The Breakfast Club - The Good Old Times before Corona

Episode Date: March 17, 2020

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Got the cameras, I'm out of here. I can't agree. What kind of show is this? My son listens to this show. The Breakfast Club. With DJ Envy. The captain of this bitch. With Angela Yee, the only one who can keep these guys in check.

With Charlamagne Tha God. I'm a lovable asshole. And this is The Breakfast Club, bitches! Good morning, Angela Yee. Good morning, DJ Envy. Charlamagne Tha God. Peace to the planet. It's Tuesday. Yes, it's Tuesday.

And we're still here, baby. We are still here. I think we're going to be here. I think we could broadcast through a zombie apocalypse based off some of the equipment that we got yesterday. But we're actually in studio, though. Yes, we can. They actually gave us equipment so we can broadcast from home. But we are here live in the studio

in Manhattan. Yeah, it don't feel right broadcasting live from home especially for me because like I thought we had a router in the basement. My router is in the most

the worst place that the router could possibly be. Where's that? In the kids playroom. Damn it. You know what I'm saying? So it's just like

I can't be in there yo-yo-yoing at 6 o'clock in the morning. The kids are home. They sleep. But they're not in their playroom at that time. Yeah, but it's still loud.

It's like, it's loud. Mine is in my office, so it was pretty clear. But you know what it is? I just, I'll be honest with you. I like to be here. I like to be here, too. I like to feel the environment.

I like to talk to you guys through the phone lines. I just, I like to be here until they say that we can't. Yeah, and I know it's... But you like to be here. I like to be here too. I like to feel the environment. I like to talk to you guys through the phone lines. I just like to be here until they say that we can't. Yeah, and I know it's... But you still gotta be safe though, right? We safe. I'm always safe. You know, that's what people are. Because there's still people in and out. There's still germs. You still have to get to work. Very few.

Very few what? Germs or people? Very few people. Very few people. And even once you get through security, all the doors are open. So you don't have to touch any door. You can just walk And even once you get through security, all the doors are open. All the doors are open. So you don't have to touch any door. You can just walk right in so you're not touching too many things. I didn't see no Lysol in here today, though.

It's usually Lysol and Hanson and Tom. I got it right here. I got it right here. It's next to me. I was using the Purell this morning, and I was like, damn, Purell says it cures 99.9% of germs. What if that 0.0% of germs that they don't cure is the virus, the corona? What if? Just what if?

But I like being here too. It reminds me of when we first started the Breakfast Club nine years ago because nobody's here. So it's just us and a board op.

That's right. The lights are low. That's right. You know? Yep, yep. No revolt. Nothing else. No revolt, no nothing.

Even though we are talking to 100 plus markets throughout the country right now. Drop on a cool bomb for us, God damn it. No? Yeah, so yesterday was, it wasn't the first day, you know, because I took the kids out of school a couple of days ago.

But, you know, we started Movie Monday. So, you know, what we do is we all cook with each other in the kitchen and then we watch a movie. My kids wanted to see Harry Potter. I'd never seen Harry Potter before. I was never a big fan. I never read the books. I never really even cared.

But yesterday we watched the first episode, the first movie of Harry Potter. My kids were into it. It was a cool movie night. Today is Taco Tuesday. We'll make tacos and do things outside. Yeah, my daughter and my wife love Harry Potter. So my daughter's read all the books. She'll read the book and watch the movie.

So she's 11 and has done that already. Yeah. And this is the crazy part. So yesterday they gave us these kits so we can work from home. So I had to unplug the internet and plug it back in. So my son calls me and goes, Dad, I'm at school.

I'm like, so why are you calling me? Go back to class. I'm not even remembering. He's like, no, Dad, I'm upstairs at home on class and you just unconnected the Wi-Fi. So now my teacher thinks I'm, you know, playing. I'd much rather you do that to him while he's doing homework

than do that while he's playing video games. That would have just been wrong. Yeah, but shut up. But, yeah, so, you know, it's crazy to see my teenagers have to be in class throughout the day and talk to their teachers. And even my first grader has to be online in school. It's the weirdest thing, man. It is what it is.

Scary times that we're in. I'm not even going to say scary times. I'm going to be honest with you. In spite of it all, I went to therapy on Friday. My anxiety is not through the roof for some reason. I think because I'm leaning into the uncertainty of it all, and I'm not acting like I know what's going

to happen. I'm just taking one day at a time. For whatever reason, that's kind of keeping me pretty much calm, for the most part. What about you? How's everything out in Detroit? You still in Detroit? Yeah, everything's good. I actually stayed in all day yesterday. Didn't leave. I was catching up on 90 Day Fiance. Shout out to Big Ed. If you guys watch 90 Day Fiance, you know what that's all about.

And that's it. I've been doing things I never do. I never go home and just stay in the house. And I slept all day. We cooked. That's it. Okay. All right. Well, let's get the show cracking. Front page news. I guess we're talking about Corona, Corona, Corona, huh? Yeah. And you know, one thing that people were calling for online yesterday was for special hours

for the elderly. So we'll talk about that. All right. And also Big Freedia will be joining us this morning. Big Freedia, of course. Big Freedia. From New Orleans. Bounce artist.

Yes. We'll kick it with her in a little bit. All right. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Hey so don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Hey, morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. We are here. Good morning to y'all. Good morning. Is there a name for this era? Is it like, I don't know, Corona time? You know, the chapter of Corona? We can make it up right now.

No catchy name for this time. I was watching Love & Hip Hop yesterday, and a Corona bear ad came on. I've never seen one before. It's not good for them. All right, but let's get into some front page news. Let's talk Corona. All right, well, Stop & Shop is offering special hours for coronavirus high-risk shoppers. And the mayor in Seattle has announced $5 million in grocery vouchers

to help families out during this time. Kroger has also given $3 million to food banks and food insecurity initiatives during the coronavirus pandemic. And Amazon is looking to fill 100,000 new positions due to a surge in online orders. So those are some updates on what's happening.

Everybody's at home ordering things online. I was curious about that, you know, with Amazon. So Amazon is hiring 100,000 people, but I thought they didn't want people close proximity to each other. When have you ever saw an Amazon worker? I ain't never seen an Amazon worker in my life, but I see them packages all the time. Yeah, but they got to work in the warehouse. They got to package it up. They got to drive it and all that.

I thought you meant as far as dropping it off to us. No, no, no. Yeah, but I'm sure it's across the country. It's not just in one place. So if you think about it like that and different hours, you know, people working around the hook. Nah, nah, nah. Yeah, but I'm sure it's across the country. It's not just in one place. So if you think about it like that and different hours, you know, people working around the clock.

So let's talk about numbers. The coronavirus has infected more than 182,000 people and killed over 7,100 people worldwide in the United States. You cannot gather in groups of more than 10. You hear that, ASAP, mom?

U.S. cases have passed 4,400. There's been at least 86 fatalities. Now, in the United States, the largest number of coronavirus cases is in New York, with 950 so far. So, just giving you those numbers. McDonald's, Starbucks will close seating areas and restaurants due to the outbreak. In L.A. County, the sheriff has released inmates early due to coronavirus concerns. Also, U.S. airports are seeking $10 billion in government assistance.

The May SATs have been canceled because of coronavirus. All schools in New York are closed by tomorrow, according to the governor. Now, Georgia is closing all public schools starting Wednesday as well. And that's kind of some of the update. There's a lot going on, though. I don't even know where to start with all this coronavirus. What about the states practicing martial law? You got San Francisco. San Francisco. 24-hour

lockdown. San Francisco's on lockdown. Shout out to my aunt who lives in San Francisco. She was sending us pictures of what it's like out there. New Jersey practicing martial law a little bit after 8 p.m.? No, that's recommended. I thought it was... Oh, so it's not mandatory? No, not mandatory. It's recommended.

It's only essential travel. So you're not allowed to travel from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. in New Jersey unless it's essential. It ain't worth it, though, especially if you're black. Because, you know, there's already racial profiling and driving while black as it is. So there's no need for you to be out past 8 p.m. before 5 a.m. in Jersey just so they can have a reason to pull you over and ask you what you're doing.

But did you print out the letter? You damn right. I don't think that's not for everybody. I know, but I'm just making sure you were good. That still don't mean nothing. I still got to reach

for that letter. You're right. I still got to reach for that goddamn letter. And if you're trying to go to Canada, they're going to deny entry to anyone who isn't a citizen

or a permanent resident. So don't even try to get there. If you're trying to go to Canada, they're going to deny entry to anyone who isn't a citizen or a permanent resident. So don't even try to get there. If you're trying to go to the gym. Now, they said American citizens, they're allowing in Canada. Well, right now, they said if you're not a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident, they are not allowing you and they are denying entry. I thought they said yesterday on the news, they said Americans. Oh, yes. They said immediate.

Yeah, they did say some U.S. citizens and immediate family members. There you go. Of Canadian citizens. There's some U.S. citizens and immediate family members. There you go. Of Canadian citizens. There's some exceptions. That's crazy. Bear crews, diplomats. Those are some of the exceptions in Canada. For a while, Drake can only sleep with women in Canada.

He can't flew nothing in, huh? All right. And if you're trying to go to the gym, the gyms are closed. But they said that it's a lot of home gym sales right now. So people are ordering home gyms to bring into their house because they can't make it into the gym. Very interesting. What's that? I was waiting on a home gym delivery yesterday.

I mean, I've been having my gym in the crib, but I got another piece of equipment coming. And that's the only thing I don't mind being delivered to the house because they come through the back door. You know what I mean? You like it through the back door. But that's your front page news. All right. Especially at a time like this. Get it off your chest. That's why you have the lights low. 585-1051. That's but that's your front page news. All right. Especially at a time like this. Get it off your chest.

That's why you have the lights low? 885-1051. That's why I feel dim in here? If you're upset, you need to vent. Should I go live and show them how you have set the mood? I know you're about to light that candle. 885-1051. You need to get things off your chest.

