The Breakfast Club - Unrealistic Entitlement ( Angela Rye and Manuel and Geiszel Godoy)

Episode Date: February 15, 2022

Today on the show we had political pundit now turned ESPN correspondant Angela Rye stop by where she spoke about her new position At ESPN, NFL Rooney Rule, The Biden Administration, Brian Flores and so much more. Next, we had Manuel and Geiszel Godoy from "Black Sands Entertainemtent" and spoke about ancient black culture, black comics, Shark Tank and more. Also, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to a 23 inspiring rapper who got mad that no one answered Diddy's house, so he insisted on jumping Diddy's gate, but soon after tackled by security. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Good morning, USA! Hey! Oh, you're supposed to go, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Good morning, Angela Yee. Good morning, DJ Envy. Charlamagne Tha God.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's Tuesday! That doesn't no, no. It's Tuesday. That doesn't hit so great. It doesn't. It doesn't. Tuesday's like Monday's like great. Back to the work week. Wednesday's hump day.

Thursday's almost the weekend. Friday is a throwaway day. Tuesday's just. Tuesday. Yeah. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, well, I'm back from Super Bowl. Had a great time out there.

Shout to everybody I ran into out there. Shout to Pepsi as well. Had a good time at Super Bowl. I was supposed to come back Monday, but LA was getting a little serious. There was a lot of people getting stuck up and getting robbed. I know one of the hotels, they robbed a valet and took all the keys. So I was like, you know what? I already got paid for all the shows I had to do.

I seen the Super Bowl. I'm just going to come home. So I just like, you know what? I already got paid for all the shows I had to do. I seen the Super Bowl. I'm just going to come home. So I just hopped on a flight and came right home. I said, I ain't going to mess around with anybody. So I got right on that plane and got my ass right back home. Spent the day with the wife and family for Valentine's. Glad you're okay. Yeah, but I had a great time out in L.A.

I mean, the weather was just amazing. It was like 90 degrees the whole weekend. Man, we don't want to hear that. I'm telling you. It was in L.A. I mean, the weather was just amazing. It was like 90 degrees the whole weekend. Man, we don't want to hear that. I'm telling you. It was in the goddamn cold all weekend. 90 degrees the whole weekend. L.A. was good. Super Bowl was great.

There was a lot of stuff going on. It was good. I had a really great time. I had a really great time at the Super Bowl. It was freezing. It's freezing now. I'm glad you're back in the cold. Came back without your jewelry?

Yes, I sure did. Okay. Anybody get you? Nope. Nobody got me. Came back with all your jewelry? Yes, I sure did. Okay. Anybody get you? Nope. Nobody got me. Any scares? Any scares? Anybody like, you know?

No, there was no scares, but I called Charlemagne and I was like, hey, I'm not coming in tomorrow. I'm coming back. He was like, you good? I'm like, yeah, I'm good. I didn't say you good. I said, what, somebody tried you? Oh, yeah. That's what I said.

Somebody tried you? Somebody tried you? I said, nah, nobody tried me. But at that time, that's when I found out that the valet, they just robbed the valet and they had a group of people. Where at? Well, you said that. I don't know what you was talking about. That that the valet, they just robbed a valet, and they had a group of people. Where at? Well, you said that. I don't know what you was talking about.

That robbed a valet? At the hotel. No, man. So they robbed a valet. What hotel was it? I'm not saying, but they took all the keys. And then also, they had this group of people that they would drive by the hotels when the club's over.

You know, in LA, the club's over at 2, so they would drive by between 2 and 2.30, seeing you getting out your Uber and stick you up. Wolves was out. Yeah, they was out. Wolves was out. Yeah, they was out. Wolves was out. There was some come-ups I heard a lot this weekend. They was out. So instead of, like I said, I finished doing my job, me working, and I finished watching the Super Bowl.

So to stay another day, I was like, you know what? Let me get on this flight right now. So I got on the plane and got my ass out of L.A. Well, that's good. Welcome back to the cold. Yeah, thank you so much. Glad you're safe. Welcome back to the temperature.

You know what? My testicles don't do that no more. They used to, like, go up towards my body when it was real cold. That, thank you so much. Glad you're safe. Welcome back to the temperatures. You know what, though? My testicles don't do that no more. They used to, like, go up towards my body when it was real cold. That don't happen no more.

Maybe I don't be out in the cold that much. Speaking of testicles, I spoke to Dr. Oz, and he was telling me about vasectomies, and he was like, he was telling me, well, we might not want

to do it. Why? We should speak to him first. That's what he told me. Man, I'm not speaking to him. My wife want me to get

it. What Dr. Oz got to do with my vasectomy decision? He's a doctor. Hello. Does he have any other options? He said we should speak to him first before we jump into the vasectomy world. Man, my wife don't want to hear that. He's a doctor, though.

Your wife ain't a doctor. He's running for office right now. Okay, go practice on being a politician, Dr. Oz. This wasn't... All right. I don't think we need a second opinion on vasectomies. There's been enough people who've gotten vasectomies, okay,

for us to be cool with getting one. And my wife wants me to get it, so I don't care what Dr. Ozzy... Your wife's not a doctor. There's a lot of things your wife wants you to get. And Dr. Ozzy and my wife. You're right.

Okay? You're right. I know who butters my bread, damn it. Who butt what? Shut up. He said butt, right? He didn't say butters. I didn't say that.

My good sister Angela Rye will be here this morning. Yes, she'll be joining us this morning. ESPN's latest correspondent. I forgot what the exact title is, but yes, she'll be here this morning to talk to us. And also Emmanuel and Giselle Godoy. They're the CEO and CEO of Black Sands, which is a black comic book, correct? With black superheroes.

Yes. So we'll talk to them as well. Of course, it's black history comic book, correct? With black superheroes. Yes. So we'll talk to them as well. Of course, it's black history. Well, they were on Shark Tank also, and Kevin Hart also invested into their company on Shark Tank. That's right. So we'll get into all that. How was everybody's Valentine's? What'd you do, Charlemagne?

I was actually in Atlantic City for my daughter's cheerleading tournament. No, that was yesterday. What was yesterday? Yesterday was Valentine's, right? Monday, yes, sir. Yes, it was. What was Valentine's?. Yes, it was. Me and the wife worked out with the trainer.

That's about it, really. Yeah, we didn't do nothing special. What about you, Yee? You know, I had to work all day yesterday. I wasn't done until like 9.30 at night, but I was on set. I actually got to work with Joe Scott yesterday, so that was exciting. Oh, dope. All right.

All right, well, let's get the show cracking. Front page news, what are we talking about? Well, since we're talking about love and Valentine's Day, here's some statistics for you guys to know about love and sex and getting married and living together and what's happening in America with couples. All right, we'll get into that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The young legend, Kodak Black. Man, Kodak Black got a video on Barstool Sports that is so damn funny. Lord have mercy. Yeah. It's going to be a point in time when Kodak Black is going to be the biggest rapper in the game. It's going to be a moment. He's going to be the biggest rapper in the game. He's probably partnering with Drake or something like that.

He's about to get a number one record with that record right there. Super Gremlin. He's about to get number one. You switch like a little bitch. What kind of thing is that? What? What? That's such a hard line. Let's get some front page news. You switch like a little bitch. What kind of thing? What? That's such a hard line.

Let's get some front page news. You switch like a little bitch. What's wrong with you? Where we starting, Yee? All right. Well, Americans are less likely to have sex, less likely to partner up, and less likely to get married now more than ever before. They said we are at a 30-year low for sex.

26% of Americans age 18 and up don't have sex, not even once over the last year. They said it's not just the pandemic, but it's part of a long-term trend. And last year's survey was the first time that the percentage of Americans who had sex once a month or less was above 50%.

Now, they're also saying partnership is at a low, not just marriage. So they asked participants whether they had a steady partner. And this past year, 30% of adults indicated they did not have a steady partner. And so they said those numbers are up. They said most Americans won't even get their partner a card for Valentine's Day.

And they said that a mere 55% of Americans in relationships usually receive a Valentine's Day from their partner. And so most people aren't getting a card this year because there's another 45% of people without a partner. That's a statistic kind of flawed though, right? Because it just says cards. What about flowers? Like I didn't give my wife a card yesterday

when I got her a bunch of flowers. Yeah, I didn't give my wife. I don't ever give my wife a card. I just give her flowers and that. Yeah, so what if you do other things but you just don't get a card? What is the stats on that? Well, you know what? It's probably hard to tell with flowers because not... Yeah, so what if you do other things but you just don't get a card? Like, what is the stats on that? Well, you know what? It's probably hard to tell with flowers because people buy so many flowers,

but you can tell with cards because you buy one card. You can keep up with chicken wings on Valentine's, but not flowers? No, I mean, Super Bowl Sunday, they keep up with chicken wings, but can't keep up with flowers on Valentine's?

Yeah, but they're just saying these numbers are a lot lower, though, than they used to be because it used to be us. People probably not buying cards. I don't think, I don't buy cards anymore. I don't buy Christmas cards. I don't buy No, I can't think of the last one.

I send my mom flowers and it's attached to a card and I write on the card it's attached to the flowers. Exactly. Boom. That's exactly right. You can leave a note with the flowers. Now they did say the divorce rate is dropping though and that is one good thing about less people getting married And less people partnering up

Because they said less people are likely to run headlong Into a marriage that has a high probability of failing So they're saying the rates of divorces and annulments Were at its lowest level this century in 2019 And so that's down a whole lot That sex thing gonna keep dropping too I remember reading something once I think it might have been Asia somewhere over there So that's down a whole lot. That sex thing gonna keep dropping too. I remember reading something once.

I know it was, I think it might've been Asia somewhere over there, but they were saying how the kids don't be having sex because they'd be on virtual reality all the time. So that's how they're forming their connection. So if the metaverse continues to grow here in America, the way we know it's going to grow, that whole web 3.0 thing. Yeah.

Kids are probably going to be having less sex. People are going to be having less sex. So that means I got to keep having more babies for them? That's up to you. If you want to be a super gremlin. I thought you were done. I'm just joking. If you going to be having less sex. Does that mean I got to keep having more babies for them? That's up to you. I thought you were done. I'm just joking. You want to be a super gremlin? Be a super gremlin.

No, I'm done. Keep getting wet and wet. Now, I wonder if you lose your virginity in the metaverse, that means you're not a virgin anymore in real life. Come on, you. You grown. You know damn well the answer to that question. All right, just putting it out there.

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Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Marcus. Caller from Florida. Marcus, good morning. I was trying to drink none of the crazy water, though.

