September 30, 2026 • 9 mins
Charlamagne Gives Donkey of The Day To Washington For Choosing To Regulate NIL But Voluntarily Vows To ‘Police’ AI. Listen for more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Your execution on the donkey of the day is something
to behold.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Give me the reed.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
He gave me donkey of the day and I deserve it.
You need to know.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You need to tell them.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I am.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
You have the voice. Tell them.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
It's time for donkey of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It's a reed, but you're so good at it.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
You're trying to be a fake ass Charlemagne.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
You only want Charlemagne to go.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Damn Charlemagne, who you give a donkey.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Of the day to now?
Speaker 6 (00:25):
Well, donkey of the day for Wednesday, September 30th is
a double donkey. It's going to both the United States
Senate and the White House because yesterday the Senate passed
the Protect College Sports Act 77 to 22, which establishes
a uniform federal framework to regulate NIL compensation transfers, transfers,
eligibility in college athletics. Yes, transfers and eligibility in college athletics. OK,
(00:50):
let's go to CBS News report, please.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
The bill as amended is passed.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
A bipartisan victory scored in the U.S. Senate.
Speaker 7 (00:58):
It is about making sports about sports again.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
After an overwhelming vote to pass the Protect College Sports Act.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yet the system we have today is unsustainable, plain and simple.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Students are transferring three and four times. Pros are trying
to play ball against college kids.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
The legislation would implement new national standards for college sports.
That includes codifying the rights of student-athletes to earn money
from their name, image, and likeness, permitting up to five
years of eligibility to play, but only allowing them to
transfer schools once, and capping agent fees. The bill is
backed by some of the biggest names in sports, from
(01:36):
coaches like Nick Saban and John Calipari to athletic conferences
and professional sports leagues.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
This is a hastily done bill.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, a former Stanford football player,
is one of several lawmakers who oppose the bill.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
There needs to be rules of the road. It can't
be the wild, wild west out there. But you can't
have wealthy interests and Congress making a deal that the
actual players are not a part of.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Now, meanwhile, yesterday, the White House had some of the
biggest technology companies in the world, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic,
all of them agreed to basically police themselves when it
comes to artificial intelligence. Let's listen to President Trump discuss.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
They're really going to be policing each other. It's going
to be very, very safe.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And there's a self-policing and there's also a group policing.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And it's going to be great. Now, think about that
for a second.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
The people who built the A.I., who are now admitting
to us that technology can behave in ways they didn't
intend it to.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
OK, they're telling us AI could be dangerous.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
We are now supposed to trust those same companies and
those same people, the police themselves. OK, we really think
we can trust those companies to put safety.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Over growth, a.k.a.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Money.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
OK, now I'm not the highest grade of weed in
the dispensary or the strongest Avengers. So, America, let me
see if I understand this correctly. A 19-year-old wide receiver
gets an NIL deal, and Washington says, slow down, we
need some rules around this.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But some of the.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Richest corporations on planet Earth are building AI that even
the people developing it acknowledge can potentially destroy us all,
and we just trust them to not let things get
too crazy. And yes, I know the agreement calls for
outside audits, and I know there are internal controls. I
know there's going to be board oversight, but that's not
my point. My point is the agreement is voluntary.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
OK, President Trump himself called it self-policing.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
When is letting powerful corporations police themselves ever been the
gold standard for protecting the public? There is a reason
independent regulation exists, because it's always a conflict of interest.
And there is no bigger conflict of interest than telling
companies that spend hundreds of billions of dollars that are
all racing each other to build the most powerful AI
systems in the world. Hey, you guys determine whether you're
(03:51):
being safe enough. I don't see how you can improve
the intelligence of AI and improve the safeguards at the
same time. We have no evidence that the safeguards can
keep winning that race. But then on the other hand,
Congress looked at college sports and suddenly discovered the importance
of enforceable federal rules. Now, I'd like to be fair. OK,
(04:11):
everything in the Protect College Sports Act isn't bad. There's
protections for athletes in there. There's health care protections, protections
for scholarships, protection from predatory agents. You heard in the
news report they have federal NIL rights. They got revenue sharing.
Speaker 8 (04:24):
Great.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Protect the athletes. I'm all for that. But here's where
the BS starts. I was born in 1978. And for
as long as I can remember, everybody around college athletes
was making money. Universities, coaches, conferences, TV networks, apparel companies
all made billions of dollars. Everybody could participate in capitalism
except the people putting their bodies on the field. And
(04:48):
when that was happening, nobody was screaming, we got to
get this money under control. Okay, then NIL happens. Players
get some power. Revenue sharing happens. Athletes start making money.