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

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Wake your ass up. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Barry from Brooklyn on the line. What up, Barry? What's going on, man? All this social distancing. I got my kids in the house. I didn't realize how

tired I was of them. You tired of your kids? Come on, bro. It's crazy. It's crazy. They're everywhere, man. I gotta feed them every hour on the hour if they eat too much as well. Yeah, it's called your kids. That's how it works, sir. You gotta feed them. You gotta make sure they're getting the proper rest.

It's your job to raise them. What the hell is wrong with you? How many kids do you have? What were you doing before this? How old are they? Nine, five, and like three months. All right, man. What you got to do is you got to make it fun for them. I mean, like I said, Monday we do Movie Monday.

Tuesday's Taco Tuesday. Wednesday is Wacky Wednesday. Let them pick their own outfits to wear. You got to just do cool stuff with them. Yeah, it's a lot, man. Yo, these teachers need to get paid a lot more. Nah, you just got to have fun. You got pillowcases at the crib, right?

You said? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have a pillowcase, have a pillowcase run. Jump in a pillowcase and do like, you know, little hopscotch. Like, you got to just make fun stuff for the kids. That's what I've been doing all day. Gary, Gary, Gary, you said something just now that's real, though. Yes, teachers need to get paid more.

And I love times like this because you will appreciate the fact that somebody else has to watch your children and about 20 other children every goddamn day for little to no pay. And now you understand how bad your kids is. Hello, who's this? Yo, big chocolate to toast. How we doing, everybody? We don't want to hear from you at a

time like this because you've been spreading the coronavirus. That's something important to say. Two quick things. Let's pray for the people that are sick at this time, right? I think we need more prayer, right? At this time with people coronavirus, so let's pray for everybody that's needed. And two, I got a little something for you, Charlemagne. Coronavirus, I hate

you. Just go away is what I want you to do. The only thing that stinks worse than you is when Charlemagne takes a doo-doo. Now that's funny. You had coronavirus on your tongue for years, sucking people's toes. You know, all them random strange toes you suck to pick chocolates and Toast Sucker. Hello, who's this?

Hey, what's going on, Andy? How you guys doing today, man? What's up, bro? Get it off your chest, man. Nothing much, man. I wanted to commend you guys for just making yourself available and not doing your job from home. It means a lot for a person like myself. I also wanted to let a lot of people know here in Illinois that Election Day is today, and if they haven't voted yet, this is one of the distractions that they're using

to get you away from the polls. So we do still need to get out and vote. Yeah, Ohio. I think Florida's voting today as well. I can't remember who else. Yeah, I had a couple of people on my Facebook who were saying, why vote right now? Because they don't want you to vote.

That's why you need to go vote. This is just a distraction for the vote. I mean, you can't really call it a distraction because if they're telling you to social distance and they're telling you to stay six feet away from each other and avoid large crowds, especially of over 10 people, the voting booth is definitely going to have more than 10 people. So you can't say it's either a distraction.

I get that too, Charlamagne. I agree with you to an extent, but the funny thing to me is how could you set an on and off date for this if you can't really control it? You can't tell everybody to stop doing what they're doing for two weeks. This is around the same time as election time. After those two weeks, everything should be back to normal, cool? No, they didn't say two weeks everything should be back to normal.

They didn't say that there. Yeah, yesterday Donald Trump said August, September, August. They're putting everything't say two weeks everything should be back to normal. They didn't say that, though. Yeah, yesterday Donald Trump said August, September, August. Not just July or August. Huh? They're putting everything down for two weeks. It's going to be longer than two weeks. They're going to start with two weeks, but I think it's going to be longer than two weeks.

Maybe two weeks could flatten the curve, though, if everybody actually do what the hell they're supposed to do and stay home. Yeah. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, it's RJ from Atlanta, man. What's up, bro? Get it off your chest. Hey, I just want to say good morning to you, DJ Envy, Uncle Charlotte. I finally

got your book today, Black Privet, so I can't wait to check that out. Thank you, King. I appreciate you. Good morning. I'm just mind-boggled how everyone is getting all these toiletries, but no one is getting any soap or anything. I work over here at CVS, man, and our

shelves is full of soap, but no tissue and no toilet paper. You ain't lying. I went and bought me some soap yesterday just because. I was like, you know, let me go buy some soap. That soap aisle was full. Yeah, but everybody take care, man. You know, wash your hands, sanitize, stay away from people. All right, brother. Get a lot of fruits and vegetables right now.

That's right. Hello, who's this? If you can find him. Yo, good morning. This is Rick from Brooklyn. Rick from Brooklyn. What up? Get it? If you can find him. Yo, good morning. This is Rick from Brooklyn. Rick from Brooklyn. What up? Get it off your chest, Rick. Yeah, good morning, Charlamagne. What up, Rick? Good morning, Rick. Last night,

I was watching this video. You know how everybody's been talking about coronavirus, what I was saying, but I've watched this video with this family, this Jamaican family that was in Wuhan, which was the ground zero for the virus initially, right? Right. And they were talking about how they survived everything and how the process, the things that they did

in the midst of all the chaos to survive the actual outbreak. And it was good to see that because, you know, the news is talking about all the deaths, which is important, but, like, it was good to see

a Caribbean family, a black family sticking together in the heart of this whole chaos. You know, they stayed home and they played games. They made particular things to build up their immune system.

They had to go outside at times so they were exposed to everything. They talked about exactly what they did as far as washing their hands and being hygienic and taking their clothes off at the door when they got in. They said sun is very good for you because it increases your vitamin D I think.

It was good to see a positive side that some people people really surviving and if they were in the heart of it, you know what I mean, and they came out of it, it's possible for us to just hunker down

and do it, you know what I'm saying? So, it was good to see that side of it and hear a positive feedback from people that survived the whole thing

instead of like constantly putting this fear in everyone that it's gonna be a, you know, it's like a death sentence, which we know it's not, right?

Yeah, it's not, you know, it's crazy, I got a home, oh, I'm Yeah, it's not. You know, it's crazy. I got a home. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. One more thing before we leave because I'm going to do a shameless plug.

Because of you guys, right, the Repples Club, I started my own podcast called Royal and Ratchet, and it's been doing really well, and you guys were the inspiration for that. So I really want to thank you guys for that. I would like everybody to go check that out too on all major podcast platforms. Congratulations, King, King Royal Ratchet. Yeah, I got a homeboy who told me yesterday, we was texting. He said he actually caught the coronavirus a few weeks ago.

And he said he was in Asia at the time. And he said he had a high fever and strong cough for two weeks straight. And then it went away. And he said nobody else in his family has displayed any of the symptoms. Really? Yeah. So, I mean, it is a lot of people who've been, I guess, catching it and, you know, getting through it. I guess that's why they keep saying the two-week thing.

Right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up at any time. Nayib, we got rumors on the way? Yes. Well, we're talking coronavirus. Let's talk about this celebrity actor.

Man, crash for everybody who has come forward and said that he actually contracted coronavirus. Coronavirus has to be top three most popular diseases of all time, right? The marketing for coronavirus has been impeccable. Like, it's got to be HIV, AIDS, cancer, and coronavirus, right? If there had to be three viruses, yes. It's got to be most popular. I mean, it's just shot to the top of the chart fast. All right. Get it off your chest. You can hear this at any time, but's just shot to the top of the chart fast. All right.

Get it off your chest. You can hear this at any time, but rumors on the way. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. DJ, MV,

Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. I feel significantly less healthy this morning. Why is that? Because I put turmeric in my ginger tea

every morning. And I spilled it all over the place just now. I didn't even get a chance to sip it. Go back downstairs and get another one. They don't sell that downstairs. I had to bring that from home. Yeah, I don't sell no ginger tea. I bought my own turmeric powder and everything.

Yeah, my wife gave me a little book bag of supplies. She gave me my water. She gave me some food. She gave me a mask, some hand sanitizer. Yeah. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk to Idris Elba. Listen up.

It's just in. All it got. Gossip. The Rumor Report. Gossip. With Angela Yee. It's the Rumor Report. The Breakfast Club.

Well, Idris Elba got his coronavirus test back, and it's not good news for him. He said he has placed himself in self-quarantine. Here's what he said. Got some test results back for coronavirus and it came back positive. Yeah, and it sucks. I'm doing okay. Sabrina hasn't been tested and she's doing okay. I didn't have any symptoms. I got tested because I realized I was exposed to someone who had also tested positive. This is serious. Now's the time to really think about social distancing, washing your hands. Beyond that, there are people out there who aren't showing symptoms and that can easily spread it.

I feel sorry for yourself because I don't like to see nobody sick, but I can't help but think to myself, is there some sort of privilege with these tests? Because he said he didn't have any symptoms, but he was able to get tested. What about the people who are actually walking around with symptoms but can't get tested? Well, maybe there they allow you to get tested. Where was he?

He's not here. I don't think he was here. I thought he was overseas where he lives. Oh, I don't know. I assumed. Yeah, and you know, a lot of people know that they have some type of exposure from traveling. Like, for instance, right now, Al Walker and Craig Melvin, they're off the Today Show after one of their staffers was

diagnosed with coronavirus. That was a colleague that's on the third hour of the show who contracted it. So, just out of precautions, they have announced that they are not going to be on for a day. Also, anchor Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kopey are distancing themselves and sitting apart from each other.

So as they found that out, Al Roker tweeted out, he's feeling fine. Don't worry about us. Thinking about our colleagues and all those who are really suffering. And God bless the healthcare providers and first responders who are helping as well. And how come the young lady in the video wasn't doing no social distancing with Idris Elba? His wife?

Yeah. Well, I guess she feels like she's been with him so long. I mean, she's been with him the whole time. Yeah, but if the whole thing is about social distancing and she don't have no symptoms, shouldn't she be away from him just so she don't get sick? I mean, she's been in that house the whole time. Yeah, you have to quarantine together. Yeah, if I got it, you got it.