Yes, you did. If you're from Florida, you ain't had no choice. It's in y'all orange juice, too. Not mine. By the way, I just want to thank God. My wife, my fiance, she pretty much had cancer. She pretty much had surgery and beat it. She's in the recovery process.

Look at God. Look at God. Yes. Angelique, she really inspires you. I wish she could meet you one day, but she really inspires her, and basically I'm saying thank you for her. Oh, man, I hope I get to meet her one day, too. What part of Florida are you guys in?

St. Petersburg, Florida. And also, I had a call last week about my friend not being at my wedding, and he heard me on the radio, so he's going to be in it now. Okay, good. I love it. I love to hear it. I remember that call. Well, good for you, brother.

What did his girl have to say about that? How did you work that out? Because I know his girl didn't want him walking down the aisle with another woman, so now what? Yeah. I don't know what happened, but he heard me on the radio for some reason

on his way to work. He probably realized how petty he was being, and he must have listened to Bishop T.D. Jake's sermon on Sunday, I Have Permission, when he said that your pettiness is getting in the way of your purpose. So he probably stopped being petty and said, man, let me let my guy walk. Yeah, it don't make sense not to, man, especially if you see all your other friends in that too, so. Absolutely.

It all worked out for the best. Yes, sir. Well, you have a good one. We so too, so. Absolutely. It all worked out for the best. Yes, sir. Well, you have a good one. We so happy to hear that. That's all good news today. Hello, who's this? Hi, good morning. My name's Olivia. Hey, Olivia. Good morning. Peace, Olivia. Get it off your chest. Hi, I want to start off by saying happy birthday to my Valentine's baby. She turned six yesterday.

Hey, happy birthday. Happy birthday. That's a real sweetheart. When you have a kid on Valentine's, that's a real sweetheart. She is. She kid on Valentine's, that's a real sweetheart. She is. She's all fire. But I also want to talk about the Kim and Kanye thing because I went through a similar situation with her father where he was trying really hard to get me back and it still just did not work. Girl's done, she's done. Can't let it go.

Yeah, he does need to let it go. He was doing the most yesterday. Did you have a new boo when he was trying to get you back? No, I didn't. Like, we got divorced and we still try to make it work. And it just was not working. It was a waste of time. We were so young. And, you know, like, when a girl is out of that mindset, it's just not going to work out.

Yeah, she seems like she's out of that mindset. Yeah, he has to move on. It's pathetic at this point. Yeah, I agree. And the more you do, the worse to move on. It's pathetic at this point. Yeah, I agree. And the more you do, the worse you make it. The more you do when somebody's over it, that you keep on bothering them, it makes them not like you more. Now, he could keep trying.

It's just some of the things that he's doing. Like when he starts issuing on Pete Davidson and talking about hurting him and all that stuff. Forget issuing on Pete. You're issuing on your ex-wife. And your ex-wife and your kids. You can't issue on your wife publicly and then try to get your wife back. And I think all of us need to remember one simple thing.

When you love something, let it go. And if it's meant to be, then it's meant to be. You know, if it comes back around, comes back to you, then it's meant to be. That's it. I don't believe in all that now. I ain't letting nothing go. Nah. You can't.

At some point, you got to let it go. You're going to drive yourself crazy. And that's with anything in life. That's not even just with relationships. Get it off out now. I ain't letting nothing go. Absolutely. Nah. You can't. You gotta, at some point, you gotta let it go. You're gonna drive yourself crazy. And that's with anything in life. That's not even just with relationships. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up right now.

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Okay, first thing first, I want to say that to my beautiful husband, Bay. Happy Valentine's Day. Thank you for the steak and shake

yesterday. It was bomb.com. That's what I'm talking about. See, stuff like that is what people supposed to appreciate. Listen, we was in

the bed before 930 last night. It was fun. I love it. That's grown folks fun right there. Steak and shake and the bed before 9.30 last night. It was fucking... I love it. Ooh! That's grown folks fun right there. Steak and shaking in bed before 9.30. God bless you, queen. God bless that king of yours.

Period. And I just want to get off my chest the fact that why Starbucks don't got no more peace, tranquility? What's that stuff they put in that medicine box? They need to order some more. Oh, probably because of the chain supply. What's that?

Supply chain demand. Supply chain demand got a lot of things not on the shelf. A lot of shortages and everything. I'm going to write a letter. You can write a letter.

You can be just with us waiting on everything else. I had a couch. Listen, I ordered a couch. I ordered a couch a year ago. And we finally got a delivery date for this Thursday.

Wow. So we'll see. Leonardo, did you write a letter? No, I didn't write no letter. He can actually get to it. You ain't write no letter. That's all. Have a good one, by the way.

The letter don't matter when it's the blockchain demand. Hello, who's this? Leonardo, did you write a letter? Hello? Yes. I would like to talk about Frederick Holder. Los Angeles Sheriff's Department shot at him 33 times. 17 of those hits his body. And he was an unarmed black man at a traffic stop.

Dang, where was this at? Los Angeles Sheriff's, Norwalk Sheriff's Department. When was this? This happened in June 23rd of 2021. They have yet to give the family any notifications about what happened. They have yet to put the report on a DA's desk. They took them seven days to tell the family that Frederick Holder was dead. Wow.

They said the deputies who shot at him and he was an unarmed man driving on a freeway on a ramp are still working. Wow. Yes. They are still working. Have y'all reached out to anybody? Have y'all reached out to like Ben Crump or anybody like that? Like I said, I'm his sister and I'm new to all of this

and we're starting to do whatever we can at this moment to reach out wherever we can. We know we reached out to the Sheriff's Department and they were supposed to be meeting up with us. And for the second time, they have blew us off telling us that they were going to meet with us and they have not yet to meet with us to let us know the status of the officers

that are still working. Wow. I see you guys are having a 33-day protest also. Is that still happening? Yes, it is. We protest every day in front of the Norwalk Sheriff Department. And that's for the 33 bullets that they fired at him. Do y'all have any of the grassroots organizations in L.A. down with y'all?

I got to say, This is just now starting. I know at first we had Black Lives Matter behind us, but, you know, that was at the beginning. And then there is like after that, we have no longer heard anything from them either. Wow. All right. I'm going to tweet out a link to the article for everybody listening

so they can read about what's happening with Frederick Holder. We thank you so much for calling and bringing attention to this. You're welcome. You get our info. Get our info. If you go on to his Instagram page at Justice for Fred H. You can see the video. You can hear how many shots that they shot at him and you can see everything that we're trying to do to get justice for our system, for the rest of our black

people that is happening. I looked up and I did research on my own. They have three different shootings from the North Park Police Department in that year and all three of those men were armed suspects, and they willingly knew that these people were still able to go home to their families.

Frederick Holder was an unarmed man, and they gave him no chance, and it's not fair. Well, leave your email. I'm going to put you on email with Sean King, and I'm going to see if Sean King can amplify your situation. All right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Now, we got rumors on the way? Man, I don't want to even do this, but should we talk about Kanye?

I mean, I feel like a lot happened, and I feel like every day we talk about this. All right. Can I avoid it? We'll talk about more Kanye coming up next on The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast

Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk verses. 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. Okay, so Versus tonight. Anthony Hamilton versus Music Soulchild.

Are you guys ready for this? Now, fans did react, though, because they found out that Versus is no longer free. And it's no longer available on Instagram Live. So if you do want to watch the versus tonight, Swiss cleaned it up. No Swiss said he just landed back from Dubai and he will, it will be on Instagram tonight. Okay.

Cause this is a Valentine's day special versus will be featured exclusively on versus tv.com. Now the verse pass is two 99 for a month and 29 99 for the year. So maybe they switched it back. No, the verse pass is $2.99 for a month and $29.99 for the year. So maybe they switched it back. No, he said on his post, he said, see y'all right here tomorrow on InstaVersusTV. Who y'all rocking with? Anthony Hamilton or Music Soulchild. You can also watch it in HD on VersusTV.com.

I was out the country. Don't ask me who did it, but it's fixed. Bless up. Love y'all. That's not a bad idea. There's some verses I would pay for. I would have definitely paid for Gucci GZ. I would have definitely paid for Gucci Jeezy. I would have definitely paid for Erykah Badu, Jill Scott.

I'd have paid for Ghostface and Raekwon. I mean, it has to start getting there because they're paying these artists a lot of money. These artists are not doing it for free. They're paying these artists. Yeah, but they have sponsors, right? They have Ciroc. They have different sponsors. They have Triller. They're paying these artists a lot of money. And them sponsors cost. I sponsor the verses.

God's honest truth. I sponsor the Fat Joe Ja Rule. Yeah, they're paying these artists a lot of money. And them sponsors cost. I sponsor the verses. Yes. God's honest truth. I sponsored the Fat Joe Jaro. Yeah, it says they're paying these artists a lot. Like more than they get probably for performing. And they're doing some of them. This one is, you know, live, so you can go to it. And then I'm sure you have to pay to go. Is it the metaverse? No, it's not at the metaverse.

Now, when they start doing it in the metaverse, it's going to be, you know, people going to pay for that too. That's dope too, yeah. Yeah, so there's money floating around. Yes. No. All right. And now Kanye West and Julia Fox have broken up. A rep for Julia Fox has told E! News that she and Kanye are no longer dating, but they do remain good friends and collaborators. But they are no longer together.

And so she went on her Instagram stories and said, y'all would love if I was so upset, the media would love to paint a picture of me, a sad, lonely woman crying on a plane by myself. But it's not true because people said she was in the airport and she was crying. She said, why not see me for what I am, which is a number one hustler. I came up y'all, LOL. And not only that, but Kanye and I are on good terms. I have love for him, but I wasn't in love with the man, Jesus Christ, what do you guys think I am? 12 years old and for the record, the only time I cried in 2022 was on February 6th

on my dead BFF birthday. Anyway, if you want the full tea, you're going to have to buy the book when it comes out. I don't need a press release, a long Instagram caption, or a book for a two-month relationship. I'm just saying. She gonna make it spicy. They gonna give us a ton of money to write this book. It was two saying. Well, she gonna make it spicy. She gonna make, they gonna give us

a ton of money to write this book. It was two months. You don't think people are about it? It met like New Year's Eve. Right?

We could have been superstars. Now Kanye posted on Valentine's Day, I don't have beef with Kim. I love my family. So stop that narrative. I'm not giving up on my family. I bought this coat for Kim before SNL. I thought it was particularly special. I have faith family, so stop that narrative. I'm not giving up on my family. I bought this coat for Kim. Before

SNL, I thought it was particularly special. I have faith that we'll be back together. What coat? The coat she was wearing, I guess. Oh, you said coat. I thought you said coat. Yeah, coat. I'm like, Jesus Christ. Come on now. He said, I never had anything against Daily Mail. I got love for everyone in the media, and I wish you all

the happiness in the world. And then he goes on to say we are public figures so to the public and to the press sometimes people call me crazy but to be in love is to be crazy about something and I am crazy about my family. Happy Valentine's. I just have a question.

