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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good morning Usa.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
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yo yo yo yo.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Yo Yoes is running late, Charlamagne, the God Peace to the.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Planet is Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
How y'all feel out there? I feel blessed, black and
holly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve
our beautiful listener's.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Good morning, that's right, good morning. How you feeling, man?
How's everything out there?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Everything's good?
Speaker 5 (00:29):
You know.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
It's a nice rainy day here in the Tri State areas.
Speaker 6 (00:33):
Now.
Speaker 7 (00:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I don't know where you'll at right now, because you
all listen. That's all over the country and all over
the world. But it's raining where we are, which is
cool though, you know, because fall is right around the corner,
and I'm telling you right now it's gonna be one
of the coldest falls, one of the coldest winters.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I want my I want every day of summer though.
I want my like, I want it to be summer like.
It's not full yet fall. I think fall starts in
September twenty something, fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
When was the last day of summer?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Because you know, once the kids go back to school,
the last day of summer is technically two to day
September twenty second September twenty. It never feels like that,
doesn't because once the kids go back to school something, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Pretty much over you. No, not pretty much, it's it's
pretty much. Yes, it's what two weeks until the kids
got to go back to school. So it depends where
you're at. Yeah, in some places kids were ready back
in school. I believe that. Yeah, I think they back. Yeah,
absolutely out South. Yeah, absolutely, Well.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Good morning to you. My wife is finally back. To
drop a bomb for my wife. Oh, I mean, you
gotta clean ass. When did she get Oh, my goodness,
last night, man, she did. She didn't get back.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
She didn't watch she probably won't watch the goodness. Yeah,
she didn't get back till about two three a m.
Last year. Yeah, still dirty? How long you have been dirty?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I mean it's been My ass is not dirty. But
she's been going seventeen days. Yeah, damn, seventeen days.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Hit win no white drawers. Throughout that whole period.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
She went on the girls trip. She went on a
girl's cruise. It was I think, uh seven of them.
Eight of them went and they went to like a
bees of Monaco, Barcelona, Roan.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
They went all over the place, so they got incredible.
Other than the cruise part, I'm not getting. I can't
do no both for that long period now.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Hell, but they go there every day, they do a
different city and then they I think they just hit
the water at night when they sleep, and it goes
to the next city.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I saw them surfing on Mercedes feet slew the Mercedes.
That's Vy's assistant. Yes, she had the size twelve and
men's Okay, I saw them just not have the size
twelve and men's. Yeah, but it was mercedes birthday.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Said.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
They all went out, had a great time. So I'm
up out of here early because I missed my wife.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I hadn't seen my wife.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
She we kind of passed each other this morning, like
she she came, I was leaving.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You still got things to do here. Yeah, I know,
you got duties here. And then she got to go
clean the duty out of your drugs.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Let's get the show crack and I hate you man,
get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five
one oh five one, and of course we got front
page news.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Me Meal be joining us. What we're starting to show it? Oh,
you can never go wrong? Mary be happy? Okay?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Can now you bring it back that dope meeting I
got when I was in when I went to go
see Mary a few weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
You hear me, Oh, man, I see married other night.
In fact, Joe's birthday. It's the breakfast slept good morning.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The next morning.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Everybody is DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We
are the breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
What's uping to me?
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Good morning, Charlotte, Good morning, And how I'm doing this morning?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
University alumni, what's happening there?
Speaker 8 (03:05):
You go?
Speaker 7 (03:05):
I like it? Good morning.
Speaker 9 (03:07):
So we start this morning with President Trump's family business
getting the green light to become a bank.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
From regulators appointed by President Trump.
Speaker 9 (03:16):
And that's raising it's raising, listen, it's raising a lot
of conflict of interest. So you're not the only one
pointing that out. Trump and his sons they helped launch
the crypto company World Liberty Financial, and the family still
has a financial.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Stake in it.
Speaker 9 (03:33):
So now federal regulators they have given the company preliminary
approval to become a national trust bank. So this would
not be a traditional bank where you deposit your paycheck
or get a mortgage. It would allow World Liberty Bank
to control its own crypto, so instead of paying other
companies to do it, the Trump family business would do it,
(03:53):
and they would have more control and more profit. And
that's where the conflict of interests is coming in. Let's
listen to a federal regulator.
Speaker 10 (04:01):
He's regulating himself, which means, in effect, there's no regulation.
So if he breaks a regulatory requirement, if his business
engages in more risky behavior than what's permitted under the law,
there's no way to hold him accountable.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Listen, the levels of corruption are unmatched. Like we shouldn't
be saying this is a conflic and interest. It's unprecedented corruption.
We have a whole generation of people who don't even
realize this shouldn't be happening.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 9 (04:32):
Yeah, well, Senate Democrats, they're introducing a bill that would
block federal regulators from approving banks own or controlled by
presidents and their families. So we'll see what happens with that.
But the approval is not final yet, but this is
in the works.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I don't think I don't think America can recover from
this level of corruption because once people see you can
get away with this type of stuff, like there's no
going back. Like if every single person in this administration
is and in jail in the next fivey is like
it's just a wrap up for America as a country.
We used to be a proper country that I thought
we had checks and balances, but maybe we never did well.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Maybe there was checks and balances to this situation, because
it seems like he just does what he wants to
do and it's just like but maybe.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
There's never been checks and balances, and maybe they nobody's
ever tried.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Maybe the Trump administration got an office and.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Realized that, like, you know, we can get away with
a whole lot because the ain't nobody gonna check us
booth at all.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
That is true, and that seems to be what is happening.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
And President Trump is pushing back of reports about conditions
aboard the Lincoln, the USS Abraham Lincoln, calling it fake news.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
So we've been talking to you.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
Guys about the growing concerns over the sailors and the
marines that are aboard that aircraft. The Lincoln hasn't been
deployed since November and now has spent about two hundred
and sixty days away from home, far longer than expected.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
The families and sailors they have described.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
Food shortages, rotten food, moldy showers, and growing mental health concerns,
and at least one sailor recently went overboard in what
the Navy described as at health episode. Now, Navy leaders
they met with families about those concerns, and over the weekend,
the head of the US Central Command they visited the
ship and they acknowledge that life aboard the aircraft currier
(06:11):
can be challenging and stressful. The President Trump says reports
about the condition on the Lincoln simply aren't true.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Let's listen, the Lincoln has been out there for a
period of time, good period of time. But over the years,
we've had him out there much longer. I was at
a group meeting and an admiral came up to see
me over the weekend, and it was at a big
group and he happened to be an admiral retired. He said,
I've been on ships are out there much longer than that.
(06:39):
Sir and I know people on the Lincoln they say
it's beautifully maintained and beautifully taken care of. And other
people went out and they found out to be true.
It was fake news reporting from CNN.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
So concern, though, is also coming from inside the military.
The former Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullin
says he has great concern about the conditions aboard the
ship and although he believes the truth will likely fall
somewhere in the middle and there is some relief for families.
I think we talked about this last week to the
Lincoln is finally coming home. They are replacing it with
(07:14):
another ship in the Middle East, but it will take
some time to get there. But families say they attribute
that to the public pressure. I know every time we
do this story, I get dozens of dms from families
and loved ones who say that their family members are
out there and they are worried about them.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Horrible harm.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
Yeah, and really quickly. The Trump administration is creating a
new way for some people with felony convictions to get
their gun rights back. So under a new federal law,
the federal conviction, you will not a new federal law
but a federal law can keep you from legally owning
a gun. And there's been a technical way to get
to ask for your gun rights back, but for more
(07:55):
than thirty years, the government hasn't processed those applications. But
now the Justice the Department is creating a new online system.
Applications will be reviewed case by case, looking for a
person's criminal history and whether they could pose a threat
to the public. But the Justice Department says, if you
don't have a violent if you're not a violent offender,
you're not a registered sex offender, you generally won't qualify.
(08:19):
But if you don't fall under that, Attorney General Todd
blanche He says people should not permanently lose their constitutional
right if they no longer pose a public safety risk.
So they will be putting out an application. So if
you fall under that category, you may be able to
get your gun rights back.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
How do you know when you no longer fall under
that category?