She don't have no symptoms. Yeah, so everybody has to be in the house. But you even said earlier that your man had no symptoms and he still had it. Yeah, I guess. Yeah, if you're already in the house with your family, if you're already in the house with your family, you're all supposed to quarantine together. Like, just not be around

anybody else. So that's why people are staying in the house. Yeah, so if she does have it, then anybody else. So even if she does, people are staying in the house. Yeah. So she does have it. And she won't go nowhere. Yeah. They have it together now. Got you.

And one thing that's happening is Uber Eats has pledged to deliver over 300,000 free food deliveries to health care workers and first responders in the midst of all of this coronavirus pandemic. Who's testing the Uber Eats drivers? Who's testing the people at the restaurants to make sure that they don't got it? None of this is making any sense. Okay? That's all I'm saying.

Well, people do have to eat, though, right? Yeah, but why would you trust restaurants at this point? What is the whole... I don't know what social distancing is, then. I just don't. I mean, it should be. You shouldn't have to. You shouldn't be going to restaurants.

You should be cooking. You should be preparing your own food. But I guess just everybody can't for whatever reason it is. Maybe elderly, maybe, I don't know. But yes, you should be. You have to make sure you eat some way, somehow. But you shouldn't be ordering food. That's the whole idea of going to the grocery store and getting a two-week supply and cooking for yourself. You shouldn't be ordering

food from anybody. Well, aren't people touching their fruits and vegetables in the supermarket, too? Yeah, but you wash them off. That's why you wash your fruits and vegetables off. And then when you cook food, shouldn't that kill anything? Right? When you cook food, I don't know. When you get food deliveries, doesn't that kill?

I have no idea. I don't want to spread that kind of information because I'm not sure. Yeah, but the guy handling your food and giving you the food in the bag, you just don't know who put your food in your bag. You don't know if the corona's on the surface of the bag that you're touching. I don't know. I'm hearing stories about people spraying down their packages when they get their packages. I don't know. Yeah, because in that case, if you go to the supermarket and then you're touching. I don't know. I'm hearing stories about people spraying down their packages when they get their packages. I don't know.

Yeah, because in that case, if you go to the supermarket and then you're touching anything, the shopping cart, money, the shopping bag in the supermarket, other people are touching it. That's why people

are wearing gloves in the supermarket. Yeah, my dad told me that, I don't know where my dad gets this information from, but he told me that coronavirus can live on anything metal,

so it's actually on your car. So he said anytime you go in your car and you touch your car, you could... That's pollen, man. We don't know. We don't know what's true or what's not true. We don't want to spread false...

We don't know. We just spent five minutes spreading false information. That's what you're talking about. Yeah, we don't know. We don't know. I said I don't know minutes ago. We just spent five minutes spreading false information. Just be careful out there.

All right, now Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have been released from the hospital following their coronavirus diagnosis. They were hospitalized in isolation after being diagnosed last week in Australia and Chet Hanks has spoken out. Here's what he said. So quick update on my folks. They're out of the hospital. They're still

self quarantined, obviously, but they're feeling a lot better. So that's a relief. I just want to say anyone else out there that has loved ones or if you yourself are afflicted with the virus, my prayers go out to you because a lot of people are suffering other than my parents right now. A.K.A. Mons not sick. Big up the doctor,

Dem. Dropping a Clues Bump for Ted Hanks. But that is good news that his parents are okay and out of the hospital. Alright, I'm Angela Yee and that is your rumor report. Alright are okay and out of the hospital. All right, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your rumor report. All right, thank you, Ms. Yee. Now, when we come back, we got front page news. What are we talking about?

What you think? Coronavirus? Yep. All right, we'll get into that next. We got some more to read, but we got other things to talk about this morning. Yeah, because there's an election in four states today as well. All right, we'll get into that next. Keep it locked.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. had a press conference yesterday and he basically unveiled a 15-day plan to try to flatten the curve of new infections he said each and every one of us has a critical role to play in stopping the spread and transmission of the virus and so right now before he was acting like it wasn't as bad as it is but now he's saying it is really really bad and they don't want people to convene in places if there's more than uh 10 people together in one space. So that's what's being advised right now.

So a lot of people are staying at home, like in San Francisco, 24-hour lockdown in your house. I think they should do that now. I think they should do that now until they get a really, really good grip on everything and then hopefully be able to open back up sooner. Yeah, you know what? In Florida, it's spring break, right? And there's still a lot of people on the beaches. Hundreds of people at Clearwater Beach.

Now, you know better than to use Florida as an example for anything for the rest of us. Well, these are spring breakers coming from other places. When you go to Florida, you lose your mind. As soon as you drink the water in Florida, you become a Floridian. When you go to Florida, yeah. Florida is a whole other country, okay?

They just need to make Florida a whole other country. People in Florida are not like the rest of us. All right. In Ohio, the governor has announced that polls will be closed because of coronavirus today. So that is the result. And that order came from the Ohio health director. She was ordering the polling locations in the state of Ohio closed to avoid the imminent threat with a high probability of widespread exposure with a significant risk of substantial harm

to a large number of people in the general population. So do we got to push all of this stuff back? Do we push back the Democratic primary now? Do we push back the general election in November? Like what happens? We might have to. We might have to. I kind of feel like it's necessary, right?

Because it's going to affect too many different things, like the results of what should be happening. Now, did you guys watch Donald Trump yesterday? I sure did. A little bit of it. All right. I believe we have some audio. It seems to me that if we do a really good job,

we'll not only hold the death down to a level that is much lower than the other way, had we not done a good job. But people are talking about July, August, something like that. So it could be right in that period of time. I will say, though, our celebrity in chief was telling the truth yesterday. He said that we are more than likely headed to a recession. Yep. And he said that the coronavirus is bad. Very bad. He said it's bad.

They don't have a condition. That's all you can have. He's so elementary, man. I love it, though. It's cool, though. He's like, it's bad. Clearly, he's got new information because a couple weeks ago he said it was a hoax. Now he's saying it's bad. At least, you know, we know. We know now. It's bad, right? Alright, now, there was also the first participant in a coronavirus vaccine trial.

It was given that dose yesterday. That study will enroll a total of 45 healthy adults over a six-week time frame. And each person will get two injections about a month apart in varying doses. So right now, the study is in a phase one trial. So they want to make sure their vaccine is safe and induces a desired response from whoever participates with their immune system. And so that's what they're doing right now. They just started that yesterday. Yeah, I need to know what this person's life was like before this person decided to do this.

Are you doing this because you're just a good Samaritan who wants to see the best for your country and the best for the planet? Or are you just like really down on your luck and you just like YOLO? And I wonder how much they paid them. As long as they're healthy, that's important, right? They said it's healthy adults. So whatever their reasoning is, it is what it is. I would like to know. But it's still going to take you six weeks

to really even get any information because it's a six week time frame that they're testing it. So who knows where we'll be at six weeks from now, right? Right. Alright, well that is your front page news. All right. Thank you, Miss Yee. Now let's open up the phone lines.

800-585-1051, right? We were talking behind the scenes. And, you know, of course, there's a lot of people losing a lot of things. A lot of money being lost. A lot of businesses being closed. It's going to be hardship for a while. But what's one thing that you're upset that you're missing due to the coronavirus? And I was saying behind the scenes,

the one thing I'm really, really upset about is I won't get to see my daughter walk across that stage as she graduates high school and attends college next year. That's the one thing I wanted to see. I wanted my parents to see. I wanted them to see their grandchild walk across

that stage. As a father, you groom your child, you pay for school, and you do the right thing, and then when they graduate, that's like a sign of, yeah, like, I've done a good job, and I probably won't get to see that this year. You want to see your daughter do a little dance to that pomp and circumstance. We all understand. Mm-hmm. When is it, though?

It's May. You might make it. Maybe. You might make it. Maybe. The curve might flatten enough to where, you know, we figured this thing out a little bit. May what? It's the third week.

Second week of May. That's what I'm saying. You might possibly make it. Mine is basically the same. You know, my daughter is a cheerleader. She cheerleads, you know, competitively. Correct. And last year she was hurt, so they have like this big competition in Disney World.

Yeah, we call it the Super Bowl of cheerleading. It's like the Super Bowl of cheerleading. Yeah, it's the Super Bowl of cheerleading. It's like the Super Bowl of cheerleading. Yeah, it's the NBA finals of cheerleading. It's the big thing. Right, right, right. She was hurt last year and she didn't get to participate. Her team made it again this year. And now it's this goddamn coronavirus.

And it's at Disney World. So, of course, you know, that's shut down. Yes. But that's not tell me either. So I'm just being optimistic and hoping that, you know, maybe this curve will flatten by then and, you know, she'll get to do her little jig. Anything for you, Yee?

Yeah, I had an interview I was supposed to do that was going to be really exciting for me. And now that is not going to happen. But to be honest, I'm just grateful that I'm OK. And I actually have a lot of empathy for other people who are going through a lot worse things right now. So I feel really grateful that I can not do all the things that I was supposed to do and be okay. All right. So call us right now and tell us what you missed because of the coronavirus and your period don't count. 800-585-1051.

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Break it down. 800-585-1051. The Breakfast Club. It's topic time. Pick up the phone, baby. Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Let's talk about it. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you just joined us, we're talking about one thing that upsets you about the coronavirus, meaning one thing you have to give up but you probably won't see. One thing you're missing. One thing that you're going to miss, I should say. For me, it's my daughter graduating. I won't get to see her graduating.

Hopefully, it's the second week of May, and the way things look, that is probably going to have to cancel that. And that's one thing I would love for my parents to be able to see their granddaughter walk across that stage, her going to the next chapter of her life. But because of the way things are, I probably won't get to see that. Now, Charlamagne, what about you? I mean, mine is the same.