Was him and Pete ever cool? No, right? They didn't have any relationships or friends or nothing like that? So Pete doesn't have any loyalty to him. Right. OK. Now, Kanye also sent a truckload of roses to Kim Kardashian and posted that on social media. Then he also posted a conversation in his text messages from Kim. And she told him, you are creating a dangerous and scary environment and someone will hurt Pete. And this will all be

your fault and she's absolutely right and Kanye is using the streets and then he posted that and let people know please don't do anything to Pete and he wanted to make sure that nobody harms him so he posted a screenshot of that

he knows what he's doing and then he's using the streets and he's using street rappers the same way he used backpack rappers. I told y'all before, just like on Drink Champs when he said he was just using the backpack rappers

and he never really liked them. He's a master manipulator and people fall for it all the time. You think he did that with the gospel music too? Mm-hmm. And then he posted,

upon my wife's request, please nobody do anything physical to skeet. I'm going to handle the situation myself that sounds nasty please nobody do anything physical to Skeet why you pointing at your face that's disgusting

what is wrong with you that's all you do with Skeet is physical stuff and then and then Kim texted him why can't you keep any of our conversations private and he responded because I got a text from my favorite person in the world I'm your number one fan

why wouldn't I tell everyone Kanye is the epitome of just because someone does something good for you doesn't mean they're good for you and as I've said before in regards to the streets he's going to learn wolves don't make great house pets so he needs to stop playing like that and also Kim K has been rich her whole life, right?

She's been rich since she was born, right? Now she's wealthy. So what do you give the woman who has everything? Normalcy. And that's what Pete is giving her right now. Normalcy. Pizza, ice cream, and Staten Island. Connie, did you ever take her to Harold's?

Huh? Did you ever take her to the DeLeon's BBQ in Chicago? It's driving him crazy that he has all that money and she's not interested in none of that right now. Just be a good father to your kids and, you know, let the marriage go, King. Come on. All right, well, that is your rumor reports. And we got to stop D-Riding dysfunction, too.

Like, literally. If this was anybody else and not Kanye West and, you know, he wasn't the rich, successful person when we walk around wearing his shoes. Y'all would have all types of slander for his lame activity right now, for his lame behavior right now, for the way he won't leave, you know, Kim alone right now. So knock it off.

All right? Come on, stop deriding dysfunction. At some point, we got to stop deriding dysfunction in our culture, right? I agree. And Kanye versus Super Gremlin coming soon. We could have been superstars. Oh my goodness. Riding around in fancy cars.

Now it's not safe for you. Do the skeet smack to your face. You switch like a... This guy's crazy. Alright, that is the rumor report. This guy's stupid. We got front page news coming up. Yes, we're gonna talk about a $650 million Hollywood Ponzi scheme.

Prosecutors are saying this is the biggest in Hollywood history. Is that yak about to play? Can you pull up Super Gremlin one time? Let me hear that yak one time. That Super Gremlin goes so hard, man. Let me pull it up again. That's one record I don't mind hearing on the radio every hour and hour. Let that yak fly one time, man.

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He said, remember, we was jacking cars. I like my version better. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Angelique, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We on The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Switch like a little bitch. Would you stop saying that?

We reached our bitch quota. Let's go eat. What we starting with? All right. Well, Zachary Horowitz, he's 35 years old. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday. And that is for a $650 million Ponzi scheme. Prosecutors are saying this is the biggest in Hollywood history.

He was fabricating HBO and Netflix film deals. So basically, yes. So he was making what he calls misguided awful decisions. Now, his attorneys are saying that he's not mentally well and he should not have to miss his two toddler sons growing up. But they said that he did a lot of extravagant spending and there was no explanation for it. He spent $706,000 on interior decorating, over $600,000 on cars, $345,000 on private jets and yachts. He was having parties. He was in the casinos gambling away money. And according to the defense, the prosecutors, they said, these are all expenditures of other people's hard earned money. So basically what he was doing was he was telling people that he had a film distribution with HBO and with Netflix and investors were giving him money.

He managed to get at least six hundred and fifty million dollars. And he kept this scheme running for nearly seven years. He would take the money that he got from new investors and then repay the old ones with returns from 25 percent to 45 percent. And then when that all collapsed, he ended up owing them two hundred and thirty million dollars. They said he drew from that money to cover his luxury spending. He bought a five point seven million dollar mansion. He had a screening room and a wine cellar. And they don't know what happened to the rest of the money other than the other things I told you about. I never understand stories like this because you hear stories about these people who, you know, create these entertainment companies and they get all of this funding from all of these people.

And I'm like, where are these people giving out this money? Because there's so many people really in that space. Like, you know, folks like the Black Sands Entertainment or just even people with actual names that are in that space looking for investors. Yeah, John Kohler does the Black Nance card. That's the Black Nance card. That's what I'm saying. Isaac Hayes and Fanbase. Absolutely.

Where are these people when it comes to actual legit black businesses? I don't get it. Obviously, this dude has a hell of a mouth game and can talk his way through anything. And I don't even know if this guy is black. I don't even know if he's black, but I'm just saying. There's a lot of legit businesses out there that people could be investing in. How do these people find these folks to finesse? It's unbelievable.

And, you know, some of his investors were wealthy or institutional investors, but there were other people who were middle class or elderly people who lost their retirement savings. They felt shame, stress, depression. Three victims actually spoke at the sentencing. One of them, Scott Cohen, is 52 years old. He has two six-year-old boys. He said he filed for bankruptcy as a result of putting money into Horowitz's bogus

deals. He said the devastation has just been beyond words and they're calling him another Bernie Madoff. He said, I'm surviving on food stamps, family loans, unemployment, any work I can find while I battle the combination of all my money being stolen and my other business being shut down from COVID. I have nothing. Another victim was an unnamed cancer survivor who was also running a small business and said they took out a loan to

invest in the film deals. And he said that he spent in one month, but it took me 15 years of honest work to accumulate and borrow against. You know, in my life, I'd be thinking I know the right people, but clearly I don't because I'd be hearing these stories and I just do not know who these people are that are investing this kind of money in these small startups. I mean, there's a lot of people that invest because you hear all these stories all the time. I wish I got in on Uber. I wish I got in on Lyft. I wish I got in on this one. So people try. But, you know what? I don't understand. I mean, it's sad that people are losing their money, but there's no guarantee when you invest in these companies regardless. Like you can invest in Uber and then lose.

But this guy got six. How much money? You said $650 million. That's what I'm saying. That's a different type of cash flow, bro. You know what a company like Fanbase will do is $650 million. Like, come on. And I mean, just look at the Tinder swindler. Just look at Inventing Anna.

All of these specials and documentaries and stories about people who have spilled people. Happens every day, B. All right. Well, that is your front page news. All right. Now, when we come back, Angela Ra will be joining us. Of course, she has a new position at ESPN.

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It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest joining us this morning. Eddie Rye daughter, Angela Rye as hell. Yay. What's happening? I hope that you're doing that for whatever the energy was before I arrived. What's wrong with Paula Sanzo?

It's great. I'm just making sure you don't feel like you gotta clear my energy. What's wrong with that? Why not? Because I think I came in here with good energy. You did, but what's wrong with doing it? Okay. We do it all the time. I receive it.

You act like we don't do this now. I feel like you're throwing the ashes. Did you get cheap house? You got that house out there from Walmart. Well, first of all, congrats to you. Thank you. She partnered with ESPN to be a correspondent on sports-related matters of race, culture, and social justice issues. What exactly is that position, Angela Rye?

Well, I think we're still shaping it. Part of it is, you know, unfortunately, systemic oppression and racism exists everywhere, including in sports. And so part of what I'm hoping to do is draw attention to these matters in different ways. I think being on cable news for so long, I got used to, like, the Mortal Kombat vibe, right?

Like the versus. Yeah. Angela Rye versus the old white man. Yeah. Yeah. Every time, yes. Yes, every time. And it was toxic, right?

Like there were times, and you know this, I would go off air and cry. Like it just, it didn't feel good. And so I think what I look forward to now, just like with, you know, BET specials in the past, some of the stuff we did with Tidal in the past is being able to shape a narrative our way. Like we get to define who we are and how we're perceived.

And I think that's important. And so what I'm grateful for is that they thought that what I talk about and how I speak on these issues matters even in the sports world. So I've been told by some folks like, you know, what do you know about sports? Not enough to be a sports commentator. And that's not what I'll be doing. It's more, you know, when you look at the Brian Flores lawsuit, what's the impact of that?

What are things that they're doing in corporate America that have helped? What are the best practices that the NFL could implement to see real change? They've been talking about it since Colin and not a lot has changed. You know what's interesting to me about that? Like they'll say to you, what do you know about sports? But when these issues happen, nobody says to the sports pundits, what the hell do y'all know about social justice?

What do y'all know about racial issues? It would only make sense to bring somebody like you into that space. We're talking about issues of equity, social justice, race, culture, the way that sports shapes culture. And there will be things that I do that are sports related because it was a part of me. Now, I wasn't good in basketball, but I played. You was a point guard, right? I was a point guard, a shooting guard.

Shooting guard. Later, because my three point was cold. But see, I don't even want people to get caught up in that, though. Because you're not on ESPN to talk sports. And as long as these people in those spaces are going to be talking about the things that are your area of expertise, you should be there. But you know, one of the favorite things that we talk about, one of my favorite things that we talk about is like the gray matter.

So I am going to be talking about sports at the intersection of all of these other things. Right. They're still human beings. What platform do you think has the most impact nowadays? Is it a network like ESPN? Is it a MSNBC? I think it depends on the issue.

Right. Like, I think that there are certainly moments where Breakfast Club is the most impactful platform. I think there are issues that you talk about on your new show, The God's Honest Truth, where that's the most impactful. And part of it is a willingness to go beyond what is deemed acceptable and the right way to talk about issues and willing to push the envelope. That's what I think matters the most. Are there similarities between the sports world and political world?

Yeah. What are they? I think that anytime human. Are there similarities between the sports world and political world? Yeah. What are they? I think that anytime human beings are involved, politics are involved. So, for example, whether or not somebody gets a promotion at work, politics. Do you like the person? Right. There are politics in our kids and our nieces and nephews schools. They're running for office.