Speaker 11 (08:38):
Though?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Like, how do you know when somebody's no longer a
public safety risk? Like how long how much rehabilitation do
you have to see? Well that also a person before
you feel like they're not a public safety rist?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Well, it also going to be past that right, because
if you steal anything over two hundred fifty dollars, it's
a felony.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's a felon. Right.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
So if you steal something over twenty fifty dollars, you
did that when you were eighteen. Now you have a
felony on your account or a felony on your record
and you can't get a.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I thought it was violent felons. I didn't know it
was stuff like steal.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
No.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I think any type of feling you can't get.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
No, because I couldn't. I had to get my expungement
before I could apply for my license.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Well, they said they were viewing it on a case
by case basis envy, So I guess they'll decide, you know,
how long it's been, what the offense was, and if
they feel like enough time has passed.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I think they should because because you can make a
mistake or do something wrong at the age of eighteen
and then you're thirty years old and like, damn, I
want my license. I'm totally changed, that evolved. I got
a family. I want to protect them, and you can't.
So I think I think you should be case by casey.
I should all definitely.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Be case by case, because you know what if you
you would out and shot twenty people when you was nineteen.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But they're not gonna give it that. That's a case
I could do that you have.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I don't have to be twenty but two, all right.
I just want to make sure you perfectly. You're really rehabilitated,
that's all.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
That's all.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Yeah, So we'll continue to watch that.
Speaker 9 (09:55):
But coming up at seven at PennState University, a cocaine
ring ran by students. We're going to get into it
in the next hour. Not Socan Braiden, but something similar. Actually, yeah,
something similar.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
All right, and everybody else, get it off your chest.
Eight hundred and five eighty five is the breakfast.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Love the morning. This it's your time to get it
off your chest, whether you're man or blast. I hate
the way that you walk, the way did you talk.
I hate the waiting, your dress, everything when me is best?
Call up next eight hundred one ship. I'm what the
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Speaker 12 (10:33):
Oh my gosh, Hi, It's Rasiah O Oh my gosh.
I'm calling from California. I just graduated from Howard University.
Big Howard is the real AJ.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Watch your mouth. Congratulations.
Speaker 12 (10:52):
Oh my gosh, our journalist and broadcast journalist. Yes, okay, yes,
I just wanted to let y'all know that I really
love the Breakfast Club. Like I Howard, they really try
to push like hard news and politics because we're in Washington.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
D C.
Speaker 12 (11:08):
But I really really love the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
I tell them all the.
Speaker 12 (11:11):
Time, like I want to be an entertainment journalist, and
I always relate back to the Breakfast Club and show
them like you guys are my example of what I
want to do. And shout out to Laura La Rosa
because she came to Howard for the HBC Film Festival
and that's how I got put onto you guys from
like Netflix and everything and fell in love because of
course I grew up listening to y'all, but she really
(11:33):
introduced it to me in a different way. So I'm
just I just can't really but I'm on here right now.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
But y'all inspire me every day.
Speaker 12 (11:40):
I love the interviews, I love everything. Shout out brown
girl grinding like that is real life, Like that is
me right now, trying to break out into the entertainment industry.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
But I love you that. I don't want you to
put yourself in the box.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
You know what I'm saying, Like media is media nowadays
because you can have a platform that's considering an entertainment platform,
but you might be sitting on there talking to elected officials,
you know, our people in government as well that are
delivering also hard hitting news. So you know, to put
yourself in one box and say you're just an entertainment
news reporter.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Oh you can do both. You can do both. I
just said that. I'm just telling you. Just say that, literally,
just that that's exactly what I said. I said it
like this. I said it like this. You reason like
I literally just said that, But you could do both.
Speaker 13 (12:30):
Mama.
Speaker 12 (12:30):
Well, if y'all, if y'all have any other advice to y'all,
please just give it to me really quickly, because I'm
I'm going to USC right now for specialized journalism, Entertainment
and Reporting, and I literally listen to you guys every morning.
I stayed up just to be able to call in.
It's like three am right now, so I wanted to
make sure a call before school started next week.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
So any advice we's wrong with.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Wrong with?
Speaker 8 (13:02):
No, she didn't, she just she a black girl. So
that's why she stayed brown.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
But she les, I am black, I'm brown, I'm brown.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Do you need advice on something specific? Do you have
a specific question?
Speaker 12 (13:12):
How do you Okay, so, y'all are really like well
into your career. What advice would you get to someone
starting off, like in the beginning of their journalism career,
trying to make it in the media industry with it
being so ever changing intention?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Intention is important. What's your intention? Like you, what do
you want to do this for? What is the reason?
Don't tell me because you want to be famous, don't
tell me because you want to get money?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
What is your actual intention?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
What is the story you're trying to tell as a
media personality every day?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
And I would say use the tools that you have,
but there's so many tools out there now that we
didn't have coming up, whether it's social media, whether it's
so many different you know, podcasts or forms of putting
it information out there.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Use it all and be intentional when you're using it.
Speaker 12 (13:52):
Okay, thank you guys so very much. I really appreciate it.
I hope you have a great right.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Do you have an intention? I need to know. Do
you have an intention?
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (13:59):
Yes, I do that's your intention in Charlotte Mane. I
want to be able to start the conversations. I want
to be able to make sure people are thinking, yes,
we want to talk about the entertainment industry, but what
about these actors makes us want to be into it?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Like that?
Speaker 12 (14:12):
Like you know what I'm saying, Like why do we
want to hear from these certain people?
Speaker 14 (14:15):
What makes them?
Speaker 12 (14:16):
What makes them tick?
Speaker 15 (14:17):
That's what I want to do.
Speaker 12 (14:18):
I want to start the conversation.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Okay, well, good luck with that, Mama.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Absolutely think you.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I appreciate it, alrighty get it off your chest eight
hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you
need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning, power one o five one.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It's a is it your time to get it off
your chest? Way up, whether you're mad or blass, time
to get up and get something. Call them now. Eight
hundred and five eight five one oh five one. We
want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello,
who's this? Odjel Angel? What's up? We calling from brother?
Good morning, Matt, I just good morning.
Speaker 13 (14:53):
I just want to say that my birthday was Saturday.
Turned the Big three Oho Okay, I'm just just you know,
been going through all and what.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You've been going through, my brother, what you've been going through.
Speaker 13 (15:03):
Man life, man's life. But God has a plan for me.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
You're only thirty. I'm telling you right now. It gets
greater later, my brother. I promise you that if you're
doing it right, if you're doing this life thing right,
just later, it gets greater later.
Speaker 13 (15:17):
Yea, go birds?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
What he said, go birds? He's uh, he was fa. Hello,
who's this.
Speaker 13 (15:25):
Y'all?
Speaker 16 (15:27):
Hey, y'all, good morning morning.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Hey mama, it's Katie.
Speaker 16 (15:31):
I'm calling from the seventy five seven John.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
My girl.
Speaker 16 (15:35):
Okay, my birthday is Thursday.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Yes, big leo energy.
Speaker 16 (15:41):
Yes, into that man that tried to run up on
Craig Melvin and Al Roker at the Today Show. Yes,
because don't broker his birthday Thursday too.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
My birthday period.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Go see our roker girl.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, and salutor my guy, Craig Melvin. That was a
long time ago, it see him like, I mean, it
was only a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 16 (15:59):
Seem like I just remember that because I wroke a
birthday Thursday out to all the people on birthday in
August though, for real?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah, somebody every day by your clown.
Speaker 12 (16:12):
Yes, are you going to am?
Speaker 8 (16:14):
I moving to the seven five seven?
Speaker 11 (16:16):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Are you coming to the Cousins Cousins Festival?
Speaker 8 (16:19):
Oh? Yes, yes I am. That's in September, right, that's
next month. I be on there, y'all gotta be there
with my cousins. You already know what's up?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Are you lying? I mean, I just don't stand year.
I did last year?
Speaker 8 (16:32):
You know I saw her.
Speaker 16 (16:35):
I saw her in Andy last year.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, jar girl, I see. I don't know if she's
going this year, but she definitely went last year. I'll hello,
who's this? Yeah?
Speaker 13 (16:48):
This is Tommy? What's up? Birthdast Clubmy man? I'm calling
because my job is literally driving me crazy, like it's
becoming a mental health is you? And what's wild is like,
you know, I feel like a lot of times the
black community we're not in touch with her emotions. We're
not really aware of our mental health like that. And
(17:10):
my job is literally driving me crazy. And what's wild
about it is I'm a I'm a top performer. I
always meet my metrics, but they always pile on more responsibilities,
more spreadsheets, like and I work for the federal money.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
But not more money though.
