The Breakfast Club - The Breakfast Club REWIND (Icewear Vezzo, Jenifer Lewis, Topic Time and More)

Episode Date: January 4, 2023

Today, we flash back to when Icewear Vezzo came on the show to discuss signing with QC, connecting with Takeoff, DJ Drama, Eminem misunderstanding and more. We also look back at the interview with Jenifer Lewis where she describes 'Walking In My Joy', living with bipolar, "Retiring" and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yes. We're not even really here. You think you're listening to us, but we're not. Well, we are not. We're here in spirit. Yeah. Yeah. And we're going to be playing some of our top interviews and some throwbacks.

So keep it locked. Red is going to be running the boards. And we'll see you all in the new year year it's the breakfast club good morning this is your time to get it off your chest whether you're mad or blessed so you better have the same energy we want to hear from you on the breakfast club hello who's this y'all hey y'all i got an update for y'all y'all ladies and gentlemen this is trav now if you haven't heard Trav called in and was mad at Rolling Ray and was giving receipts about the fact that he gave Rolling Ray some money for some drops and Rolling Ray rolled out on him and didn't do any drops.

But now I hear there's an update, Trav. Yes, there is an update. Rolling Ray gave me my money back yesterday. Really? Yes, he did. But I'm still beefing with him because of how he sent my money back. How he sent the money back? This man gonna tell me

he saw some gang that you needed so bad here. That's right. Drop one of Clues Bond for Roland Ray. I'm glad Roland Ray shared you some grace. I'm glad Roland Ray gave you some grace. I'm glad Roland Ray gave you some grace and decided to spare you,

you little peasant, because you need it so bad. You know, let me take you a little $75 for the new year. So I low-key, like,

I said, bro, that's my money. Like, you need to give me my money. He's going to say, you need to stop

talking like that. He says, you need to stop talking like that or I'm not going to help you out. Like, sir, you're not helping me.

Hey, that's a great tactic, you know. That's funny. He can shame you into saying, I don't need this money. Keep it. And then he won. Draft. Well, I'm going to say I am happy because, listen, I don't be pretending I got money out here. $75 helps me a lot.

Okay? So. I don't know why Roland Ray is giving you peasant's grace. Trav. You sorry? Do not. Bye. Trav, Trav.

Obviously, Roland Ray listens in the morning. That's probably why you got your money back. Would you like to say something to Roland Ray? Roland Ray, you better have gave my money back. It took two years. I'm not playing with you. All right. Well, if you really need it, there's my money back. It took two years. Am I playing with you? All right. Well, if you really need it, there's your money back.

Thank you. And you owe me something, too. I'm glad that Roland Ray is the type of royalty that can show mercy to the peasants in his kingdom. Hello, who's this? BD. Hey, BD. Good morning. Good morning.

I was just wondering, how long does it take when you're in a relationship to want to get engaged, especially if that's something a woman wants? You need to stop asking personal questions. That's what you need to stop doing, okay? Stop asking them personal questions? I'm sorry, that triggered me a little bit. Goodness gracious. No, no, I'll tell you why it triggered me a little bit, because I've been with my wife for 24 years.

So we've been together since the 1900s and 90s, but I didn't propose to her until 2013. Oh, wow. Don't you oh wow nothing. That's a lot. That's a long time, and that's a very long time. Let me ask you a question. How long have you been with your man or woman nine years nine years is it serious y'all live in the same house or kind of stupid question is that

if it together nine years you were after PC because it might not be serious because it could be you know cuz you could be with somebody for nine years but it's not serious maybe as long this but the fact that they living with each other and that y'all in the same bed y'all paying half a rent I years, but it's not serious. Maybe it's long distance. Man, please. But the fact that they're living with each other and that y'all in the same bed, y'all paying half a rent. I mean, I think it's about time. I think it's about time. Now, I mean,

if I was in your situation and I wanted to be, you know, engaged and get married and he's basically just, you know, just there because he's comfortable, I would withhold the poo-poo.

Man, shut up, man. I don't like what you're saying here. You said close them legs. I would close them legs. I mean, you want to get married, and right now he's just, you know, he's just doing what he got to do, and he's comfortable. He's knocking it off. He's getting everything as a married couple, but he's just not married.

Think about it like this. Age is very important. Shut up, you big-cheeked fool. How old are you, ma'am? I'm 28. We've been together since I was 19. See what I'm saying? They've been together since I was 19. See what I'm saying? They've been together since they was young.

Give that man a little bit more time. How much more time does he need? They've been together nine years. It took me 15 years. They sleep 15 years? I mean, but he's pushing a baby, and I'm not having a baby without being married. See? And he wants a baby?

That's right. You closed them legs, mama. I don't think you should close your legs. You should tell him you want to be married. Because he may not know you want to be married. Have you told him that before? He knows. He knows.

How does he know if you haven't told him? Tell me how he knows. I'm very vocal about it. Oh, okay. So, Ryan, you've been very vocal. You told him you want to get married. He wants a child. He wants a baby.

I'm sure he stayed. Y'all stayed together. You wash his clothes. You cook for him. And sometimes, hey, he's just comfortable. But you close them legs, he's going to be uncomfortable. I will say I don't like what Envy is saying, but I understand what he's saying. You know, at this point, you know, he's leasing.

But, you know, there should be an option to buy. So you have to tell him that, you know, after a while, you can't just continue to lease this. You're either going to purchase or nothing. So would that have worked for you if your wife did it? Ooh. Ooh. Uh, yeah. See?

See? A hundred percent. Okay, I'm i'm just like before you know i'm gonna put this thing on lock that's right you put that you put a little lock on it a hundred percent so it can only be opened up with a ring yeah okay and because there's other things too right like you know we had a child so you know when you got your daughter asking like why y'all don't have the last name at some point is it man you like why don't we like what am y'all don't have the last name. At some point, he's a man. You're like, why don't we? Like, what am I waiting on? Like, what's the problem here? You know?

So, yeah. He needs to get it together. If I get married without being married, why do that? That's right. He needs to get it together. Like, yes. Marriage is a beautiful thing. Get it off your chest. It's The Breakfast Club.

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Whether you're mad or blessed. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, how's it going, man? This is Trey. So, man, it's kind of a personal question in a sense. It's kind of regarding towards my daughter.

You know, we recently just got cut from a softball team out here in Conroe. And, you know, honestly, I feel like it's personal. Maybe you guys can tell me I'm right or wrong. You know, it's a new softball team. And so I feel that I've been asking questions about where's the money going and how things have gotten spent. And, you know, I'm just asking certain questions that I feel like the head organization isn't liking.

