight. You're right. You've got too many simple-minded people that's going to go hard on him. Let the man just stay overweight.

So listen, in regards to what you were saying, we are depreciating, right? In regards to community, we know that it's easier for some communities to have $5 and get that little piece of pizza and know that we'll have to not worry about tonight and we'll figure it out tomorrow,

right? And then we have the other families who are letting their kids in and out the pantry. We buy in everything, ding-dongs, wing-wongs, kitzahoy, everything, right? And we're really not caring because we don't want to hear them talk or whatever the reason is. Maybe we didn't have healthy eating habits growing up. Right. So when it comes to the surgery portion, now there is lap bands, there is gastric sleeve, and then there's gastric bypass.

Now that has to go with your PCP, having history, being obese, having, it's just a lot of different factors that go into that, that a child at a young age will be able to have that, right? Can I ask you something real quick, though? If you can't even afford healthy food, how are you going to afford surgery? I'm going to get into that. I'm going to get into that. I would hope insurance covers it. We'll pay for that.

Medicare, Medicare will pay for that, right? No, Medicaid, pardon me. Medicare is for older. So Medicaid will pay for that, given your doctor is saying this person needs it. This is medically necessary. They will be able to get it a hundred percent paid for if you're a worker and you have insurance your insurance will pay for it you pay your deductible out of pocket if you out here and you got money you can pay for whatever you want you can get

your kids to get whatever they want at whatever age when you got whatever type of funds are we clear yes but that's the problem thank you most of us don't like we're talking like the majority of people out here aren't financially struggling. And that surgery to me sounds like a temporary solution to a permanent problem. You have to go give these communities the resources they need to not just survive, but to thrive. You're getting surgery for a kid at six and then they still can't afford proper food. Then we just talked about earlier earlier when you get these surgeries, you got to work out and eat right.

How can you do that? If you in a impoverished neighborhood, well, we'll take your call some more. 800-585-1051. But I, I agree with you. I think those,

the medication and those surgeries are temporary fixes because you don't want your child on, you know, on pills for the rest of their life to stay a little thinner. Let's talk about it. When we come back, it's the breakfast club. Good to stay a little thinner. Let's talk about it when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good 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 a new study that came out, and they were saying children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively, including medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those that are 13. They're saying the old practice of watching, watch for waiting or delaying treatment to see if the kids outgrow it is stupid and don't do it.

They're saying 14.4 million young people in the U.S. are left untreated and obesity can cause health problems, high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, insecurity. I hate how that study is not talking about poverty. I hate how that study is not talking about poverty. I hate how that study is not talking about, you know, food deserts. You know, I hate how that study is not talking about individuals who live in food deserts are at an elevated risk for obesity. I hate that that study isn't talking about how inadequate access to food, you know, is going to lead, you know, to obesity because folks going to eat cheap, high calorie stuff.

You know how fast food restaurants got better deals in the healthy places you can feed six people with five dollars at most of these damn fast food places but you know an apple an apple costs six dollars one apple yeah now you're right i want to i want to shout out to uh i believe it's called fitition uh it's a restaurant that's uh in the new york area they branching and i went there the other day and i bought a fruit bowl a big size fruit bowl fruit bowl, and it was $5. And I was surprised. I'm like, it's only $5? And it had granola, it had all the fruit in it.

So let me, it's Fitition, Fitition. Shout out to them. All right, let's go to the phone lines. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Shaniqua Burnett from around Miss Georgia. How you guys doing this morning? You said Shaniqua? Kenitra.

Hey, Kenitra. How are you, Kenitra? I'm doing well. How are you guys? and highly favored what's your what's your opinion what's your thoughts mama so my thoughts is especially from a medical perspective i'm a medical professional i work in cardiology um i definitely think we should allow these kids to have access to weight loss medication um one thing you mentioned was something about liposuction. That's not what they said. They said the kids can have weight loss surgery, such as bypass, gastric bypass, or sleeve, something like that to help them lose the weight. But we do know that we see

down the line that these kids end up with heart disease and other problems. And you'll be surprised, or maybe you won't be surprised, but I used to do football physicals. And you'll be surprised when any of those guys come in, young kids, only 13 years old, with high blood pressure already, you know, and want to play football. And so then we talk about things happening like, you know, collapsing on the field. Right. And stuff like that. So definitely I think we should, you know, give these kids a shot at, you know,

having a healthier weight and living a healthier life. And I agree with you, Charlamagne, on making access to healthier foods. And right now, the food prices are incredible. Grocery store prices are crazy. And that is definitely a problem. But also, it is that our kids just don't exercise right and you know do the things that they used to do we used to play outside right you know now kids are in front of the tv all day or playing video games all day you're right that is true i think i think i think it's a combination

of the lack of physical activity but more importantly man the poverty the food deserts these folks live in man like when you live in these food deserts you don't have access to good high quality food you're gonna eat cheap going to eat cheap, high-calorie stuff. But even as parents, even if that is the case, we have to get our kids out more. And I know a lot of times it's easy to have our iPhones and iPads and video games and TV babysit our kids. But we have to get back out there with those kids, make them go play basketball, make them go jump rope and make them dance, make them go to cheer. There's so many free events and free activities that these kids could do that'll keep them exercising uh this week like i said my wife is away and my kids have so many damn

activities and i would i would be mad at my wife like goodness gracious but now i get it i understand it they're out and about they're exercising they're running around and they're doing a lot well i'll tell you this and and i agree with you and i'm not making excuses but man do you feel safe just letting your kids go out do you feel safe just letting your kids go run around i think about growing up in south carolina man we used to be out all day no cell phones on the bikes from dirt road to dirt road running through cornfields running through the woods parents knew where we were at i guess they knew we were around but nowadays I would never feel comfortable Yeah you're right

Just letting my kids Just go roam To the park For a few hours By they self Hell no Yeah I guess you're right Hello who's this?