Speaker 13 (17:27):
And the money's the same. I literally went to the
doctor and he told me to get a psychiato. Like,
he set me up with a psychiatrist.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I'm happy for you. I think you know, you know,
I'm a big perponing the therapy.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
But if all that is coming from your job, goddamn,
and what.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Do you do?
Speaker 8 (17:45):
What does you do?
Speaker 13 (17:46):
Yeah, coming from our job. I'm a contract administrator for
the federal government. And honestly made me feel a little
bit of relief when Charlott Magne just said he's happy
for me. But to me, it made me feel weird
because it's not even a therapist. We're talking about us
psychologists and they actually gave me some stuff called Laxi
(18:07):
pro like. It makes me feel kind of weird, but
say that, but yeah, Lexi pro like.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
If a job a job, maybe should think about you know,
if you can, if you if you can afford it
to maybe switching your job.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
If a job is job, you can tell you something though,
there's more to it than this. Your job, Like a
doctor ain't gonna give you a prescribe you as a
psychiatrist and put you on a lexi pro like there's
something there's probably something else going on that you haven't
revealed us than just discressful.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
Maybe you don't know.
Speaker 13 (18:38):
Yeah, no, it's not. I'm revealing everything like I literally,
like I take pride in my work ethic. I've never
been a type two, Like I'm fulling up to work
right now. I will probably sit in the car for
an hour getting mentally prepared trying to get up in there.
It's just it's just my job. Chawla.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
Man, you have never experienced this only at work.
Speaker 13 (18:58):
Only at work, yeah, work period. Outside of work, I
have like a positive mental attitude everything. It's literally, I
hate to say because it sounds cliche. This is a
toxic work environment. So I'm not sick of my job.
The job is making me sick.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
You might need to walk I'm saying that's your mental health.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
You start looking and you know, regardless you can afford
it or not, Like you don't want your job to
drive you crazy.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Because you're Lexapro is an antidepressant.
Speaker 13 (19:27):
Yeah, and I think it's more anxiety for me. But
y'all right, I do need to walk away. You know,
it's just the logistics of that. You know what I mean, Bill,
Every game moving so fast, you know, but I just
wanted to get that off my chest, just as a
black man. And I know you guys are big on
mental health, like, man, pray for your boy man's don't.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Don't.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Don't be ashamed of therapy, of going to see a
psychiatrist though, you know what I mean, Actually be grateful
that you have the means and the resources to talk
to a doctor and he can prescribe you those things, man,
because a lot of people don't have those.
Speaker 13 (20:00):
Right, That's true. It's definitely something to be grateful for. Also, sorry, No,
I ran into this one guy at speed Way.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
He's driving for Uber.
Speaker 13 (20:08):
He said, they're doing five dollars rides. Like, how are
they making any money?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It'srobably, that's crazy.
Speaker 13 (20:17):
Like no, he said, he's not really getting that much
money on the app. Like I didn't even know Uber
Uber drivers our door rides for like five dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
That's nothing, nickelbag Uber rides.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
Yeah, it is crazy, but it's probably especially just like
it's a special right now on DoorDash. You can get
like hell of food for like five to seven dollars
right now. He's just doing a special Thank you for
checking in.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Brother.
Speaker 13 (20:38):
Thank y'all, man, I have a good day.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
My next My Mental Health Expo was October tenth in Newark,
New Jersey at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness in
Events Center. So you know, when we talk about people
having access to the access to resources, a lot of
people don't.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
But this event is a free event that I do
every year.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I've been doing it for like the last five years,
and we'll be doing it again on World Mental Health
Day at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness in the
Vincent in Newark, New Jersey. Through my good sister Debbie Brown.
She's curating all the programming this year. So I'll see
y'all there all.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Right, and get it off your chest. Eight ondred five
one O five one. Now we got the latest with
Lauren coming up, so don't move. It's to Breakfast Club
Good morning, where Laura.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
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with black radio sources.
Speaker 17 (21:26):
Trust An, I'm the homegrown that knows a little bit
about everything.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
In Harry's school, she'd be having the latest.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
One thing you asked the question that need to be
answered on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Little brown girls look at you and I want to
be like you.
Speaker 17 (21:38):
Hello, So Clarissa shields guys the guoat and pat post.
You know, Clarissa just locked her shutdown, say for Marina,
but now.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
She says she might be pregnant.
Speaker 17 (21:52):
So there were fans who were reposting a part of
her interview with that she did with Shannon Sharper your
single after the fight, and she responded jokingly. But let's
say let in first to the part of the interview
with Shannon Sharp and single Gula on.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
A great victory last night. Get some rest, We'll see
December January.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
At the club.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I ain't getting no for the rest.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
I'm at the club.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
At the club.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
I'm sitting outside right now. Yeah, party right now. I
haven't done nothing in fourteen weeks. And then I haven't
had well, we hadn't had six and six weeks. Oh many,
(22:33):
they said, an undisciplined man is not a good man. Yeah,
so she retweeted.
Speaker 17 (22:38):
There was the Nightcap show posted this on x and
she retweeted it and said, I'm probably pregnant right now,
laughing emoji's pat poos went crazy after the fight with
the the you know.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
What's the emoji. No, what's the acrobat?
Speaker 17 (22:52):
What a flip of moji? I forgot the day mostly
but yes, So all right, y'all, let's move on.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
What's it flips? Yes, but shout out to Clarissa six weeks.
It's tough. I can't. I don't know.
Speaker 17 (23:14):
Yeah, but I'm just saying I know it's tough. They're
always together. They do everything together, Like, yeah, it'll be difficult,
but yeah. So she said the baby might come next
year and maybe they're working on it now, moving on Yesterday,
A Different World we've been talking about how there's going
to be the sequel to A Different World is coming up.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
Excited twenty fourth on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I'm excited.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
So they've dropped first look photos.
Speaker 17 (23:34):
We heard the theme song, but now we got our
first trailer, hearing and seeing some of the characters in
the log line.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Welcome to Hilly, a pre given at HBCU in the country.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
My parents have been pushing Homan since before they knew
my names.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
You didn't get in anywhere else, did you.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
We are forging your own legacy at Hell Then.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
We are studying. We are high, We are living our best.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Young gifted black time to lie.
Speaker 13 (24:05):
I missed this.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Back to him and my first day on the yard.
Speaker 17 (24:12):
Oh my, have you been seeing the viral videos of
the HBCU students in their like first days on campus.
I saw one of the like it was like a
bunch of girls from Spellman and they were like in
like an auditorium going crazy, and I was like, that
first week of school is like the best time.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
It was everything.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
And even though just just watching that and seeing you're
talking to your guidance counselor and you're seeing you know,
you're meeting people for the first time, the first time
you had to walk to the cafeteria by yourself and
you're trying to find your classes by yourself.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It brought me back Man.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
But also the first week of partying too, just being
away from home.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Oh Hampton at the lead Hampton University, be at curfew
the first couple of months because we just want to.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Whatever.
Speaker 17 (24:52):
But people don't talk enough about the legacy of HBCUs too,
as far as like when you come in, those kids
who have to come in and live up to the legacy.
I saways feel bad for those kids who have to
plagu something because their mom and dad did it, or
they're only at the school because their mama to dad.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
They don't have to pleasure just because your mom and
dad did a lot of people do.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
I mean, it's a big issue, is not what especially.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yes, you should encourage your kids to find their own path.
It's good that they're in college. Would let them find
their own way.
Speaker 17 (25:17):
Now, leg see it's such a thing though, like it is,
it's crazy and I used always feel bad for those
students because some of them they don't want to do it.
But you see maybe mom, aunt, grandma, generations of graduate
fraternations of.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
They don't be having and that's don't like they just
disown you, disown you.
Speaker 17 (25:37):
But I mean, like I know in my family there's
like there'll be like little jokes about, like you know,
if you plage something different or whatever.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
But that's the log line of.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
This for the because if you're already in college, I
just want you to be great, find your major, do
what do professionally?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
That all that other stuff. If you want to be
in a sorority, cool if not cool?