You know what I'm saying? Mine is my daughter. She's a cheerleader. She cheers competitively. And last year, she was hurt when they go to Disney World and they have, like, the big cheerleading competition at Disney World. It's like the Super Bowl of cheerleading,

like the NBA Finals of cheerleading, the World Series of cheerleading. And so she of cheerleading. World Series of cheerleading. And so she was hurt. And she didn't get to participate with her team last year. And that hurt me watching that. But this year, it's the coronavirus. You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, damn, they make it back.

And I don't know if she'll ever get a chance to participate in that World Series of cheerleading competition. So I'm hoping out, man. I'm being optimistic, you know know i'm sure she'll make it again now what about you yee yes i was really looking forward to this interview that i had to do with uh artists who just put out a project but i'm gonna push that back but other than that it's not that serious to me anything that i have to miss i think people are going through way worse things than i have to go through so whatever it is you know we'll get it back. And we gotta be optimistic, right? Sounds of blackness. Be optimistic

as long as you keep your head to the sky. Alright. Hello, who's this? Anise. Hey, Anise. What are you missing? What are you missing, mama? What's one thing you gonna miss? The gym, sports. I'm an athlete, so I have two leagues to play in,

and now I can't play in them. And my entire family's home. I can't spend time with them. I'm the only one that still has to go to work. What, you play ball? Yeah. Basketball? Yes, sir.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to keep your distance. Can't be on there sweating on people. Well, you can still practice by yourself, right? Go to the park and practice, shoot some hoops and do some cardio. Yeah, you can yeah. You got to keep your distance. Can't be on there sweating on people. Well, you can still practice by yourself, right? Go to the park and practice, shoot some hoops and do some cardio. Yeah, you can still go outside. Yeah, it's just not the same. Yeah.

I feel you, though. Play one-on-one against Corona. Act like you're playing against Corona. I'm good on that. I'm good on that. Hello, who's this? My name is Jessica. Hey, Jessica.

What's one thing that you're going to miss because of this coronavirus? My baby showers, actually. Hey, Jessica. What's one thing that you're going to miss because of this coronavirus? My baby showers, actually. Oh, damn. When is your baby shower? What happened? When is the baby shower? Baby showers was for April 28th in South Jersey, and I had a second one April 11th. Damn.

In North Jersey, and those have to be canceled. Well, you could get everybody on FaceTime, and you know what I mean? You could just sit in a chair and, you know, open up the gifts that way. Oh, you know what you should do? You should have a sip and see after the baby's born. Yeah, I mean, I did hear that. I didn't know that was an option with the whole sip and see thing. So that possibly is a thing.

But it's my first child. So I was really hoping, you know, to do the whole shebang. Oh. It'll be nice because then people get to see the baby for the first time. Don't bring all those sick people around your baby. You better not. That's what I'm scared about.

What if I get, like, you know, my baby's sick after he's born? Don't do that. No, you wait. You can do it when the baby's one. You can do it whenever.

It just has to be postponed until this is all past us. Wait till the baby in kindergarten. That's when you know the coast is clear. You still do it. But you can always FaceTime.

Just have, like, a little FaceTime function and have everybody call and. You still do it. But you can always FaceTime. Just have like a little FaceTime function and have everybody call and just have like a big thing on your FaceTime. Yeah, that's a good idea. That is. Good luck, Jessica.

What's the baby do? For May 31st. Okay. All right. I'm sorry. Stuff like this really sucks because this is the once in a lifetime opportunity.

You can't do these over. No, she can't. A daughter's graduation, you can't do these over. No, she can't. A daughter's graduation, you can't do that over. A cheerleading competition, maybe you might get another chance to do that again. A baby shower, that's not happening again. Like, that sucks. Well, not her first one, she can't happen again.

But then you just have to be creative and say, at least everybody's safe, but let's do something different and just be creative and make up something else when you can do something. Yeah, instead of a baby shower, you can have a baby light drizzle They call it a sip and see a lot of that now I know but look you can still do something later on I know no sympathy with my newborn, baby. I ain't bringing nobody around my new no, maybe we don't have this to people when they Have the baby earlier than they think they're going to because I've been to a couple of those where women have the baby a couple months early, a month early. And that's when the shower was supposed to be. And then they end up having a sip and see. For my daughter, I'm going to make her put on a dress.

She's going to walk down the stairs. We're going to play the music. The whole family is going to dress up. There's enough of us in that house. So we're all going to dress up. And we're going to start cheering. For graduation? Yep.

That's dope. If we can't have it. What about prom? Yeah, see, a little something different. Prom, yes. For prom, she can come. She can put? Yeah, see, a little something different. Prom, yes. For prom, she can come, she can put on a dress, and she gets to dance with three different men. Me, my brothers, Logan, and Jackson.

She didn't have a prom date already? No, she had no prom yet. Oh, wow, wow, wow, wow. All right. That's who's disappointed. Huh? That's who's probably disappointed. Who?

The little boy who wanted to ask your daughter to the prom and shit. Well, I'm not mad about that. I'm taking her to the prom and shit. Well, I'm not mad about that. I'm taking her to the prom and shit. Me, Jackson, and Logan. 800-585-1051. We're talking the coronavirus. What's one thing

that you're going to miss out on because of this virus? Call us now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. 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. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you just joined us, we're asking, what's one thing you're going to miss out because of the coronavirus? All right, I'm missing my daughter's graduation.

Charlamagne is missing his daughter's cheerleading competition. Ye is missing an important interview. So we're asking you. Hello, who's this? This is Luna from Florida. Hey, Luna from Florida. Orlando, Florida. Wait, what you about to miss, Luna?

The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. Let's hear what you about to miss, Luna. Why try to say something crazy like her period? Because she's from Florida. My birthday is on the 21st. Your what? There's going to be no festivities. Your birthday? Luna. Why should I say something crazy like her period? Because she's from Florida. My birthday is on the 21st. Your what? There's going to be no festivities.

Your birthday? Luna. Yes. You're not going to miss your birthday? You know you got another birthday next year. You know that, right? You got to have a party the next year. No, but I said I'm going to miss the festivities.

I know it's still going to be my birthday, but it's going to suck. First of all, in Florida, you should not have more than two friends anyway. Okay? So that's a safe number of people should not have more than two friends anyway. Okay? So that's a safe number of people. I only have two friends. That's good. So y'all can get together and drink. I wouldn't pass the blunt to each other.

They don't drink. They don't drink. For real? What are they doing? What are they doing? Pills? No. No, no, no. No drugs.

No drugs. Well, you're not missing your birthday, baby. When's your birthday, Lula? The 21st. No drugs. Well, you're not missing your birthday, baby. When's your birthday, Lula? The 21st. All right. Well, you know the 21st is going to happen, right? Yeah, but she can't celebrate the way she wants. Well, you wanted to celebrate?

I'm going to be stuck in the house. Yes, I want to celebrate. I think the best place to... Well, I'm not always in the house. I'm always working. You have a boo? Huh? No. You have a boo? No. Well, call up here. We the house. I'm always working. You have a boo? Huh? No.

You have a boo? No. Well, call up here. We'll shout y'all for your birthday. Okay. All right. She's a womp womp. Shout out on my Instagram, Lady Lou Hair.

That's L-A-D-Y-L-O-U-H-A-I-R. Lady Lou Hair on Instagram. I am a braider, licensed braider in Orlando, Florida. So, y'all want your hair braided before the coronavirus. Lula, you're not braiding my hair. Okay, Envy, is your hair long enough to get braided yet? Not yet. But Lula ain't braiding nothing. And by the way, the 21st is

on a Saturday, so don't call up here, Lula. Hello, who's this? Hello, good morning. My name is Lavi from the Bronx. Hey, Lavi from the PX. Now, what are you missing out on, Lavi? So my younger sister Now, what are you missing out on, Lavi? So, my younger sister, Stephanie, she goes to SUNY Oneonta, and her graduation is May 9th. So, right now, it's up in the air whether they're going to have the ceremony or not.

But just want to shout her out. Super proud of her. Really overcame many obstacles to get there. So, I hope you can watch her walk across that stage. All right. What if all the kids wear masks? The kids can't wear masks and gloves? I thought about that. And the parents wear masks and us at the age. All right. What if all the kids wear masks? The kids can't wear masks and gloves? I thought about that.

And the parents wear masks and everything in the gloves. Yeah. But, you know, what about, you know, if a lot of elderly people would have to go? Grandparents want to see their grandkids walk and all that other stuff? Keep them six feet away. But they're advising no groups of more than 10 people convening. Well, maybe you do a graduation every day with groups of 10.

Groups of 10. There's probably only 30 people in the graduating class, honestly. How many people in your daughter's graduating class? Well, my graduates, it's not that many. That's what I'm saying. She go to a nice private school. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

There's probably 15 people in her graduating class. Wow. So do A, B, C on Monday, and then D, E, F on the last names? Maybe. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Keybrenth. Hey, Keybrenth. What's one thing that you're missing out on, Mama?

Oh, I forgot I was supposed to be anonymous, but oh well. I'm missing out on a job opportunity. Oh, really? What job are you supposed to dance at? Stop it. It's supposed to be. Well, currently I'm a public health person, but I was trying to get this job at Verizon for three years now.

They found out that an employee had the coronavirus, so they shut the whole facility down. God, dang. I had my interview. They told me that they were just waiting on a start date, and now it's closed until further notice. Dang. Wow. Hey, Corona ain't BSing. Corona's so bad that the Corona bid really might have to change its name.

I can't never see the name Corona ever again. Corona really, really messing up things for people, bro. 800-585-1051. We're just asking, what's one thing that you're going to miss out on because of this coronavirus? Call us now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you just joined us, what you laughing about, man? That really is a funny excuse, right? What's that? Like, if you get a girl pregnant right now and the girl be like, hey, I missed my period. You'd be like, why?

Because of coronavirus? You said it, man. It can't be because of me. What's one thing you're going to miss out on because of the coronavirus? If you just joined us, I was saying I'm going to miss probably my daughter's graduation. It's in May and they probably will cancel it. Charlamagne is going to miss his competition. Daughter cheerleading competition.