Statistically, my daughter's the third best player on the team, and yet we just recently got cut. And not only that, they did it insensitive right before our tour. So it's like, you know, hey, do we still attend? Like, you know, what do I do for my daughter? How does she feel about it? So you're telling us your daughter got cut, you thinking because you were asking too many questions and because of your questions you got your daughter cut you believe yeah for sure are you sure about that or is your

daughter just not good nah bro she uh man she's hitting us in the fence she's nine years old bro she she's just you know five foot three at nine years old and what kind of questions were you asking where the money goes? Yeah, do you think that I got my daughter cut? Was it a personal issue? I mean, do you think that, you know, I should have just fell in line and been like a sheep? You know, I feel like that's what it is, that they don't want nobody to go against the grain.

And, you know, it's not like I was pressuring them about the questions. I was just like, hey, you know, as a monthly courtesy, you know, we would like to see as parents and a coach, where's the money going? You're paying for bills. You're paying for equipment. Like, just what's going on? Not that I'm saying they pocketing the money, but I'm just saying I'm not trying to fund my team and their team. And I think that's what's going on.

I'm trying to figure out how can they cut your daughter if you've been paying for it? They're the head organization. They're in charge of the team. So he was asking the question, Charlamagne, as a monthly stipend, let's say. So he was asking the question before his daughter made the team. And he was asking us. We had already been on the team.

Oh, so this is the new year. And I'm a coach. I'm a coach and staff. We're on the team. We've been on the team. We've been on the team since the very beginning. Let me tell you something, my daughter is a competitive cheerleader. And, you know, like you said, we pay for these things. So I reserve the right to talk to the coaches about any and everything I want to.

Absolutely. Okay? I don't give a damn. I will talk to them. I will tell them things I don't give a damn I will talk to them I will tell them things I don't like If my daughter has complaints Me and my wife will go talk to the coaches We got a meeting scheduled with the coach soon

One of the coaches soon by the way I don't see nothing wrong with what you did sir No I don't see nothing wrong with what you did either You have the right Like Charlamagne said you pay So you have the right to ask questions Now the fact that they cut your daughter It does seem like they really don't want you there

because you're asking questions, meaning possibly they're doing something wrong with the money and they don't want it out there. But the great thing about softball and baseball and esports, there's other teams. So I would look to put my daughter on another team and then bust that team's ass. I've had that happen with me before. I'm serious. My son, when Logan was growing up, my town team at the time, Kenelon, I didn't like the way they were treating Logan.

So I put him on another team in Newark, Brick City, shot the Brick City Lions, and Brick City Lions, he did his damn thing. And I was waiting for us to play Kenelon again and bust his ass. And ever since Logan left Kenelon, that school, that football team has been horrible. So, you know, sometimes you got to leave, go to another school, and do what you got to do. And I agree.

I respect that answer, you know. And honestly, you know, I had a meeting with the coach. And on top of that, the head coach is a 19-year-old little girl. And I say little girl because she's 19. You know what I mean? And she's never coached a team before. And I'm like, man, you got grown folks on this team, man. Take her to another team.

Yeah, man, God is good, man. And ever since everything, man, I've been hoping and I've been praying, man, and some things have kind of come through last night. Man, I got a really good phone call. I just didn't know. Maybe I read into too much. You know what I'm saying? I'm the kind of guy that wears the card on his sleeve.

So it's like, is it just me or what's really going on? Take her to another team. F them. And God is great. Chick-fil-A is good. God is great. And personally, I would have been asking the coach why my daughter got cut.

You got to explain to me why my daughter got cut. And that's right, too. You asked that question as well. Get it off your chest. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? The Breakfast Club. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg.

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Man, you look good, brother. You got a whole lot of new money. You heard her. I'm trying, man. I just look like it. How you feeling, though? Man, I'm feeling good, bro. I'm blessed. Everything well. Kids good. Old lady good. You know lady good you know i mean that's taking one day at a time brother i'm glad you're up here because since you signed with quality control like we got to get vessel back on the show yeah i appreciate that too clearly it was a very lucrative

deal yeah it was good it was good we actually did a partnership 50 50 okay so you know that's why you know i i appreciate that situation i appreciate p for appreciate P for letting me approach it as a young boss. You know what I'm saying? And making it. Just teaching me the business and showing me how everything works. And allowing me that opportunity to grow my company as well. So we did a 50-50 partnership. How did they convince you to partner with QC?

What was that conversation like? I convinced myself honestly Me and P been building for probably Like a year and a half straight Without talking no business We just been vibing and moving around And growing to Understand each other

And learn each other mentally I just like how bro rock I like how he operate I like how he think He ain't no selfish dude like he won't he won't youngest to really you know get get everything out of that you know it's bigger than just being an artist you know p gonna show you how to really really turn up and think for the long run and not just like a rapper at that moment you know so i felt like it was a perfect situation for me which it

was to me and i think i saw somewhere that uh you said take off take off was the first person that embraced you as an independent literally man take off back in like 2015 takeoff came to my restaurant i had bought a restaurant when i was a kid and a car wash and dispensary takeoff was in detroit he dm me like bro i'm in your city let's link tap in he pulled up at the restaurant bro he just gave me a lot of game like a lot of motivation i was fighting a fair case at the time he told me like bro like just seeing everything you got going on and how you moving and just knowing how you know how young you is right now you know like bro you keep doing what you're doing you're gonna be big bro stick to the music you're gonna be something when you get out wow you know promote my music and posting my music gave me a verse all that like he was the first ever wow real life yeah the first

and it came back full circle so i'm sure when you connected with qc i'm sure he was one of the first people to congratulate absolutely he definitely was even before we uh locked the deal down, he kind of heard about it. He like, bro, that's a good move, bro. I'm proud of you. You know what I mean? Keep doing your thing. You know, it's just an unfortunate situation, like, with Tate. Because, bro, really a solid dude.

And, you know, people say that every time somebody pass, you know. But, like, he genuinely was that. He was a good brother. Like, a real good guy he had his head on his shoulders and one thing about takeoff he never tried to be somebody or something that he wasn't he was always himself from my understanding you know from how i knew him and how i met him you know i mean so rest in peace take the black men ever truly escaped man honestly to an extent yeah but for the most part right now it

don't seem like it don't seem like you know we living in a time where everybody got something to prove you know everybody worried about what the next person think about them and right now to me i think the black man biggest downfall is they pride it's the pride pride is the pride is our number one downfall you know we let our pride get in the way and every time i ever use my pride i feel right after that you know i learned that the hard way so you know nah with with the pride and the ego and throw the money in the play it's just it's too much bro and i think we gotta i don't think we i don't think we we giving ourself the chance to grow you know we're not letting ourself elevate because we too focused on on worldly things you know i i just learned recently learned that um man's number one cause

of depression is environmental stress literally that's the number one cause environmental stress meaning everything that we around and everything that we surround ourselves around you know so until we able to kind of evaluate who and what we got around us and change our our environment we not gonna allow ourself to grow how do you think having your wife has actually helped you through so many different things though having a great I think, is one of the most supportive things that you can have. Absolutely. My wife played a real, like, the biggest part in my life. You know, it been, you know, women mature faster than us.