Speaker 17 (25:56):
Well that's what Deborah, who is the voice that we
heard the youngest child of doing Wayne, Wayne and Whitney
Whitley Gilbert in the new the New rendition of A
Different World will be doing She'll be trying to forge
her own path.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
So that air September twenty fourth.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
What does Man doing it? Because I see Mathews in
it to her.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
Yes, I don't know what methad Man doesn't show.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
He's playing a professor or something like that. Oh, I
could see him being like the Sinbad character.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
He's a coach exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (26:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 17 (26:23):
He joined the cast of the Netflix upcoming sequel series
A Different World as Coach Cole's, alongside other new additions
returning to the original stars like Jasmine Guy, Kadem Harrison.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
Yeah, so he's a coach.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I can't wait because Different World is just one of
them shows that I just don't feel like a god
is just doing.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It was on and it was literally the second biggest
show in the country. All guys just do for me.
That's that's the whole reason I went to a love it.
Speaker 17 (26:46):
Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to see it. Well, that
is the latest for the hour, and then in the
next latest, we're gonna talk a bit. We're gonna stay
in the schools because Young Thug has some advice to
the children in the schools that he's getting a little
bit of pushback on.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
We'll talk about it all right. We got front page
news next, and don't go anywhere. It's to breakfast Club.
Good morning, morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne
the guy we are the breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Let's get in some front page news. What's uping to me?
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Good morning, Envy, Jess, Charlamagne. How y'a doing this morning?
Good morning?
Speaker 9 (27:17):
So we start this hour at Penn State University where
authorities say a fraternity drug operation was selling cocaine to students.
Now fourteen people are now facing charges. Thirteen where Penn
State students, while investigators say this case was going on
for at least four are still students. Authorities say the
men supply the cocaine, other students allegedly sold it, packaged it,
(27:41):
and cut it.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
So let's listen to Attorney General Dave Sunday.
Speaker 18 (27:46):
What we learned during this investigation was at between twenty
twenty three and twenty twenty four, large amounts of cocaine
kilos were brought from Philadelphia and New York to State College,
where they were cut and packaged for sale primarily to
Penn State students. The two main deal dealers were senior
members of the Delta Upsilon and Sigma Kai fraternities. The
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evidence showed that cocaine was primarily packaged at the fraternity houses,
and that packaging was done by fraternity brothers and oftentime pledges.
In fact, we found a pattern of events that showed
cutting and bagging cocaine was for some pledges and indoctrination
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into the Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi fraternities.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
That's a very interesting way to hate me, and actually
very innovative.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Instead of doing something crazy like paddling you, you know,
putting the banana in the toilet and blindfolding you and
making you.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Squish on it, they had the bagging up.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
They say, when I heard it on the news, this
one because I heard the story. They said that the
people doing it weren't students, so I guess they made
maybe exgraduates, but they weren't actual students.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Said they would say, now they.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
Were, they were, so they were.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
They've been doing this since twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four.
There are only four who are currently students right now.
The people that have been arrested. They were they've been
doing this for so long that they've graduated, so now
they have people who come back. But the people who
have been arrested, I believe Envy were still students.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Oh it's still students.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Watching way too much power, That's what I'm saying. And
I can't wait till they stitch on the plug. Oh
my god.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
So investigators though they said this wasn't like your normal
street dealing. The cocaine was allegedly sold friend of friend,
fraternity brother to fraternity brother at social events social fraternity houses.
Four The defendants are facing some of the serious charges,
including felony, conspiracy and corruption and organized crime charges. Others
are facing like possession paraphernalia charges. Investigators say they eventually
(29:54):
how they broke this case was they use a confidential
informant who bought cocaine six times from a f tternity house.
The fourteenth Yeah, the fourteenth person.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Though, you guys get this is the father of one
of the students.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
Authorities are accusing him of trying to hide evidence and
interfere with the investigation to kind of help save hist son.
Now Penn State, they release a statement saying in part
that they are horrified by these allegations.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I'll tell you one thing. I don't like how sophisticated
they're making this sound either. Because this was the HBCU,
they'd be talking like this was the mafia. They'd be
reco charges for everybody. Yes, okay, they'd be talking like
these folks with a second coming to BMF for something.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Yep, very true, very true.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
So we'll continue to watch that one, and shopping for
the cheapest flight could soon get a lot more confusing.
So right now, airlines have to show you the full
ticket price up front, including mandatory fees and taxes. But
the Transportation Department is proposing a new role that will
let airlines lead with a lower face bear and show
you the total price somewhere else. And the difference can
(30:56):
be really, really huge. So the La Times they found
a Jet Blue flight from Los Angeles to London with
a base fare of twenty one dollars, and that sounds
like a deal until you add the three hundred and twenty.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Eight dollars in taxes and fees, so that.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
Twenty one dollar flight it becomes a three hundred and
forty nine dollars flight. And that's of course before check bag,
seat selection and all those sort of things. So the
Department of Transportation says its current rules are too rigid
and it needs more flexibility, and then they want to
change it. So bottom line, if this proposal does become final,
you'll want to not shot by the first number you see.
(31:32):
You want to look at that total fare because that
will be what the actual flight actually cost.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
So lady can check the flights regardless that. If Trump
need to do something, that's what he needs to regulate.
Because them flights are expensive and I keep seeing it.
I keep traveling, and I'm traveling not that far at
our flight to hour flight to Virginia or Detroit. And
when you see eight nine hundred dollars for a flight,
there's no way anybody can afford that.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I'll tell you what time of day you look, because
yesterday I looked for a flight for somebody else actually,
and it wasn't expensive.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
At all.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
In New York.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Wasn't expensive.
Speaker 11 (32:05):
No, it was like.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I was trying to fly to Detroit and it was
eight hundred and fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Class.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
No, it wasn't first class.
Speaker 13 (32:13):
It was.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Yeah, but it depends on what I say. You book
at the time that you're leaving in the city and
state that you're into.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
Yeah, and going back to what you just said, I mean,
I think they're trying to get rid of that sticker shock.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
So they want to show you a cheaper price first, get.
Speaker 9 (32:27):
You locked in, and then when you get to that
final you know, you filled out everything, and then you
see that final price, then they want you to just
go ahead and book it because you went through.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
You can still press canceled.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
You can still press but you know it doesn't this
This doesn't make a lot of sense, because you're right,
you can still press cancel, but so why change the
final price.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
You're still going to see the final price just at.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
The end, and if I ain't got it, I ain't
got it to win the full title, the full total, it.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Makes make it make sense, right, I have no problem
walking away from a number I don't like. I don't care.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Well, they're hoping, I think they said that, they're hoping that,
you know, once you do all that, you'll you'll kind
of be locked in.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
So we'll see if that goes through.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
And we've talked a lot about splitting things fifty to fifty,
but a new study shows just how differently moms and
dads see the workload at home. So let's say you
both worked eight hours, you come home tired. So who's
making dinner, who's helping with homework, who's doing laundry, who's
getting the kids ready for bed?
Speaker 13 (33:25):
Well?
Speaker 9 (33:25):
According to a new Pew Research study, moms say it's
still mostly them. Among families where both parents work full time,
sixty three percent of moms say they do more the
parenting and the household responsibilities. Dads, however, are much more
likely to say things are split equally. And so while
nearly half of dad say they are very satisfied with
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the arrangement, only about a quarter of moms say the same.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
So the question on.
Speaker 9 (33:51):
Social media is, after everybody gets after everybody gets home
from work, who starts the second shift?
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Is it usually moms? Or is it dad's I'm gonna
go with moms.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
It mad?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
It depends on what you consider the second.
Speaker 7 (34:06):
Shift is right putting the kids down for bad, starting dinner.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Like my homewowner, I might get the kids ready for bed,
I take the trash out. Gia might do this like
it's like we both divide what has to be done?
Speaker 8 (34:19):
Yeah, when I am home in Maryland, I do it
because I want to. But you know, my mother in
law or my husband or you know what I mean,
sometimes don't.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Everybody is always on homework, So I do this. I
might pick up the girls from the school and she
might do home. Like if we divide duties.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I don't think it should be a shift thing.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
But you know, I'm definitely one of those husbands who
act like they doing something else when all of that's
going on, you know what I mean. And then by
the time it's all over, I come in and get
everybody a hugging kids say there.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
You know what I mean. Definitely don't do the homework
lashing up. I gotta do something. I'm too dumb for homework.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Homework dad, talk to your college educated mother, talk to
you about quit your grandmother.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
But you know, when it comes to all of that
taking baths and all, I gotta take a bath too.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I gotta get ready for bed. I gotta get up early.