And suddenly Washington says, we need federal legislation, a.k.a. it's
too many Negroes making money. Let's get this under control. OK,
it's no secret that a lot of the young men
(05:08):
benefiting from this new college sports economy, especially in football
and basketball, are black. And I can't factually say that
the 77 United States senators voted for this bill because
they saw.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Young black men making money.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
You know, I can't factually ask that, but I can
ask a question. And the question is simply why? Does
America's appetite for regulation seem to change depending on who
has the leverage? When the labor gets leveraged, Congress has
to get involved, okay? It has to be regulations. But meanwhile,
some of the most powerful corporations humanity has ever created
(05:45):
are developing technology that could change employment and warfare, education,
and damn near everything else about how we live.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And we're talking about a morally binding agreement.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
What?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Humans break morally binding agreements every damn day. That's why
we have contracts. That's why we have laws. That's why
we have regulators. And I'm not anti-AI, okay? I use AI.
I'm investing in AI companies. I just want real oversight, okay?
If the people building the technology are telling us the
technology is becoming more powerful, shouldn't the public have somebody
at the table whose only responsibility is protecting the public?
(06:24):
And that's what makes today's double donkey so ridiculous. I'm
watching Washington apply two completely different philosophies at the exact
same time.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
College athletes, we need federal rules.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Trillion dollar technology companies, we trust you guys.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, no.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
If anything, my instinct would be the opposite. The greater
the power... the greater the independent oversight should be. Because
the real question isn't whether America believes in regulation. The
question is, who does America believe needs regulating? Okay, because
apparently if you're 19 years old and can run a
4-3-40 and somebody wants to give you a couple million
(07:02):
dollars because you're good at football or.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Basketball, Washington needs to keep an.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Eye on you.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
But if you're worth hundreds of billions of dollars, trillions,
and you're building technology powerful enough that the people creating
it are telling us.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
can kill us all. We just trust you. We just
trust that you'll promise to behave.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Please let Remy Ma give the United States Senate and
the White House the biggest hee-haw.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Hee-haw.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Hee-haw.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You stupid motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You dumb. Crazy world we live in, man.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
It is.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Crazy world. Come on.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You're going to need some water for that. The water's
almost gone. What'd you say?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
He's eating a muffin and it's like a thick muffin.
He's eating a lot of it at a time.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I know somebody got me in their phone under that name, too.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
What? Thick Muffin.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Do you know what?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I know it.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
That is a great Aunt Muffin.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I'm sure he does. You give Auntie Muffin.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I can not call you Auntie Thick Muffin.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I'm sure there's a dude out there that got you
under the phone Thick Muffin.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Just make sure the first and last name is Muffin.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Let me change the name of my phone. Thick Muffin.
Do not put him under your phone as Thick Muffin.
All right?
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Thank you for that donker today.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Now let's open up the phone lines.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
800-585-1051.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
Savannah James was doing a podcast. They were talking about
the way that they travel, right?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Well, they were Savannah James and her podcast co-host, her
best friend. They were on the boardroom. They were doing
an interview because they have a podcast and they brought
up the conversation that they've had on their podcast about
how they travel.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
My friends are very respectful of my situation.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
All of them.
Speaker 8 (08:39):
Like I've never had an instance like that one time.
And I think that they are, you know, if I'm like,
we're going somewhere, they already understand what it is. There's
no expectation of like taking care of something or, you know,
just having me be responsible for them.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
There's two different lifestyles that exist. Like we're not delusional
to that. And I think accommodating, like even if we're
going on the same trip, I don't feel the need
to be in first because that's not in my budget. Like,
so we always laugh about it. And we actually talked
about it on our pod about, That's.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
A good friend.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I don't feel the need.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I respect that.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well, let's open up the phone lines.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
800-585-1051.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Salute April McDaniel.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's a good friend there.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
Are you responsible to fund your friend's financials if you're
in a different financial class? You heard her saying they
were going on a trip. One is sitting first class,
one is sitting in the back. Are you expecting to
cover your friends financially if you earn more? People are
getting on Savannah James talking about, well, you're a billionaire and.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You should be able to do it. Let's discuss. Let's discuss.