And there's so many times where I thought, like, foolishly and childishly. And she checked me. You know what I'm saying? Like, my wife is like my, is my backbone. She is that same part that that at times i don't have you know and and i know when i got married god blessed me in a different way you know because it gave me some type of foundation to to fall back on and something to stand on like you know i say this all the time like the best the best attribute a woman got is their intuition.

That's their other sense. Like a woman's intuition is is unbelievable. You know, anytime my wife ever told me something, she ain't never been wrong. And I learned the hard way to to not ignore her, to not ignore her feelings, to not ignore her thoughts. And, you know, her views on pretty much everything you know so i without my wife i don't know where i'd be and i genuinely mean it like she she she stood tall for me a million times and don't it feel good speaking on that intuition don't it feel good when when she know you solid when she know you doing what you're supposed to be doing because they know when we doing the but when they when we when we get our together they know that too doing the ball. Yeah, they do. But when we get our shit together, they know that, too. That feels so good.

They feel amazing. She know me. Sometimes I feel like she know me more than I know myself. All right. All right, we got more with Iceware Vezo when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angelou Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Iceware Vezo. Charlamagne. I also read that you manifested the QC deal while you was in prison Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Iceware Vezzo. Charlamagne? I also read that you manifested the QC deal while you was in prison. I did. I did.

I did. I told that to, we was in the TV room. I told that to my little homie, Relo. Free Relo. He about to come on in a minute. And we was watching the BET Awards. And I told him like, bro, you know what? When I get out, I'm signing with QC.

I like how Buddy move. I like how they rock. On the out looking in, it felt like he let the artists do what they want to do. And he rock. They come up with a plan, and he get behind that plan for them. I manifest that. I manifest everything in my life. I manifest my wife.

I told her, mom, when I was 14, I'm going to marry her daughter. We're going to get. No, real talk. I told my wife, mom, that, listen, I'm'm gonna marry her daughter we gonna get I'm I'm not real talk I told my my wife mom that listen I'm gonna marry your daughter I'm gonna become a millionaire I'm gonna buy her a home and we gonna have children and I did every last one of them I married her bought her a home and I had kids by her does her mom remember that she remembered that she talked about it all the time it ain't even a psych it's just i'm big on manifestation i know how serious it is how real it is like

i i literally do vision boards like i believe in this stuff like it's real like it really worked you know you really got a vision what it is you want and you can't get it it work like that you know you gotta you just gotta you gotta you gotta be a good person at the end of the day, too. You know, you got to do the right thing. You got to treat people right. You got to conduct yourself right. You know, improperly. But you heard the vision board.

I really manifest everything. I tell you this all the time. And these conversations coming from you are so important. The loving your wife. You know what I mean? Letting people know your wife is your backbone. The manifestation conversations. Me and you have conversations about mental health

and how important it is to keep your mental health together. Like, you got to keep having those conversations, man. And being an entrepreneur. I think that's important, too. You know, having run your own businesses. I think encouraging people to do that. No doubt. Yeah, I think that's important.

I want a lot of more black men to talk more about mental health and you know and bro it's not it's not i'm it's i'm front of street bro i'm a street guy ex street guy i have no problem with you know speaking on mental health and you know manifestation at this work it's not lame bro it's cool y'all can do that. You know, be yourself. Like, this stuff really works. You know, you want to be successful. You want to be healthy, have some type of longevity at whatever it is you do. Change some of them ways and read and get some knowledge. Ain't nothing wrong with that.

I think somewhere down the line, we may be being smart, uncool or something. Word up. You know, I really feel like that. Like, it's lame if he got some type of sense. And that ain't the case. You know what you know i'm saying ain't how it go like the real street guys is the one who try to do everything in the world to get away from being like that you know you know the guys that ain't really street you know they do everything in the world to try to be like that they kind of got it backwards you know it's just a little off you know and as an artist and a rapper i feel like it's it's it's part of my responsibility you know i'm saying to be 100 and let people know how i really

come immensely how i think i operate whatever and they can they can judge me however they want to you know they don't know me and there go that part where you know i don't it's not my job to care what somebody else think about me either you know what i'm saying so yeah i think that's important for every artist to do that and i know for a fact majority of successful people and successful artists not saying that i'm successful i'm just saying just period like everybody got some type of sense you know everybody anybody with some type of longevity they got some sense that's right know, and it's okay to promote that. You know, we got to push that up. We got to create a whole new agenda, man.

We got to save our people for real. It starts with accountability, though. Absolutely. That's why my favorite question to ask brothers nowadays, let's say, hey, man, what do you hate more, reading or accountability? Accountability, without a doubt.

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Hernando County, Florida. Right. She got fired because of this How Uncomfortable Am I test. This is her test. Right. This is her questionnaire. Right. So we want to ask our listener some of these questions. Okay. Let's go to the phone line. Hello, who's this? Good morning, it's Kelly from the 814. Kelly from the 814, Kelly. Good morning, Kelly. Wait, Charlotte, it's Kelly with the three dogs. Oh, Kelly with the three dogs that called the other day. Oh, hey, Kelly with the three dogs. So ask Kelly a question. So Kelly, listen, this is the how comfortable am I test. You can answer not comfortable at all, uneasy, fairly comfortable, completely comfortable. You ready? Okay.

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Are gay and what? Gay and lesbians. Oh, I'm comfortable. They do what they want to do Okay, that's good A Native American student Invites you to a powwow I'm comfortable Because I'm Indian

Oh, okay Well, thank you for calling Congratulations You're not prejudiced I don't think I don't know Hello, who's this? That's the other thing

How do you pass this test? You can either pass it It says What's your name, mama? Jersey Hey, Jersey Hey How are you, baby? I'm good Your grandmother's What's your name mama? Jersey Hey Jersey Hey How are you baby?

I'm good Your grandmother's in the hospital And when the doctor walks in The doctor's a midget Comfortable or uncomfortable Uneasy or fairly comfortable? Comfortable Why wouldn't I be?

He's just a midget Now come on now Okay What if you got a problem on your neck? I'm just saying I'm just saying. I'm just saying. I'm pretty sure that he has a stool in there.

