The Breakfast Club - The Breakfast Club REWIND (Kehlani, Devale and Khadeen Ellis and The Lucas Brothers)

Episode Date: December 19, 2022

Today on the show we flashed back to when Kehlani stopped by to speak on her new album, self care and relationships. Also, we flashed back to when Devale and Khadeen Ellis came to discuss their podcast, their new children's book, relationships and love. We also flash back to when the Lucas Brothers stopped by.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning, USA! Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. I'm DJ Envy. And I go by the name of Charlamagne Tha God with the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. And currently we are on vacation. Man, totally disconnected. 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 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 in the new year. Happy holidays. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. 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.

Hello, who's this? Hi, Denicia. Hey, Denicia. Peace, Denicia. How y'all doing? How you doing? Good. Look, I don't even want to be up here long. I'm on my way to work, and I wanted to say my poem this morning.

Oh, yes. I hear it. Why did you say that? It's entitled Remodeling My Home. Okay, okay. I like this. I like where this could be going. I need you to have more enthusiasm sell it sell us i got it honey go okay i had to divorce depression

said goodbye to pain beat up confusion and kicked out the rain stress tried to stay complaining everything but i said don't look at me again. Don't even say hey. Anxiety kept trying to get back in along with this company called Sin. And Gloom thought she still had a room. But I cleaned them all out with the biggest broom. I heard a knock at the door. It didn't sound the same. I just knew it was live coming back to play more games. But when I opened the door, P stood there with ease and comfort for us.

Oh, I was so pleased. Power called and said he was on the way in joy. Sent me a card. I got it on Tuesday. Love. Yet it was delayed. Was the only one that prayed. Grace poured up in the finest car, healing my heart of the deepest scar.

Friendship came running, put her arms around my neck. Her brother came too. His name was Respect. Mercy was so kind, helping me remodel my home. Her brother came too. His name was Respect. Mercy was so kind, helping me remodel my home. Got rid of all the trash. Now the ugly needs to go. Hey, I like that.

I like that. That was really dope. I'm not gonna lie. I dig that. I dig that. That was amazing. I dig that. I finally got y'all.

I'm so happy. Where can people hear or see some more of your poetry? Well, my book's on Amazon. Okay. What's the name of it? Give Well, my book's on Amazon. Okay. What's the name of it? Give us more.

It's entitled The Reaper. The Reaper. Hello, who's this? What's it do, baby? This is Ahmaud Bacardi. Ahmaud, what's up? Get it off your chest, bro. That ain't your real name.

Your last name Bacardi? Yes, sir. You're a liar. Why is that? Your last name is actually Bacardi, like the drink? Yes. No, not Bacardi. McCarty.

Oh, McCarty. Okay, got you. All right, McCarty. Okay, not Bacardi. McCarty. Oh, McCarty. Okay, got you. All right, McCarty. Okay, that makes more sense. Get it off your chest, man. All right, what's up, man? I wanted to just give a shout out, man.

I'm married and love my life this weekend. Congratulations, Ken. Thank you, sir. That's what I like to hear. I want to shout out Keola McCarty, the new Miss McCarty.

Yay. And I just want to say I love her. Okay. And shout out to to say I love her. Okay. Shout out to the Breakfast Club, Angel Lee, D-Day Evie, Charlemagne Tha God. Congratulations, brother, and have a good one. Hello, who's this?

This is Romero. Romero, what up? Get it off your chest. Man, I'm a little hot, man. I've been trying to get into this real estate game, they're not making it easy for brother at all man i burned my first property renovated it got it off the ground man and i'm trying to buy another one and these prices is crazy right now same properties that was 90 000 going for like 180 000 man for 600 square feet yeah i mean that's that's what this this whole pandemic did i mean a lot of people with the interest

rates so low, a lot of people are buying houses and inventories down, so people are raising the prices like crazy. Man, I don't know how they expect somebody to get in the game with these kind of prices, man. It's stupid, man. It's very difficult. I don't know, man. I appreciate y'all, though, man. Thanks for taking my call. I'm glad to get it off my chest.

Yeah, there wasn't going to be no positive advice for that one. It is what it is. When them prices is what they are, they are what they are. Hello, who's this? This is Marion Johnson. What's up, brother? What's up, Marion Johnson? So you remember me, man? Cocktail party, man.

Whoa. Tell him what. He just said his name. Y'all remember the male dancer? The male dancer? Yeah, remember I was talking about the book about the male dancer cocktail party? No, I don't quite remember.

Y'all was talking about a male dancer, a guy, if his girl went to the strip joint and had a house party and what would you think about that? Oh, got you. Yeah, yeah, okay. It's starting to come back to me now.

Yeah, yeah. I was just trying to throw the link out there. It's on asapublishingcorporation.com slash Maren Johnson. That's M-E-R-I-N Johnson, or you go to Amazon and buy Maren Johnson. Okay. Thank you, Maren Johnson.

That's a good last name you got for a male stripper. Johnson. Johnson, yeah, yeah. My stripper name was Black Cat. Okay, it should have been Black Johnson. Black Cat. Why was it Black Cat? Were you, like, walking across the stage like a black cat?

That's right. That's right, shaking everything. Okay. Shaking everything. There you go. Okay, Black Cat. You have a good one. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. shaking everything okay black cat it's a breakfast club good morning the breakfast club

it's your time to get it off your chest whether you're mad or blessed we want to hear from you on the breakfast club hello who's this this is my baby from Indianapolis oh my gosh good morning DJ Angelina J and Charlamagne Hello, who's this? This is Mercedes Collins from Indianapolis. Oh my gosh, good morning DJ Envy, Angela Yee, and Charlotte Bain.

Oh my gosh. Good morning. Good morning. Oh my gosh, can my fan grab this s*** right quick? Like, it's really, really fast. Can you what? I need a fan girl this s***, like, really, really fast. Stop cursing, but go ahead. I'm sorry.

Why are you talking like you're talking to your daughter, bro? Stop cursing. You thought she was cursing? She cursed twice on the radio. You said it's so hard you said it's so aggressive like a daddy oh i listen to y'all every day all right i am so tired of these doordash customers not tipping at least tip like five dollars they're driving like they're driving like 25 minutes for an order. And come to find out they only tip in $2 to release five. Now, gas is too hot. Seriously, gas is too hot.

I do 20%. Man, I'm trying to tell you. Like, yesterday I had an order that was like 30 minutes away. And mind you, the order said it was like $9. At first, I was like, eh, I guess I'll take it. Trying to find out. Drive all the way up there. The customer only tips $3.

So please. That is 20%. Listen to what Yee just said, though. You know, the order was $10. Yee said she tips 20%, which would have been $2. The customer gave you 30%, $3. So what would you expect the customer to tip on a $10 order? Well, on a $10 order, it reached $5.

At least $5. $5? Okay. For $5, I'm going to get it myself. $5, I'm going to get it myself. You know what? I would never order anything on DoorDash for $10. I didn't think they delivered for $10. Yes, they do.

I never would do that. Because there's also like a processing fee. There's a processing fee on top of that, right? Because they really charge you just. Yeah, I'm a member. They don't charge you. That gets rid of the delivery fee, but there's still a processing fee and all of that. Yeah, now my son.

It's not just a flat what it would cost. He delivers one meal all the time. Chipotle, Shake Shack. I just want to give a shout out. Right quick. I just want to give a shout out to my friend I just want to give a shout out to my friend Nicholas in Georgia and a shout out to my husband who's in jail right now

but he gets to listen to y'all. You guys have a great day and stay safe. Will do, queen. Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Cesar. Hey, what's up, bro? Get off your chest. Hey, Cesar. I meant to use an anonymous name. Hey, everybody. Too late. Oh, my goodness.

Charlamagne. Peace, peace. Do you want to change your name now? No, man. I just need to get off my chest real quick. I'm sorry people cut you off, because I don't like when Charlamagne and Envy do that to you. But, yeah, let me get off my chest. I don't like when people be trying to take other people.

I don't like when other people be trying to take other people back and still hold like a, like a hold like a grudge against it, you know? Like, for example, if a dude keeps on a girl and he like, I forgive you, I take you back. But like, months, weeks, years down the road, you still like throwing it back in my face? That's like, come on now. So this just happened to you, Cesar? Uh, I mean, yeah. I mean, but this is like some long-ago type stuff, you know? But I'm talking about, like, even nowadays, you know?

Like, I see my partners go through it. Vice versa, I see females go through it with guys. It's like, hey, don't kick them back. If you're not going to 100% forgive them, you know? Well, I would say that's going through with guys. It's like, hey, don't kick them back. It's not going to hurt you to kick them, you know? Well, I would say that sometimes things trigger you, you know? So you might have forgiven somebody, but that doesn't mean that you completely forget it. And so there might be certain times when you fall back into some old habits. It takes a long time to build up that trust.

So it's an effort on both people's parts, though. I do agree. You can't just keep on beating somebody up after you said, it's an effort on both people's parts though I do agree you can't just keep on beating somebody up after you said let's work on it but every now and then you know you don't

intend for it to happen but you get a little mad. You're right. You're right. You're right. We all arguing. We all get trying to you know live our best

lives out here. I feel you. Well thank you bro. Good luck man. Get it off your chest. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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We are The Breakfast Club. We have a special guest on the line right now. Kalani. Hi. There you go. Peace, peace, peace. Her first time on the breakfast club this is amazing oh I know why you look nervous don't look nervous we're good people we're nice people

sure I just never did this before well you know it's important because you have the album it was good until it wasn't so we had to make sure that we got you. So you announced that you were putting out this album on your birthday. Happy belated birthday, by the way. Thank you. I appreciate it. So how are you doing just mentally right now? Physically? We know coronavirus.