You know, they go to Disney World. It's like the Super Bowl of cheerleading. Last year she was hurt so she didn't get a chance to perform in it. And this year it's this goddamn coronavirus. Now, Yee said she had a huge interview she was about to do that probably would be postponed. Yeah, we were flying to multiple places to get it done. And now that's, well, it's still going to happen, just not anytime soon. All right. Hello, we were flying to multiple places to get it done, and now that's... Well, it's still going to happen,

just not anytime soon. All right. Hello, who's this? This is Martin from Jersey. Martin, what's up, bro? What's one thing you're about to miss out on because of this coronavirus, bro? Yeah, I was supposed to be in Albania

like two weeks for a wedding, man. You're supposed to go to a wedding? Everything canceled. Oh, yeah, I'm sure, man. And I feel bad for people that spent a lot of money on these weddings and flowers, floral arrangements and all that. Venues, flights. Like, for me, it's nothing, bro.

Okay, just the plane ticket. But my cousin spent big money on that, bro. Hey, we not thinking about how whack funerals are, too, bro. I mean, you can't have funerals. Because everybody, I would love to have a lit funeral one day. You know what? I'll go ahead. It just gotta suck. You die and then you go to heaven and you looking down and ain't nobody at your funeral.

Nope. Because of some damn coronavirus. They said some businesses are doing even better because bars are closed. There's a lot of liquor delivery services that are doing really well. They said there's other things doing really well like car rental businesses. People are driving places because they don't want to fly.

Our juice bar in Brooklyn is doing pretty good too right now. Numbers are up. Cleaning companies are doing well right now. People that sell and make water distribute water. Distributors are making a lot of money right now but there's a lot of people that are not. A lot of people are getting crushed out there and I just hope

how the government is going to save these airlines, they save regular people as well. Well, the House passed the... I forgot what the name of the bill is called, but they did pass some kind of bill to offer relief for small businesses and stuff like that, and people to get paid sick leave and things like that. I hope so.

Let's go to one more caller. Hello, who's this? Hey, it's Corey from Miami. Hey, Corey from Miami. Turn your radio down. Now, what's one thing you're about to miss out on because of the coronavirus? Well, I already done missed out on it. I was supposed to see my little 10-year-old daughter. Go pick her up.

Better come spend the weekend. And I had to cancel because they canceled everything down here. Damn. Down there where? Florida. I'm in Miami, Florida. Man, they need to cancel Florida for the next three weeks, man. I think that'll help.

Nah, they need to leave us alone right now. Ain't nothing going on down here. And where were you picking your daughter up from? Leaves, Florida. Oh, you can't drive and get her? I could have, but her mama was like, yo, if they close down and no trouble, then she'll be stuck in Miami. So she didn't want her to come down and stuff like that.

But I think all this is just a little hoax right now. That's why you in Florida. That's why all of y'all got the beaches packed in Florida right now. Because y'all think it's a hoax. And this is why you got to quarantine all of Florida. Because Florida ain't taking nothing serious. Can I explain something? Go ahead. I got to quarantine all of Florida because Florida ain't taking nothing serious. Can I explain, sir? I got to hear this one. Go ahead.

Who's making money off of this right now? Y'all talking about elections coming up today. Who's benefiting off of all this scaring the public? Having them empty out stores and everything. Nobody. Nobody because the stock market is down 3,000 plus points.

We're about to head to a recession. Nobody making money at this moment. So what do you want to do? You want to just act like nothing's going on? Hey, I'm going to tell you, I haven't been around my daughter for nine years. For one weekend, I would have risked the rest of coronavirus for that. People don't understand. There's a lot of things going on out here.

Hold on now. I need you to repeat that for me one time. You've been quarantined from your daughter for nine years. Correct. Your baby mama had you quarantined from your daughter for nine years because you were a sick baby daddy. And what happened now? What does this have to do?

You ain't seen your daughter in nine years. Now you want to blame the coronavirus on not seeing your daughter? But what that got to do with coronavirus? You ain't seen her in nine years before. You ain't seen her when there was Ebola. You ain't seen her when there was Zika. Now you want to blame this on corona? It was coronavirus.

I don't know. Now you want to blame this on Corona? It was Corona virus. You can't do that when people up and down sliding and start doing the crazy stuff. I don't know. Why am I going back and forth with somebody from Florida? I know better. I knew better. He knew about the Corona virus nine years before you did. Exactly. How you ain't seen your daughter in nine years, but now you want to blame not seeing your daughter on the goddamn Corona virus? Why did I do that this morning?

I know better than to go back and forth with a Florida. Florida. Yeah, come on, man. Ladies and gentlemen, Florida. That's it, man. What's the moral of the story, man? The moral of the story is the craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida, and Florida need to be quarantined. Okay, let's use this opportunity

to build a wall around Florida, please. Okay, all travel is banned from Florida. Alright? If you don't have gold teeth and. Okay, all travel is banned from Florida. All right? If you don't have gold teeth and dreadlocks, you can't go to Florida until February 1st, 1990, whatever. No, 2000, man. It's 19, man. I want to go back.

Because Florida is only going to get worse. So take me back. We got rumors on the way. Yes, we are going to talk about Drake. While all this is going on, he's breaking records. And we'll tell you what record he just broke. Also, shout out to Becky. She's a health care worker.

She just hit me up. She said they can't have home-cooked food the whole time because they're pulling in a lot of hours every single day. So thanks to Uber Eats for delivering those meals for all of the health care workers who are working really hard to handle everybody's illnesses right now. And to make sure that they're on board for coronavirus to make sure things don't get even worse. We do want to show our appreciation for healthcare workers right now. Rumors on the way. We'll be back.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The mic is on, God damn it. I had to spray my mic down, man. Why? Because one of the producers come in and keep using my mic. I told him to go,

don't use my mic no more, man. Y'all not six feet away from each other. Ain't no social distancing going on in here, baby. I told him no. You know, I heard at other stations they have everybody in different studios. I heard other people not even in the studio. Yeah, there's a lot of people. They separated the studios. There's a lot of people not even in.

But, uh... Let me walk down the hall and see what Elvis Duran and them doing. I'm gonna go peek through the glass. But, you know, up here, Charlamagne, if you got it, I got it. If I got it, you got it. We've been sharing. See, you play too much, man. We've been sharing things. What are we talking about in these rumors? What's wrong with you?

We'll talk about Donovan Mitchell, NBA player. Let's go. He was on Good Morning America. This is the Rumor Report with Angelina. Let's go so far from this. All right. Well, there were some rumors that things were pretty tense in the locker room between Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell.

And that is because Rudy Gobert did not take this coronavirus seriously at first. And then Utah jazz player Donovan Mitchell ended up contracting coronavirus. Well, he did an interview with Good Morning America. Here's what Donovan said. To be honest with you, Robin, you know, it took a while, you know, for me to kind of cool off, you know, and I read what he said and I heard what he said.

So, you know, I'm glad he's doing okay. I'm glad I'm doing well. I'm just really happy, to be honest, Robin, that it's just, you know, I hate to say this to all of us, but like it wasn't the whole party. You know, at the end of the day, neither him or I have children at home. So that's basically like they were

doing germ warfare, basically. He just didn't know. Yeah. They said it was very careless behavior. He was touching everything in the locker room and microphones and all of that. Now, Donovan Mitchell also told Good Morning America

just some more positive things about what's going on. Right now I'm working on a partnership with the Salt Lake City Granite School District. That's about 88 to 90 schools, about 66,000 kids. Just being able to provide them meals, you know, and that particular school district in Salt Lake City is home to some of the most vulnerable children in Salt Lake. I want to be able just to give back. All right.

So that's what's happening now. Now let's talk about WrestleMania. They are banning fans and they will stream live from a training facility. So right now it's supposed to be in Tampa. But because of coronavirus, more than 70,000 people were expected to attend. So they have not pulled the plug. But one person says there's a chance it will still happen in some capacity. And according to reports, WrestleMania 36 will happen April 5th, but with no fans.

They're actually going to be moving that to a training facility in Orlando. And so wrestling, is it the same without people watching, without fans in the audience? None of these sports are the same without fans watching in the audience. None of them. It doesn't matter if it's wrestling, football, basketball, baseball, the fans, you know, we create the atmosphere. But, you know, there are a lot of people at home that have nothing to do. So if they can do that, a lot of people will be tuning in.

It just won't be fans there, but you'll still be giving people entertainment. I don't even know. And after that, another update came in and saying they're working on moving WrestleMania to June 7th at Madison Square Garden instead. So we don't know what's going to happen. It's still up in the air. March might just be a dub, bro. March is a dub. We might just have to erase March and maybe April.

Maybe April, too. And then when May comes, we make that March. And then we just catch up sometime in the future. You know what else is an issue with right now? What's that? And this is one of the issues with WrestleMania with insurance policies. Right? Because, you know, they're saying that a lot of these insurance companies are not trying to pay.

And they actually have in the contracts for a lot of them, they're not responsible if there's a pandemic or something else that happens. So a lot of people want to cancel dates. But insurance companies are like, well, we don't have any obligation to pay you. So now people are trying to actually postpone things so that they don't miss out completely on all the money that they spent promoting. Yeah, I mean, you have to. I mean, nobody's ever seen anything like this before in their life. So there's no way in hell if somebody gave me an insurance policy and said, hey, sign this epidemic or pandemic thing. I'd be like, ah. Well, the reason why they did that, because after SARS and after

MRSA, some of the companies excluded pandemics because of that. So that is something that is in some of these contracts in case somebody has an issue or gets sick. Now, 21 Savage is nervous and he thought that he might have coronavirus. He actually went live and said this. I've been breaking down my

motherf***er. My symptoms, I've been feeling this s***. Everybody talking about how he sound like coronavirus. He actually went live and said this. We went to the club the other night. So I'm like, ain't no way in hell I caught it in the club because I know it ain't just skipped over. It just came straight to me. But other people in the club could have it. See, he doesn't, he's not, I mean, a lot of us aren't informed on it, but he's clearly not informed that some people don't have symptoms. I think it was a little, he went a little far because he was, did you hear the whole thing?