He's a doctor. He has to come in there prepared. That's true. You're right. You're right. Now, you're on a plane. You're in the middle seat. The woman sitting next to you on the plane weighs 300 pounds.

Not comfortable, uneasy, fairly comfortable, or completely comfortable? Is there somebody on the other side of me? Yeah I'm probably gonna be uncomfortable Them plane seats kinda small Listen, planes are not made for fat people God bless them But hey, all of us have been in that situation Where we've been sitting in that seat

And seen a fat person on a plane And was like, please Lord, no, please Jesus, no Now your last one Your dentist is HIV positive Oh, I'm completely uncomfortable I'm not even yet now if I know I'm not going to that dentist anymore. Hey at least you're

honest alright I have no problem with the honesty. Okay thank you mama alright The Breakfast Club good morning The Breakfast Club Morning everybody it's DJ MV Angela Yee Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building, and she's moving ish around here.

That's right. Charlamagne always has his book behind everybody. That's right. That changes today. That's right. That big kid. Look at that. Jennifer Lewis.

Welcome back. She fine, too. That looks like a White House photo. I better order it. If I don't get on the New York Times bestseller, everybody goes down and auntie is over. Well, welcome. How are you doing? How are you feeling?

How are you feeling? Guys, come on. Stressful time, right? Not at all. Okay. I'm happy as a lion. I wrote this book during COVID. I had to get it out of me. There's not a person in the

world that did not contemplate their death. You're right. And I told my family, I said, if anything happens to me, because I'm 65 now, you get that book out. You're not no 65. Yes, I am. Fine. And then I find a pretty bitch. I'm so pretty I can't see straight. I get up every morning. The kids love this. I brush my teeth, spit it out, look in the mirror. And I say, pretty bitch. Then I start my day.

There you go. That's right. You can't be touched when you start off good. That's right. I can't get nothing to get on you. That's go. That's right. You can't be touched when you start off good. That's right. Ah, can't get nothing to get on you. That's right. It's hard though, I mean, in this world, because I feel like the world is just going to **** on so many levels. No, it isn't.

It's okay to be scared right now. Mm-hmm. But you must be unafraid. Mm-hmm. Stand the **** up now. Are we in trouble? Yes. Are they trying to take democracy itself? Yes. But evil will not win out.

Love is the glue that holds us together. So start loving, why don't you? Before you go in any room, you see how I came in here? You came in cussing. I don't need to. That's a lie. How am You came in cussing. Yeah. I sure did. That's a lie. Everybody know how to cuss. I said,

f*** you, Charlemagne. That rat bastard. I think the quote was, how you motherf***ing doing? How you motherf***ing doing? That's how the intro was. Get that.

Yeah. So I want to know why you decided to write the book. During COVID, so much going on. What made you say, I want to put it all out to write the book during covid so much going on what made you say i want to put it all out there well that's what i do whether i'm writing a book or not i put it all out there i'll give you one teaser i fainted at the white house

and woke up the medical marines the the white house. I woke up. I went, go take care of Obama, mother******. All I did was think, what the **** is happening to Obama? Baby, they gave me three Christmas cookies and some water, you know, to revive

me. A little sugar. I said, now, ain't this the White House? I know goddamn well Michelle got some chicken in that cocktail. I said, y'all go get me some chicken. Baby, they said, I heard, saw somebody whisper. They were saying, get this bitch out of here. They put me in a wheelchair like in the hospital.

Rolled me out the front gate and dumped my ass out of there no no they loved me up you know they loved me they loved me up there everybody was so concerned i forgot to eat i was so excited to be to meet the president and first lady come i'd met them before maybe two or three times but i met met Barack when he was a senator. Oprah had a fundraiser for him. Stevie Wonder sang. It was beautiful. That bitch had so much land.

I was like, go on, Oprah. Did Obama check on you afterwards? Hell no. He'd gone on upstairs with Michelle. Not an email later or nothing? He probably never told him that a crazy bitch was in the White House. Oh, my God. But you know what I learned from Obama that day when he spoke?

I never heard a word he said. I only saw his compassion for the families of the victims that had been shot in the church. The man you and me and i have been a real big activist since uh trump was elected you feel you because you see what's missing like you know you even if you don't agree with everything that obama did policy-wise that compassion and the other thing he led with love yes that's why trump him. Come on now. You leading with hate, he's leading with love. You don't win. You cannot destroy love.

You can't match it. The only thing that matches love is love. I agree with you, but how do you explain white supremacy? Because that's been leading with hate since the day we got here. Y'all don't want to start me. Yes, we do. That January 6th s***, they looked like roaches climbing those walls. How dare you, you motherfuckers.

We built this fucking building. See, they went on tour the day before to see what they were going to get in. And whoever took them around forgot to tell them. Those windows are not the same qualities as the ones in your trailer one little girl got tear gas in her eyes and somebody interviewed her well what's going on

she said they little Karen they tear gassed me and he said well who are you my name is Sylvia Williams and then they went on and they got her a dress. She gave them her dress. That dumb bitch. She was just, you know, she was being interviewed and she was distressed.

You dumb bitch. She's in jail. She got eight years. Damn. You know, here's the other thing. All I could vision was a few of them having stopped at an ice cream store and stood there and couldn't decide amongst the 150 flavors. Well, you just get back to vanilla, you dumb bastard. But as they ate ice cream on their way there, the privilege, that made me sick.

And people reacted like it was just a bunch of kids having fun at spring break you know i'm gonna be honest with you those are republican senators are all sociopaths you know what i know trump with his mafia ass soon as he got in he got all the dish on all those senators i can't go with him he He'll show them with little boys and hookers. They got pictures. So they can't even be human no more. They're just scared. What do you think about the new president and vice president?

Biden has experience. It's a shame he's the age he is. Kamala, bad bitch, I'm sorry. And he's good. And I bet you any amount of money he calls Obama every morning. Poor bastard.

Barack, please. Barack, please. How the f*** did you do this? For eight f***ing years. Jesus Christ. Do I bomb a country now? Should I shoot them? Should I shoot them down from the walls? Dumb bastard. I gotta tell y'allall i don't hate i don't hate nobody but that was some nasty but let me tell you

another thing history does repeat itself i thought we had evolved beyond that we just got the sound of a black hole we have close-ups of jupiter put a man on the moon and all we can do is destroy earth that's right you see i just got back from antarctica y'all know i travel the captain of the ship showed me the waterline. And he said to me, Miss Lewis, I know you're a celebrity, but my crew tells me you're an activist. I said, yes, sir, I am. He said, I would ask that you go back to your country and tell whoever will listen we're in trouble. The Arctic is melting at the light of speed.