There's a lot going on. Are you good? Is your family good? I'm good. Yeah. I have a one-year-old. She just went on a walk around her birthday, which was in March. So just trying to finish up at my house

and do all the kind of things I would normally be doing outside, like, you know, these press runs or music videos or things like that. Doing it from inside my house has been a challenge, but it's been super fun, so I'm good. How did your child help you evolve? How did your one-year-old help you evolve as a human? She's made me super patient.

And I think that she also makes me kind of be able to stay grounded in situations where I would normally, like, get really anxious or get nervous or just kind of like, feel like things are getting to be coming too much. You just look at this tiny human and just realize she has no idea what's going on. And it's like, okay, let me get on your level and just relax. How were you staying sane during all this? Because you can can't leave it's not like you'd be like you know what i'm gonna i'm gonna leave for a little bit there's no leaving for a little bit i have a i have a gratitude list that i literally run through it's like a anxiety combating thing that i do with myself where i'll run through literally like head to toe the things that i'm grateful for from having you know 10 toes on my feet to like air on top of my head

and just my eyes working and things like that. So every time I'm anxious, I just do that and I'm fine. Good. You know, Kalani, I deal with anxiety too, but I'm going to tell you something. You got a one-year-old now, so enjoy it. Because when they get older and they start going to school, your parental paranoia is going to go through the roof.

I mean, I feel that. I'm the oldest of five siblings. So I kind of like already experienced that to a small degree. I know it's nothing compared to me having my own child. But to some extent, I know how that felt just like when my little siblings started getting out the house and going to do it. And California is opening back up and everything. So what are your thoughts on that? Because they are saying Friday certain things will be open up.

We know the parks are open. When are you going to feel like, okay, I can go to the park? I'm not going outside. Smart. I don't think that everybody rushing outside at the same time is smart. So I'm just waiting out and just give myself more time. And I have a daughter to think about at the end of the day so you know you know uh recently you know i know that you

kamaya and keisha cole did a record and it was a misunderstanding with that record what happened with that record what was the situation well me and kamaya did a joint project and we had completed everything for the project it was a really long kind of exhausting like situation i had pushed my album back for the project but but we had got it done. And when it got to, like, the final decisions, we just weren't agreeing on certain decisions. And I got kind of tired of being talked to very, very, very aggressively. So I just whipped through kind of quietly. And I think that that was kind of confusing.

I'm not sure. I put a snippet up of the song that had keisha cole on it on social media maybe just months like months before the project was ever even supposed to come out just to kind of like get some energy towards it i had let the snippet go quiet the fans brought the snippet back up like after the project already wasn't a thing the fans brought the snippet back up and made it this like huge viral thing which i don't even know how that came about and i quote tweeted it and said, oh, do y'all want this?

Prove it. And then they went crazy again. Reached out to Keisha. Keisha was still down to be on it. She tried to speak to Kamiya. They fell out because of that. Kamiya basically felt like if she wasn't on it, then the song shouldn't be out.

But I wrote that song in the span of us doing our project. And I even tried to reach out during the process, like, hey, I know you didn't write on this song. You only wrote your verse, but I still want to do good business because we did it in our sessions that were for just us together. So I still like to give you publishing.

I still like to do, like, the proper business behind it. I got a really negative response, a really aggressive, like, violent response. So I just stepped away further stepped away quietly like I did before and I put the song out and things just accumulated after that like just the response accumulated every single time even you know when this was brought into the public very recently I just responded how I responded in private which was if you want to have an adult conversation about it if you want to have a gazing conversation about it

I'm not tripping and it just kept getting met with this just like aggression and just at some point I just had to let it go, you know? Right. Alright, we have more with Kalani when we come back. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Taking you back with the classic Rewind. It's

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We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Kalani. Yee. Kalani, for you moving forward, right? You think you would want to be in an open relationship because that's something that you discuss. So is that something you feel like that's what you can envision? Well, I mean, to be honest, it kind of, the last one was kind of open.

And I think that's what the big deal was about the situation that had happened was because I did give this space for communication and to be open and it wasn't kind of honored, which kind of made it worse when you're like, hey, I low-key am saying any s*** can go down as long as everything's communicated and everyone's adult because I know how this life is and I'm not really a big tripper off of most things in general.

You wasn't mad at the communication. There was no communication. Yeah, it was a lot of lies and a lot of covering up and it was that's what i'm saying when it was like deep and it was like intricate it wasn't like a simple like i found out the basics of something it was deep and it was intricate and it was like a big weaving of something that turned into something else that just like that's why i never spoke up on the outside the club scene because that wasn't something that mattered to me that wasn't a rule-breaking situation i was like i just don't

feel like getting online and deeply explaining that that is not a situation that matters to me then i gotta deal with everybody you know coming at my mentality about an open relationship so gotcha could you define could you define what open is because i'm old i need to know what open means i mean i think it's whatever boundaries you guys set with each other if you decide to like what matters to you it's like you if it doesn't matter to you if you can date other people that doesn't matter to me it's really it's like each one of those relationships has to be set by each little rule with the two people like it's not like a formula for an open relationship like you know you have to go through each individual step with those things i personally can't define an open relationship for anybody else so for you though if i if i so for you if i if i

somebody else when i'm with you is that an open is that part of your open relationship checklist i think yeah i think it depends on what type of sexual relationship that you're having outside of mine i'm very very very uh big on sexual safety and sexual health and honesty on the honesty i'm very big on communicating it thoroughly And all parties involved Giving consent for it And being in the know of what's going on Like, if there's three parties And, you know, there's three people Being sexually active with each other They need to be on fully the same page

They need to all be fully on the same page Health-wise All of these things, you know what I'm saying So for me, it's like Honestly, everybody being on the same page Everybody being 100% in the know, nobody being left out, and that's that. And so it was okay for you to see other people as well,

though, because sometimes for guys, an open relationship is them doing them, but you not. Yeah, he wasn't super down, but I also wasn't interested. Like, he was like, I don't like the idea of that, but if it comes up, he was like very, like, he just, I don't know how to explain it. He, you know, he was a guy. So if it comes up, but it never came up because I just wasn't interested.

I'm so busy with my daughter making an album. And with the relationship that I did have, it just wasn't, it wasn't a thing for me. Would he mind you being with other women? Yeah, because honestly, he wasn't, he doesn't have this weird kind of like masculine awkward look at like sexual or or romantic relationships with women like he wasn't like it's a girl so it don't matter he was like no you really like girls you can really fall in love with girls so like i need you going and falling in love falling in love i don't blame him yep a girl could. Girls could do a lot of other things that I don't know how to do. She could eat better than I can.

She could do a lot of... No, I get it. I think it's more so the emotional connection he was scared of. That's it. I'm thinking you saw some text messages from YG, and those text messages were a little bit too emotionally connected. Whoever he was reaching out to, they was a little bit too emotionally connected. Whoever he was reaching out to, they was a little bit too emotionally connected

for your liking. They were just intricate and strategic and dishonest. I wouldn't even say they were extremely deep. They were just, they were just, it showed me a side that I didn't want to see. You wait till I see YG. How you f*** up an open relationship, YG? Well, Kalani, I can't wait till we get you in person.

Now, you know, we all comfortable with each other. And I want to talk more when the album's out right now. So make sure you guys get it. I think for anybody going through whatever they're going through. There's a song for you on this album that you can relate to. And I think that's what makes it such an important piece of work. So congratulations. Yes congrats.

Thanks for joining us this morning. Alrighty well it's The Breakfast Club. It's Kalani. Taking you back, back, back with the classic Rewind. It's The Breakfast Club. I thought this was a podcast. It's topic time. Pick up the phone, baby.

Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Talk about it. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. discussion with The Breakfast Club. Let's talk about it. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you just joined us, we're talking about a story we reported during our front page news about a pastor in Brooklyn. You want to break it down, Yee? Yeah, Bishop Lamar Whitehead, he was in the middle of a sermon. It was live streaming when three masked gunmen broke in with their guns

and stole $400,000 worth of jewelry from him and his wife, maybe from some churchgoers too. We don't know where all the jewelry came from, but he did have on some rings, a chain.

Right. So when we reported the story earlier today, people were like, well, I mean, why the hell is he wearing $400,000 worth of jewelry in Brooklyn

in the middle of a recession with all the wolves out and people starving? Those people are right. Me, myself, I mean, why the hell is he wearing $400,000 worth of jewelry in Brooklyn in the middle of a recession with all the wolves out and people starving? Those people are right. Me, myself, you know, yes, it wouldn't be the smart decision to wear $400,000 worth of jewelry. But that's his right. He works hard for it. He can wear whatever he want to wear, right? That's what life is about.

And they can rob whoever they want to rob. And they're going to rob the people that they see out here. And they're going to rob the people who they see out here flossing and stunting. The reality is, if you're going to spend $400,000 on jewelry, you should have security. And that goes for anybody who wants to wear those kind of luxury things. Have security protecting you. That's it. Simple as that. And I feel like churches should have security, period. We've seen enough mass shootings happen in churches and places of worship nowadays

that things like that, you know, should be prevented by having armed security in the churches anyway. If you're going to spend that kind of money on your cars and that kind of money on your jewelry, how about spending on keeping your congregation safe? Yeah, I get what you're saying. But I also feel like if that man, that pastor works hard, he can spend his money on whatever he wants to spend his money. You know what I mean? If he wants to, you know, have a diamond crown and wear a diamond crown, he should be able to and not worry about getting robbed. No, that's not how this works, Andy.