Yeah, we have some more. He's like, okay. So I go to describing what I need when I'm feeling on the IV. I'm just describing regular life. I feel like I got a sinus cold. So that's what I'm describing. And I come to the conclusion, like, it don't matter what I describe. If I describe anything during these times, it's automatically, oh, he got coronavirus.

Yeah, because a lot of the symptoms are like the same symptoms as the flu. This is a bad time. If you got allergies, if you got the flu, sneezing and coughing is like gunshots, bro. At this point, you sneeze and cough in public right now, people are ducking. I'm not going to lie. Yesterday, I was feeling really tired. I was looking up all the symptoms like, oh, my God, do I have? But then I just took a nap. Let me tell you something.

You remember that you get up four o'clock in the morning every goddamn day. But I was extremely tired. And I was like, oh, my God, I hope nothing's wrong. Every four hours, I take my temperature when I'm at home. I take my temperature. I take the kids' temperature. My wife was like, what's wrong with you? But every four hours.

And yesterday, it had like a little problem. And my temperature came out 99.9. I was like, I got it. My wife was like, no, dude, you're getting dumbass. So when you stick the thermometer Where do you put the thermometer Yeah When you stick it up your butt

I know he puts it up his butt When you stick it up your butt Do you lube it up first Or like do you have somebody Do it for you Or you do it yourself I actually have the thermometer That the doctors have

You just rub it against your forehead And it tells you Oh that's boring It tells you what it is That's boring You home quarantined What story you on What story would you like to hear

You know the story Let me tell you You're home quarantined Come on Come on You're home quarantined story. Let me tell you. Your home quarantine, bro. Come on. Come on. Your home quarantine. Come on. But I tell you what, I haven't taken all kinds of extra vitamin Cs and eating a whole lot

of fruit, making my own smoothies and everything just to make sure that I'm good. Take vitamin D too, Yee. No problem. But just also making sure for people with, well, yeah, there's not a lot of sun out here. But also just making sure you keep your immunity up just for everybody out there. Not just only washing your hands. Of course, you should do that, too. But also make sure that you're eating all those fruits and vegetables, wheatgrass shots, ginger shots, whatever it is that you need.

A lot of grapefruit, a lot of oranges, watermelons, all of those things. So you can stay strong right now. That's right. All right. Now, Drake has broken the record for the most Billboard Hot 100 entries ever. He just got his 208th appearance thanks to the Oprah's Bank Account song because he's on that song also. So he has now broken that record. Congratulations to Drake.

208 total Hot 100 entries in the history of the Hot 100. That started back in 1958. So now he's broken that record. All right, drop on the clues, Monster Drake. Whenever I hear records like that, I often got to think to myself, eh, you know, because of screaming. But a record is a record. A record is a record, yeah.

It's not these kids' fault that, you know, things are calculated different now. It's not their fault. You know whose record he broke that had 207 Hot 100 entries? Probably Stevie Wonder or Prince or Madonna or somebody super legendary. Who? It was the Glee cast. Oh, no. Pass it to Glee.

Yeah. I don't remember no goddamn Glee cast. I know they popping, but he was popping. Alright, well, I mean they popping, but what he was popping. All right. Are they popping? Well, that was back in 2013. Yeah, it was a point where they was popping. I wasn't into Glee. Me neither.

Well, you guys have time if you want to catch up. No, I'm on Harry Potter right now. All right, I'm Angela Yee. And that is your Rumor Report. We do need some recommendations of what we could be watching, you know? Harry Potter. How many movies are Harry Potter? It's like seven movies or something like that?

It's a lot. My kids are good. We ain't watched the whole thing last night. They fell asleep. So I got a lot of time with Harry Potter. I got to finish watching The Messiah. Have you guys watched that? I need to watch Game of Thrones.

Since we just started being late. Now's a good time. Now's a good time to catch up on Game of Thrones. I've never watched it ever in my life. Oh, you got time. Yeah, I got time. You got time time.

Time to catch up on how to get away with murder, you know? Yeah, you're right. All kinds of things happening that I haven't had a chance to really see. All right.

All right, well, that's your rumor report. Charlamagne, who are you giving that dog a two? You know, speaking of sneezes and coughing being the new gunshots,

we need a young woman in L.A. to come to the front of the congregation because technically she pulled a gun on a police officer. We'll talk about it for after the hour. Oh, boy. All right, we'll get into that next. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

And The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Done. I said and. If you want to get on the line for Ask Yee, 800-585-1051. Today, Tuesday, dumbass, we got Big Freedia coming in. Oh, shoot. You know what?

Go quarantine. Come on, Andy. Go quarantine, my son. Go sit in the corner. Go quarantine, bro. We got Big Freedia coming in. Oh, shoot. You know what? Go quarantine. Come on, Andy. Go quarantine. Go sit in the corner. Go quarantine, bro. We got Big Freedia coming in. Relax. All right.

It's breakfast time. Come on. I was born a donkey. It's the donkey of the day. Look at these donkeys. Bunch of jackasses. For the donkey of the day. That's pretty funny.

Charlamagne the devil? Possibly. Listen, Donkey of the Day for Tuesday, March 17th goes to a woman in L.A. whose name has not been released yet. Now, let's be clear about something. Coughs and sneezes during this global pandemic called the coronavirus. Coughs and sneezes are sending everybody's anxiety through the roof. Sneezes are the new gunshots. Okay, coughing in public is like brandishing a gun in public. Okay, sneezing is like letting off a gunshot in public. All right, do it right now.

Everybody runs for cover. All right, there's no more God bless you when you sneeze. No more Gesundheit. I'm going to tell you something. I was reading this the other day about the word Gesundheit. And it's a German word that people used to say after you sneeze. And the word means health. And people would say it after someone sneezes because it was thought that saying it would prevent a potential illness.

But when is the last time you said Gesundheit after someone sneezed? You ever said Gesundheit after someone sneezed, Envy? I have before. Really? Yeah. Gesundheit. You ever said Gesundheit after somebody sneezed? Not too gazoon tight after someone sneezed in me i have before really yeah and you ever say gazoon tight after somebody sneezed not too often but i've said it yeah i don't i've never heard it in my life except for on tv no i've said it before and i'm saying all that to say i think that's why we have coronavirus now because of gazoon tight yeah because it's it's when you say it it prevents potential illness enough people don't say it

and you know i'm petty so if someone that i don't like sneezes i don't say god bless you and that's whack of me because saying god bless you to someone after they sneeze is supposed to do the same thing that saying kazuntite does and that's prevent further illness well if you petty like me and don't say god bless you just because you don't like a person you too have contributed to further illness and that illness is coronavirus if you didn't follow me don't worry about it i'm what you call a brilliant idiot, an idiot savant. You'll get it later. Now, back to sneezing and coughing being the new gunshots. See, there you go.

See, it sucks for people like me because I have allergies and I have recurring bronchitis. So I go through these periods every now and then where I cough. You know, I might cough up phlegm is bad. And, you know, what about people just out here dealing with a cold or the flu? Every time they cough or sneeze people ready to run oh and duck and take cover because once again coughs and sneezes are the new gunshots i coughed in here yesterday and nv ducked i did and then when he came up for cover he acted like he's like is everything good coast clear okay coughing is

brandishing a gun sneezing is actually shooting a shot and with that knowledge okay with that knowledge i need you to know that this woman who has not been named got arrested for pulling a gun on a cop well let me paint the scene for you see law enforcement in la told tmz that a cop came across a woman this weekend who was parked in a handicapped spot without a handicapped decal everybody's done that hustle at one point in their life okay or the cop approached her over the violation and that's when things went left sources told tmz that the woman almost instantly became combative with the officer and threatened to cough on him and give him coronavirus now let me tell you something now is not the time to play like this okay telling the cops you have coronavirus is like telling the cops you have a gun.

Telling a cop you have coronavirus and you are going to cough on them is like telling a cop you have a gun and you're going to shoot them. No, it's that serious. It's that serious. It's that serious. If someone walked up to you right now anywhere in America and just coughed in your face, you would probably swing on them. Because as long as that COVID-19 on these streets, that person coughing on you is a

threat, period. You don't think so? Luckily, this woman didn't get shot. And the cops simply put on some latex gloves, arrested her. And this young woman has been charged with making a criminal threat to a police officer. This is a serious time, people. Everybody is on edge the last thing you want to do is pretend to have this virus okay that's another layer to this donkey today

woman this woman is out here uh pretending to have something that people are actually dying from because of this disease people are actually out here sick corona is really ending people's lives and stopping people's livelihood and you are out here playing about having it trust me it's people out here who really got it who will gladly trade places with you okay please give this young woman who lied about coronavirus and threatened to cough on a cop the biggest he are nasty idea bro I'm telling you cough on somebody in these streets if you want to somebody gonna swing on your ass Did you see the woman Who licked the toilet seat

On the plane I saw that She's dumb She deserves She deserves Whatever happens To her in life Whatever way

Her life goes From here on out She has absolutely Earned it Disgusting Alright Well thank you For that donkey today

Up next Do you understand Licking a toilet seat On the plane Will give you Something worse than coronavirus? It's just disgusting. I'm sure. Who's kissing her?

All right. Big Frida when we come back. All right. So don't move. She's a New Orleans legend. 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. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We have a special guest in the building. A bounce music icon. Big Freedia. The one and only. You heard me.