Politics are involved. So anytime somebody gets a promotion gets a demotion gets fired gets retained all of those things those are political their procedures rules regulations employee handbooks those are you know akin to laws that's all

political so I don't see any difference at all the Rooney rule is something that is political some people would call it especially if you're on the other side of the aisle or super conservative, it's a race-baiting rule, they say. It's trying to fulfill a quota because you're

talking about who you interview and whether or not they're an ethnic minority. I hate the term minority, by the way. A person of color. I hate it, too. We're not a minority. Now, when you talk about the Rooney Rule, I don't know what the equivalent of that would be in corporate America. Oh, there's several. I know.

I don't know what the technical terms for them are. But it's like when you say you got to interview a person, why can't you go farther and say you have to hire a person? So, okay, that's a really good question. So first, let's talk about what a Rooney Rule would be in a corporate environment. It's a diverse hiring practice. That's literally what it is. Or to your point, it's a diverse interviewing practice

because the Rooney Rule is so confined to, oh, we're going to interview a candidate. Initially, when it was started, the Rooney Rule was designed to ensure that coaches were interviewed. After the murder of George Floyd, they expanded it to GMs, to offensive coordinators, defensive coordinators, etc. And now, when you look in corporate

America, they have diverse hiring practices. Hiring, not interviewing. And in some instances, they will tie a bonus review metrics to a manager or supervisor's work, like to their review. Like, did you do well?

What is your, does your employee slate look diverse? And if they don't have diversity on their teams, they're not getting bonuses in some instances. Now question, and correct me if I'm wrong on this. When it comes to like civil rights, civil liberties,

you can't specifically say you want it to go to a certain race. Yeah, I forgot you talked about that. So here's the thing. There have been lawsuits when it's been deemed a racial quota and one of the things that we saw is actually a university of michigan affirmative action case um where they said a critical mass having a critical mass of people of color is important in a learning environment it's important in every environment. But now there are two new cases that will go before the

Supreme Court and be decided by this summer that challenge even that norm. Now they're challenging even critical masks. And so a quota is supposed to be deemed like a set aside. I don't think there's anything wrong with quotas but they have been deemed unconstitutional in the past. Why though? I mean especially for

people who you see on'm wearing your merch. We built this joint for free. They won't give us reparations. So why not do that in corporate America? I wish I could give you that. It's not just in corporate America. We should have a critical mask in elected offices. We should have a critical mask in government contracts at the municipal, state, and federal level.

We should have a critical mask everywhere. There should be quotas, and that and federal level. We should have a critical mass everywhere. There should be quotas and that should be fine. But for whatever reason, they've deemed that as a bridge too far. It's unconstitutional. Our good brother Killer Mike always says we should be represented 13% in every major industry in America. Well, whatever the population is.

Yeah, at least. The black people, I think the population is 13-14% of us. He said we should be represented like that. Sometimes they say 12%. I need to see. What does it say in the census this time? I don't know. I wonder how many of us filled that out. That's important. All right, we got more with Angela Rye.

When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Angela Rye. Charlamagne.

Now, I would think that you would be on ESPN this morning talking about the NFL halftime show. Now, um, this morning, Mara, and I'm about to hack her name. She has a compo.

How do you know that's what I was about to do? Because I know you and you don't say words with less syllables. Well, she was on CNN this morning and she said it was a good night for hip hop. And I'm quoting her, but a bad day for the movement because the NFL was able to successfully use black performers to distract black audiences from the issues that are important to them without making any meaningful change. What do you think of that? So here's what I'm going to say first. I'll do a positive and a negative.

I am so excited that yesterday was all West Coast everything. Because you grew up in Seattle. Yes. And you grew up off all those problematic rap tunes. That was everything to me. And even Tupac, you know, made an appearance, at least to the Keys. So, yeah, like that was a meaningful moment. I don't think I'm distracted, though. I think that we can celebrate the fact that there's never been a hip hop halftime show in the NFL and still say we know there are several issues with the NFL. Roger Goodell himself

finally confessed to it. He didn't say it in the first statement about Brian Flores' lawsuit, but he said it in the second one. The current coaching situation is unacceptable. We also know that there are several issues with the way that Collins' case was handled, and there are several issues that will continue to come up until they make real

change. Even if you look at who are the fans that can afford to sit in the stands. It's an exact flip of who's on the field. We are very clear about what the issues are, and we were entertained, and people still tuned in. Do you think folks look hypocritical calling the NFL racist, but then we

support it by watching, by buying the merchandise, you know, by posting about it on social media. Yeah, I think that we're all walking hypocrites, if I'm honest. What is the appropriate protest and then who leads it? And from my perspective now, I think if we're not getting real direction from the few black coaches that exist and from the players and what they expect from us i don't really know where we go from here like i don't know if if turning it off is

sufficient anymore yeah do we ask advertisers to pull dollars do we like what is the actual protest and what is the the cause that we're seeking it feels like it's parody and diverse hiring practices and ensuring that black coaches are retained the same way they would retain a star black athlete. So I don't really know. And black ownership.

But also there has to be a shift in how you can get access to ownership. You have to be a billionaire to be an NFL owner. They should consider having an inspector general in the NFL or like an ombudsman. So in every federal government

agency, they have the office of inspector general. That office is not overseen by the head of the agency, by the secretary, whomever it is. They are a separate entity that's not conflicted at all. They can examine what's happening in that agency. I think the same

thing needs to happen in the NFL. It needs to be an outside party that can investigate what's going on and how you really break into the Good Old Boys Club. Do you think Jay-Z and Roc Nation's role in the NFL has helped or hurt? I think that the jury's still out. Right? I think that yesterday was a really historical moment.

Shout out to our good sister Des. But I would love to see some of the things that I know she believes influence the commissioner and the ownership. The ownership has to be willing to be influenced. Right now, it feels like they're an impenetrable group that even Roger Goodell doesn't have control of. Right. Like he doesn't even have the influence he needs over that group. So I don't know what we're expecting from them right like initially that partnership was entertainment social justice they've ran

commercials they've put up acts janae aiko performed yesterday as well like what else do we want from that partnership and then i think they need to ask that like what were their expectations has this partnership met those goals i don don't know. Do you think when you see the artist perform and you see Eminem taking a knee on you, you see Dr. J. Yeah, I forgot about that. I thought they bleeped the line, but he did say the line, still not loving police. Do you think those acts of protest help?

Sure. Okay. But I think that they help us to be seen and affirmed. Do they help the typical NFL viewer who right now says that the nfl is doing too much for the blacks like real life poll that just happened so that's i think that's also one metric where we can see yeah there's free speech but what did it cost colin to get there right um yeah there's this access to um these different performers and that makes us feel seen and affirmed that it's pissing off these other folks.

Des and Jay could look at that and say, well, because they're saying they're finally doing too much for black folks, that means we've had an impact. But they have to ask themselves was that impact worth it? That's such an interesting statement to say black people, no, the NFL is doing too much for blacks, especially when

the NFL is, the players are 70% black. Think about how much black players have done for the NFL is, the players are 70% black. It's so crazy. Think about how much black players have done for the NFL. That's exactly right. So, I mean, yeah, so this is why it makes perfect sense for you to have the position you have on ESPN. Yeah. And what do you, when you see, like, Jamel and Carrie, they're on CNN

now, so it's almost like y'all traded positions. What does that mean to you? Well, first of all, shout out to my girls. I'm so proud of them and proud of the space. I know they'll occupy so well. What I think is that it's unfortunate that Jamel wasn't more protected. And

I think that now, after George Floyd, there are some people in that building that get it and have some regrets. And to the point where now, there's a documentary directed by Spike Lee that Jamel is a producer on

in partnership with ESPN. Oh, that's with ESPN? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Colin Kaepernick. That's right. That's right.

So I think that there have been some changes and I think that one day there will be a real full circle moment for Jay and for other people who deserve to be seen. I hope that same thing

happens with me. I think that I was really misunderstood. Misunderstood where? Where? At CNN. At CNN? Yeah, I do. I don't think you were misunderstood.

I just think you weren't appreciated and valued. I don't know. I mean, people can say what they want. I've said it a million times. You absolutely changed the way people present on those networks. I think you made it possible for black women to really show up and be their true authentic selves on all of these networks. I think you made it possible for like, you know, black women to really show up and be their true authentic selves on all of these networks.

That's why you see a bunch of little wannabe Angela Ryes running around. We were in an era, we still are, where it is so dangerous. And I went into every appearance feeling the weight of that. You know, like feeling like

I have to go and represent for my people who don't get to say what they really believe at work and so the thing the one regret that I have oh that makes me emotional but the one regret that I have is there are a lot of what just happened I hate you you make me cry for no reason

oh I make you cry for no reason everything makes you cry for no reason that's true but there are little girls or young women who would ask at schools how do you get to be yourself on air and you can stay in that role. And it got to a point where I was myself on air and I couldn't

stay in that role. So there are times where I worry that I gave them bad advice because I don't know if they'll be protected at work. And yet what I know, like what I know. No, thank you. You slow.

Give me that box. Not not so much. But, you know, what I what I hope is that there is a time where we can be our unapologetic selves angry if we need to be sad, if we need to be happy, if we need to be corn road, if we need to be whatever it is we need to be, cornrowed if we need to be, whatever it is, and that's okay. Right? Like black women are criminalized

for how they wear their hair. You know, whether or not their earrings are too big. I remember the first appearance I did on MSNBC and a black man was in my Twitter feed saying my hoops were ghetto. And I was like, I'm just being myself.

And so I want to make sure that when I tell them that it's okay for them to be themselves, themselves on air at school and at work, that I didn't lie to lie to them yeah I think they took advantage of uh well CNN I took I think they took advantage of your natural personality meaning like that wasn't that wasn't an act like a lot of I I see a lot of people now I can tell that they're performing yeah because you made space for that but that's really who you were and i think they knew that so they paired you with people that would piss you off for lack of a better term yeah there was there was a segment um and then i want to get off them but there was a segment one time where this man attacked i'm not

gonna say give him the benefit of mentioning his name but he attacked obama on twitter and i went back at him and he said something so crazy about me. I don't remember what it was. But they asked me if I could go on air like maybe two hours after that. And we were supposed to be talking about one thing. And when I got on air,

it was the guy. Wow. And I went off after that. I was like, don't you ever do that again. All right, we got more with Angela Rye. When we come back,

don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it back don't move it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking it with angela rise charlamagne why are your democrats so trash oh jesus help well let me let me ask you just one first question first give them a grade i will give them a strong d plus oh Ooh, D plus.