That's how it should work. That's life. I don't care how it should work. You're going to do things how they should or how things are. Well. Exactly. I don't want to pay taxes. We should not have to pay taxes because black people built this country for free.

I want to. Let's do it. But no. Because I'm not going to jail. All right? I'm not going to have the IRS knocking at my door. All right? So my point is, yes, people should be able to wear what they want to wear without being robbed.

But that's not the reality of the situation. So if you're going to spend $400,000 on some jewelry, spend $350,000 on jewelry and $50,000 on security. I mean, of course, I would hope that something like that wouldn't happen. It's like when somebody's driving a nice car and then they blame you for getting carjacked because why were you driving such a nice car? So why? I can't drive a nice car in this you know in this neighborhood so i get that and it's a shame that something like this had to happen me personally you know i live in brooklyn and i don't even own jewelry worth

that much money and i mostly wear costume jewelry anyway that's you know what you you smart you telling you giving out the right message this morning so that's that's just for me personally but i would think in church you would hope that would be a safe haven but unfortunately it's not and you know i'm sorry that something like this had to happen to him like he said congregation is traumatized from this experience and i feel like he's gotten a lot of press lately and the way that they uh the way that they talk about him in the media oh the flashy you know and i think that's why he made. I think that's why he was targeted because of how the media has put him out there for things that have happened, you know, in the past. You just told Brooklyn, look, man, I know y'all hear me on the radio.

I know y'all know I got these businesses, but there ain't nothing over here for y'all to get, bro. All my money is in my businesses. Like, I'm still trying to make some money. That's right. We get it, G. We get it, G. I got on costume jewelry right now. Yee, I believe you.

You're going to be like, look, my shoes are real. Not real gold earrings. That car I drive ain't even a real car. It's a fake car, too. Goodness, it's all plastic. These people out here

are ruthless. They robbed Amy from Jeopardy. They heard about Amy winning all them goddamn pride winnings and they robbed Amy, bro. Not Amy. Hello, who's this?

Man, this is the priest from Omaha, Nebraska. What up, Angela Yee? Hey. I'm in a Gandhi to Envy. Peace, King. Man, they was wrong for going in there and robbing that pastor like that in that church. But my whole thing is they take $400,000 off the pastor, or was that just collectively?

Jewelry. Well, we don't know. It sounds like he had jewelry. But if you really think about it, let's say the pastor bought himself a nice watch, right? Everybody's wearing a Richard Mille. Maybe he bought a Richard Mille watch. That watch could be $200,000, $300,000 right there. So it ain't a lot of jewelry.

You just got to watch them. And if his wife got one in an engagement ring, that's $400,000. Yeah, they took their rings and everything. Man, y'all asking the wrong questions. How much they going to get for it in the street, man? What's that? How much they going to get in the street? Stop it, questions. How much they going to get for it in the street, man? What was that? How much they going to get in the street? Stop it, man.

How much they going to get? If it's a Richard Mille watch, let's say, probably get about a cash by 80, 70. But you know, you're right. It could be their wedding bands, her wedding ring, and all of that, too. And sometimes people spend money on that stuff. 805-85-1051. We're talking about the pastor who got robbed in Brooklyn while he was live streaming. They took it for his jewelry.

They said $400,000. People are like, oh, well, he shouldn't be wearing that in Brooklyn anyway doing a live sermon during the recession. But I feel like he worked hard for it. He should wear whatever he want to wear. Man, shut up. No. Yes, you can wear whatever you want to wear and people can rob whatever they want to rob. The reality of the situation is don't wear nothing you can't protect.

And if you can't protect it yourself, you better hire somebody to protect it for you all right breakfast club good morning the breakfast club morning everybody it's ej mv angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we have some special guests in the building ye Ye was hating. Ye turned her mic off. We have this guy. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. What's up, everybody? How are y'all? Black and highly favored.

I love that. I love that. They are collectively the dead-ass podcast. Yes, yes, yes, sir. Don't get no more New York than that. Nah, I don't. When we try to come up with a name for the podcast, we're like, that's it. It had to be dead-ass.

What is why the podcast? Yo, it's funny, bro. We we got mad stories we do got mad stories but it really is just like our life like we we just two kids from brooklyn who hustle like everybody else and i met my best friend when i was 18 my wife here and we just live life together grinding taking chances with each other and we wanted to just show people like this is how fun marriage can be, even though there's some tough times, but it's just fun. Let's talk about the real time. Like I'll give you an example. When I first met my wife, this was in 2002. We were at a banquet at our elementary school we was going to, and Pam Oliver was hosting. And Pam Oliver, she was reading down the list of accomplishments. The Val Ellis got

a scholarship to Hofstra, aspires to play in the NFL uh if you want to do that you know you're gonna have to grow and gain more weight and she was like like one of those it was real condescending you know and I was kind of like you're gonna have to get your weight up and I'm like I'm like yo she yo, she laughing at me, right? So me and my wife wasn't together at that moment. Right. That's the day we met though.

That's the day we met. So fast forward four years. Now I get to try out with the Lions, make the team. My first home game starting was against the Jets. It all comes full circle.

My family's in the stands and the Jets, you know, they looked out for me. They got my wife down. At the time, it was my girlfriend. She got her on the,

down there on the stadium and she's on the field with my mom and they're like yo your mom and your wife's on they tell her to take some pictures get up there right so um i'm down there as soon as i come down i see my wife my girlfriend at the time and she's like yo yo you see that bitch pamela was over there and i'm like four years later and i'm like i'm like yeah i see i'm like I was like, you remember number 80? Oh, you pressed Pam Oliver? Check this out. She says to me, I'm supposed to be returning punts. And she called me over.

I'm like, she see Pam Oliver. I'm like, yeah. She said, you going to go say something to her? I'm like, I can't. I'm about to play a game. She said, you don't got to because I already did. So I'm like, that's my game. So this is in the middle of MetLife Stadium.

Three pounds. Bang, bang. Me and her body bump in the middle of MetLife Stadium. Three pounds, bang, bang. Me and her body bump in the middle of MetLife Stadium right before a game. My coach is like, DeVal, get your ass over here. But it's just too Brooklyn. We got so many stories. You remember number 80 that you said needed to get his weight up? That he would never make it to the NFL? He's right there.

And I gave her the laugh, too. What did she say? And she was like, no way. Are you kidding me? I never said that. Did I say that? Yeah, you said that. What if she took her And I gave her the laugh, too. What did she say? And she was like, no way. Are you kidding me? I never said that. Did I say that? Yeah, you said that. What if she took her wig off and slapped you?

They'd be in a brawl. They'd be in that lifestyle of brawling. It'd be a problem. And not for nothing, though, shout out to Pam Oliver because she's a pioneer in what she does. She was being honest. I was 5'8", 140 pounds. She was really like, what the f*** did somebody dream? Facts.

That's how I felt. You can give constructive criticism, but don't just be like, you'll never. You'll never. Yeah, he does that all the time. No, I don't do that. I don't tell somebody they'll never be able to do something. I give constructive criticism and tell them they make it. Don't tell them, don't quit your day job, stop rapping.

But that don't mean never. That just means like, look, constructive criticism is like like you might want to find something else to do. I can respect that. I can respect that. Deval, you said you booked two jobs. And I heard on one of the podcasts, you guys are talking about how the dynamics of your relationship have changed. Let's talk about that because it is different now, right? Because Deval is gone for periods of time and you're not physically together.

So how has that changed your relationship? It's kind of changed our relationship um it's it's kind of changed our relationship in in a little bit i mean we just came out of a pandemic where we couldn't do nothing so we was on each other all the time but i mean the time to miss each other kind of took us back to college in the league because when i was in the league i'd be gone for weeks i'd be gone for months and during those times we really really missed each other so when we came back it was fireworks right i think we need that I've been together for 18 years almost 19 years yeah we definitely need a space so him being away filming for a

couple weeks at a time that gives me a time to you know rejuvenate the sexy and whatnot and you know rebuild that you know wanting to see each other like it's necessary when you've been with somebody for so long it's very necessary how long are you in the league? Four years. Okay, okay. So you don't get the pension? Yo, I missed it by three games. Three games.

Three games. Bro, I learned a lot about ownership and finances through the NFL, bro. They find ways, for example, it's all about cheap and younger talent, right? So I played for the Lions for three years. I got picked up by the Browns, got released. And my agent told me, like, yo, it's going to be hard talent right so i played for the lions for three years i got picked up by the browns got released and my agent told me like yo it's gonna be hard for you to get back into the league i was like what you mean he was like whoever picks you up now is gonna be responsible for your pension from now until you're done so for them it's like i might as well just go

get a rookie paid them the league minimum having rather than having to pay you a million dollars and from a business standpoint i get it you same thing. And from a business standpoint, I get it. You know what I'm saying? From a business standpoint, from an ownership standpoint, I get it. But from a player standpoint, I'm like, yo, this is jacked up. But that's what the CBA is always fighting for. You know, they're always fighting to make sure players are taken care of. So at that point, I made a decision.

I didn't want to play ball no more. I wanted to focus on TV film. My wife wasn't too happy about that at the time. She was like, what? I was like, you're about to do what? Who leaves a bag on the table? To me,

I felt like, all right, well, they don't want to play you in the NFL. The Canada, I think, had some interest in him at the time.