Y'all, we need the f***ing Polars to orbit! And these bastards don't want to believe in science. Dumb Trump. I'm sorry. I don't even want to say his name. What do you think?

Buildings. Buildings. You're a dumb bitch. That's science. All right, we got more with Jennifer Lewis. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Come on.

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Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Gee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Jennifer Lewis. Charlamagne? Let's get back to the book and everything. First of all, congratulations to you for the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hey!

I got a claim, a claim, a claim, a claim, a claim. Watch this. I'm getting my start. Hey. On the Hollywood Walk. Go, Faye. Okay.

Hey. Oh, I got a royal song. How did it feel? Let me tell you, y'all. Anybody can be famous now. All you got to do is f*** somebody. But I studied. Okay?

I studied Shakespeare. There you go. Fouled in Christ with Uta Hagen. I am trained. That's why I speak with distinction. I used to say nook for a nickel. I thought you were saying nigger.

Give me a nook. That's how we talked back home. We talked like that. Wasn't until I got to college. I found out it was nickel. Can you believe it when you got it? When you got it, did it feel surreal? I told the audience that day,

it was not the work I did on camera and stage. It was the work I did off. I went and got help. Damn near everybody in the show business is bipolar. They don't know it because they got in it to hide that mania

so they wouldn't be different out there in the normal world. That's right. I hesitated to take medication because I didn't want it to take my edge. It didn't. it to take my edge. It didn't. I stayed in.

Literally had to be re-raised. My mama didn't have time to take care of me. There was no affection. I was her seventh child, and she was 26. The hell is she going to do with seven babies? Scrubbing white people's floors. But what she did give me was work ethics. She stopped scrubbing white people's floors. But what she did give me was work ethics. She stopped scrubbing white people's floors

and she went and got her certificate and became a nurse's aide. She said, I'll be damned if those white people come to my house to check it out so I can get a welfare check. You remember they used to come in there, make sure the father wasn't there. See, if the daddy was home, you didn't get welfare.

If they came in there and saw you had nice stuff, that was reported. Here's a story you don't know. I'm about, how old am I? 35. No, I'm 65 now, but I'm trying to tell a story. I was seven years old then. White man came to my mama's house to check on it so she couldn't get away with a check comes right to the front door doesn't come right all the way in yet he peered in and saw an

upright piano that a white family had given my mother and he said these words where you get that piano nigga i stand there with my thumb in my mouth thinking, no, you the nigga this morning, cause you going down. I knew that in my fucking time. My mother went to the back, came back with the bucket we used to use to pee in and cause we had an outhouse, but we will pee in a bucket. But if you had to poop, you had to go outside. My mother came back with that bucket of piss and threw it all over me. I was like, well, you won't say that shit no more. That's right.

After her. My mother was a gangster. Alpha. She fed us. Did whatever she had to do. The pipes would break in that cold St. Louis weather. We would ice skate on the kitchen floor. Run around.

You know, we didn't know. That had to empower you as a child to see your mom stand up to that white man like that. You damn straight. She got a job. We were off welfare. She said, these motherfuckers will not tell me what to do with my life and my children. My mother didn't play. She taught me work ethics.

That's why I'm still here. That's why I have sustained in show business you see not even me can stop me i was given a gift that's right and i honored it stayed alive stayed healthy look at me now god damn it beautiful 35 years Yeah, hey, tell me if that hits. Hit a high note, my mother. Walking in my joy. They walking in my joy. Who has the audacity to write a book called Walking in My Joy? How does somebody walk in their joy?

We only have five minutes because she has to go. Dad, I don't give a **** about the other interview. I'm staying here because I know I'm talking to a lot of black kids. There you go. That's right. Tell you the question again. How does somebody walk in their joy live on purpose it's called life look what we have the planet oh god y'all i've been over the all over the world it's so beautiful i just got back

from the himalayan mountain range i saw Everest. Took a helicopter. I saw the base camp, you know where they start to climb the summit. We saw a few of them going up. Y'all know I wanted to climb that mountain when I was 13? And there I was looking at Everest, the little poor girl from Kenlock, Missouri. I went to the Taj Mahal, there I was. I went to Angkor Wat in Cambodia. I went to the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. And Petra in Jordan.

All cultural treasures of the world. We shouldn't destroy this. Human beings have got to be nicer. Live on purpose, y'all. Do your homework. Do the work. Write it down. What you want to do today how can i be nice today i told you last time you gotta be happy on your way to happy don't think you're gonna get there and then i'm happy oh look what i got no you're the same piece of your word when you started

that's right if anything it makes it Absolutely. And what gives you that joy? What gives you the most joy? Is it acting? Is it activism? Or is it traveling? Or is it something that you haven't mentioned? What's more exciting to me right now than anything is that I can look at you all and know that the only thing I can do for you is live my best life. Yes, look at me.

I take care of myself. You think this is easy? I'm in Pilates. I'm in yoga. I eat as well as I can. Stop eating all that fried chicken. It's so sick of seeing my fellow sisters walking down the street, and they can't even get around.

What, are you going to die and leave your children here for somebody to molest keep your ass healthy come out of them dark rooms with all that depression stop yourself you go get some help but you can start by journaling what do i want who am i and if you don't know make some it up when you first thought going to therapy wow I was 33 years old okay I spent half my life depressed and manic as hell did you know it was depression absolutely not it was normal that's right I cried every night of my life well there were some nights I had sex and that was all right. I didn't cry that night. I was like, Merry Christmas. You ever cried over some bad sex?

Like, ugh. Bad sex? I wish the f*** he would. Not as an opposite. Nah, I was in my 20s then. You get it up, I get stabbed. I wish a b***h would bring a left b a left in my house when we were that young. What?

Nigga, please. Oh my God, I shouldn't do this. Y'all, they play the hell out of my interviews. I want to be honest. You live on purpose. Oh, man. Rehearse it. Life is not a rehearsal.

But practice living well. You can do it. You can. I did. I was poor. I had mental illness, sex addiction, molested, all of it. But I wanted to live. All right, well, don't move.

We got more with Jennifer Lewis when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Jennifer Lewis. Charlamagne?

Did you really almost retire after Black-ish? Yeah, I did. I wanted to go home. COVID was happening, and I wanted to go with people I loved. I didn't know if I was going to die. I'm still going back. I just signed a six-year contract for a show on Showtime. It's called I Love That For You. Wow.

It stars Molly Shannon and Vanessa Bayer, two Saturday Night Live alumni, and they are comedic giants. A six-year contract? When you do a show, you got to sign a six-year contract. Well, congrats. Thank you. I'm so happy. And the role I'm doing, guess what?