We'll take your phone calls when we come back. It's
The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Donkey of the Day is sponsored by renowned personal injury
attorney Michael the Bull Laminsoff.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Don't be a.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Donkey when you need a fighter on your side. If
you're ever injured, go to MichaelTheBull.com. That's MichaelTheBull.com. And when
you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
Your execution on the donkey of the day is something
to behold.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Give me the reed.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
He gave me donkey of the day and I deserve it.
You need to know.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You need to tell them.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I am.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
You have the voice. Tell them.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
It's time for donkey of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It's a reed, but you're so good at it.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
You're trying to be a fake ass Charlemagne.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
You only want Charlemagne to go.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Damn Charlemagne, who you give a donkey.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Of the day to now?
Speaker 6 (00:25):
Well, donkey of the day for Wednesday, September 30th is
a double donkey. It's going to both the United States
Senate and the White House because yesterday the Senate passed
the Protect College Sports Act 77 to 22, which establishes
a uniform federal framework to regulate NIL compensation transfers, transfers,
eligibility in college athletics. Yes, transfers and eligibility in college athletics. OK,
(00:50):
let's go to CBS News report, please.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
The bill as amended is passed.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
A bipartisan victory scored in the U.S. Senate.
Speaker 7 (00:58):
It is about making sports about sports again.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
After an overwhelming vote to pass the Protect College Sports Act.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yet the system we have today is unsustainable, plain and simple.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Students are transferring three and four times. Pros are trying
to play ball against college kids.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
The legislation would implement new national standards for college sports.
That includes codifying the rights of student-athletes to earn money
from their name, image, and likeness, permitting up to five
years of eligibility to play, but only allowing them to
transfer schools once, and capping agent fees. The bill is
backed by some of the biggest names in sports, from
(01:36):
coaches like Nick Saban and John Calipari to athletic conferences
and professional sports leagues.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
This is a hastily done bill.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, a former Stanford football player,
is one of several lawmakers who oppose the bill.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
There needs to be rules of the road. It can't
be the wild, wild west out there. But you can't
have wealthy interests and Congress making a deal that the
actual players are not a part of.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Now, meanwhile, yesterday, the White House had some of the
biggest technology companies in the world, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic,
all of them agreed to basically police themselves when it
comes to artificial intelligence. Let's listen to President Trump discuss.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
They're really going to be policing each other. It's going
to be very, very safe.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And there's a self-policing and there's also a group policing.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And it's going to be great. Now, think about that
for a second.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
The people who built the A.I., who are now admitting
to us that technology can behave in ways they didn't
intend it to.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
OK, they're telling us AI could be dangerous.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
We are now supposed to trust those same companies and
those same people, the police themselves. OK, we really think
we can trust those companies to put safety.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Over growth, a.k.a.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Money.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
OK, now I'm not the highest grade of weed in
the dispensary or the strongest Avengers. So, America, let me
see if I understand this correctly. A 19-year-old wide receiver
gets an NIL deal, and Washington says, slow down, we
need some rules around this.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But some of the.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Richest corporations on planet Earth are building AI that even
the people developing it acknowledge can potentially destroy us all,
and we just trust them to not let things get
too crazy. And yes, I know the agreement calls for
outside audits, and I know there are internal controls. I
know there's going to be board oversight, but that's not
my point. My point is the agreement is voluntary.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
OK, President Trump himself called it self-policing.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
When is letting powerful corporations police themselves ever been the
gold standard for protecting the public? There is a reason
independent regulation exists, because it's always a conflict of interest.
And there is no bigger conflict of interest than telling
companies that spend hundreds of billions of dollars that are
all racing each other to build the most powerful AI
systems in the world. Hey, you guys determine whether you're
(03:51):
being safe enough. I don't see how you can improve
the intelligence of AI and improve the safeguards at the
same time. We have no evidence that the safeguards can
keep winning that race. But then on the other hand,
Congress looked at college sports and suddenly discovered the importance
of enforceable federal rules. Now, I'd like to be fair. OK,
(04:11):
everything in the Protect College Sports Act isn't bad. There's
protections for athletes in there. There's health care protections, protections
for scholarships, protection from predatory agents. You heard in the
news report they have federal NIL rights. They got revenue sharing.
Speaker 8 (04:24):
Great.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Protect the athletes. I'm all for that. But here's where
the BS starts. I was born in 1978. And for
as long as I can remember, everybody around college athletes
was making money. Universities, coaches, conferences, TV networks, apparel companies
all made billions of dollars. Everybody could participate in capitalism
except the people putting their bodies on the field. And
(04:48):
when that was happening, nobody was screaming, we got to
get this money under control. Okay, then NIL happens. Players
get some power. Revenue sharing happens. Athletes start making money.