This is Leo Leo good morning What's your thoughts bro? I basically think that It all starts with the parents We need to encourage More healthier eating habits You know so that our kids

Follow through My family has a history Of we're very overweight we need to encourage more healthier eating habits you know so that our kids follow through my parent my family has a history of we're very overweight and um i've done a lot of things to get a healthy weight and i'm trying to encourage my daughter now she's about four to start eating you know pretty good and like that man all y'all must be doing great in life because even if it starts with the parents, which is true, the parents poor too. Like poverty is just as generational as poor eating habits because if the parents couldn't afford to eat well, you think they can afford to feed their kids well? Come on, man. Like, I don't know, man. I just feel like poverty is the root of the issue, man.

Because, you know, a lot of these people that we're talking about, they live in food deserts. And everybody knows that if you live in a food desert, you're at an elevated risk for obesity. Because you don't have, you know, adequate access to good food. So you're eating all the cheap, high-calorie nonsense. All right. Well, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

I know it now. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. That kid don't even hear what that is. Call me. And your opinion to The Breakfast Club top.

Come on. 800-585-1051. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you're talking about what we're not doing anymore in 2023. What are we leaving in 2023? I mean, 2022.

I'm going to tell you something else, man. I told you going into 2023, I really want to see people grow up. And it's crazy to be 44 years old and be telling other 44-year-olds that they need to grow up. But I do really want to see men grow up. I want us to be able to have conversations with each other without conflict. That's why I'm always stressing brothers to go to therapy to deal with that hurt, that pain that they have inside them. But I'm going to tell you something else, man. I've been hearing a lot of 40-somethings have conversations about money and wealth and things of that nature.

And they're talking about it from the perspective of what they're wearing. That sounds so crazy. They're like, oh, such and such ain't getting no money because they're not wearing designer or they just started wearing designer. That is like the silliest, most foolish thing I've ever heard a 40-something-year-old human being say. It doesn't have to be 40. It could be 30 or 20. Or even basing their wealth off of jewelry or cars or cars they having cash that they could hold up to

their oh my god yeah i think we need to leave that as well salute to my good brother john hope brian man john hope brian says if uh the only assets you have is on your ass you doing something wrong absolutely so please can we leave that in 2022 for all ages? All ages. Especially, I cannot believe it's 40. Stop talking like that. Nah. That's crazy to me. Hello, who's this? My name is Lisa.

Hi, Lisa. Good morning, Lisa. Good morning, Charlene. I'm calling because I'm leaving behind non-lawy-wise people and cheating guys. Some guys do not know how to be committed. Oh, boy. Well, stop dating everybody except for black men because black men don't cheat. No, black men are the cheaters. Could you stop?

Why are you telling lies like this? We should leave lying in 2022. Why would you tell such a tale? Well, I'm sorry you got cheated on, mama. Yeah, and you're right. We should leave cheating as women and men in 2022. And ain't no black men cheating. Nope. Young black boys are cheating.

Well, well, well. Black men are not cheating. What do you consider TJ Holmes? Huh? Okay, never mind. Beige. Beige? All right. Well, what is the age bracket for them not to cheat?

What do you mean? I think that we shouldn't. I don't know what you're talking about. No, you just said. How old are you? How old are you? How old are you, mama? How old are you? I'm 28. And how old are you, mama? How old are you?

I'm 28 And how old was the last white man that cheated on you? The white man Black man? How old was he? He was 24 He's still a little boy That's what I'm telling you

He's still a young man Okay, so how old does it take to be a grown man? Let me think Let me see I got there around 36, 37 Oh, that's how long it took you to be a grown man. Let me think. Let me see. I got there around 36, 37. Oh, that's how long it took you to be a grown man? It took me, I got there around 36. But I'm not saying you should wait that long.

Aren't you married? Yeah, you've been married before. I've been with my wife for 24 years. We've been married since 2014. It took us some time, mama. But I'm going to've been married since 2014. It took him some time, mama. But I'm going to tell you the difference, man. All jokes aside, seriously, it's all about being intentional about doing the work on themselves. If you're intentional about growth, if you're intentional about being a good man,

you will go do the work on yourself so you don't have women calling up to the radio station sad like how she sounds this morning. She sounds very sad. Breakfast Club, good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now it's time to get up out of here. You got a positive note, bro?

Positive note. Since today is MLK Day, man, it's a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, people fail to get along because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other. They fear each other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other. Express some communication with somebody today. Breakfast club, bitches!

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