What? They waited until I was 65 years old to make me a porn star. I'm f***ing in this show. That's why you still look good. Yeah, it's cable. You got to watch it. What's her name? What's her name?

Her name is Patricia Cochran. Patricia Cochran? I'll put that Cochran on it. Her name, when I got the script, her name was Patricia Cochran. So I asked the writers, I said, so you never know what they're going to do with the stories. So I said, was she married? They said, no. I said, well, what's this Cochran?

There ain't no black people named Cochran. So I said, let it be Cochran. and let her be Johnny Cochran's cousin. Bad bitch. She's a billionaire. When does it come out? It's out. There are eight episodes on Showtime right now. And we're waiting to see if the show is going to be picked up.

OK. And I'm ready for it. Wow. This is a great role. It is, is by the way it's my best work really i am saying a lot maybe i'm in that character i walked into that character like a fitted glove and i'm having the time of my life because the environment is so nice. You know, you can get on some toxic sets. And then you can't create well. But guys, I'm having the time of my life.

Here it is. I'm doing 15 animations right now in 15 different voices. Wow. I got the new series. New book. Wow. Walking in my joy. I'm on book tour now.

Cussing everybody out. Loving them. God, this woman stood up last night at Barnes & Noble. She told the saddest story. And then she said, it's my birthday. I said, damn, now I can help. Happy birthday. Sang my ass off.

I saw there's a picture in the book where you posted with a swollen face with the caption, ain't no shame in my game. You said, this is what too much stress looks like. with a massager that I only put on my neck all night.

Woke up, I just was like, oh my God, what is this? I thought it was COVID. I thought, you know, some side effect

from something or whatever. Anyway, I wanted y'all to see me like that. So you can know I'm human. I get my heart broken. I f*** up. I walk in my joy. But I'll take a bitch down in my joy too.

It ain't that much medication in the world. Okay? The personality will break through. What do you want readers to take away from walking in my joy grow up be nice dream and don't drop the ball it is hard life's hard ain't nobody ain't nobody promised you a rose garden without thorns? Work your way through it. It's so much in that book, but it's mostly funny because after COVID, I knew the world had to laugh. When I was in Cambodia, everything was boarded up. My guide said on any given day, there were 7,000 tourists. There were 400 that day.

Everybody's suffering the residue of COVID. So that's why you got to be nice. People had family members. Many people died from this thing. I think it's 3,000, 3 million something passed. The world is mourning.

Stop fighting. Be compassionate. Take care of one another. We all bleed. Didn't it teach us that if one of us sneezes, we're all sick. It went around the world. Somebody sneezed. They didn't know. So be nice. Keep saying that. Do something for for somebody i fed a lot of families during covid that's how i tithe lead with love live on purpose all right jennifer lewis walking

in my joy in these streets in these streets hey no you don't get one because you didn't you still can do it yeah we didn't say goodbye i didn't ask. You still can do it? Yeah, we didn't say goodbye. I don't know if you can still do it, J. You can't do it no more. Come on now, you're 35 now. You're a little older than last time. But guess what? What?

This time, I do have to warm it up. And let me show you how to get it up. Okay. You can't do this. And don't, don't, don't, don't. Da, da, da, da, da. Ha, ha, ha, ha. You can't do this. Da, da, da, da. And don't try to do it. I've been doing this since I was 19. I got trained by a grand hand dancer.

Yes, ma'am. He told me to stand in the doorway and just let the, like a pendulum. Mm-hmm. Wow. Yes, ma'am. So, you know, that was homework. That's history. Absolutely.

You don't stop. Keep training. Keep working out. Move your body. Walk around the block. That's right. Try to eat right. I want my people to be healthy.

That's right. Why you got two eyeglasses? I'm a crazy mother. I will lose some. I think my short memory is gone. That's okay. Well, I'm going to go get do whatever I got. Oh, I think my short memory's gone. That's OK. Well.

I'm going to go get, do whatever I got. Ooh, I need this water. You left some. And drink water. Hydrate, please. Dumbass. You left us a lot of memories. We love you, Miss Jennifer Lewis.

I love you. I love you. I got that for you. No, I'm showing it. Oh, OK. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Jennifer Lewis. It's the Breakfast Club. Good boy.

It's time for Donkey of the Day. Donkeys of the Day. I'm a Democrat, so being Donkey of the Day is a little bit of a mixed play. So like a donkey. Donkey of the Day. The Breakfast Club, bitches. Now, I've been called a lot in my 23 years that donkey of the day is a new one. Hey, hey, guys.

Donkey of the day for Tuesday, April 11th goes to United Airlines as a staff record label airline and mother effing crew. Okay, now let the record show. I fly JetBlue. I'm a proud Mosaic member. And when it comes to overbooking, Blue flyers, don't have that problem because they don't overbook flights. I think overbooking flights is greedy. I think it's an inconvenience and I wish it would stop. If it's

100 flights on a plane, sell 100 flights. 100 seats. 100 seats. What did I say? 100 flights. I'm on drugs. If it's 100 seats on a plane, sell 100 seats. Okay? Don't do people like that. Alright? People got places to go People to see

I don't want to spend A few hundred dollars On a flight And then when I get there You telling me The flight is overbooked It makes no sense And it causes

Unnecessary problems Like the one we saw yesterday On a United Airlines flight Headed from Chicago To Louisville Now the man Who has not yet been identified By name

Of course we all know What he looks like by now He was forcibly removed Because according to a statement, the airline said four crew members needed to get to a flight departing from Louisville. Otherwise, it would be canceled. Now, passengers were asked to give up their seats voluntarily

and when no one volunteered, which is perfectly fine because they don't have to because they paid for their seats like everyone else and they have places to go and it's not their fault that airlines have this dumbass policy called overbooking. Now, when no one volunteered to give up the seat they paid for the airline was forced into an involuntary deboarding situation never heard of that never heard of it until yesterday but uh i now know that it translates into okay now get the

hell off this plane or somebody getting their ass beat well four passengers were selected to get to get their ass kicked, but for whatever reason, they decided to only make an example out of one. Some poor little Asian doctor who was minding his business and needed to get home to see his patients. When the man refused, as he had every right to do, United Airlines said it then followed U.S. Department of Transportation protocol and calling in local law enforcement to forcibly remove the man from the plane after he refused to leave. Would you like to hear how it sounded? Here you go. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,

hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Where was Kendall Jenner with the Pepsi to give to the local law enforcement to calm this situation down? Now, United CEO Oscar Munoz or Munoz or whatever issued a statement. And I must say his statement sucked because oscar put the blame on the victim oscar said that the guy became more and more disruptive and belligerent when asked to come off the aircraft uh duh if i paid for my ticket and had somewhere to be yes i would be agitated