She's trying to send me to Canada, y'all. She's trying to send me to Canada, bro. I was like, you in Detroit, you might as well just go to Canada

and play a year or two. To me, I kind of felt like he also did not, he wasn't able to live out his full potential playing in the NFL. So I feel like he still had more to prove i cursed out pam oliver for you i understand that but this is my thing right i also had a function and pain med addiction

that playing football kind of that was dangerous for me because what people don't understand about football is you have to make it through practice in order to play so i wake up in the morning take four tylenol take four tylenol before practice take four tylenol after practice then take two vicodin to go to sleep and i'm doing that monday through saturday just to get through practice and then i'm taking pain meds on sunday so unbeknownst to me too at the time i didn't yeah at the time she didn't know so and i didn't know how it was affecting me it wasn't like a pain med addiction where it was like i I need the pain meds on to get high. I just needed it. So my body was numb so I could play ball.

So I was like, man, I really don't want to do this no more. Has, has the things you're doing now filled that void that football left? Cause I hear that from so many athletes, like either they didn't make it pro or they made it pro. And it was only,

it was only there for a short time, bro. That was never really your dream though. Playing football. It was always a means to an end. When I first met Kay at 18, she was like, yo, what you want to do with your life? And I was like, that.

Martin was on TV. She was like, that. I was like, yo, I want to be an actor. I want to tell stories. And she's like, how you going to do that? And I told her I was going to use football as a means. Dope. But what happens is,

when football becomes your whole life for 10 years, and people are constantly giving you a structure for what your life is going to be, when that's taken away suddenly, there's no way to avoid depression, bro. It don't matter how much money you got. I got boys who got $25 million in the bank who call me and just randomly be like, yo, D, I'm not doing well. Like, what you mean? They're like, yo, it's me and my kids and my wife in the house.

I don't know what to do. I'm like, bro, you got money. Start some businesses. You're like, money ain't a thing to me like i don't i don't care about that i just don't have a purpose and then that's when we also started you know talking about black mental men's health on the podcast because we don't talk about that like and i know you big on that shawlameen and it's kind of it's good to see it be normalized now all right we got more with deval and kadeen ellis when we come back from

the dead ass podcast is the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club now from the dead ass podcast we have deval and kadeen ellis charlamagne can y'all talk about that time y'all went viral when y'all had that discussion about monogamy what happened was we were so there was there was a whole story behind it the monday the monday this we were supposed to be shooting four episodes of the podcast right about monogamy. What happened was there was a whole story behind it. The Monday we were supposed to be shooting four episodes of the podcast, right?

That week, yep. Kay and I had this thing with sex where I'm like, yo, I like when you get dressed up. For example, Kay don't dress like this every day.

She knows she's coming on the breakfast club. She put her makeup on. She got her $36 wig on, her hat. My $36 wig. I told you in July came here.

When you're married sometimes you're like, yo, I like when my wife get dressed up. I won't take off this hat, though. I ain't clip the lace. So Monday, she dressed up. I ain't clip the lace. Monday, she dressed up. And I was like, yo, let's, you know, tonight, let's do something.

She's like, I got you tonight. You'll be in the moment. You go to an event or whatever. So I had my little hairdo in and the ponytail. He likes the ponytail. So she had the ponytail and she's like, I'm going to take care of you tonight. Monday, come and go. She forget.

Tuesday, she get dressed. You know how it is when mad when you married in there tuesday so she got dressed again because we had the we had the podcast she get dressed up again so i got you tonight she talking hot tuesday night i get home she forget again she put that head once you put that scarf on you know it's a wrap bro she did it monday tuesday wednesday thursday night she promised me she was like bro i got you tonight she had this long ponytail in she had the she had the rhinestones on her forehead everything was looking nice she was like yo so we get home that night i run to the bathroom i come back she got the stocking cap on and she got the stocking cap on with the little her little ponytail hair she took she took it out i'm pissed bro i'm like yo this all week you've been promising me that she was gonna do this so now and i put on this cute i put on this cute little all-in-one bodysuit

from savage fenty he was like look at y'all be, I said, this is a perfectly, this is a perfectly brand new Savage X Fenty down. So I'm pissed, bro. My dusty ass body suit. So now I'm pissed, right? So now,

we have sex that night. We have angry sex. But it ain't the type of sex I was trying to have, right? So we wake up the next morning. Is it good angry sex like Keisha and Tommy and Belly? Yeah, it'd be good

angry sex. Okay, okay, okay. But my thing is you still put it off and you ain't do what I asked you to do. So we wake up that morning. Now we got to do a podcast. So we get in there. We already submitted the terms we're going to do for the podcast. So we get there like, hey, the podcast is about monogamy.

I'm like, so we're talking about sex, right? And it came to this point in the podcast. And I'm like, yo, let me ask you a question if sex is going to be a chore for you as a wife why did you want monogamy right and she was just like you didn't want monogamy and i was like i did but i felt like you kind of pushed monogamy on me i said that and her response was oh so i forced you to marry me i didn't say that she moved the goalposts yeah i didn't say that but this is more or less what was he trying to say but this is where i messed up right i was so mad and i was being petty and we both petty that i didn't take it back and be like no babe you didn't force me

to marry you i said because now i'm being mad because now i'm being petty and i'm like at the time when we was getting married, we weren't even agreeing on when we were going to get married because I lost all my money playing ball. I said that at that time, I think we should wait to get married because financially I'm on a good spot. And she was like, I'm not waiting no more. I want to get married. So I kind of felt like, yeah, you wanted to get married at this point.

So now that you want to get married at this point, when it comes time to do these things as a wife and you keep putting me off it kind of makes me feel like you didn't really want monogamy you just wanted me to do sorry 27 year old khadim at the time was thinking i want to be clear about what the intentions are what what am i expecting to gain from this relationship or not because at that point we've been together for nine years so i just want to know where we going which is how I got to get there. Which is fair. So he took that as pressure.

To me, I was just stating where I stood in that time. I don't see nothing wrong with that. What happened after that conversation? Now you said, uh. So now what happens? Now I'm going to be getting up for three more days. So what happened was I said, uh, right? And we ended up having a full argument on the podcast.

We get over it. The podcast comes out like four weeks later. We forget that we had this whole argument. Right back. And now we arguing about something else. And then people hit me on Twitter. Like, yo, y'all trending on Twitter. And I'm like, for what?

And they just like, your monogamy comment. I just was trying to make a point. But y'all took it and y'all ran with it. But I'm like, that's, I mean, to be honest, you know, people was mad. It was men versus women. Agreed with me. Women agreed with her. And it created content.

But people was mad at us for a little bit. Mission accomplished. People was mad at us for a little bit. It's a good conversation. I mean, I see both sides. You know what I mean? Because it's not like you want to, you're not going to creep on your woman. I'm not.

Like, that's not what I'm doing. But you're desirable. Is all you're trying to say. I appreciate that, Charlamagne. I appreciate that like this. I'm not doing it. But you could, you're desirable. Is all you're trying to say. I appreciate that, Charlamagne. I appreciate that. No, I don't mean it like that.

How you do that with Kadeem right there? Wow. His wife is right there. Relax, get a little, get a little. He's a bad bitch. He's a bad bitch.

He is. No. He is. I don't mean it like that. It's just that old, that old adage, which you don't do, somebody else will.

Not saying he would. I would never say that to my wife. You know what I mean? But it's a thought sometimes. Like, I don't want it to be a choice. Whoop his ass. See, now that's the point. Look, Envy trying to instigate.

Envy trying to instigate over to the... But you see, Charlamagne, I don't ever say that to my wife. Deval will say to me, Deval was just like, women out there want me. I am a sex symbol. Like, he lets me know.

Listen, this is the truth. And I agree. That's why I'm here. And women went, and women went, went Kadeen as well. Yo, now here's the thing, Envy. I'm sure women did.

Yo, comment. Envy, this is my point. This is my point, Envy and Yee. When Kasey, she wants something or she needs something, I make it my point to get it done

because i understand that i'm like i'm not gonna disregard your feelings and your needs because the same way you want monogamy i want monogamy too if my wife want if i want monogamy and i'm gonna say to my wife yo i want to be the only person you come to for all of this when she says she want to need something i'm gonna take care of it so when i ask for the same thing and you constantly saying later later later i'll be like why are you always on me it's like damn like yeah why don't you do the same for me if i'm trying to do the same for you so it's not a thing where i'm like i could get mad chicks it's like yo let's serve each other and that's ultimately what the podcast is about we talking to people about i had to make a decision in my life to learn how to serve my

wife so i could be a better husband you know like even even the sex thing you know how we figured out what happened with her sex drive yeah because I had revelations over like the past five seasons you kind of started where we were like bitching about what we have problems we have problems you know and we speak people were talking about oh wow let's hear more about this because I'm having the same issues and then we kind of felt like it we had a breakthrough recently we figured it out bro yeah that conversation we had about monogamy made us sit down and be like yo Let's figure out what's going on with your body and mind. We spoke to a doctor

We got off the birth control and it was like night and day August. We was having issues She got off the birth control September. I can't get away from me I cannot get her away from me. I'm like, I need a break. And then in talking about that, we realized that there were so many people out there that were just like... Having the same issue. You know why that's such a good combo? Because men have fragile egos, right?

Absolutely. So it's like, if you don't want to sleep with me, I start questioning myself. Like, you'd be like Will Smith on Freshman. What the f*** you don't want? You know what I mean? That's literally how he was. Yo, Charlamagne, bro, I tell you, bro. When I say I'll say to her, like the **** you don't want me to do? You know what I mean? That's literally how he was. Yo, Charlamagne, bro, I tell you, bro.