Wanted to you found okay, but it shouldn't be a ship.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
If my wife tell me, hey, all right, you go
handle that, I'm gonna go handle it. It's not something
I volunteered.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Dude, you gotta be and I always forget something. Did
you put lotion on the baby back?
Speaker 19 (35:15):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Come, inyon, I always forget going to sleep. I always forget,
so sleep always.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
Because you sleep better when you moisturize.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Y'all know, make sure you wash, brush your teeth, say.
Speaker 8 (35:25):
Pray, don't go to sleep ashy.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Depends how I feel, It really does. Depends on. Sometimes
I feel like putting on. Sometimes I don't.
Speaker 8 (35:34):
Oh God, okay, all right, y'all.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
That is your friend page news for today. Thank you,
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If
you were just joining us, Lauren broke down that different
world is coming back. Yes, And we were asking eight
hundred five eight five one oh five to one parents,
do you want your kids to follow in your footstep
when it comes to college fraternities or sororities.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Now, me and me, before you leave, you went to
that other ehu what's the name of it? Again? Well
she left already. Oh damn, y'all cut her off.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
She needed her nap.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
She got right out of dodge. I was gonna ask
her she went to Howard University? Does she care if
her son went to Howard? Does she want her son
to go to Howard? And that's the question that we're
asking today. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club, Go Morning Warning. Everybody
is DJ Envyes hilarious. Charlamagne the guy we all the
Breakfast Club law Laosa is here as well, and we're
asking eight hundred five eight five one oh five ones up.
(36:27):
If you didn't see the trailer, Different World is coming back, Yes,
ten episodes and I think they released September twenty fourth,
September twenty fourth, So we're asking eight hundred five eight
five one oh five one.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
In the premise of it a part of what we
know so far sequel.
Speaker 17 (36:40):
Yeah, it's Deborah that's played by Malie Joy Moon. She
is the daughter of Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert and
she's going to Hillman because that's where her parents went.
But she's there and she's rebellious and she's trying to
escape their shadows. So she's finding her own world.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
So we're asking eight hundred five eight five one oh
five one.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Parents, do you want your kids to follow in your
footsteps when it comes to going to the same college
or for two trinities or sororities and Mimi ran out
like Mimi got out of dodge like he was like,
I'm gonna take my name. I said, maybe you was gone.
So Mimi went to the other, the other college, that
other HU Howard University.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Yes, okay, Howard University.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Talk that talk now.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
We were asking, now you have a song, would you
want your son to follow in your footsteps and go to.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Howard as well?
Speaker 9 (37:19):
Absolutely? And he fights me on it. We have this
conversation all the time. He fights me every single time.
Speaker 8 (37:24):
He doesn't want to go.
Speaker 9 (37:24):
He wants to go to just you know, uh USC
or something like that. But I think he needs an
HBCU experience, especially growing up in California.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
So yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
But what do you think? Why do you think he
needs it? What is he missing?
Speaker 9 (37:37):
You believe he's missing culture? Yes, exactly, you know he
you know, even me. That's why I went to an
HBCU because I grew up in Alaska and I was
missing culture. When I got to Howard, I have missed
out on a bunch of movies that people knew about.
I had to sit down and have lessons.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
On didn't know how to watch, you didn't know how.
Speaker 9 (37:57):
I did not know how to do anything. But I
learned that at eighteen, so I'm trying to help him
learn it now. But I think he needs community to
help him learn that as well. And so I think
he'll do that at an HBC here.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
But don't kids have to forge their own path? Like
I mean, your your son, your son doesn't even want
to do what you wanted to do. Me me, like,
your son wants to do what do you want to?
Want to be an astronaut or something? Right, afro physicist.
So it's like you can still find community with other
afro physicists at whatever the.
Speaker 7 (38:28):
Whatever school, one or two of those.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
But you know, so he might not know, he might
not know what he by going it like for me, right,
I didn't care. Right, I was the first person in
my family go to college. I didn't care what college
my mom wanted me to go to. More Hampton was closed.
I'm like, I'm going to Hampton's.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
That's what it was for me.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
I wanted Madison to go to an HBCU. But Madison,
like I wanted her to experience what Hampton was about.
She wanted to go to n YU. Right, it's an
elite school, but there's no campus. I want her to
have that campus. Like same thing with Logan, but Logan
played football and he was like that I got a
chance to play at University of Miami, you know, which
is a huge school, or go to hampt University and play.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Football, and for him it was sports. You know what
I mean?
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Hopefully when of my kids go, I got four more,
but I want them to experience what college life is
at a black school.
Speaker 8 (39:18):
Yeah, like what you said mean like that's what you want.
Like you said, mama knows best. And also your kids
don't know what they want, and sometimes you gotta steer that.
You gotta guide them because I'm pretty sure you don't
want to skateboarding with the vans on like you normally, dude,
like you want him they can do that, but you
still want to be able to go watch Love Jones.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
You know what what just is saying is true. Sometimes
kids don't know what they want.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
But what about when they do, when their instinct and
their intuition in God is telling them, Hey, this is
where I want you to go.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
If it's not at an HBCU, cool, I get it.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
I understand what the parents want, but you still got
to let the kids want me at HBCU.
Speaker 8 (39:57):
She wanted me to go to NYU, like she wanted
me in a big city.
Speaker 11 (40:00):
All of that.
Speaker 17 (40:01):
She didn't understand why I wanted to stand Delaware, even
though they were giving you money to go to the
school she didn't want.
Speaker 8 (40:05):
She wanted the complete opposite.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Of what I did. I'm glad you went to HBCU
and that n y U.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
I don't know if I would have finished college.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
If I finish college, I would have figured out because
is New York City. Yeah, events, you would have been everywhere.
So but I'm glad you said. I just want to say,
this is bigger than college.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
The reason I think you should just let kids forge
their own path is because all of us in this
room probably wouldn't be here if we did what our
parents wanted us to do. I'm sure your parents didn't
want you to be a DJ. The didn't even understand
what the hell. I'm sure your parents didn't want you
to be as a professional media.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (40:39):
You mean you're gonna be a comedian like they want
you to go? Get up, go to school, get a
nice job, working a day.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Not your path. That's not your path.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
But if it wasn't for my parents, I wouldn't went
to a HBCU, you know what I'm saying. I probably
would have went to Saint John's University or Sunni School
or Aquity School that was way cheaper. My parents dream
was to go to HBCU and they couldn't, so they
pretty much forced me to go to an HBCU.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
And then watching a Different World was like, I I'm
gonna try.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
That cause you get a scholarship because you're not black,
like they like foreign exchange.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
No, I did not, and I am black. I actually
got a scholarship with VSU and of Virginia un I.
Speaker 8 (41:18):
Wanted to go to Virginia State because College Hill was
fim there.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Yeah, I wanted I got, but I wanted to go
to Hampton So.
Speaker 8 (41:25):
And first of all, my parents never say they didn't
want me to go to college. You didn't want me
to be a comedian. So she was grown. She went
to a hbc when she got grown. My dad went
straight to the military. And when I told them what
I wanted to do, they was like, all right, cool.
They never say, you know, you need to be a doctor,
you need to go to school, you need to be
a lawyer. My mother was just like, you're not gonna
lay around my house and I do anything. So you're
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gonna get a job, but you need to figure out
what you want to do with your life.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
Like that's what it was.
Speaker 8 (41:50):
And that's when I said, all right, cool, I'm gonna
be funny. I said that they always supported me from
the jo. Only one who didn't support me was gonna
be father.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Shout the room.
Speaker 19 (42:08):
I'm good.
Speaker 6 (42:08):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
To go high school or be a part of the
fraternity of the sorority. You in what sorority that you in?
Speaker 20 (42:15):
Most definitely I am a part of or I'm a
member excuse me, of the Delta Sigma Staya Sorority Incorporated.