Okay, why? I don't want to say failing because I think there have been some small efforts made. I know people who are working in that administration are really trying and are hitting a wall. I have some anxiety about this judicial nomination for the Supreme Court. Really? I do. Why? You don't think he's going to nominate a black woman like he said? anxiety about this judicial nomination for the Supreme Court. Really? I do. Wow. You don't think he's going to nominate a black woman like he said?

I think he'll nominate a black woman like he said. But I also think that we're in an era where the type of black you are matters. You say it all the time. What's your phrase? Yeah. It's not mine. It's actually Zora Neale Hurston. But all your skinfolk ain't your kinfolk.

And so if you are not going to go in there and protect us, like we clearly need to be protected. If you look at the latest Alabama gerrymandering decision where the Supreme Court is demonstrating that they are likely going to gut section two of the Voting Rights Act two, we're not getting a Voting Rights Act out of the Senate unless there's some real pressure applied to people who don't realize what the assignment is. I'm not seeing the fight, and I'm not seeing the strategy. And it's disappointing. There are a lot of people in there doing some really good work, but I need them to have the platform and the space to perform,

including Kamala. Including Kamala. I love her, and I want to see her shine, and I'm just not seeing that right now. Also really worried that, you know, the same approach that is being taken with this Russia-Ukraine issue isn't being taken with issues stateside. Black folks are economically really hurting right now.

This pandemic is hurting people mentally, emotionally, economically, physically. And I'm not saying, I do think they've done well with COVID the best they can with all the unknowns, but. It was women asking for full tanks of gas for Valentine's Day. You know what? Oh, are you serious? Yes, they don't want no flowers, no balloons, no teddy bears. They want a full tank of gas.

We should go give people some gas after this. Can we give them some gas? No, that's a Valentine's gift. But we should go help them. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What if they don't have a Valentine's? I'll do that after Valentine's Day. Leonard, we can make the sacrifice.

Let's go buy five people gas after make the sacrifice. We should go. Let's go buy five people gas after this. Each. Five people gas. Where we at in the city? Let's go somewhere. Let's go to Jersey somewhere. So you don't have to pump it. It's a little far.

You don't have to pump it. And it's a little cheaper. I will do that. I'm serious. Okay. Oh, this was the thing I was going to say. I might give them a C minus actually. And let me tell you why.

They nominated a bunch of black women to the courts. But what does that mean to your earlier point about who are these people? Well, but here's the thing. These are actually good women. One of them is a good friend of mine, Kendra Davis Briggs, who is, she's been wanting to be a judge as long as I've known Kendra. So there are some changes being made in that regard that I know matter in the long run because once we are on the bench, we dictate what the law

is. So that stuff really does matter. So midterms of this year, what do you tell people to energize them to go vote? George Floyd Policing Act hasn't passed. Black people still out here getting killed by police. Build Back Better hasn't passed.

Voting rights are still being suppressed, which is the wildest one to me. You want to encourage people to go out there and vote knowing that they can't be able to so it's like what incentive is there for people to go out there and vote in the midterms i would rather the effort on voters be placed on applying pressure to elected officials to vote the right way the elected officials have to vote before we can vote. That's what I'm saying. And so in order for us to get to the ballot box and access it freely to exercise our franchise, they need to be voting. So I think that that means calling senators and saying, I know that the Voting Rights Act that you named after John Lewis

is not currently being considered, but it has to be like there is no you in office without me, without this bill. I mean, it feels like a desperate situation. I do not see how this is going to end well for us. I really don't. Which means it's not going to end well for them. They won't call out the mansions and cinemas. Well, who is they? Because some of them are.

I hate to say it, but the ones whose voices really, truly matter. But more importantly, why aren't they speaking up for the people who are running for these seats, these Senate seats? Why aren't they down there supporting the Gary Chambers? I think that in Joe Biden's mind and probably the closest people around him, they would say if you hit them on this, they're not going to be with you on any of your other priorities. What we all see that they don't for whatever reason is they're not going to be with you on any of your other priorities. What we all see that they don't for whatever reason is they're not going to be with you on any of your priorities anyway. So, yeah, I agree with you that they should be hitting that hard with Gary. Shout out to Gary, dear brother. I think that they would think he's too militant.

That's what you need. You need somebody that's cutting through. His messaging is clear and concise. When I say these things, sometimes you think I'm saying that this is my posture. It's not my posture. It's theirs. That's what Democrats are missing right now. Missing right now because their messaging sucks. The messaging sucks because what

are they going to champion? What are you going to champion? We used to say all the time, you know, you can't have a message without the policy that follows. So where are your policy victories right now? If you don't have any, what are you going to message? So when they lose the midterms

this year, what happens? He's going to be stuck. He's going to get impeached in the House. He won't get removed from office on the Senate side. Again, there are still a number of senators

who are not super radical. There aren't enough radical senators to remove him on the conservative side. But it's going to be a mess. What does this say for Vice President Harris' political future?

I think if they lose the midterms and Kamala is not seen on a larger platform and has and is able to exercise the influence that we both know she has, she's not going to be able to run. So I'm really hoping that there's a 180 and quickly. It's like it's overdue. Now, before you go, I want you to say something about your uncle. Oh, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry Rye. You was posting all this weekend that he went he went missing. So has there been any been any updates? Thank you for doing that.

No, you really try and make me cry today. So this is the most nerve wracking thing ever. My uncle, 77 years old. This is my dad's younger brother. He's starting to show signs of dementia and left the house on Tuesday night. Last seen at a Safeway in Renton, Washington, which is just outside of Seattle, passed out in the store. They called the medics to take him to Valley General, which is a hospital in Renton. He's there for a few hours. They release him, never request an emergency contact.

How do you release him to the world? Because, and I'm going to tell you why. Give him a goddamn bus pass. And we don't know where he went after that. They gave him a bus pass? They gave him a bus. He requested a bus pass. They gave him a bus pass.

Don't find an emergency contact. Don't tell people where he's going. i think it's because of this my uncle doesn't look like you know super well and so i think they assumed that this black man this elder black man was homeless and that he wouldn't be able to pay the hospital bill so i don't think they gave a damn about what happened to him i didn't know they gave up bus passes i didn't know they did either but where i don't know but this is my point like there are three bus routes i've been like on full-on detective mode about what happened to him. I didn't know they gave out bus passes. I didn't know they did either. And to where? I don't know. But this is my point. Like, there are three bus routes.

I've been, like, on full-on detective mode with my family trying to find him. Like, should I go home? Like, what am I going to do if I go home? Like, we're trying to figure it out. But, like, I just want to know if people saw him. Like, I don't... Like, in my heart right now, I don't believe that he's dead.

I just believe that he's lost. Why wouldn't they call somebody? They didn't even request an emergency contact from him. He had his cell phone on him. His cell phone was working until yesterday. Really? Yeah. You couldn't track it? We tried to track it. They said, now the battery's dead. And we were like, why didn't you track

it before that? Yikes. It's the most maddening thing. And my dad and my, there's six of them total. My aunt passed the year before she was in a domestic violence situation and they found her face down by her garbage cans. And so for my dad to potentially lose another sibling like this where there's so much unknown, it just we can't. I'm like, I'm refusing to give up. So, yeah, if y'all have any information, please hit us up. Yeah. Jerry W. Rye, adult black male, 77 years of age, six, four, thin build, facial hair.

And they don't care about our elders. And you would think in this world with a dad and grandfather. Yeah. With everything under surveillance, you think somebody would have saw him somewhere at the bus station. They saw him getting on the bus, but there's nothing after that. They didn't say the bus. You don't know the bus to where? We know.

And we're trying. You don't know the bus to where? No. We've reached out to the head of Metro to see if any of the drivers at that time, because he got on the bus around 7 p.m. Pacific time, if they could find him. We don't know. It's the most nerve-wracking thing ever. Yikes. Yeah. We'll take y'all's prayers and any information you have.

Definitely. Well, Angela Rye, it was great to see you. Good to see you. See you on ESPN. Thank you. Again soon. Yep. It's Angela Rye. it was great to see you. Good to see you. See you on ESPN. Thank you. Again soon. Yep. It's Angela Rye.

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She's spilling the tea. This is The Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, Whoopi Goldberg was back on The View yesterday after her two-week suspension. Now, she did say everybody she appreciates who reached out to her, and she got some surprising calls and messages, but she also says she's done a lot of listening. Here is her return. And welcome to The View, and yes, I am back.

And we missed you. And I missed you all, too. I've got to tell you, there's something kind of marvelous about being on a show like this. Because sometimes we don't do it as elegantly as we could. Sometimes, well, yeah, you know. But it's five minutes to get in important information about topics. And that's what we try to do every day. And I listened to everything everybody had to say.

And I was very grateful and I hope it keeps all the important conversations happening because we're going to keep having tough conversations. It happens to the best of them. We've been doing this long enough. Whether it's TV, radio, whatever, you're going to say something that somebody doesn't like and you

probably going to have to take a break for a little bit. Happens to all of us. All right. Now, another person who has a show, Nick Cannon, on Valentine's Day yesterday, he shared a new single and he did it over a sample of a song called Alone in Love. That's off Mariah's debut album. And here's what he had to say in this song called Alone. I'ma say I ain't got nothing but love for you I'ma stay away, I ain't tryna fuck it up for you I'ma keep my distance, stay in my lane Cause I know you got a man that's a little too late

I'ma stay alone, alone, alone now Cause I'm mad to the bone, bone, bone now I've been singing sad songs, songs, songs, songs Like I don't wanna be Hey, Nick, you're suspended from studios for two lifetimes. You are suspended from studios for two lifetimes, Nick. He's enjoying life. He misses his ex.

He said, if I could have you back, if I could go back to where we started. Which one, though? Which one? Exactly. He said, I want you back. It's probably better where you at. I mean, look, he did it over

a sample of Mariah's song, you know, and he said he would trade it all for the case if he could have her back. Yeah, like four other kids since Mariah though. Five other kids.

Mind your business. You done had four other kids since Mariah. Me too. But the same household though. No. Well, look, we don't know.

Or maybe it's just a song. Y'all worried about the wrong things okay what we need to do is be worried about doing music all right that's what that's the joy in life okay worried about the wrong things all right now london on the track and shancia they were caught holding hands and there was some posts online about it the two of them were at the super bowl together but shancia said it's not all that it seems. She captioned it, Maine, he held my hand to save me from falling, man.

And so people still don't believe it, though. But there you have it. So the two of them, according to her comment in the shade room, he was just trying to hold her hand to keep her from falling. All right, now Dream Doll has been rejecting Kodak Black's advances.