When I say I'll say to her, like, yo, other chicks want me, I'm the same type of dude that my ego. I'd be like, you know how this is **** with my ego? That's right. I go to my wife and I ask for something and she's constantly rejecting me. That make me feel bad. I don't mind being honest and saying that. Like, I start looking at myself like, my hair's thinning a little bit.

I'm not lifting enough weights. you know what I'm saying? Let me get back in the gym. I get out of the shower. I'll be looking at her like, am I looking good? Like, what's up? Like, you start to question yourself, bro. PRF treatments. I'm like, you all right?

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It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now from the Deadass Podcast, we have DeVal and Kadeen. Ella, Charlamagne. Did y'all expect the podcast to blow up the way that it did? No, I didn't. Well, first of all, I'll say this. I was not completely signed up for any

of this from jump and my because i grew up in a very traditional west indian household where the first thing i was taught as soon as i could remember anything was you don't tell people your business like you you are you stay to yourself anything that happens in this household in this family stays in the house you know but deval and i started to do the videos they picked up some traction you were also trying to he had the foresight let me tell you bro but i was just not not with it in the very beginning this is my belief i believe that there's a delusional quality that all successful people have when i started this whole thing with with social media i told her i was like yo i want my own sitcom i want to do tv i want to do this but i'm not going to sit back and wait for somebody to pick me you know i'm saying like i'm

just not going to do that so i'm gonna create my own content i created this social sitcom it was 15 second videos and i continue to stay consistent one of the big people who was was uh very inspirational in my life was 50 cent right because he was the one that said to me, if you stay consistent when something pop, you got to catalog. That's right. And I also respect 50 because, you know,

he hit me with the Hollywood, yeah, we going to work. And I got a story about Charlamagne too. We at the Sorry to Bother You tape. It was a screening. The screening, right?

I catch eyes with Charlamagne, Charlamagne catch eyes with me. And I can see in Charlamagne's face that Charlamagne already knew, like, this look like the type of **** that's going to run up on me right now, right?

Either that or he thought you was cute from what he said earlier. But go ahead. Very desirable. That's desirable. That's desirable. So Charlamagne walked by me, right? Now, I was like, yo, Charlamagne, what's good? He gave me a pound or whatever.

I was like, yo, let me holler at you. He was like, all right. Right? So we walk outside. I was like, I don't like his tone, i'm like yo charlamagne me and my wife got a podcast coming out we doing this we doing that mama he's listening he's like mm-hmm mm-hmm he was like i was like yo i was wondering you know i'm saying i'm gonna get on the breakfast club so we can talk about it he was like yeah you take my let me get your phone i'll give you

my number right so he takes my phone right and he puts all the numbers in there and i close i'm like good looking you know i want to keep him too much. You know what I'm saying? Because a lot going on. Charlamagne walk away, right? We get outside. I look at my phone. He only put nine digits in there, right?

He only put nine digits in there, right? I was like, did he do that on purpose? I was ready to go back in there and come at you. I was like, you forgot a digit, Charlamagne. K-Go hit me with the K-Go. He tried to stun on you. He played you. He tried to swerve you like he was a bad bitch. He's like, I'm going, you forgot a digit, Charlamagne. K, don't hit me with the K. Don't hit me like, yo, he tried to stun on you. Yo, he played you. He tried to swerve you like he was a bad bitch.

He's like, I'm going back inside. I'm like, nah. Now who's the bad bitch, right? I definitely didn't do that on purpose. So this is the thing, though. I said, K, I said, real talk. Charlamagne probably get people that do two-minute pitches every single day. I was like, I understand the game.

People have to see what you bring to the table for you to get opportunity. I said, if this ain't our moment, this ain't our moment. So then, things did take off though. I'm definitely not that guy.

I pay attention to everything because you never know what's going to be what. Yeah, which is true, which is true. But I wasn't mad. I was going to say another thing

on another episode y'all were talking about there, right? About you being called this Sim Kadeen, you being called submissive. But that is important in relationships. That's kind of how you should be toward each other at certain times yeah it's it's funny on social media like i'll say something in men's favor

and women will just be like oh he's sexist and he's misogynistic but then if i say something in women's favor then i'm a simp it's like like you know people are going to be triggered by whatever you say but this is my truth like you know my my life is not a monolithic version of what blackness is like some days I feel like as a man I should stand up for my masculinity some days I feel like you know what I can't push the patriarchy too much like this ain't fair so I'm gonna say both when I think it's fair sometimes people be mad sometimes people love it but it's my truth I'm never gonna run from my truth I truth i get women all the time that are just like kadini what's your prayer what did you say what'd you do i was like i have to understand that i'm like this is like 19 years in the making so what you're seeing now deval and kadini that you see now have been through

19 years so if we're not transparent about where we've been things we've had conversations we had at 27 and people want to hold us to that one six minute clip then be my guest but we at least know that we're sharing the entire thing so like i said before i wasn't signed up for it but now that i am i feel like it's our duty to be able to have to tell people this is the entire picture here and then the beauty behind is that we pick and choose what we want to share and how we want to share it i don't there's no pedestals for me the minute people put you on a pedestal and you you the greatest thing then they're ready to knock you off that's why i was fearful in the beginning um but i think the good thing with us with the podcast and just even with

our content in general is that we really try to try to show the entire picture like we did a whole episode on cheating because we're like we're gonna put ourself out there before anybody tries to put us out there. You know what I mean? Nobody can come to us with stories now because everything's out there. Y'all both have cheated. So, yeah. Yeah. Me and my wife.

And we've healed. It's still a hard conversation to have, though. Oh, definitely. That episode was a hard episode. It's never an easy conversation to have. But I will say this, though. If you learn to accept people and accept them to have changes in life, you though if you learn to to accept people and accept them to have changes in life you don't hold people to that moment and i've learned to not not hold

people to that especially my wife you know i'm saying because i hope she doesn't hold me like that and give me grace i'm gonna give you grace i was like after 19 years if you wasn't cheating somebody lying so i was like from 18 to 30 years we and we've been through a lot through the nfl all this stuff. We had our ups and downs. Same thing in college, because when we first got together, when we were 18, I told her I didn't want to be a boyfriend. I said, I don't want to be a boyfriend. And she was like, well, I don't want to be number two to nobody else.

And I was like, damn, I'm really not trying to be either. Yeah, we met each other at a really fragile time, because I came from a very like strict west indian household so i couldn't go out i couldn't do anything i couldn't date i couldn't do anything so when i got to college i was ready to have fun you know and he had just gotten to college too and he was ready to have fun and then we met each other and like just couldn't a lot of times it was like trying to put a square peg in a triangle hole because it's like we're trying to make this work because we want to be together but it just wasn't it just wasn't it wasn't working and then not for nothing i was trying to be honest and tell her what i what i didn't want but i wanted her more than anything else and i realized

i couldn't have my best friend only on my terms and that was when i had to make a decision of you know what i value monogamy with her more than i value all the other aspects in life i feel like kadina and i have a like there's a divine aura that brings us together that we work better collectively and individually when we're together. I was just going to say just as individuals too, the way that both of you carry yourselves and you're amazing people individually,

but I think that's important too. And you talk about that as an individual, how you have to be able to be an independent individual before you can even be whole in a relationship. No, that's true. And not for nothing. I think y'all have to give yourselves a lot of credit for what y'all have done for the culture, because I've heard your stories about your marriage and everything you've been through. Right. I've heard envy stories about his marriage case to send me the 12 days of Christmas. Ye, you being a businesswoman and doing everything that you do. Y'all really, for me, set me up to realize, yo, I can do everything I want to do because I watch these people here do everything they want to do. Well, listen, man, make sure you check out the Deadass Podcast. Make sure you get the children's book, the Ellis's and the Time Machine.

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We do. We appreciate y'all too. It's the Deadass Podcast on The Breakfast Club. Thank you for joining us. Make sure you tell them to watch out for Florida, man. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida.

Yes, you are a donkey. A Florida man attacked an ATM for a very strange reason. It gave him too much money. Florida Man is arrested after deputies say he rigged the door to his home in an attempt to electrocute his pregnant wife. Police arrested an Orlando man for attacking a flamingo. It's a breakfast flamingo the breakfast club donkey of the day put charlamagne the guy i don't know why y'all keep letting him get y'all like this oh it's me it's me honda ball listen donkey of the day for tuesday may 24th goes to a florida woman named tianis jones what does your uncle charla always say about the great state of florida well the the craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida.

And I'm starting to think, and this is just my own personal opinion that I probably formulated while I was high off about 15 milligrams of an edible, but I'm starting to think some of this stuff we see online is actually just alternate realities. You know, if you're a Marvel head like myself,

you are familiar with the multiverse. I believe certain things we see on Instagram are from another Earth. Earth 838. Okay, we are on Earth 616. Two different Earths. But if you don't know, you're looking at Earth 818 while you're on Earth 616. Then you will be confused and you will think that these people actually exist amongst us. Which keeps us in a constant state of anxiety.