So of course I want him to, you know, be
in the fraternity as well as my daughter. I want
her to be a legacy as well. I actually just
graduated from Houston Tellnesse University, which is an HBC you
down here in Austin, and I actually dropped off my
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son on Sunday to HD to start us, you know,
the process, because he's a legacy there now too. And
my mom she went to HD as well, so you know,
we we continue in the legacy here on this side.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Why does you know Charlomagne ask why does it matter
so much?
Speaker 13 (42:56):
So?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Why does it matter that your kids go to an
hbc you say that, you know, not saying anything like that.
Speaker 12 (43:05):
I don't think it matters.
Speaker 20 (43:06):
I mean, I'm just that awesome, you know it's it's
awesome that they want to continue your footsteps.
Speaker 8 (43:12):
I think the legacy part of it. We don't let kids,
you know, family.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
All I said is let kids forge their own path.
I understand completely why you want your child to go
to an HBCU. If you went to an hbc U.
I under think completely why you would want you chid
to pledge if you pledged.
Speaker 8 (43:31):
But no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
I did not say that's the sentiment. I got what
he said it because you you for nothing. You can't
use that I can tell you, you know cool, you
you can't use that comprehension skills what you can't use
that word. There's people out there, just stop you, right
eight hundred and five and five one O five one.
If you're just joining us, we're asking are your do.
Speaker 8 (43:55):
They have special egg places in college?
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Did you go to.
Speaker 8 (44:00):
Maybe I wasn't even comin. I just didn't have like
a different look at me when you had a specialleg
college because you went. I didn't go, Charlotte didn't go.
You don't have special agg closes in college, not that
I knew, all right, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (44:14):
Like now that I know, they high classes like lower
tier classes, right, so you may not be in math
five hundred, you may be in math two fifty.
Speaker 7 (44:21):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (44:22):
They didn't have that Hampton. Maybe just at Howard. Hello,
who's this?
Speaker 6 (44:25):
Hello?
Speaker 19 (44:27):
Good morning?
Speaker 15 (44:28):
I had follow you. I don't want to hear me
swallow my out vitamins. I'm sorry. Good morning, how y'all.
Speaker 7 (44:32):
Doing good morning.
Speaker 15 (44:36):
So I wanted to talk about the ACCU, the legacy. Basically,
I grew up in Atlanta, and I went to the
public schools in Atlanta, and so I went to a
p w Y. My kids, however, grew up here in Yorktown, Virginia.
They went to a p w Y high school and
they were like, oh, we're going to ABCU. So I
wanted to North of State and I got one at
(44:57):
Howard right now, Yeah, it's interesting. While I can say
I did not want them to have the same high
school experience with me, and unfortunately that caused them to
go to an HBCU and they don't really like an
ACCU experience and it's because of the administration. But I
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was like, hey, just go and play, so I can
play too.
Speaker 8 (45:22):
But what about the administration? They don't like what is it?
Speaker 15 (45:25):
They don't like how the financial aid offices handle the business.
They don't like how the Bursar's office handle the business.
Like it's very limited information. It literally is the ACCU
is the fraternity, Like they say, oh, you're the birthday,
the ACCU are the fraternity. So you have to know
somebody to know somebody. Like my oldest daughter who's at.
Speaker 7 (45:46):
Norfolk State, she had to get in good with one sorority.
Speaker 15 (45:50):
That's a certain color that me me don't wear in
order to get a scholarship, right, in order to get
a scholarship. But my youngest had to get in good
were the third garity that MENI does wear in order
to get good. So it's like, yeah, it's kind of
like you gotta know somebody to know somebody. And they
weren't familiar with that culture because they went to a
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very god first high school and they were their diversity
at the high school. So yeah, they they liked the experience,
but I was not. I was not agreeable to paying
for an experience. I'm like, you need to go for school,
not for an experience. So they literally experienced at a
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very extensive call.
Speaker 17 (46:38):
Friends like that though that their parents was like, you
can go wherever, but if you don't go here, I'm
not paying for it.
Speaker 6 (46:43):
No.
Speaker 4 (46:43):
But you know what she said is like when your
kid goes to I'm sure you're saying your kids with
the white high schools. Correct, Yes, they did, yes, right,
and they and going to a white high school, especially
if you have a daughter. I think a lot of
times your black daughter is not treated the way that
she should be because she goes to the white school.
She's not I love respected, She's not a priority.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
So that was the main reason I wanted my mars.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Treated like a spectacle. She's like like they can't, but
they're like, oh my god, look at you so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (47:12):
That's the reason I wanted her to go to HBCU,
so they have more of the people that look like them,
you know, the guys that were kicking it to them
opposed to you know, these white boys that probably can't
bring a black girl home.
Speaker 17 (47:24):
You know, whatever, the way you think about yourself as
a black person, but as a black like one hundred
percent you. It felt like that, like the first week
you walk on campus and you see all those other
black kids.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
That's when you got into your fashion.
Speaker 8 (47:36):
You know, the fashion was born into it.
Speaker 6 (47:38):
You know me? You know what I mean?
Speaker 8 (47:43):
State is known for like the pretty girls and the
parties in the fashion.
Speaker 13 (47:51):
People.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
That's crazy.
Speaker 8 (47:55):
Right now.
Speaker 17 (47:57):
List we're like top twenty HBCUs on the Forbes list,
so we know me. All the other things matter too,
but the fashion, the party, that was a thing.
Speaker 7 (48:04):
Nobody go to the party, Lauren, I'm trying to walk.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
About the fashion.
Speaker 8 (48:18):
Fashion, okay, giving the looks?
Speaker 2 (48:23):
What about the fashion? Hello? Hey, hello, more than everybody. Hey,
what's your name?
Speaker 14 (48:31):
My name is Tolanda. I'm from Chicago. My first time
calling in, but I live in New Orleans now. My
experience it was a little different. Both of my parents
and about seventy percent of my family went to Southern
University in Baton Rouge. I had relatives who worked there.
That was the dean of that was the assistant being
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of the cousins that were going there, and I grew
up with both of my parents being teachers and I
didn't have my own idea identity in Chicago, so I
wanted to go somewhere where nobody knew my parents I
could have my own identity. Graduated eleventh in my class,
got accepted to almost every school for real. Didn't want
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to go to a white school. God accepted to Spellman.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Was going to go there.
Speaker 14 (49:18):
Grambling was the only.
Speaker 15 (49:19):
School that rejected me.
Speaker 14 (49:22):
And I was like, damn, this school must be Hella.
I got to get in this school like I got
into Penn State, I got into Temple, I got into Syracuse.
You know what I'm saying, like Stamford. This school gotta
be Hella. And that's what I decided to do. I
went to Grambler, come to find out later, once I
got on campus because it was so easy to go
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through and get everything taken care of. My counselor, who
was white, didn't want me to go to an HBCU
because he felt that an HBCU was beneath me, and
he wanted me to go to Notre Dame, which was
his alma mada. But I wouldn't change my experience for anything.
Gsu Graham famis for life. There's nothing about Grammlin and
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I'm gonna say that's bad. I try to push kids
to go there. I used to do college tours HBCU
College Tours in Northwest Indiana for eighteen years, and I
would take those kids every year, either the East Coast
or the South, and then we'd all end up at
Disney World or Universal Studios so that they could experience,
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you know, or see that there are other schools out
there other than the Notre Dames, the Produce, the Illinois States,
all of that that they could attend with people look
just like them. I would never change that for the world. Now,
my sisters didn't do what my parents wanted because she said, well,
if she didn't have to go to southern why do
I got to go. She went to Jackson State and
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my parents loved all of it because we were there
with HBCUs. Now, my mom's a Delta and I didn't
get the pledge while I was undergrad, but I definitely
pledged grad level and I'm adulta all day long.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
We thank you for sharing your story. We appreciate you all.
I love you, Love you to baby. Were pink and green?
Speaker 7 (51:10):
Yeah, always see the pink in the background, the green always?
Speaker 2 (51:14):
Oh wait, what are you. You don't play with her,
she might fight.
Speaker 7 (51:17):
You said, no, I'm an alpha Kappa Alpha.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
I'm gonna play with you.
Speaker 8 (51:31):
If it's wrong.
Speaker 13 (51:32):
She was trying a.
Speaker 21 (51:36):
A K.
Speaker 8 (51:38):
You know, not that infil know what happened. I've been
said that I did not know.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
Let me something, man. One of my favorite things do
in the world, to be the a K and be like,
oh you are Aida.