and there's nothing belligerent about that okay i just don't want to get off this flight and i don't understand why the hell you guys are bothering me this is a classic example of someone being completely out of touch with regular everyday people because I am positive that if the CEO of United Oscar Munoz or whatever his name was was sitting on a flight. Just say it wasn't a United flight. He's sitting on a flight and someone asked him to leave. He would get so-called

disruptive and so-called belligerent too. I really wish we all would just remember the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It's not rocket science. It's not complicated, okay? Human beings should simply give people the energy they want to receive. That same energy you want

back, you should give to people. You have to see me when you come to the window, so you better have the same energy. At all times, okay? You should only be forcibly removed when you have no business in a situation whatsoever, when you're trespassing. When someone is being forcibly removed, that means they did something wrong. They have no business being there situation whatsoever when you're trespassing when someone is being forcibly removed that means they did something wrong they have no business being there what did this guy do other than put money in united airlines pocket he had every right to be there because he bought a

ticket and if he had somewhere to be and didn't want to leave he had the right to get his rosa pox on and say nah and refuse to leave his seat okay also united airlines common sense why wouldn't you account for employee seats first isn't that who should be assigned seats before anyone else? I mean, that would only make sense. If this man chooses to ride on trash ass United Airlines ever again, he should get free first class flights and unlimited snacks for the rest of his life. And to think all of this could be avoided if airlines simply stop overbooking flights. It's just an inconvenience to everybody. Airplane tickets are expensive. When I book a flight, that should guarantee me a seat. Period.

I got to receive a busted lip and get dragged off a plane because United overbooked the flight and didn't have room for its employees? That's my fault? Please give United Airlines and its CEO, Oscar Munoz, the biggest hee-haw, please. I'm just saying. Well, they were saying that they had to, this alleged, that they had to fly the crew in to another city because there was an airliner there that didn't have a crew. And if the crew didn't make it to that city to fly that next airliner, instead of four people being upset, it'd be a plane of over 100 people being upset. What does that have to do with me? That's why they had to fly the plane, the crew in, allegedly. What does that have to do with me?

What happened to the customer always being right? What does that have to do with me? What happened to the customer always being right? What does that have to do with me? I'm sitting on this plane, minding my damn business. Okay? What's going on with United and its employees and what crew got to be where got to do with me? And they said there's a stipulation when you buy your ticket that if they need the ticket back or they need that seat,

that they could possibly take it. That's what they say. Never heard that stipulation in my life. Me neither. Never seen that in the fine print. The Breakfast Club. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary?

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It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Let's talk about it. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlemagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you just joined us, Charlemagne gave Donkey of the Day to United Airlines. Yeah, United Airlines and its CEO, Muniz or whatever for the way they treated that poor Asian doctor on that flight yesterday. And then Oscar, the CEO, had the nerve to victim blame and say that the guy was acting belligerent and disruptive.

If I had bought me a ticket, right? First of all, this is why I hate overbooking on flights. I think overbooking is just stupid. If it's 100 seats, 100 seats is all that it should be. Right. overbooking is just stupid if it's 100 seats 100 seats is all that it should be right but if you overbook the flight and now you need to get somebody else on the flight and i got somewhere to go and you're telling me that i have to get off the plane and i don't want to why wouldn't i get a little disruptive absolutely why wouldn't i get a little agitated why wouldn't my voice

raise up a little bit that's not being belligerent let's go to the phone lines hello who's this hi it's christy from milwaukee hey christy from milwaukee have you ever been kicked off a flight um no i have not i've actually only taken a flight twice in my life oh jesus christ you need to get out more boo that box ain't worth a trip ain't nobody flying you out uh no no damn all you getting is local penis hello who's this? This is Chrissy. Hey, Chrissy, have you ever been kicked off a flight?

I've never been kicked off a flight. Over the weekend, I booked the hotel room through Expedia and got to the hotel, and the hotel did not have my reservation. Already paid for, I went to like 14 different hotels after that just to have to find something that wouldn't really accommodate us with one king size bed and Expedia is on the phone like, oh well. Wow. So what happened?

How did it get resolved? Well, after that, I ended up getting a hotel room somewhere else, paying for it, you know, like paying for a room twice because I couldn't deal with you at the moment and then the next day I ended up calling them they did it give me like the runaround through like four or five different people but I got my money refunded and what they did was they put like a $200 travel credit on my media account as if I want to travel with them again but you know hey I guess you live and you learn you know you can tell people who don't fly this dude on Twitter named Mickey vicious he put United dude should have been thrown off

the plane they will gonna pay him to leave they always pay you when they want you to volunteer to give up your seat sir hello who's this if you're about just something this Gabriel Gabriel you ever been kicked off a flight before? Yes, I have. What happened? Being too fat? Well, primarily, nah, nah. Primarily because of my last name.

What's your last name, Muhammad? Yonan. What's that mean? It's a Syrian last name. Oh, got you. So they just kicked you off the flight? Well, yeah, because they said they didn't properly check me, so they removed me from the plane, made me take all my clothes off, you know, check my belt buckle, everything like that,

because, you know, my last name was foreign. Now, when was this? Was this Bush era, Obama era, or Trump era? Oh, this was Obama era. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. What era was this? This was Southwest, actually. Wow. Yeah, and they pretty much, their whole thing was, you know,

well, we got to make sure that all of our passengers are safe, this, that, and the other. But here's what I want to say about that, because, you know, I'm an American. I was born an American. I don't care what my last name was. I paid for my flight. I did exactly. I was born an American. I don't care what my last name was. I paid for my flight. I did exactly what I was supposed to do. I really felt violated at that point, you know? Yeah, I would've got off that

plane and I would've sued the ish out of him. And I'm gonna be honest with you, man. You deserve better in life than Southwest, okay? Southwest ain't nothing but a big-ass bus in the sky. I do not like Southwest. Listen, I ain't no bougie individual at all, but I don't want to get on no plane where you can just pick your own seat. I'm sorry.

I don't like Southwest. The first time we went to Charlotte, Charlemagne had to book the flights. That's a lie. I ain't never had you on Southwest in my life. And Charlemagne at first put us on Southwest. That's a lie. I don't know why you want to tell that lie. I don't know why you even feel like telling that lie.

Because that's a lie. You sure did. 800-585-1051. Have you ever got kicked off a flight before? Call us now. It's the Breakfast Club. I ain't no way, man. I ain't mean.

I ain't mean. I ain't mean. I ain't mean. That kid don't even hear what that is. Call me. And your opinion to The Breakfast Club top. Come on. 800-585-1051.