Okay, we are United States of Anxiety because of what we see on Earth 818. Actually, it's not Earth 818 we looking at, it's Earth 666. Planet of the Beast. Nothing but the devil. In fact, it's Satan's anus and there's a rash around it. Might be monkey pox, not sure. But this woman, Teyonis Jones of Florida, was arrested after calling 911 because McDonald's employees got her Happy Meal order wrong. You heard me right. Deionis Jones was upset that McDonald's in Florida got her Happy Meal

order wrong. Deionis is 22. I know what you're thinking. She's way too big and grown for a devil damn Happy Meal, but it might not have been for her she placed an order online which i didn't even know you could do at mcdonald's but it is 2022 so it makes sense she ordered a happy meal a filet of fish tea fries and a chocolate shake exactly exactly watch this value meal get all up in your guts. Okay, French vanilla butter pecan comes out your butt. Now, what does one do when McDonald's gets their order wrong? Well, to be honest, when she arrived at the drive-thru,

she was directed to pull up to the third window, but you know you can't give nobody in Florida direction. Okay, they don't take directions in Florida. The Jones ignored the directions, parked their car, and entered the restaurant to address the mistake. Now, I keep telling y'all, we must keep in mind, we are discussing Florida here. So when discussing Florida, just know that the way you would address a wrong order at a fast food spot anywhere else in the world is not the way Floridians would. Would you like to know Tiana's definition of

addressing the mistake? Let's go to Fox 13 for the report, please. Thursday night, the drive-thru at this McDonald's. Detectives say when 22-year-old Tiana Jones got the wrong order, her frustration exploded into frenzy. They have it ready, but because it was a special order, they confused some things. And they asked her, pull up to window three. We'll fix it for you really quick well she got mcmad and stormed inside her temper getting hotter and hotter by the second

until she called 9-1-1 i'm at mcdonald's i'm five months pregnant you people don't know how to run a mcdonald's come on i want my money they're trying to they're trying to cheat me out my money. They're trying to cheat me out of my money. I want my money. The sheriff says Joan's sister tried to get her to chill. Nope. Employees offered to reimburse her. Didn't work. She flipped out even more, whacking a sign off the counter that barely missed hitting an employee. Then she tore into a bunch of bottles, scooted behind the counter, and went to work on stacks of cups and other supplies. I don't know what was wrong with her that night. I don't know if she was like two fries short of a Happy Meal, or maybe it was she was short of a Happy Meal completely, but she created a McMess,

and she acted like a McNut. Instead of leaving with one from the restaurant, as a grand finale, she whipped up a little shake of her own. She pulls her shirt up. There you go. There's a little twerk on the way out the door. We live in a world full of hepatitis and COVID and white supremacy and social media and heart disease and colon cancer and World War three possibly and aliens and june teeth great value ice cream and she calls 9-1-1 because her mcdonald's order was wrong okay listen let's do the 9-1-1 call listen i'm at mcdonald's i'm five months pregnant you people don't know how to run a mcdonald's come on i want my money they trying to they trying to cheat me out my money i want my money they tried to offer her a refund, by the way.

She didn't take it for whatever reason, so I don't get what she's complaining about. But I remember when Flavor Flavin' Public Enemy told us 9-1-1 was a joke. Okay, it's hard enough to get 9-1-1 operators to take issues with black people serious as it is. And now we're wasting their time over Devil Dan McDonald's. Now, I understand Tiana's is five months pregnant. So the hormone changes could be one reason for this uncontrollable anger. And she was hungry, okay? Angry and a pregnant woman.

Woo! I understand. Okay? All right? Give me back that filet of fish. Give me that fish. Okay? Now, Tiana's, I understand you're 22, but wrong fast food orders are a part of life.

And I shouldn't have to tell you that this isn't how you react to wrong fast food orders. And what's so interesting about this is I want to know what was messed up okay only thing that could piss her off like this is they forgot the happy meal you can only be this unhappy if they actually forgot your happy meal that makes all the sense in the world because i bought the happy meal because i was trying to make me or some young child happy if they forgot the happy, then I understand you getting irate. What makes this story extra Florida is after this woman comes in McDonald's, knocks over condiments, goes behind the counter, and throws stacks of cups, then calls 911 irate. She twerks on the way out.

Listen to this part. You hear that little- There you go. There's a little twerk on the way out the door. Little twerk on the way out the door. You know what happened here. Somebody pulled up to the drive-thru playing her favorite song. Okay, it might have been City Girls, but you know when your favorite record comes on,

one of those Negro spirituals that touches your soul. No matter what you're doing, you're going to stop and do a little jig. Okay, all I know is if you're five months pregnant and you go to McDonald's and you order a Happy Meal, filet-o-fish, tea, fries, a chocolate shake, and you go to mcdonald's and you order a happy meal filet of fish tea fries a chocolate shake and you twerk whoa whoa once again i'm not gonna sit here and ask why tianis did this all right there is no logic in it it's simply florida ladies and gentlemen. Florida. Please give Tionis Jones the sweet sounds and the hammer tones. You are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day.

Yee-haw. Yeehaw A happy meal Filet-O-Fish Tea Fries And a chocolate shake And you twerk Last time I heard an order That was guaranteed

To give you bubble guts like this Was on Alicia Keys You don't know my name What was that? Collard greens and hot cocoa or something? That was a recipe for disaster Okay I haven't heard a recipe for disaster okay just the last i

haven't heard a recipe for disaster like this in a long time this is guaranteed bubble guts the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club right and cornell was you know he's he's a brilliant philosopher yes absolutely made a huge name for himself so it could have have been done, but we're not Cornel West. Right, right, right. We thought maybe we can do something a bit more practical, so we went to law school. Right. I went to Duke.

He went to NYU. Yeah. He wasn't passionate at all about it. I thought that I really wanted to be a lawyer. Right. But it just didn't work out. Yeah, and then right around that time in law school, I started experimenting with drugs. Like, I started smoking.

I started doing Adderall. I was drinking. I was starting to like... Because the stress of law school, I never felt anything like that before. And I'm from Newark. I've seen violence. I've seen people using drugs. They never wanted to touch a drug. Then I get to law school. I'm like, damn, I can't take this exam.

Didn't you do three years of law school? Three years. And so y'all almost finished. We were almost finished. We did like two years and like 98% of our third year. We had about two weeks left before our exams. And we were like, f*** it, man.

Let's go do standout. I want to go back to the law school thing. Have you ever unpacked that? Because you came up in the hood. So that seems so normal. The fact that when you was in law school, you was like fish out of water, kind of? That's exactly what it is. It felt like Alice in Wonderland.

I had never seen people use drugs so openly from privilege. It's got to f*** with you as a black man, right? Because you see people in the hood, they're usually leaning on drugs for trauma reasons, right? Exactly. And y'all like, y'all doing this s*** for fun? And not going to jail, boy? Exactly, dude. Like, it blew our minds. Like, how can they, especially at law school, you know, these guys are the people who are going to be writing policies and laws.

And they're breaking the rules. And these policies are going to affect, you know, black people. So it was like a weird sort of situation where you're like, how can I study this and know that these people are going to write these laws that affect my people, but they don't even care about the rules of the law. So now, let's get back to it. So y'all decided not to finish law school

and say, F this and stand up and let's do comedy. Yeah. Were y'all working on comedy or did some family member say y'all funny? Nobody in our family said we were funny.

They don't think that way. I think it was just like, I did some stand up in New York. I went to like a club. I did a club and it was just, I sucked, but I liked it. But York I went to like a club I did a club and it was just I sucked but I liked it

but what makes you do that like you know what let me try a combo I was losing my mind I think I was losing my mind like I was literally like drinking doing drugs

I was like f*** it man I'm not I'm not gonna do this law school s*** anymore and I was just losing I was breaking up with my girlfriend at the time

she was breaking up with me at the time and I was just like I was on one man like it was crazy but i was on stage and that was the only time i felt normal and you went to his first show no he sent me he sent me a clip of oh you didn't even go i was in north carolina he was in new york right he sent me a clip of his first show and i was like yo this is terrible one of the worst sex I've ever seen. And I thought that he, I knew he was having like a crisis of mental health and I was like, dude, man,

like just do it a few more times, but you know, get back to the books because this ain't it. But he kept with it. Like he still kept going to the open mics and he still kept, you know, trying to get better at it. So after like a couple of weeks,

he called me again it was like yo i think we need to quit law school i think we need to right we he said we i want to be a lawyer all right i didn't put three years into this i'm not going to just drop it for comedy but he was very persuasive and and then that's when i had that moment of clarity like man let's just do it let's try it. So he would have been a good lawyer because he was sweet as hell. That's what I say. I used my three years of legal education

just to convince him to drop out of law school. So now what did your mom say? Your mom, you know, struggled to get you in good school, worked hard for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's so excited. My boy's about to be attorneys

and he's like, Mom, now we're dropping out. We're going to be talking about meetings. I mean, she thought we were losing our minds. I mean, she knows, like, our whole story. So she's familiar with our father not being there. She's familiar with the drugs. She's like, you know, maybe you guys should go to therapy or something like that.

Make sure you think about what you're doing before you're doing it. Just being a mom. But eventually when she saw that we were serious about it. Right. And that made us happy. She was completely on board. My dad, you know, he thought that he was going to get some free legal advice. Right, right, right.

So once we dropped out, he got a little upset. But he's been super supportive. I love how you said my mom knows our whole story. I like people like, my mom was my day one. Oh, really? I mean, you can't lie to her. Like, you know what I mean? You can lie to pretty much anyone else.

Not your mom. You can't lie to your mom. She just sees right through that shit. All right, we got more with the Lucas Brothers. When we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Is your country falling apart?

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listen to podcasts Morning everybody it's DJ Envy Angela Yee Charlamagne Tha Guy we are The Breakfast Club we're still kicking it with the Yee Charlamagne Tha Guy We are The Breakfast Club We're still kicking it With the Lucas Brothers

Charlamagne Do you think censorship Or this woke culture That we're in right now Is that going to dilute the art? No I don't think so I think that it's going to

Make us even more What's the word I'm looking for? Make us like Creative I think creative You have to be creative You have to be a little bit more considerate of... Because I think about...