Speaker 6 (51:52):
So bad?
Speaker 11 (51:56):
I love I just know.
Speaker 13 (52:02):
All.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
I love all the Zaders too, but don't like when
you know, why do you do that when you profile
the sorority?
Speaker 2 (52:11):
Let me guess.
Speaker 19 (52:15):
Too much?
Speaker 6 (52:17):
Do not like that?
Speaker 22 (52:19):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (52:20):
I'm gonna take my nap. Thank you, and all the
Zadas out there.
Speaker 8 (52:29):
Man, you go with your parents?
Speaker 3 (52:32):
No, I think that you well, that's a good point too.
I just think you should let kids forward their own path,
you know what I mean? Like, I don't think you
should force anything on kids, like you should let them
use their natural intuition and let God, God THEMN to where.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
It is they need to be. But sometimes, you know
what's better than they do.
Speaker 4 (52:48):
A lot of times most times, Yeah, Howard, All right,
now when we come back, we got the latest.
Speaker 17 (52:56):
What were talking about law, young thugs speaking of God
and the kids. He is God in the youth, talking
to the kids.
Speaker 8 (53:01):
Talk about it.
Speaker 2 (53:01):
We'll get to that nexus to the breakfast club come morning. A. Yeah,
what's the name of that biscuit place? Ir regardless biscuit shot.
I'm sorry, I come on, man, man, man, they can't
understand you. Ir regardless biscuit. There you go.
Speaker 3 (53:16):
It's this amazing biscuits spot that I go to when
I'm in Rhode Island because you know, my daughter she
does competitive cheerleading, so we end up in places like
Rhode Islands. We always talk about it and ir regardless
biscuit is so good. You've heard me shout them out.
I didn't even know they was coming this morning. They
came up here this morning and they provided us breakfast.
Speaker 11 (53:29):
Yo.
Speaker 4 (53:30):
He started getting so excited. Oh my god, I'm like, no, no,
but it's banging like I just I usually don't eat
this early. I usually don't eat and usually until about
twelve o'clock. But I just had a biscuit.
Speaker 2 (53:41):
I'm trying to tell you, Jess got too. Did you
have the maps? Did you have the maple grilled chicken?
Speaker 23 (53:46):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (53:47):
Man, all right, keep going keep going to the late lad.
Speaker 13 (53:52):
What what you.
Speaker 8 (53:55):
Particularly hands.
Speaker 2 (54:02):
All even got? Yeah, that's the class on the breakfast club.
Speaker 8 (54:10):
Little brown girls, look at you and I want.
Speaker 12 (54:11):
To be like you.
Speaker 3 (54:14):
Aaron Galler's biscuits just had a hair in her biscuits,
so she wanted something else.
Speaker 2 (54:17):
I think it was her own.
Speaker 8 (54:18):
But yeah, right, that's strength too long to be mine.
And it's all right, y'all.
Speaker 17 (54:27):
So Young Thug, You guys know that Young Thug has
been doing a lot of community service work talking to
the kids.
Speaker 8 (54:32):
He's been doing music things with the community as well too.
Speaker 17 (54:35):
So he was at a school called Serious Charter Academy
in Macon, Georgia, and he popped in to speak to
some students and his message to the students is getting
a little pushback.
Speaker 8 (54:46):
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 5 (54:47):
If you you're almost as important as the richest person
in the world, so fain it's like more so like
the money for us is.
Speaker 24 (54:56):
Really the most important. It's very important. You got to
you gotta keep up with you. Always make sure they
need it.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
Leads to the right, leads you to the right.
Speaker 25 (55:03):
Move to move, Gotta move totally different, got to move.
Militis so many, so many.
Speaker 21 (55:08):
Things people don't know that famous like very important, definite
move to be because you end up in like situations.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
You know, I've ended up in situations. I understand what
he's saying. But nobody should aspire to be famous.
Speaker 3 (55:20):
You know what you should aspire to do it just
be great, right, Like you know, I see doctors nowadays,
I see attorneys, I see you know, therapists. They're on
social media and they have Instagram pages and they have
YouTube pages, but they're actually good at what they do,
at what they do, and they're using those platforms to
amplify their work. So I guess they're I hate that
word famous, but I guess they are quote unquote famous,
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but it's bringing attention to what it is they actually do.
Speaker 4 (55:44):
Yeah, but some people want to just be famous, that's
what they think. Fame is what pays. But if you
look at any industry rather it's Kai right. Kai didn't
start up being famous. Kai is a great stream and
because of that that made them famously. Yes, I think
most people don't get that.
Speaker 17 (55:59):
But think about how we talk about how Ky sinat
right has established all these numbers, all this platform, but
he knows what to do with and even though he's
just having a good time.
Speaker 8 (56:07):
He knows what to do.
Speaker 17 (56:08):
But you got other people on streaming it out here.
I mean they risking it all for the stream. So
I think it's him trying to teach people. And again
we don't know the question that was asking him or
that was just something he volunteered too. But I think
he's trying to let them know, like, Yo, this could
happen for you and if so, it could change your life,
but you got to know what to do with it.
Speaker 8 (56:24):
And I said, I said, it's making Georgia. I said,
I want to correct that.
Speaker 3 (56:27):
Yes, And you know, I guess when you have a
certain level of fame, it does provide you a different
level of access, right, That's why you know, once again,
I see so many actual professionals who do who do
great work in their field on social media, using YouTube
and stuff to amplify what it is that they're doing,
and they're becoming I guess.
Speaker 8 (56:46):
Famous, famous, famous.
Speaker 3 (56:47):
I guess I hate the word because I don't want
to tell kids that go be famine, Like what does
that even mean?
Speaker 4 (56:54):
But it's also you know, when you do things like
you said, so good, it makes you famous, right, like
you look it could be anything like, look at me
a Mallory.
Speaker 2 (57:00):
Right to a Mai.
Speaker 4 (57:01):
She's an activist, yes right back in it that you
really didn't hear much about activists.
Speaker 2 (57:05):
But she's doing such an amazing job. It's made her famous. Man,
look at top Dog Laws Law. We don't know his
face because I don't know who he is.
Speaker 8 (57:14):
I know, I know he do commercials. Now he gets
out of his car in the commercial.
Speaker 3 (57:17):
I know two things about Top Dog Law. They've won
over a billion dollars in cases. But that's only because
they've bought so much attention to what it is that
they do. When I hear the commercials, I pay attention.
Would you consider that famous? I don't know, But you
know what I want to hear. I want to hear
the people that actually got money or the cases. You
know what I mean, you're not used to like you
know what, I went to top Doug lun I hired
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him and I got my mom.
Speaker 2 (57:38):
No one's gonna tell you that because that family gonna
be what they know you just wanted.
Speaker 24 (57:41):
This was money.
Speaker 2 (57:42):
Now they're gonna ask you for money.
Speaker 8 (57:43):
But you know, I don't think this is.
Speaker 17 (57:48):
Especially why are But yeah, I mean he was getting
some pushback. I saw some people like, that's just not
the right message for kids. But I understand where he
was trying to understand.
Speaker 8 (57:58):
He was trying to go to.
Speaker 13 (57:59):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (57:59):
I mean, that's the wording, that's all.
Speaker 3 (58:01):
It's not the right message for kids because you have
to add a lot of context to it. There was
a lot of context lost all these kids here is
I gotta be famous. I gotta be famous. I gotta
be famous. That's the problem with the world nowadays. Everybody
wants to be famous, but famous for what for what?
Speaker 2 (58:15):
Well?
Speaker 8 (58:16):
Nothing shifting gears.
Speaker 17 (58:18):
Speaking of fame and music, Chris Brown and Usher, did
you guys see yesterday that they announced that they're going
to be extending their tour bet Yes, because of the
high demand, they are extending their tour. It's going to
be eight show extension for the Trek on the Well.
They announced this yesterday, Monday, August seventeen. So they are
coming back here to Jersey. They'll be at matt Life
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Stadium the fifteen. Okay, yeah, now this time, I say,
because I missed it the first time.
Speaker 2 (58:47):
Do you know records?
Speaker 17 (58:49):
I know Usher, and I know Chris Brown. Come on, yes,
Envy all right, whatever. They're gonna be in Miami in
December for a third show. They'll all go back for
a fourth day in Atlanta on November fifth, and then
they're also going to go back to l A as well.