Big Freedia's in the building. Yes, I am. Big Freedia, how did you create a lane for yourself? Well, constant work, first of all. I kept grinding in New Orleans for 10 years on the ground. a lane for yourself? Well, constant work, first of all. You know, I kept grinding in New Orleans. You know, for 10 years on the ground,

I was in clubs, decorating parties, doing a thing. I mean, every night, like seven nights a week. And I just kept it going and I never gave up. And I created a platform

in New Orleans and everybody was following it. Where did that bounce music come from? Where did that sound come from? I mean, it created a platform in New Orleans and everybody was following it. Where did that bounce music come from? Where did that sound come from? I mean, it's so big in New Orleans, but where was it originated from? Well, you know, back then, you know, the stories that we get, you know, DJ Irv and DJ Jimmy, they used to have rap battles back then. And they started playing with the Trigger Man beat and the Brown Beat and the Peter Pipers back then. And they started creating sounds. And all of the other rappers in New Orleans started doing the same thing.

You know, they started to create that genre of bounce music. And it went on from there. And then you've got all the other legends, DJ Jubilee, Partners in Crime, Miss T, Cheeky Black, Fifth Wall Weeby, the whole line of people that came before me. That's amazing because what I love is when you go to New Orleans and you get to see how people from New Orleans dance to Bounce Music from a young age, like three-year-olds.

Yeah, from babies. Yeah, from little babies. I mean, they be in Pampers dancing. Like, they all hear a big Frida commercial, Juan LaFonta or something on there, and they are in their diapers dancing. So they start really young. And it don't matter if you a guy, a girl, whatever, they all get down like that. Yeah, definitely.

It's our culture. How come New Orleans, like New Orleans, Florida, even growing up, you know, with the whole, like, 95-something whoop-daddy, guys could dance like that freely back then, and nobody would be like, oh, they're gay. Why do you think that changed? New generation.

You know, I truly believe that back then it was, everybody was just free and being able to be themselves. Now everything is, you know, social media, the new generation, they, you know, have certain areas that they want to, you know, kind of say, hey, why are you doing this over there? Why? They want to judge everybody. And it's just not fair how they want to judge everything that's happening in the world.

Even if it's something like, you know, somebody passing out, like when Wendy passed out, people were being so cruel. And I'm like, you know, Wendy is human. She, you know, why are y'all being so evil in all these comments on the shade room? You know, so it's just probably because it's Wendy. Yeah, because it's Wendy. Not just that, even as just being Wendy, I mean, Wendy is

still a human being who you know, has a family, has a heart, and Wendy has a character to play also too on her show. You know, like she has a job to do. It's over. People talk about people's kids. Listen, when your parents approve, you don't need nobody else's approval.

Right. Because when I got approval from my mom at 12, I didn't care what the world said. That was my backbone. She was the one with my strength. She protected me from everything and anybody, and that's what it was. And that's a great response, too, because your mom said, I been knew that. Oh, yeah, she did. She's been new. She was like, if you don't know

your child, you ain't watching your child. Like my mom been new from small. My family used to have meetings and like, you know, they knew I was gay way back then. How did that free you? Because I'm sure, did you have struggles before that? Oh, most definitely. You know, I was still trying to find myself

as a young kid. Even after I told my mom, I still had to develop into finding my lane and where I wanted to be and be comfortable with myself. Now, how difficult was that coming out in New Orleans and being an artist? Were people at first taking a liking to it or at first were they a mad standoffish? So when Katy Ray first came out, they were not happy. She was the first. And they were, you know, they had a lot of girls really supported us. That's what carried us throughout all of these years. A lot of the girls really supported us.

And where the girls go, the boys follow. Right. So that's how. Can't deny the music. Huh? I said you can't deny the music. You can't deny the music. And Katie started having problems.

You know, we had to fight sometimes When we went to different cities And, you know, because it was something new That people just was not used to Right I feel like you f***ed somebody up, Farida I can tell Almost definitely Yeah, yeah

I mean, I'm born and raised in New Orleans Josephine Street And a lot of times we had to fight for To stand up for who we are And what we believe in And, you know, my boy cousins would get out there and say, you better get out there and fight that nigga. And my mom would say, you better go out there or I'm going to whoop your ass when you come in here.

So I had to do what I had to do. You remember the first time you had to fight for your respect? Oh, yeah. I was probably about 13. You know, all the boys around the neighborhood would always call me sissy and all that. And, you know, one of them, he was just like, I'm a, you know, like the knock the chip off the neighborhood would always call me sissy and all that. One of them, he was just like, I'm the knock-the-chip-off-the-shoulder type. It was back to that era then. He knocked it off my shoulder, and I just punched him.

Now, when was the last time you had to punch somebody? Oh, my God. High school. You got people to do that for you now. Okay, so it was recent. Yeah, high school. I don't be into confrontations. No, that's not me.

Now, when did you realize that you were taking off as an artist? Because I'm sure, you know, obviously like bounce music at first was so New Orleans, but then you've seen it expand so much and we've heard you on Beyonce and Drake and all of that. But when did you first realize that you were going to actually be an international star? So for me, that year was 2010. When I first came to New York and I started to perform, I did some shows with my friend Spank Rock and my DJ. Naeem.

Yeah, Naeem. Rusty Lazer. And we did five shows here in New York. It was like the buzz of New York. Everybody was talking about it. After that, I did an article with Bus Magazine, my first article, and then New York Times contacted Bus.

And after that, I did the New York Times. And when I got back to New Orleans, you know, one day I was decorating the club and I was outside pulling material out the car, and two white guys was running down the street, and they was like, you're Big Freedia. And I'm like, oh my God, how do you know that? You know, like, I only had black fans running down the street. And it was like, you're Big Freedia. And I'm like, oh, my God, how do you know that? You know, like, I only had black fans came to the club.

And it was like. You wasn't scared it was the police? Two white men just running down the street? No, they was jogging. So, it was like in jogging, you know, gear. So, they was like, we read about you in the New York Times. And it just blew my mind then. And I knew stuff was changing then.

And when it started to change for me, I was like, I'm going full force. You know, back then I was like, I'm going full force and I'm not stopping. And when that happened, it changed to the next level. I started doing a lot of shows with my DJ. He started connecting stuff. People started contacting me even more. But after Katrina, that's when I really became more popular because the music was displaced all over the world.

And people were calling me to do shows here and there. I actually started in Houston with a promoter, Harzman. And Harzman booked me at all the clubs. He had me. It was like, bring Frida, bring Frida. He like, I got to see the hell who is Frida is. So when I came, he was like, everybody been talking about you. I came, set it off.

Set the whole, you know, like Houston off. And then all the people who we were displaced by, they was like, teach us this bounce music. You know, DJs was emailing it and selling CDs at the club. So that's how we got the music even bigger because we were all over the world. You know, New Orleans people. I'm sorry, how did Katrina affect you? Well, for me, I had to go through it all. I slept on the bridge.

I had to be rescued by a boat out my house. Me, my brother, my sister, my newborn niece, who was six months, and my uncle. We had to cut a hole in the roof. I slept at the convention center for five days. I saw buses almost get turned over. We were trying to get on the bus so fast. A lot happened for me for Katrina.

It changed my life. It was moments where I was like, damn, this is real. You know, my brother, he wind up, me and him wind up going separate to loot, and he got lost. We couldn't find him for days. So imagining people getting shot, old people on the side of the road just covered with sheets because they didn't make it,

it was really something to see. It changed my life forever, and I was appreciative of just being able to be alive. Do you feel like the city's ever really rebounded from that? I say we have. We came back bigger and better. All right, we got more with Big Freedia. When we come back, don't move.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. I want to know who my representative here tonight. Hold on, hold on. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Big Freedia.

Charlamagne, you used to sing in the church, right? Yeah, that's my background. I come from the church choir. I sung at my church home. I sung at my high school choir. I was a choir director at my high school. I sung with the Gospel Soul Children, the Gospel Music Workshop of America. That's all I

knew. I actually thought I was going to be a gospel singer, you know, trying to put out gospel music, be a big director, and when Katie Ray started being my best friend, things changed. You started doing that secular music. Well, Katie

needed help. And did the church embrace, the church didn't embrace you? Oh, they did. I mean, all of my church people, like some of them would even come to the concerts. You know, we was young. And so they actually supported everything that I did. Why not combine the two, do a little bounce that ass for Jesus? Oh, I mean, I'm always, when you come to a Frida show, it's like a revival. You know, people be like,

damn, I felt like I was, you know, kind of in a spiritual moment. And that's what it's about. I bring all walks of life together through the power of ass now. The power of ass. That's what it is.

What is the power of ass, Frida? The power of ass. You know, I'm the queen of, you know, that's why I get the title. I've been doing this for a long time, and I'm the one who's made it go international with a lot of people getting the niche of bounce music.

When they say bounce music, who they reference? People ride for you, too, and Nice For What came out, and they were like, where's Big Frida? We need Big Frida. They definitely ride for me. You know, and with that Beyonce and Drake situation, Beyonce, when she shot the video, I was on tour. When Drake shot his stuff, they came to me at the end. All that stuff was already shot.

So I came to put the hype on all the way at the very end, right before it came out. It came out maybe like two days after I got on the track. So, you know, the fans, they don't know the insides and the outs of everything with business. A lot of times the artists, our schedules just don't connect. Right.

But they go hard for you. They're like, where is Big Freedia? We need to make sure. That's the Freedia gang. So Drake reached out to you? Yeah, they definitely did. And Beyonce. Yeah, definitely.

Were you surprised when they both reached out to you? I was, I was blowed away. How did Beyonce reach out? Was it her team? Did you speak to her? Well, Beyonce publicist called my publicist, and she was like, Beyonce, I want to talk to you. I said, well, why are you on the phone?

So they gave Beyonce my number, and she called me. And I was just. Talk to me now. Don't just rush me. Come on. Come on, Priya. I was at home just waiting by the't just rush Come on Come on, Frida So I was at home Just waiting by the phone

Like, when is she gonna call? Did you make a snack? Maybe like an hour An hour Did you make a snack A little drink? No, I was just running around I was like

Is she gonna call? Is she gonna call? How many times Did you turn your ringer up To make sure it was really gonna ring? I had the phone in my hand Just like this You know, the whole time

Was it a FaceTime Or just a regular phone call? It was a regular phone call And she was like Hi, you know, the whole time. Was it a FaceTime or just a regular phone call? It was a regular phone call. And she was like, hi, sweetie. And I was like, you know, I was just for a minute I froze up. I died at home and came back to life, really. You said, bitch, what? Just be on safe.