Look, there was a period when blackface was like the top style of comedy. And people were like, you can't do blackface anymore. I'm sure the people who were doing blackface were like, this is ruining comedy. This is hurting the purity. But it's like, no, you just have to adjust and make better comedy. I think that's how evolution works. It's like you just have to... If people are like, they don't make fun of trans or don't make fun of gays and now we can't do those things i think it makes our comedy fresher i think it makes it

pure because now you're you're no longer punching down to be a bit more inventive you gotta just be a bit more creative and clever but does it really reflect reality meaning like art should get a certain type of license to reflect reality right if you're not able to reflect reality without people offending people saying oh that that shouldn't be in the movie it's offensive like but it's a movie i'm trying to tell a story here right right right no i i see what you're saying i guess i just think like it's not just about you know telling the freest form of comedy, but it's also like a moral and social component to the comedy that we do. Right. Again, you can choose to be offensive. You can choose to say whatever you want, but you have to be prepared for the backlash. You can do whatever you want. Yeah. Right. So but for us, it's like you still got to take a risk, but you have to. I mean, that's art. Art is risk taking. Yeah. I I mean you guys are doing a remake of revenge of the nerds I

heard with a Seth MacFarlane right that movie would be considered problematic toxic reinforcing rape culture it was problematic you know in the 90s we didn't notice right how do you remake that for this era you know times have changed I feel like we have an opportunity to comment on the film in the 80s. Right. You know, I think that, like they did in 22 Jump Street or 21 Jump Street. Right, right, right. They took an approach where it allowed for them to, you know, create a new story, but also comment on the past.

And I think that's what we want to do. Because, see, that's my thing. Nobody's acknowledging the shift in culture. Right, right. There was a shift in culture the stuff that you used to couldn't get away with in music music movies whatever you just can't anymore but we haven't acknowledged that yeah it's almost like we just started handing out retroactive speeding tickets right right it's weird i think i think there's been a shift in a number of things i feel like there's been a shift in science we've we've

gone from you know straight einstein sort of relativity to sort of a quantum sort of perspective of science. And I think that that's reflective of in the Internet where everyone has a point of view and everyone feels like their reality is real. Like everyone says, we're speaking our truth. Everyone's truth is sort of legit, even if it contradicts someone else's reality. And that's quantum. You know what I mean? Like everyone's perspective is legitimate. Even flat earthers, even flat earthers.

Like if they believe it, why is it not? You know, like they truly believe it's even if you put forth evidence that, you know, their beliefs are erroneous. They're still going to believe what they want to believe. So you're putting yourself at a disadvantage trying to use reason to a person that doesn't even use reason. Right. What do you think about putting the disclaimers? You know how they've been putting disclaimers like on movies and TV shows just to give people like, OK, this was filmed during this time. I mean, I think that that's a more effective approach than just completely banning something. I mean, I think that maybe that works. But again, I think we're assuming that audiences aren't intelligent.

We're assuming that they aren't intelligent we're assuming that they can't differentiate between what's offensive and what's not offensive it's and then you're gonna have a small minority of people who go online and say take this down but i think what's happening now is people being very reactive to those minority voices i feel like eventually hopefully that there'll be like a leveling out where we're like okay maybe we shouldn't be that reactionary maybe we should maybe we should have some sort of due process in assessing what we do with a particular piece of art because it's a very slippery slope like i even saw what they did with a yg this weekend with the meet the fokas record right and i think they took it down but then they

put it back because they said if we take this down then we're gonna have to do this all across the board it's so many things people could be offended by. It's like you can't go down that road when it comes to art. I think we need to make a distinction between offense and harm. I think when we're assessing how we limit someone's liberty, is that exercise of liberty harming a person or is it offending a person? If it's harming, then I think we can take a more proactive approach to the piece of art and maybe say, hey, maybe we should consider taking it down.

If it's just offending someone, like, I think you have a right to be offended. I'm saying I don't think that that offense should equate to completely eliminating a work of art. I think we have to be able to process offense and have honest conversations about that which offends. But I think that that shouldn't result in a boycott someone's uh work of art that they've put years into like if it's harmful if it's causing violence if it's like causing like blatant racism then you got like blackface for example that that was harmful to black people you know i mean like birth of a nation what's directly harmful to black people so it should be removed i mean i don't think that that's a problem i don't i don't think that that's a problem.

I don't have an issue with that. But if it's just offensive, I'm like, yeah, we got to have thicker skin. Now don't move. We got more with the Lucas Brothers when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with the Lucas Brothers. Charlamagne? Judas and the Black Messiah. Well, first of all, y'all have done a lot more than Judas and the Black Messiah. I remember y'all from Friends of the People. There we go. You know what I mean?

You, Lil Rel. Kevin Barnett. Kevin Barnett. God Bless the Dead. Who else was on that? Jermaine Fowler. Right. Joshua Benowitz.

Jennifer Bartels. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, if you think about it now, that show should have been a hit. It should have been, but, you know, you know, sometimes things fail to launch.

I mean, you think about OKC, the Thunder, they had all the talent in the world, but they couldn't get a championship. I don't remember

what network that was. True TV. True TV. How you go from True TV to Oscar nominated cigar wrestlers? Oh, is this still here?

No, True TV's still here. Oh, my bad, my bad. My bad. True TV's still here. I meant to say FOTP, guy wrestlers. How do y'all go from Nat to Oscar nominated? What are the steps? What's the process? It's a grind, man. Like, it was crazy for us because, like, we were going nowhere fast. Sketch show gets canceled and we were like, let's just go to Lucas Bros.

Lucas Bros. Moving Co. gets canceled. So we got two cancellations under our belt with five years. And we're like, f***. So we escaped from New York. And humiliation in our minds. And we go to L.A. And we're like, all right, we're going to figure this out here. We're going to figure out our act.

We're going to write some s***. Before we went to L.A., we were already thinking about Judas. We were already brainstorming some of the beats of the story right or we were just doing a lot of research around 2012 2013 right we started doing a ton of research about half them we didn't know how to turn it into a film but we knew like this is something that we would like to potentially turn into a film so we went to la with the goal in mind of either getting a script deal to write Judas or to sell the pitch somewhere. We had ambitions going into Cali, but we were still so focused on comedy that it was sort of like a balancing act trying to get Judas made, but also trying to get our comedy career back on track.

Back on track. So we're in L.A. We're pitching the story around town. Getting no traction. People are like, this doesn't make any sense. It's not going to make any money. It's a period piece about a black revolutionary socialist. What are you guys crazy? We're like, yeah, all right. I guess maybe we are crazy.

We kind of went away from the material for a bit. Went back to comedy. We were doing this pilot with FX. Killer Mike. It was for him and that eventually went to netflix it didn't go to fx trigger one trigger one yeah right so we did the pilot for trigger one for fx and uh shaka king was directing it and that's how we that's how we uh met shaka and uh we knew that after we got rejected from all of our uh pitches we were like i think we

need to work with a filmmaker who can take this idea and make it into a film. And so that's when we were like, we got to reach out to Shaka. And then we hung out with Shaka in our apartment in Hollywood, listening to music, just vibing on cinema. And we sort of pitched him our idea, and he said it was great. And we started to develop a beefier outline. And then, but simultaneously, Will Burstyn, the other co-writer, and Oscar nominee was working on his own script.

And Jermaine Fowler, our boy from FLTP, he made the connection. He knew Will. He knew that we were working on our thing. And he just brought us all together. We used our story outline that we worked on with Shaka. And so Shaka and Will went together and basically rewrote Will's script using our story outline. And they wrote a brilliant script. And they sent it to Ryan Coogler.

We didn't know that Shaka knew Ryan Coogler. But once Ryan got it, that's when things started to pick up. Because he loved the script. And he definitely wanted to make it. He wanted that to be his first project on his new production company, Proximity. And so things just started to get crazy. Yeah, at first it was like we were nowhere. And then Shaka, Will, Ryan, Charles.

I'm like, all in a year that just started happening. We were like, what the f***? And then we went out with, you know, the script, with Macro, with Ryan, with Shaka, with Will and us. Macro financing half. Macro financing half. And the white man still said no. The white man still said no. Still said no. And we said we'll put up half the money.

We're thinking it's going to be a bidding war. We think that, you know, we got Kaluuya. We got Keith. We have our stars. We have a brilliant script. We think that this is... We got Kaluuya. We got Keith. We have our stars. We have a brilliant script. We have these great producers. And still, it's a f***ing struggle. Think about that s***. All of that already attached. Daniel, Keith,

Ryan, Shaka, Mackro, half the money, Lucas Brothers, and the white man like, no. No, no, no. I don't think people realize how hard it is to get a movie made and especially when you have a dream team like that and you still can't get traction like that's how hard it is and this ryan after black panther billionaire black panther the hottest producer in the game and and still but fortunately enough warner bros you know they they

they put up half the money and they wanted to distribute it. They loved the script. Once more, they let us shoot it. They greenlit it. They let us shoot it. It just came out as perfect as I thought it could come out. Why did Warner Bros. get it? I need white people to understand how coolest they can be. So I want to know why did Warner Bros. get it over every other... Was it a black

exec at Warner Bros.? Nigel. Nigel. Black execs. Black execs. They get it. But Nigel really, like, she was the key. What's her last name? How do you pronounce her last name? I don't know how to pronounce it. Well, salute to you, Naja. Kuykendall, I think.

I may have mispronounced that. But, yeah, she's a brilliant executive. And she was the one who sort of, she saw the importance of the film. Right. She loved the script. And she was the one who sort of just powered it through. All right. Salute to Naja. That's why the one who sort of powered it through. Yeah, she looked at Najah.