As you know, he's been writing to her on social media. He said, I want to show you Ish I ain't shown before. He posted a Dream Doll written out in rose petals on the floor and all of that. He said, it's Valentine's, baby. We got to finish what we started. And so she said, y'all need to stop gassing this, Emer. This bts from our video shoot you will never be my man kodak please stop now kodak went on instagram live i guess that offended him and here's what he had to say back before she had any kind of emotion and then girls like i forget they get them a few more dollars and then they feel like they look look at this i've been trying to play at

some kind of inferior to them like they bigger than some kind of way i ain't trying to play oh boy you could never out of well and i'm saying clearly show but behind the scenes they going you hear me going so it's like that's why i went public trying to show like oh yeah my bad Oh, well, I'm clearly show behind the scenes. They going, you're going. So it's like that's why I went public trying to show like, oh, yeah, my bad. He's shooting his shot. No, it's definitely promoting that video and song, right? Yeah. Now now we want to.

Yeah, because we're looking at all the behind the scenes pictures. Now he goes on to say this. And I just want to say something. Just because you like a woman, right, does not mean that she owes you anything. Just because she might want to work with you or do something with you. Let's not make it uncomfortable for women out here trying to do their thing. So here's what he had to say about he was referencing Young Miami and he was talking about Dream Doll. I'm the same shit as Dream. Like, I struck a nerve in him back then.

Basically, I told her, you know, the shit, like, y'all got to let me smash, you hear me? Because of music, the trash. So, you know what I'm saying? The shit, like, y'all got to let me smash, you know, because of music. So, you know what I'm saying? Like, y'all got to let me bust, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, I do what y'all do. So, it's like, you ain't going to get what you want. And I don't get me none. What about me? What about what you at?

Been having all your behind the scenes. They going. They just be scared of gangsters they don't want no grim and they want to smurf you heard me catch the ass in the flesh you in a chest like baby potter translation yeah that's not how that works kodak what do you say at all go ahead g translate it i'm just saying look if somebody wants to work with you if a woman wants to work in the studio with a man it's already hard enough. Yes.

Right? So don't make it uncomfortable for her feeling like she got to do this with you in order for you to get on a song with her. That's not true. And it's definitely not trash. And no woman owes you anything. Like, I don't like people to have... If you want to work with her, work with her.

If you don't, don't. That's that. What's wrong with the Smurfs, though? Yeah, instead of Smurfs, you should have said Magua. Like, that's what you got to say, Kodak. They don't want no gremlin. They want a Magua, okay? But the moral of the story is, yes,

you can't have a sense of entitlement when it comes to any of this, and especially with women that you're working with. Like, you hit it right on the head. It's because you like a woman. You know, she doesn't owe you anything. Yeah, and it's already super hard for women having to go in a studio. They talk about all the time just feeling uncomfortable guys coming on to you just

get to the work get to the business all right and leave it at that and kodak also is out of the hospital he was shot in the leg and so they said that he had a walker and there's pictures of him leaving the hospital as we told you before there were four people hit with bullets in a shooting that broke out after justin bieber's after party at the nice guy and he was taken to the hospital. As we told you before, there were four people hit with bullets in a shooting that broke out after Justin Bieber's after party at the Nice Guy. And he was taken to the hospital. He was listed in stable condition. Everybody is okay. But they're saying he's being extra cautious now,

using a walker and walking pretty slowly. If you see that video, you see police cars out there and everything. There's a ton of people out there. It's very scary. Well, that is your rumor report. Yeah. And, you know, for After the Hour, you know, donkey of the day, I'm definitely talking about, you know, entitlement. Because what happens when people are entitled is they end up getting all access cut off. All right.

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Donkey of the Day for Tuesday, February 15th. It is the 15th, right? Yes, it is. It goes to a 23-year-old aspiring rapper named isaiah smalls i'm glad this story happened because it's a teachable moment uh i doubt y'all will learn anything from it because it's simply not what y'all want to hear but it is a teachable moment nonetheless all right now even though this kid is 23 this isn't an age thing all right this isn't a generational thing and uh it's a generation yeah this is a generational thing and by generation i

don't mean age i just mean this era that we currently all collectively live in okay there has been some type of repressive rigmentation some type of brainwashing the human brain has been altered and controlled by certain psychological techniques and it has reduced people's critical thinking skills and it's changed folks attitudes values and beliefs and it has given people a sense of entitlement that is unreal okay i know regardless of what line of work you're in or who you are or where you live you felt that sense of entitlement that people have all right people will have your phone number and if they text you and you don't get right back to them they will text you talking crazy all right how you asking me for something and when i don't reply when you want me to or how you want me to you talking crazy to me forget what i got going on in my life all right

you just upset that i didn't reply back to you now i gotta block you because i don't want that energy of entitlement around me okay there is there is there is this level of access that people think they have i don't know if it's because of social media and social media has such a lack of boundaries and people feel like since they can at you whenever they want to they can talk to you however they want to and in the case of isaiah smalls pop up on you whenever they want to okaylement, the belief that one is inherently deserving of privileges of special treatment. Isaiah, Isaiah Smalls was arrested on this past Saturday for trespassing on Sean Combs property. Yes, Sean Combs, the black cultural icon known as Diddy. Drop on the clues, Bonesford.

Diddy. All right. Love, brother, love, puff, whatever you want to call him. This 23 year old aspiring rapper Isaiah Smalls was arrested for trespassing, trespassing on Diddy's property. He showed up to Diddy's Los Angeles home and began pounding on the security gate in an attempt to have a conversation with Diddy. To Audacity, the unmitigated goal for you to show up at my house, knock on my door in the middle of the day on a random Saturday, unannounced to have a conversation with me. Do you know what it takes to have a conversation with Diddy? Do you know the channels you have to go through? I mean, we were all blessed, you know, on this show to over the years have developed a relationship with the brother Diddy. You know, I have his number. We spoke on the phone.

We FaceTimed, but I don't think I've ever called him directly. And honestly, I don't know if I would, simply because I don't like to abuse that access. And by the way, it don't matter if it's Diddy or somebody else. I'm not abusing access to anyone. I don't feel entitled to anyone's time. I don't feel entitled to anyone's energy, even people that work with me.

Okay? Like, no, we all human, and we all got boundaries. And I know how I get when I feel like someone is violating my boundaries. I remove access. Okay? So, Isaiah Smalls, you have absolutely no access to Diddy, and you really thought you would get it by pulling up to his crib in L.A. and banging on his security gate?

Uh-uh-uh. Super security gate? Uh-uh. Super Bowl weekend? Uh-uh. When people were flying in to rob people? Uh-uh. But wait, it gets worse. In a video, TMZ, okay? In a video, TMZ got, you can see Isaiah Smalls pacing in front of Diddy's estate,

looking frustrated, looking mad because nobody is answering the gate for him. Do you hear this? You show up to a mogul's house. You show up to this man's house unannounced in L.A. where there is currently a crime wave. Super Bowl weekend. You know how many robberies and stuff happened this weekend? And you banging on his gate and you mad that nobody answered? Okay.

I'm telling you, there's a sense of entitlement in this generation, in this era that is unreal. Now, Isaiah Smalls wasn't happy with just pacing in front of a state angry. No, no, no, no. He's clearly a habitual boundary stepper because he successfully hopped the fence when he was promptly apprehended by security. That sentence could easily read where he was promptly shot and killed by security. OK, do you understand the current climate we live in, Isaiah? People getting robbed, people getting killed. There's a crime wave in L.A. right now.

It was Super Bowl weekend. He was reading stories where private security companies were booked up to the max. And you hop in the fence of an L.A. mansion that just a couple months ago went on the market for 14.5 million. Do you understand the type of PTSD and anxiety someone like Diddy has? This man has seen so much violent stuff around him. OK, do you think his security is playing about him at all? Now, thank God he wasn't home. Thank God his kids weren't home, because if they were, Isaiah, you would probably be dead right now. And what pisses me off about this is he was arrested and released from custody an hour later.

He hasn't learned nothing in an hour. All right. The consequences and repercussions of this are not severe enough. I don't know how you teach people not to have a sense of entitlement. I really don't. But I can assure you that your sense of entitlement, that belief that you are inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment will leave you with nothing guaranteed. Nobody owes you anything. You have absolutely no right to show up to someone's house unannounced. Then jump the gate. And it's scary to think that you thought that would lead to a civil conversation. Hey, Mr. Diddy, I just jumped your fence. I know I'm trespassing, not here to kill you or anything, but I have this demo I would like you to hear.

Really? Really? I don't care if you're the most amazing artist Diddy has ever heard. He's not going to receive anything you're delivering. He won't be picking up anything you're putting down because of the approach, okay? By the way, not only does that not burn your relationship, you know, with Diddy, it burns your relationship with any and everybody with common sense because this is on your resume.

And when people hear the name Isaiah Smalls, they just going to think of this kid who hopped Diddy's fence to give him a demo. And you know what that translates to? Entitlement. A sense of entitlement only justifies your own selfishness. I know all I need to know about you now, and I don't want no parts, young man. Please let Remy Ma give Isaiah Smalls the biggest hee-haw. Hee-haw, hee-haw, you stupid mother are you dumb? And by the way, what separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude. Okay, I thank God for every opportunity, for every position. I take none of it for granted. I thank God for every relationship. And I am owed nothing, but I owe God everything.

Okay? Okay. Diddy needs a dog. He needs a dog? Yeah, Diddy needs a dog. When he would have hopped over that fence, that dog would have grabbed that man. Boy, oh boy. Yeah?

Boy, it just takes one. Just take one. Yeah. A shooting wouldn't that man. Boy, oh boy. Boy, it just takes one. Just take one. Yeah. A shooting wouldn't have hurt either. It might have hurt. He might have died. I'm just saying. I'm saying a shooting wouldn't have hurt for people to learn the larger lesson is what I'm saying. And I don't wish that on nobody, but boy, when you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.

Okay? Some of y'all be really... Plus, it's dangerous. It's dangerous out here right now. you don't know what people are doing a hundred percent yeah i'm gonna let the dog out and then ask questions later oh my bad nope all right well thank you for that donkey today and i bet you i got i bet you he sucks as a rapper you know i'm saying you dying for that whack-ass demo all of that you know what i mean and guess what i'm never gonna listen even regardless oh even regardless. Oh, my goodness. All right. God bless you.

I send you healing energy. And the sad part is you did the whole donkey thing. You can't even sign. That's fine. I want people to know. You can't even sign somebody who does that because then everybody's going to try to do it. Exactly. All right.

Well, thank you for that donkey today. Up next, Manuel and Gisele Godoy. All right. They are the CEO and CFO of Black Sands, which is a black comic book company. And they were recently on Shark Tank. Kevin Hart had a huge investment in their company. So we'll talk to them next. It's Black History Month.