So she was like, I have a track that I want you to listen to. And I want you to just get on it and spit that New Orleans shit. And I was just like, okay. So she sent the track. I got my DJ to loop the track because they only sent maybe like five seconds. It wasn't even enough to like really

five seconds. Girl, listen. It was not even enough to really They really wanted to make sure that wasn't going to get out. They wanted to see what I had left. Frida said, nah, B. So she sent it, and we looped it. And I went in the studio, and I started, you know, sending some stuff. Once I sent what I sent, I sent that first line what I sent.

I did not come to play with you, all of that. And she was like, oh, my God, I love it, right away. Next thing I know, it was Mardi Gras, and people running up to to me like, oh my God, I heard you on a Beyonce track. It was probably like two weeks later. I'm like, oh my God, it came out because, you know, like everything was so disclosed. You know, they have to sign an agreement. You can't say nothing. You don't know if it's going to really make it.

So when it came out, I didn't even know I was walking at a parade. What a great time to find out. Oh my God. Everybody was running up to me. I heard you on a Beyonce and I'm just blown away at the parade. Like girl, I haven't heard me on Beyonce. How long did it take from the time you recorded? Did you record same day? No, it was probably like

two weeks before. Okay, and then you recorded and how long did it take to come out? Two weeks. Oh, two weeks. Okay, okay. But you recorded it the same day you got the call? Oh yeah, the same day. I went to him immediately. I called him up. I'm like, I'm on my way. I got something for you.

We about to do something with Beyonce. And we did as soon as I got there. Rita, how the f*** you ain't end up in the video? Why was you on tour? Why couldn't you fly in? Listen. Come on now. I had to make my money too now.

Yeah. You know, I mean, being in the video, I had to make my money. We worked. And you got fans looking for you? Yeah, definitely. I couldn't cancel on my fans just to be, you know, in the appearance of the video. They probably could have, you know, maybe put me in there some kind of way, a picture or something. I don't know.

Was she disappointed that you couldn't make the video? No, not at all. I mean, she know how it go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, what about Drake? How was that conversation? Well, I didn't talk to Drake. Drake team reached out to my manager.

And so my producer actually, Blackie Mowell, already had the vocals. So Uh-Huh, Oh Yeah was one of my actual first songs back then in 2000. And they used those same vocals from maybe 2003 that I had. That was a hype that I had did in one of the clubs. Because I used to do a lot of the freestyling and call and response. And they wound up using that from way back then. And my producer has all my vocals. So my catalog is huge for anything anybody really want to use for a sample.

And so you and Drake actually hung out in New Orleans, right? Yeah, we did. A couple of times. He had I performed with him at the concert for the Smoothie King. He had a few events at clubs that I hosted and, you know, he was like, I like what you do. I like how you

just have crowd control and control these girls and the girls shook from the time I got on the mic to the time I got off and it was like hours. Like he wanted to see them cut up and every time it was a group of girls just cutting up. Correct me if I'm wrong, he didn't credit you at first, right? For what? No.

Okay. Was that an issue? Like did you have to get the lawyers involved? No, no, no. No, because I got paid so it was no issue. You know, we did paperwork. It just wasn't no credit for us, you know, my name being on it. What's more important for an artist like you, the money or the credit? Listen, for me, it's about reaching new heights, and it's about opening other doors.

Even though my name wasn't on it, my voice was on it. And people know it was me. You ever had to put root on somebody? Put what? Root. Root? Voodoo. Voodoo? Oh, no, I voice was on it. And people know it was me. You ever had to put root on somebody? Put what? Root. Voodoo. Oh, no. I don't do that. I went to see a psychic, you know, a voodoo priest in New Orleans and he got real.

You know? He predicted that he saw death on my brother and my brother got killed. It was real. Is that something you would do again? Would you go? I don't know because me and the voodoo priest is actually friends now so you know um i probably will go see him again you know a little bit further down the line but not right now did you warn your brother though when you get that news i mean i i kept wanting my brother you know i mean i love my brother and i you know he was just caught up in so many things, and I kept trying to pull him out of those things.

But, you know, when sometimes we be hard-headed, it's, you know. How did that affect you? I mean, it changed my life forever. Thank you for joining us, Big Freedia. Anytime. Appreciate it. Congratulations to everything that you're going on. And the EP is out, too, by the way, Loudrack.

That's right. Yeah, Loudrack. So let's make sure people know the EP is out. On Frida the 13th. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, it's Big Frida. 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. Now, let's get to the rumors. Let's talk The Simpsons. It's about time.

What's going on? Rumor Report. Rumor Report. This is The Rumor Report. Talk to them. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. All right. Now, one of The Simpsons writers has spoken out because people are saying that this episode

predicted coronavirus now according to bill oakley uh he said to the hollywood reporter i don't like it being used for nefarious purposes the idea that anyone misappropriated to make coronavirus seem like an asian plot is terrible in terms of trying to place blame on asia i think that is gross this is all in reference to a 1993 episode of the show it's called called Marge in Chains. In that particular episode, Springfield is hit with an epidemic. It's called the Osaka flu. Marge gets arrested because she is shoplifting supplies for her family.

And she gets sick from a Japanese factory worker who coughed on a box that ended up being shipped to a popular juicer in the town. So they called it the Onaka flu? Osaka. Osaka. Osaka. Well, the whole thing was that it was like a plot, you know, on the episode. And people are trying to say, oh, you guys predicted this.

But they're saying this has nothing to do with what coronavirus is. Please don't make it seem like there's some type of agenda here. Or this was something that was done purposely. Oh, I get what you're saying. Like, don't say China purposely did it to mess up the world, basically.

Oh, okay, okay, okay. Because I saw people mad, too, when they were saying Donald Trump called it the China flu yesterday in a tweet. And I was like, why are people upset about this? Because you call it the West Nile virus. The Ebola virus is named after the Ebola River in the Congo. The Zika virus is named after a forest in Uganda. The West Nile virus. You know what I'm saying?

So it's like, why would you get married because you call it the China virus? It did originate in China. Well, but that's not what it's called. It's called coronavirus. So you can't just change the whole name of what something has been just to fit some type of agenda. The CDC actually warned against naming diseases after locations, saying it stigmatizes residents,

so why they don't have that same energy when it comes to locations in Africa. That's all I'm saying. All right, and congratulations to Jhene Aiko. Her album, Chalumbo, has debuted at number one on the Billboard's Top R&B Album Chart. So she has actually the biggest debut since Lemonade from Beyoncé. So congratulations to her.

It's also the biggest of her career. And she sold 152,000 units in the first week. So congratulations to Jhene Aiko. I saw Big Sean was posting her yesterday as well. All right. The UFC has officially postponed its next three events. But they do say that their big event, the Khabib versus Tony Ferguson, will still happen. So they said right now they're postponing that.

They were trying not to have to do that. But the Khabib versus Tony fight is still, they're saying, going still happen. So they said right now they're postponing that. They were trying not to have to do that. But the Khabib versus Tony fight is still, they're saying, going to happen. It's been called off four times in the past. So some people are saying that that one in particular is cursed. But who knows? And the Met Gala has been postponed indefinitely. And that's due to coronavirus. You guys all see when the Met Gala happens, it's all the, quote, who's who,

and everybody's dressed to the nine. So that's going to be actually postponed indefinitely. Saturday Night Live has shut down production for the next three shows. Also, a lot of things happening, but a lot of funds are being established right now. A lot of people are trying to come together in this time where people really need some help. Tyreek Hill has donated 6,000 meals after this coronavirus and he's challenging other athletes to do the same as well. So

all we can do right now is help people that really need the help in this serious time that we're having. So I'm Angela Yee and that is your Rumor Report. Alright, thank you Miss Yee. Alright now, keep it locked. When we come back we got the People's Choice Mix. Get your request in right now.

800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. It's Women's History Month. And who are we repping today, Yee?

Well, today we are representing for Mary Eliza Mahoney. She was the first African-American nurse. And she studied and worked professionally in the United States and she was also a co-founder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. She was born in Dorchester Massachusetts and here is some more from the website Healthy Living on Mary Eliza Mahoney. It's Women's History Month and we're celebrating the most influential women in history.

Check out this phenomenal woman. Mary Eliza Mahoney was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1845. She worked for several years as a private duty nurse at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston. Mahoney was admitted to the hospital's nursing program in 1878 and later became the first black woman to complete nurses training. In a speech delivered at the convention for the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, she recognized the inequalities in nursing education and called for more African-American students to be admitted into nursing programs. Mahoney is also recognized as one of the first women to register to vote in Boston after

the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. In 1976, Mary Eliza Mahoney was inducted into the Nursing Hall of Fame. And that was another phenomenal woman in history. Yes, congratulations to Mary Eliza Mahoney, the first black nurse. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame back in 1993. Very inspiring.

And in this time right now, you can see how essential this work really is. So thank you so much, Women's History Month. All right, when we come back, positive note, don't move much. Women's History Month. All right. When we come back, positive note, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, shout out to Big Freedia for joining us this morning. Yes, indeed.

Yes. Salute to Big Freedia. New Orleans legend right there. Mm-hmm. Now, you got a positive note? Yes, and salute to Big Free, the New Orleans legend right there. Now, you got a positive note? Yes, man. You know, I'm big on mindfulness and everybody being as mentally healthy as possible, and I know it's kind of difficult to stay

mentally healthy in this uncertain time that we're in right now, but I just want you to know that trauma creates change you don't choose, but healing creates change. You do choose. Let's look for some healing in this traumatic time. Breakfast club, bitches.

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