That's why diversity matters. That's why it matters. That's exactly why it matters. Because you're telling these stories, and if you're sitting across from a group of white people, they just don't even hear it. They don't know the language. They don't know why it matters. This is how we have to describe Fred Hampton to white people. Fred Hampton is the velvet underground of civil rights leaders.

We thought perhaps that they'll see the connection. They didn't. It was like, you know how many white executives are probably like, okay, Ryan Coogler's coming here to talk about doing Black Panther. Another Black Panther, really? That was at Marvel, but maybe we could probably try to find that surrounded. Now, I see you tweeted, if you guys win Oscars, you are retiring from stand-up and you're cutting off half your family. Yeah, man.

We were going to do that before. Yeah. I mean, we got to figure out who we're going to cut off. How do we figure out who we're going to cut off? Yeah, yeah. What family members are you cutting off? Oh, man. Just the ones who haven't talked to me in years and hit me up for money.

The ones who didn't know I existed like like oh you I'm your cousin from your father's side can you let me borrow $300 like ah man you get that yeah man it's crazy it's crazy it's like they think you got money cuz you got Oscar nomination like you don't get paid for this you gotta pay your way for all this you don't get extra money for an Oscar nomination it's it expensive. Were you close with your dad while he was in jail? Were you close with your dad? We were close at first. You know, we went to go visit him a bunch.

And then we moved to North Carolina. Our mom remarried. So we sort of became distant. We grew a little distant because we couldn't visit him as much. And we weren't really calling him. And that was like, that must have been like five to six years. And then once he got out, we started to work on our relationship but you know it was a lot to unpack i mean yeah you know as we got older we started to feel the the ramifications of not

growing up with a father but more importantly a lot of anger ramifications of growing up with a father went to prison so it's like you know you just have rage you hate the law you hate the government you hate all that and you're trying to figure out ways to cope. And it was tough. It was tough. It's still tough sometimes to speak with our dad because of so much. We missed out on so much. You know what I mean?

And you can never forget how much you missed out on. Right. Even to this day, I go to the park and I see a dad throwing the ball with their son. And I tear up a little bit. I'm like, man, I wish I had that. It kind of sucks to know that. It's sad, man. See, I don't know if y'all joking or not. Why are you laughing?

Why are you just laughing? That was crazy. And the way he said it, man. That's the way he said it. I'm speaking my emotion right now, man. That's the way he said it. That was so rude. Okay, continue.

You tear up when you see it. I tear up when I see father and sons, man. I can't even scroll on Instagram when I see people saying, I'm like, girl, it just hurts. You want to play catch now? Yo, shut up, man. Yo, shut up.

I mean, look, man, you want to go play catch now. You might be able to make them for you. you know i do have one final question how do y'all maintain your own identity as twins oh that's a great question that's a great question that's a great question uh we don't no you know what's crazy is that for a while we tried to like establish our own identity. Right. I want to be Keith. He wants to be Kenny. We went to law school. We were just trying to do our own thing and we just had a breakdown. And I think we realized that we're just stronger together. Right. And why do you need an individual identity? Like, why do we why do we emphasize that so much? Like, why is that such a thing that we place an importance on it's supposed to be normal like normal normal is being a singleton

and being an individual and i think that's why people get so stressed out why is that normal but everyone's like has a desire to get married so then are we to have a desire to have a family are we having so there's this notion that the individual is supreme, but we rush to these group identities so quickly. We have sports teams. We have our family. We have, you know, religion. Religion. Political parties.

Political parties. We rush to these. Eternities. Sororities. Exactly. So I think we have to readjust how we see what normal is. It's not necessarily about the individual. It's not necessarily about, you know, willing yourself to greatness.

It's really a community type thing. And I think that he and I kind of see that and we're like, we have a group identity. Right, right, right. And we just so happen to look exactly alike. We're a group, but a group nonetheless. Well, I hope y'all win the Oscar, man.

I think y'all gonna give a phenomenal speech. I really do. I really think y'all gonna give a great speech and I want to see y'all up there with give a phenomenal speech. I really do. I really think y'all are going to give a great speech. And I want to see y'all up there with the military jacket. The military jacket. At least the pins. You got to have the pins or something. I think we'll keep our pins up.

I'll keep the free hoodie. Thank you, brothers, for joining us. Thank you guys for having us, man. It's the Lucas Brothers. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's topic time call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the breakfast club talk about it morning everybody it's dj mv angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club

now if you just join us we're talking about a story we reported during our front page news about a pastor in Brooklyn. You want to break it down? Yeah. Bishop Lamar Whitehead. He was in the middle of a sermon. It was live streaming when three masked gunmen broke in with their guns and stole four hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry from him and his wife. Maybe from some churchgoers, too. We don't know where all the jewelry came from but he did have on some rings a chain right so when we reported the story earlier today people were like well i mean why the hell is he wearing four hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry in brooklyn in the middle of recession with all the wolves out and people are starving those people are right uh me myself you know yes it wouldn't be the smart decision to wear four hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry but

that's his right he works hard for it he can wear whatever he want to wear $400,000 worth of jewelry, but that's his right. He works hard for it. He can wear whatever he want to wear, right? That's what life is about. And they can rob whoever they want to rob. And they're going to rob the people that they see out here. And they're going to rob the people who they see out here flossing and stunting. The reality is, if you're going to spend $400,000 on jewelry, you should have security. And that goes for anybody who wants to wear those kind of luxury things. Have security protecting you.

That's it. Simple as that. And I feel like, you know, churches should have security, period. We've seen enough mass shootings happen in churches and places of worship nowadays that things like that, you know, should be prevented by having armed security in the churches anyway. If you're going to spend that kind of money on your cars and that kind of money on your jewelry, how about spending on keeping your congregation safe? Yeah, I get what you're saying, but I also feel like if that man, that pastor works hard,

he can spend his money on whatever he wants to spend his money. And I mean, if he wants to, you know, have a diamond crown and wear a diamond crown, he should be able to and not worry about getting robbed. No, that's not how this works, Envy. That's how it should work. That's life. I don't care how it should work.

You're going to do things how they should or how things are. Well. Exactly. I don't want to pay taxes. We should not have to pay taxes because black people built this country for free. I want to. Let's do it. But no.

Because I'm not going to jail. All right? I'm not going to have the IRS knocking at my door. All right? So my point is, yes, people should be able to wear what they want to wear without being robbed. But that's not the reality of the situation. So if you're going to spend $400,000 on some jewelry, spend $350,000 on jewelry and $50,000 on security. All right.

I mean, of course, I would hope that something like that wouldn't happen. It's like when somebody's driving a nice car and then they blame you for getting carjacked because why were you driving such a nice car? Yes, yeah, real. So why? I can't drive a nice car? In this, you know, in this neighborhood. So I get that and it's a shame that something like this had to happen.

Me personally, you know, I live in Brooklyn and I don't even own jewelry worth that much money and I mostly wear a costume jewelry anyway you know what you you smart you telling me you giving out the right message this morning so that's okay but I would think in church you would hope that would be a safe haven but unfortunately it's not and you know I'm sorry that something like this had to happen to him congregation is traumatized from this experience and I feel like he's gotten a lot of press lately and the way that they uh the way that they talk about him in the media oh the flashy you know and i think that's why he's not a target that's why he

was targeted because of how the media has put him out there for things that have happened you know in the past you just told brooklyn look man i know y'all hear me on the radio i know y'all know i got these businesses but there ain't nothing over here for y'all to get, bro. All my money is in my businesses. Like, I'm still trying to make some money. That's right. We get it, Yee. We get it, Yee.

I got on costume jewelry right now. I believe. You're going to be like, look, my shoes are real. Not real gold earrings. That car I drive ain't even a real car. It's a fake car, too. Goodness, it's all plastic. These people out here, Roofless. They robbed Amy from Jeopardy.

They heard about Amy winning all them goddamn pride winnings, and they robbed Amy, bro. Not Amy. Hello, who's this? Man, this is the priest from Omaha, Nebraska. What up, Angela? Yeah. Hey.

Man, it was wrong for going in there robbing that pastor like that in that church. But my whole thing, did they take $400,000 off the pastor, or was that just collectively what they were doing? Jewelry. Well, we don't know. It sounds like he had jewelry. But if you really think about it, let's say the pastor bought himself a nice watch, right? Everybody's wearing a Richard Mill.

Maybe he bought a Richard Mill watch. That watch could be $200,000, $300,000 right there. So it ain't a lot of jewelry. You just got to watch on. And if his wife got one in an engagement ring, that's $400,000. Yeah, they took their rings and everything. Man, y'all asking the wrong questions.

How much they going to get for it in the street, man? What was that? That's the doubt. How much they going to get in the street? Stop it, man. How much they going to get? If it's a Richard Mille watch, let's say, probably get about a cash by $80,000, $70,000.

But you know, you're right. It could be their wedding bands, her wedding ring, and all of that, too. And you know, you're right. It could be their wedding bands, her wedding ring, and all of that, too. And sometimes people spend money on that stuff. 800-585-1051. We're talking about the pastor who got robbed in Brooklyn

while he was live streaming. They took it for his jewelry. They said $400,000. People are like, oh, well, he shouldn't be wearing that in Brooklyn anyway doing a live sermon during the recession. But I feel like he worked hard for it.

He should wear whatever he want to wear. Man, shut up worked hard for it. You should wear whatever you want to wear. Man, shut up. No. Yes, you can wear whatever you want to wear, and people can rob whatever they want to rob. The reality of the situation is don't wear nothing you can't protect. And if you can't protect it yourself, you better hire somebody to protect it for you.

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