That was Drake with Fake Love. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you just joined us, we're asking, have you ever got kicked off a flight? Now, this comes from Charlamagne giving United Donkey of the Day. They kicked this gentleman off, really, for no reason. For no reason.

And this dude, well, it was because of overbooking, and he didn't want to voluntarily leave. So they had him forcibly removed. But a young lady on Twitter said to me, hey, see the God on my way to work. Her name is at Voodoo Doll. She said, you just said, and I quote, nobody's pulling me off a plane. You sure about that, Pumpkin? I'm absolutely sure of that. You're not pulling me off the plane. I'm going to leave. You know who you're talking to?

Who? Voodoo Doll. She's pulling you off the plane. But I'm going to leave. And the reason I'm going to leave is because I saw the video of what they did to this Asian man. So either we're going to fight or I'm just going to walk off the plane. Hello, who's this? Good morning. Hey, I know you don't want to say your name.

Oh, no, my name is Michelle. Good morning. Oh, okay, Michelle. Now you work for United. So here's my story with United. I've been a Star Alliance member for years. And I haven't had to be removed from a plane. But unfortunately, I am that frequent flyer who shows up and someone else has to be removed because I've actually shown up.

But what I saw yesterday is so appalling. and the Department of Transportation, Chicago O'Hare's entire, what do they call them? Law enforcement. The law enforcement, exactly, that they have on price. All of them deserve it because no one should be treated that way. And you can't help but to bring race into the equation. Would they have treated someone who was a lot larger, would they have treated a female this way? The fact that they over-exit the force.

So, Charlamagne, I couldn't agree with you more. Where's the Pepsi ad? Both United and Pepsi. And they actually carry Coke products, but they might as well start carrying Pepsi products on those flights. Let me ask you a question, baby.

Since you have the preferred membership or whatever, would you even want to see it after seeing how they do it? No. No, you know what? I actually, I would love to find an airline who I can, like, you know, transfer my mileage and, you know, I honestly, I have always had to fly to the West Coast, specifically San Francisco, and they are a hub for United. But after what they've gone through, what they did this weekend, no, absolutely not.

I'd rather, I'm looking for, shopping around for a new carrier. And the other thing regarding, I can't remember the rule right now, but from an operational issue, they could have put either the passengers or their own crew on another carrier to get them out to Louisville. Absolutely. And, you know, maybe you use a smaller plane and you charter your flight for your crew to get where you need to get to. But that is an operational issue from their central control. Absolutely.

Thank you, Michelle. You're very welcome. Thank you, Michelle. Hello, who's this? Hello? Hey, what's your name? Yo, my name's Tone Iceman, Queen Stand Up. Tone, how big are you, Tone?

You sound like you got that same energy at all times. I got the same energy all day, my nigga, all day. Tone, how much do you weigh, Tone? Yo, listen, just know I'm a fat nigga, you feel what I'm saying? Maybe 300, 400 pounds, something like that. The type of person we would hate to sit by on a plane, and they could never forcibly remove you because you're too big. Nah, nah, listen, I ain't that big.

I don't look that big in person. Do you fly? Listen. What class do you fly, cargo? Stop, man. I told you, you got kicked off a flight because of what? Yo, listen, I'm in Jamaica. I'm coming back to Queens. Yo, y'all know Jamaican people rude. Yo, listen. I'm in Jamaica. I'm coming back to Queens.

Jamaica, yo, y'all know Jamaican people rude, yo. The lady come up to me, yo, listen. Because of everybody else's comfortability, we might not fit you on the plane. I'm like, yo, I just flew in. I just got in. They're like, nah, you ain't good. So the lady said, we might have to get you a new ticket, but you got to pay $200. Yeah, listen.

I missed my flight three times, so they ain't going to let me on. No, no, no, no, no. You missed your flight three times because you're 300 pounds. Let's call it what it is. Let's call it, man. Forget you, man. You missed your flight three times because you needed three seats. All right?

Let's be clear about this. I have seen that. I have seen them get big people and tell them to go on the other side of the plane before. You never seen that before? Hey, I'm going to be honest with you. Y'all know I have no remorse for this one whatsoever. I'm down with everybody. But if you're fat and you're on the plane, either buy three seats or stop complaining. All right?

They get three seat belts. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Nick down in Houston. How you guys? All right, Nick. Now, tell us. You said we're looking at this all wrong. Yeah, yeah. I kind of feel like, so I work for a competitor airline, and while I would love to say this

is all United's fault, a part of me feels like it's not, because, I mean, if you think about it, it wasn't United Police that came on the plane and removed this guy, right? So, like, if you think about it this way, somebody walks into the breakfast club, you guys ask him to leave, he doesn't leave. You call the police. The police come in there, rip him out of there, the guy has a heart attack on the way out. His family tries to sue the breakfast club, right? Is it y'all's fault that the man died when the police came and got him out? By the way, by the way, let's talk about all the people who have been forcibly removed from the breakfast club.

Because there's been some few people who come in the building. People that get forcibly removed from here deserve to get forcibly removed from here because they're probably trying to assault me. Right. All right. Okay. Yeah. And we throw them out first and then the police come. These are people that are actually doing something wrong.

So that's a terrible example. This guy wasn't doing anything wrong. He was a paid customer. No, no, no, no, no, no. Think about it. Think about it, though. If somebody comes into the breakfast club and they're trying to hurt you, they're breaking the breakfast club policy. The fact of the matter is that you really are agreeing to being able to be removed if asked to make room for employees, for airline employees.

It's part of the policy. You can't. He shouldn't be forcibly removed, though, my brother. There's no reason to be forcibly removed. I understand that, but it wasn't United that forcibly removed the guy. That's my point. He said it was the police. He said they took the protocol.

You're right with that, but it's still bad PR for United, though. It's definitely bad PR for United. Thank you for calling, bro. You're right, but it's bad PR for United. It's horrible PR for United. All right, well, what's the moral of the story? Well, the moral of the story is I heard a great quote one time by a guy named steve dorfman he said the customer is not always right but your job is never to show them how they're wrong your job is to be

professional courteous accommodating and to demonstrate emotional maturity even and especially under stress i saw united uh the law enforcement be professional, not be courteous, not be accommodating. They definitely didn't demonstrate any emotional maturity, and that was a stressful situation, and they failed miserably. It's The Breakfast Club. Come on in. The Breakfast Club. All right, you got a positive note? The positive note is simply this.

Getting your stuff together requires a level of honesty you can't even imagine. There's nothing easier about realizing you're the one that's been holding you back this whole time. Breakfast Club, bitches! Y'all finished or y'all done? Hey, guys. I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High,

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