Let's support our own. All right. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Do you? The Breakfast Club. Angela Yee and Charlamagne Tha God.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got some special guests. I can't wait to see this. Joining us this, what? Go ahead. Joining us today, we have Manuel and Giselle Godoy.

Or is it, what is it? That was absolutely correct. Yes, it was. Ha! Okay, you know, he's not good. I was like, I can't wait. Welcome. Good morning, Manuel and Giselle.

Thank you. How you guys doing? Doing awesome. You're doing so good, man. This ain't no joke. I know, right? The founders of Black Sands Comics. That's right.

I love seeing black comic people, man. I feel like this is a lane that not enough black people are in. Oh, yeah. Well, there's actually a whole bunch of people that's in this lane right um they just never got the the eyes on them you know if you go to convention you'd be surprised how many black people are there like that are actual like independent creators you know we tend to be like the majority of the independent creators there you know so you know we just haven't really had a chance to be you know front and. Let's start from the beginning. How did you get into the comic book world?

How did you get into that world? Animating. Go ahead, Jill. This started back in 2016 when my husband, he wanted to make a video game called Black Sands. And so, the production cost a lot of money. Did you support him at first? He was like, yeah, whatever.

He was like, yo, if this doesn't work out i promise you i get a 95 you know work at panera brand somewhere this was his last rap endeavor so it was really expensive to do the video game oh yeah it was like 20k you know we already burnt 20k we uh it was way too much when i realized that the final production would take so much more. And I was like, it's too early. I don't have a big enough fan base yet. I just can't get the money. You know, so I was like, let's pivot.

Let's make a comic book off the same series. We went to Kickstarter, you know, and then we raised like $20,000, you know, on a $4,000 Kickstarter. And the rest was history after that. We just started running. Yeah, people don't understand how expensive it is to do the animation and everything. I remember I hired some people I knew to do some animation for my podcast for lip service. And just for that 60 seconds, it was so expensive. That manpower.

Yeah, I know. It's like, what, 24 drawings per second. Exactly. It can get crazy. So you started making a series. And how did you get heard? Before Shark Tank, how did you get your stuff out there? How did people see it?

How did you create a fan base? Well, I'm a monster when it comes to social media platforms and also advertising. So, you know, if you even see my stuff once and hit the like button, you know, the Facebook gods are going to hunt you down for the rest of your life until you follow me, right? And so we started the online business by 2017, you know, right at the end of the year. I bought a kiosk in Hoover, Alabama. I was like, I'm going to go and sell books right in the mall. Right. And I sold like six thousand dollars worth of comics. It was great. Right. But I was there all day, 14 hours a day right it was crazy right and online in that same exact time i did like 45 000 on shopify right so

i was like this doesn't make sense why am i in this store exactly it's a way bigger reach online for you too yeah it's it's been it's been huge online is everything i do because you can target certain uh people based on you can really like use those numbers. Yeah. And you know who your customers are. Right. It's hard to know who your customer is when you're like selling to Barnes & Noble or to a comic book shop. You don't know who actually bought your book.

Right. But when you're online, you know exactly who your audience is. And then you can start like laser focusing on them with your marketing strategy. Right. So I talk to parents right i'm trying to convince the parent to buy the buy the books the kids love the books because basically like naruto in ancient egypt right the parents love the books because it's game of thrones in ancient egypt right so so you know there's two different looks at the same product but it works

for both of them right and i don't care about the comic book fan as far as like how i'm using my my marketing strategy. Because then I'm a core customer in the first place. Let me ask you two basic questions. What is Black Sands Entertainment, the business, and what is Black Sands, the comic? Yeah, so Black Sands, the business, is we focus on history before slavery. That is the main purpose of our thing. We feel like there's too much generic content out there for you know every guy wants

to make a superhero right or whatever and we want to make stories about our ancient past in any way shape or form so we got black sands we got mask of the orisha we got you know madagascar is differently a lot of things in our culture that we've been missing out on right and then what black sands specifically is the seven kingdoms is a story about Asar and his rise to power. So basically, he's trying to prove to his grandfather that he could be the next pharaoh. But a war breaks out between seven kingdoms. Now it's up to him and his kin to save the world. That's my pick.

Business-wise, how did a company like, say, Milestone influence what y'all do? Well, Milestone kind of gave me warnings. I'm going to be honest with you guys. I would hope so. Who else are you there for? They did some things that were great, but they didn't have the tools that we have available to us today, right? They didn't have a social media platform to literally build their own audience.

Because if they did, they probably would have made different choices. But they had to go do deals with DC. Sorry to explain Milestone. I don't know. Milestone is a black-owned comic. Are they still black-owned? Oh, yeah. Reggie Hudlin founded them.

Yeah, so they're a black-founded comic company, and they have characters like Static Shock, who's probably one of the most popular black superheroes ever. Mm-hmm. And they tied up with DC. DC works with Diamond to go and distribute their books. Eventually, DC was like, margins aren't there. We're killing the brand.

Brand's dead. The milestone has no choice in that matter, right? And they disappeared 30 years ago. So that was the fate of a lot of companies back then. You tie yourself up to a bigger brand or whatever, and then eventually if they decided that today was your day to die that was it then you could do they did have some type of relaunch though um just recently recently like two years like last year yeah like a 30-year

like a hiatus it's like you know that might have just been because of the black lives matter movement so what kind of they want to make sure they're on the right side of history when they're doing that so they're like yo dc yo we're bringing back Milestone. You're like, so. And I think I saw Michael B. Jordan might be EP in the Static Shock movie. I don't know. Michael B. Jordan's in a lot of stuff. So you guys hands in a lot of different productions right now. All right, we got more with Manuel and Gisele Godoy, the CEO and CFO of Black Sands.

All right, they have their own comic book company. Kevin Hart just invested in them. And we'll talk to them some more when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ and V. Angela Yee.

Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're kicking it with Manuel and Giselle Godoy. They are the CEO and CFO of Black Sands. They had a comic book company. They were recently on Shark Tank. Now, how did you guys get on Shark Tank? Well, the reality is they called me.

So I got recruited. Oh, Shark Tank called you. I got recruited. I got recruited on that one. So they do have like scouts. I like how you said that. Who, who, who. I'm not chasing them.

They recruited me. I was doing fine. I applied for two years and never got through. I know. Yes. I guess it was just critical mass to the point where somebody was watching and said, this company is pretty dope. Right. So they called me and went through the process.

I can't go through the process. Right. As far as what they do. Right. But, you know, you know, it was a pretty crazy thing because I've always wanted to be on there. Right. I was like, I was like, I run an exceptional business and I need somebody who's basically the kingmakers of business to validate me so I could finally get in front of the camera of the national news right I just need to be in front so I could show people what

we've done do you think the crowdfunding because you guys did get a million dollars in crowdfunding so you think one shark tank saw that was it was that after they called you after that is yes we were already done with two rounds prior to that so right so they probably saw okay this is really lucrative and has a great you know support base already exactly and plus um on shark tank they never had like a black owned comic book company on their show they didn't have comic book so this was something totally different from them so they they they something different. Was it difficult to give up 30%? Oh, yeah.

You heard Kevin, though. Now, did you know Kevin Hart was going to be on there before? Two weeks. Two weeks before. Usually he's not there, but every once in a while they have guests, celebrities, sharks. I was prepared. I was prepared to go into a panel with five white sharks.

Because it happens all the time. Great white sharks. If Damon's not there. So I was prepared, right? I was like, I might have to go into this with nobody really has skin in the game on this right here. And I'm just going to have to go business, business, business. And when I saw, when I knew that Kevin Hart was going to be there, right? Because the rest of the day gave it to me in a funny way. They were like, just let you know, Damon's not going to be there. And I was like, oh, business. And when I saw, when I knew that Kevin Hart was going to be there, right, because the rest of the day gave it to me in a funny way.

They were like, just to let you know, Damon's not going to be there. And I was like, oh, man. I know. I was like, dang. He's the excited guy, you know. So I was like, all right, Kevin O'Leary, I got this. I got this, Kevin. I got you.

Right? And then, you know, he's like, oh, yeah, it's going to be Kevin Hart, though. And I was like, I know. I was like, we won, man. I was thinking in my head. I was like, if we get him excited, it's over. I don't have to prove nothing at that point. If he's excited, everybody else is going to fall in line.

But was it hard to give up the 30%? Oh, absolutely. It was extreme. I mean, it went a lot longer than what they showed. They showed like three minutes. It was like 20 minutes. How much he gave and the percentage you gave him. Because you offered 5%.

Yeah. So what happened was, you know, originally I was going to do 10% max with a royalty on books, right? Nobody was interested in books. Well, Kevin O'Leary was interested in books. But the whole point was, you know, he saw the movie. That's what he does, right? So he was like,

this is what I'm interested in. This is what I'm about to do. Right? And he gave a really good, like, he was telling us exactly what he was going to do. He was like, yeah. He's the best. He was like straight up like. Kevin O'Leary.

No, Kevin Hart. Yeah, yeah. Kevin Hart was like, you know, this ain't no hypothetical scenario in which you might get a show. He's like, this is what we're going to do. That's why he told him to edit it out. I was like, I wasn't going to fight him to death because we were already fatigued. Like I said, this went on for like 20 minutes. And I was like, yo, I just got to make this deal now.

And we still got due diligence and all the other crap in the future to go and finalize the deal. So, you know, we're still working on it, right? But we're almost done with our deal right now to close it out. What did he give you on shock tape? What was it? What was it? It was $500,000 for 30%. For who Kevin is and who Kevin is becoming.

He's definitely worth it. Definitely worth it. Now, question. Would you have done that if it was five white sharks? Would you have given up 30%? No, but I would have got the deal for 10% because Kevin O'Leary was in for that. Yes. He said I was.

He said I was. So Kevin the one was driving the whole bar. He was like, I'll take that deal. He did. I was like, Kevin, though. I need Kevin, too. I need Kevin Hart. Yeah, let me ask you this.

Kevin Hart had veto power. Before you knew that Kevin was going to be there, did you know which shark you would have liked? Kevin O'Leary. Okay, so you knew that. I like his ruthlessness. So I'm a business guy. So I love the fact that he always thinks of ways that is mutually beneficial.