And suddenly Washington says, we need federal legislation, a.k.a. it's
too many Negroes making money. Let's get this under control. OK,
it's no secret that a lot of the young men
(05:08):
benefiting from this new college sports economy, especially in football
and basketball, are black. And I can't factually say that
the 77 United States senators voted for this bill because
they saw.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Young black men making money.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
You know, I can't factually ask that, but I can
ask a question. And the question is simply why? Does
America's appetite for regulation seem to change depending on who
has the leverage? When the labor gets leveraged, Congress has
to get involved, okay? It has to be regulations. But meanwhile,
some of the most powerful corporations humanity has ever created
(05:45):
are developing technology that could change employment and warfare, education,
and damn near everything else about how we live.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
And we're talking about a morally binding agreement.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
What?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Humans break morally binding agreements every damn day. That's why
we have contracts. That's why we have laws. That's why
we have regulators. And I'm not anti-AI, okay? I use AI.
I'm investing in AI companies. I just want real oversight, okay?
If the people building the technology are telling us the
technology is becoming more powerful, shouldn't the public have somebody
at the table whose only responsibility is protecting the public?
(06:24):
And that's what makes today's double donkey so ridiculous. I'm
watching Washington apply two completely different philosophies at the exact
same time.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
College athletes, we need federal rules.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Trillion dollar technology companies, we trust you guys.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, no.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
If anything, my instinct would be the opposite. The greater
the power... the greater the independent oversight should be. Because
the real question isn't whether America believes in regulation. The
question is, who does America believe needs regulating? Okay, because
apparently if you're 19 years old and can run a
4-3-40 and somebody wants to give you a couple million
(07:02):
dollars because you're good at football or.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Basketball, Washington needs to keep an.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Eye on you.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
But if you're worth hundreds of billions of dollars, trillions,
and you're building technology powerful enough that the people creating
it are telling us.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
can kill us all. We just trust you. We just
trust that you'll promise to behave.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Please let Remy Ma give the United States Senate and
the White House the biggest hee-haw.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Hee-haw.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Hee-haw.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You stupid motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You dumb. Crazy world we live in, man.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
It is.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Crazy world. Come on.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You're going to need some water for that. The water's
almost gone. What'd you say?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
He's eating a muffin and it's like a thick muffin.
He's eating a lot of it at a time.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I know somebody got me in their phone under that name, too.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
What? Thick Muffin.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Do you know what?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I know it.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
That is a great Aunt Muffin.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I'm sure he does. You give Auntie Muffin.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I can not call you Auntie Thick Muffin.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I'm sure there's a dude out there that got you
under the phone Thick Muffin.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Just make sure the first and last name is Muffin.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Let me change the name of my phone. Thick Muffin.
Do not put him under your phone as Thick Muffin.
All right?
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Thank you for that donker today.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Now let's open up the phone lines.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
800-585-1051.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
Savannah James was doing a podcast. They were talking about
the way that they travel, right?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Well, they were Savannah James and her podcast co-host, her
best friend. They were on the boardroom. They were doing
an interview because they have a podcast and they brought
up the conversation that they've had on their podcast about
how they travel.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
My friends are very respectful of my situation.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
All of them.
Speaker 8 (08:39):
Like I've never had an instance like that one time.
And I think that they are, you know, if I'm like,
we're going somewhere, they already understand what it is. There's
no expectation of like taking care of something or, you know,
just having me be responsible for them.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
There's two different lifestyles that exist. Like we're not delusional
to that. And I think accommodating, like even if we're
going on the same trip, I don't feel the need
to be in first because that's not in my budget. Like,
so we always laugh about it. And we actually talked
about it on our pod about, That's.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
A good friend.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I don't feel the need.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I respect that.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well, let's open up the phone lines.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
800-585-1051.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Salute April McDaniel.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's a good friend there.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
Are you responsible to fund your friend's financials if you're
in a different financial class? You heard her saying they
were going on a trip. One is sitting first class,
one is sitting in the back. Are you expecting to
cover your friends financially if you earn more? People are
getting on Savannah James talking about, well, you're a billionaire and.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You should be able to do it. Let's discuss. Let's discuss.
We'll take your phone calls when we come back. It's
The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Donkey of the Day is sponsored by renowned personal injury
attorney Michael the Bull Laminsoff.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Don't be a.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Donkey when you need a fighter on your side. If
you're ever injured, go to MichaelTheBull.com. That's MichaelTheBull.com. And when
you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
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