So if you're getting a royalty on book sales, you want more books to sell. And that's my grind so you know a million two million ten million books a year that's something that he would want to achieve right so I don't care about that 25 cents could have great margins mm-hmm right and so I was like I think Kevin's gonna bite on this right now I didn't know that everybody was gonna bite on it right Kevin O'Leary you you still were and for people that don't watch Shark Tank or you just know the character, he's the white older guy with the George Jefferson haircut, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Has a lot of money, but he's usually ruthless. Yes. He throws obscene numbers like, I'll give you $500,000 for 90% of your company. He's usually like that. And when you're watching all the Shark Tanks, you still were like, this is the guy I want to work with. This is the guy. Because he is all about, he doesn't care about whether he gets the idea or not what he cares about is whether the

business is right whether the margins are correct right and whether you're selling a lot of units to a customer because you know he already has like massive customer bases and and and you know um you know i don't want to gas him up right right, because I ain't going to deal with him. But he has, like, an email list of, like, 12 million people on it, right? Whatever, he can just do it. So he offered you $500,000 at 10%, and you took the $500,000 down to $30%? I took Kevin Hart. Yeah, what did he say? And Mark Cuban.

And Mark Cuban. And Mark Cuban. Exactly. And what did O'Leary say to you? Because I know he cursed y'all out. No. No, O'Leary was like, well, you know, he even said it on television. He was like, you know, there's partners and then there's partners.

Yeah, and if he gets you and he's going to utilize you and make you, you'd rather give away 30% to make millions and millions. I got humbled at that moment. I got humbled at that moment. Give away 10% and make, you know. Exactly. I got pumped in that moment, real talk. Giselle knew it, too.

She was like, I fought and I just couldn't win. I couldn't win. Exactly. And then you think of the future, right? Because you think of other things that Kevin Hart could tie you into that might not even be. Movies. Exactly. The reach that he has.

Y'all don't realize how excited I am for y'all. Because, you know, I'm a real big comic book guy. And, you know, people don't know how big the comic book business is. There was actually an article that came out recently and it's like how the comic book business is going to be worth like $12.8 billion by 2028.

Even the book sales of comic books have gone up over the past couple years. I don't know if it's because of COVID or what. So y'all are in a great, great, great position. Let's keep amplifying y'all's story man. I want to get y'all are in a great, great, great position. Let's keep amplifying y'all's story, man. I want to get y'all on the Trap Nerds podcast, too.

Trap Nerds, they show y'all a lot of love and support. That's a black comic book podcast we got on the Black Effect podcast network, and they show y'all a lot of love. I want to get y'all on there, too.

Awesome. Amazing. Absolutely. Yeah, I'm so glad we made this happen, y'all. I know. Oh, yeah, 100%. Black Sands Entertainment

Manuel and Giselle Godoy, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Appreciate it. The Breakfast Club. Listen up.

It's just in. All the gossip. Gossip. The Rumor Report. Gossip. Gossip. With Angela Yee. It's The Rumor Report.

The Breakfast Club. Well, Roddy Rich was on Academics Off the Record podcast. And one of the things that he talked about was Meek Mill's recent accusations against Atlantic Records. He was talking about Atlantic separating him from Roddy Ricch. And here's what Roddy Ricch had to say about Atlantic. What Meek tweeted recently was an indictment on your label. But you have a good relationship with your label yeah and he said he felt that your label kind of robbed him of maybe a situation with you yeah do you have a different perspective now that you see his perspective I mean I called me as soon as that

happened he gave me the whole rundown my only situation with him he noticed so I can say whatever I want to say one thing you're not gonna ever hear me do i'm a real i don't speak on with i explain this to him please let's not speak on our business and situations if we can't even call each other on the phone and we just had a conversation just about his his his perspective of it and it was a valid point valid valid situation with what he got going on his situation with Atlantic it's not my situation with them I love I love that that's respectable I love that just don't you know let's just not talk on business yeah if we haven't had a conversation

I love that and and then as far as more on the Meek situation and the two of them do still have a good relationship here's what he had to say about uh Nipsey and Meek. So with Meek, you know, my situation with Atlantic was already solidified due to Nipsey Hussle walking me and Kiefer in the building. You know what I'm saying? He gave us that big brother love, that big brother hug, and never wanted nothing from us. You get what I'm saying? All money in. I was really supposed to be all money in. I can show you a picture where I had the Dream Chaser chain and the All Money In chain on at the same time. While he working on Victory Lap at the Studio Encore in Burbank,

I'm f***ing with him, pulling up on him. He telling Burr, like, we need to, let's construct a little. You should have been on Nipsey. Let's construct a little situation. I ain't got to be an All Money In artist. That's the first time I heard of Roddy Ricch was on Racks in the Middle with Nipsey. He was on the Nipsey Hussle Racks in the Middle record. And he also talked about leaving social media.

People were trying to say it was because he didn't like how people reacted to a song snippet. But he said it was after he got a phone call about one of his family members having a heart attack. And he just basically said, you can't please anyone. So he just decided to leave social media alone and he said before all this fame he wasn't even on instagram so you know he just that's it all right you know also when it comes to that discussing business that does bring a lot of unnecessary energy into your life because when you discuss business publicly you know most of the time people don't even know what the hell you're talking about so now you got all these unwanted

opinions from all of these people that's just on the sidelines discussing your deal and your situation and what could have been. That's just unnecessary. But if we cool, just call me. Let's chop it up first. Let's have that conversation first. We don't have to have this conversation on social media. I agree. Alright, and Kevin Hart is going to be going on tour this summer. It's called the

Reality Check Tour. So he's going to be hitting up 30 arenas. It's been more than four years since his last major tour. So make sure you to be hitting up 30 arenas. It's been more than four years since his last major tour. So make sure you guys go and get tickets to that. Yes. That should be a good one. And Naomi Campbell, congratulations to her.

She has a daughter. She's 51 years old and she posted a beautiful little blessing has chosen me to be her mother. So honored to have this gentle soul in my life. There are no words to describe the lifelong bond that I now share with you. My angel, there is no greater love. Now, she made these headlines last May. And now you can see that she is on the cover with her baby.

So cute. I don't know if you guys saw the picture of her and her daughter. Congratulations to Naomi Campbell. I'm happy that she had a healthy delivery. She's 50, right? She's 51 now. 51. She had the baby at? She's 51 now. 51. I think she had the baby at 50.

Drop on the Clues Moms for Naomi Campbell. And salute to Kevin Hart for going on tour. Remember when Kevin kicked Envy out of his show? That was amazing. Yep. I seen Kevin over the weekend and he screamed, Envy, F you. Thanks, Kevin. All right.

And Regina Hall, Wanda Sykes, and Amy Schumer are going to be hosting the Oscars this year as reported by Deadline. And so congratulations to them. As you know, Will Packer is actually going to be producing it. He had engaged with multiple potential hosts and then he settled on the three of them. I like that combination.

That's an amazing combination. Yes. And for all you fans of Bridgerton, season two is on the way that trailer is out now that show returns on March 25th and be sorry you didn't make it into this season how you know I didn't make it?

alright because you're not in the trailer and because you've been at work you would have had to film alright well that is your rumor report alright let's get to the mix 800-585-1051. Let's get your request and let me know what you want to hear.

Charlamagne, what you want to hear? Kodak Black Super Gremlin. We could have been superstars. All right. Riding around in fancy cars or jacking cars, something. All right. I just like the part where he said, now it's not safe for you. Switched up like a little bitch.

All right, let's go. Breakfast of the morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. The General Insurance is a quality insurance company that has been saving people money for nearly 60 years. What up, y'all? It's DJ Envy. And you should take a closer look at The General.

Call 800-GENERAL or visit thegeneral.com. The General Auto Insurance Services, Inc. and Insurance Agency, Nashville, Tennessee. Some restrictions apply. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now it's Black History Month. What we doing, Charlamagne?

Well, you know, every day on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network, we drop a daily podcast called I Didn't Know Maybe You Didn't Either, hosted by my man B-Dot. And today B-Dot is talking to us about Peter Buxton, who is the whistleblower responsible for ending the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. Let's discuss. I didn't know. What's really good? BDOT here. I'm in High Point, North Carolina at the High Point Museum. History everywhere. Let's check this jazzy out. Are you familiar with the name Peter Buxton? Probably not, but you probably are familiar with the Tuskegee

Experiment of 1932. Tuskegee University and the United States Health Department teamed up to conduct an experiment on untreated syphilis in black men. And how did they conduct said experiment? By infecting black men with syphilis under the umbrella of free healthcare. Many black men died. Many black men just went into their community, giving it out. You get a syphilis, you get a syphilis,

you get a syphilis, syphilis! The experiment was supposed to last six months. It lasted 40 years, people. And on the 40th year, 27-year-old Peter Buxton, who worked for the United States Health Department, said to himself, hey, this don't seem quite right. And he was the whistleblower.

He leaked the information to the newspaper, thus halting the experiment. We all know Peter Parker to be Spider-Man, but Peter Buxton is Superman without the cape. It's stories like these that prove we need allies. I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. I didn't know. All right, you learn something new every day. You learn something new every day, man.

And all heroes don't wear capes. That's what we be learning. And they damn sure didn't teach us about no Peter Buxton in school. That I know for sure. So make sure you download. I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. The daily podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network.

OK, hosted by my man B. Dot. Salute to B. Dot. All right. Now, when we come back, we got the positive notice, the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now we got a shout out to Angela Rye for joining us this morning. Salute to my good out to Angela Rye for joining us this morning. Salute to my good sister Angela Rye. Congratulations to her on her new position with ESPN as a special correspondent and she wanted

me to remind y'all that she really does want to help some of y'all fill up your gas tanks. Yes, me too. Me as well. So five people. So all you got to do right now, just send us your cash apps right now. We're going to pick the first five cash apps. And we're going to send you some money to fill up your gas tank.

Really? All right. Well, I'm going to put mine in there. Nice. All right. And also shout out to Manuel and Giselle Godoy. They are the CEO and CFO of Black Sands, a comic book company. Appreciate them for joining us this morning.

Salute to Black Sands, man. Absolutely. That's right. That's one of Kevin Hart's latest investments. And I just like what Black Sands is doing because I just love, you know, I love comic books and I love to see black people designing comic books. So salute to Black Sands Entertainment. Also, shout out to our Brooklyn Nets. Go Brooklyn.

We won last night 109 to 85 against the Sacramento Kings. Shout out to Ben Simmons. Saw him sitting on the sidelines. Very excited to have you in Brooklyn. So welcome. Not sure when he'll be playing, but it was good to see him in the building. All right. Now you got a positive note?

I do. And I just want to reiterate what I was saying about entitlement early this morning, man, during Donkey of the Day. I just need y'all to know that a sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships. That's a quote from Dr. Steve Maraboli that you need to learn and apply to your goddamn life. Breakfast club, bitches. Y'all finished or y'all done?

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