So yeah, if you you want to go. They're also
going to Baltimore back. They're going back to Baltimore to go.
Speaker 8 (59:12):
See Usher and Chris Brown.
Speaker 2 (59:15):
Vegas.
Speaker 8 (59:16):
No, No, I should get I should go. You know,
I should be feeding a couple of cherries.
Speaker 2 (59:23):
That's not a bad would be.
Speaker 8 (59:27):
And it's a lot of feel good R and B.
That the cherry that got him. He wanted to get
the cherry so bad. Going to work.
Speaker 17 (59:37):
Wow, you were sitting up here. Come back and swallow
that biscuit with that thick neck. All right, that was
the latest hour. The next latest will be getting into
some conversations about black journalism and and if you can
call people out or not, because Stephen A. Smith has
been having a lot of conversations.
Speaker 8 (59:57):
We'll tell you about it.
Speaker 2 (59:58):
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Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
Now, who are you giving your donkey too? You know
I need a congressman Keem Jefferies to come to the
front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word
with him.
Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Yo, seven o'clock on the dock, seven o'clock on the door.
Speaker 8 (01:00:42):
No, I understand the song.
Speaker 17 (01:00:43):
I was like seven o'clock on the dock like I
had to sing the okay to do seven o'clock on
the dot.
Speaker 8 (01:00:49):
Y'all gotta up.
Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
We'll get on a nice and hopefully you can learn
the words when we go. It's the breakfast luve, good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
It's time for Donkey of the Day. One donkeys out.
Don't here to day called Donkey of the day.
Speaker 8 (01:01:04):
It really caught me off guard.
Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
If you live a life where we might are tongue
based off who we may offenised. He never would say
any time give us you are a donkey.
Speaker 8 (01:01:14):
That is why Charlamagne is.
Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
Some donkey today the breakfast Club. Okay, Charlamage, we would
giving a Donkey of the Day too today.
Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Well, you know, Donkey to Day for Tuesday, August eighteenth
goes to one of the most confusing people in American politics,
Congressman Hakeem Jefferson. Well, actually he's not confusing. If you
follow the corporate pack money, then you know exactly why
Hakum moves the way he moves. Okay, it's a reason
they call him a pac shakor it's a reason they
call him a pac Rocky. But today we are here
to talk about APAC. We are here to discuss Medicare
(01:01:45):
for All. Okay, what is Medicare for All? It is
a proposed single pair national health insurance system for the US.
It would expand and improve the current public Medicare program
to cover all US residents, replacing private health insurance companies
and eliminating out of could cost like premiums, co pays,
indeductibles care.
Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
A lot of data I've seen.
Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Says around fifty to sixty percent of all Americans support
a national Medicare for all, our single payer healthcare system.
But Hakim Jeffries is not one of those people. See
Hakim was on Meet the Press with Christen Welker, and
the House Minority Leader indicated that he does not currently
support Medicare for All Okay legislation, even though he co
(01:02:24):
sponsored similar bills from twenty thirteen to twenty twenty one.
Let's go to meet the presford the report.
Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
Please, all right, let's move on.
Speaker 23 (01:02:29):
To Medicare for All. You co sponsored Medicare for All
legislation from twenty thirteen to twenty twenty one, You've not
co sponsored it since you became Democratic leader. Will you
put Medicare for All up for a vote if you
become speaker?
Speaker 26 (01:02:44):
Well, listen, these are all conversations that the House Democratic
Caucus is going to have to have.
Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
Right now.
Speaker 26 (01:02:48):
We're focused on November third, not January third. What we
are promising the American people is that we're going to
fight to make healthcare affordable for every single American. I
know there's a lot of damage that Republicans have done
that we've got to restore and repair. For instance, Republicans
have enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in American history.
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More than a trillion dollars or so has been cut
from Medicaid. And what you're going to have is about
fourteen million Americans lose access to healthcare.
Speaker 8 (01:03:19):
Do you personally support Medicare for all?
Speaker 23 (01:03:21):
Do you personally support Medicare for All?
Speaker 26 (01:03:24):
No, as you indicate it, I haven't co sponsored the
Medicare for All legislation that has been introduced over the
last several years. I do think we need to figure
out how to fix our broken health care system and
then build something better once we repair the damage that
has been done now. That will include doing things like
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extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits so that more
than twenty million people who have seen their health insurance
premium skyrocket in some cases by up to one thousand
dollars a month. That's not sustainable, and that's something that
Donald Trump and Republicans have visited upon the American people.
Speaker 23 (01:04:03):
Just be very clear, though, as a Democratic leader in
the House, would you vote for or against Medicare for All?
Speaker 26 (01:04:09):
I think, as you've indicated in your question to me,
it's not legislation that I currently am co sponsoring or
that I support. Okay, but we do support the notion
that we've got to find a path forward to fix
our broken healthcare system and make health care affordable for
every single American pathetic.
Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
Some Democrats don't want to win, and it's about time
folks stop pretending that they do. Okay, now, listen, I
want to be clear, Hakim Jeffrees is not getting donkey
of today because he doesn't support Medicare for All. You
are allowed to not support Medicare for All. You can
believe in a public option. You can believe in scrimphening Obamacare.
You can believe in expanding Medicare and Medicaid. You can
believe there's another way to get every American affordable health care.
Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
That's called having a policy position.
Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
But what Hakim did on Meet the Press illustrates one
of the biggest problems Democrats have right now, and it's
one of the things that pisses me off the most
about the Democratic Party. They will tell people what they're
against without giving them something equally clear that they're for. Okay,
we will come back to that, But I have a
question for Hakim Jeffries in regard to the Medicare for All.
Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Simply what changed? Okay, right, Hakim?
Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
In September twenty nineteen, you became a co sponsor of
the Medicare for All Act. Then in twenty twenty one. Hakim,
you know you wasn't just somebody who eventually jumped onto
Medicare for All. No, you was an original co sponsor
of the Medicare for All Act of twenty twenty one meeting.
Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
When that bill was introduced, your name was already on it.
Speaker 8 (01:05:35):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
Now fast forward to twenty twenty six, Hakim Jeffries, as
you just heard, goes on meet the Press and says
Medicare for All is not legislation that he currently co sponsors.
Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
Our supports.
Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
Once again, what changed? What did you learn between twenty
twenty one and now that changed your mind? Did the
economics change? Did you discover something about Medicare for All
that you didn't you know when you co sponsored it.
Did America's healthcare system suddenly get better? We know the
answer to that. Did premiums get so cheap that I
missed the announcement? Did deductibles disappear? Did prescription drugs become free?
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Did medical debt go away? The insurance companies stopped the
nine claims? Because if any of that happened, we all
missed it.
Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
And by the way, politicians are absolutely allowed to change
their minds. Okay, we should actually encourage people. People to
change their minds when they get new information. Growth requires
changing your mind sometimes, Wisdom requires changing your mind sometimes.
But when you're an elected official and you change your
position on something this significant, the people deserve to know why,
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especially when the thing that changed the most dramatically during
that time appears to be your position. Okay, not your
policy position, your actual position. Because once again, in twenty
twenty one, Hakem you was a congressman from Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Remember that. Remember when you was a congressman from Brooklyn
and you was quoting Biggie and Jay appearing to be
down with the people.
Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
Today, you're the leader of the House Democrats okay, the
House Democratic Caucus, and could potentially become Speaker.
Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
Of the House.
Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
But you appear to be done with corporate America, not
the people. So I have to ask did your beliefs
change when your title changed? Because that's what people hate
about politics. Okay, It's not disagreement, all right, It's the
feeling that politicians believe one thing when they're trying to
move up, and another thing once they moved up. Okay,
And Akim Jeffreys has repeatedly said healthcare is are.
Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
Right, all right? If healthcare is are right, how are
you gonna guarantee that? Right? That's all we want to know.
Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Okay, because if medicare for all isn't the answer anymore,
what's the answer. Don't just tell me what you don't support,
tell me what you do support. How are Democrats gonna
make sure every American has health care? How are you
gonna lower premiums? How are you gonna load deductibles? How
are you gonna lower prescription drug prices? How are you
gonna stop families from being financially destroyed because somebody simply
got sick? What happens to the millions of Americans who
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are uninsured are underinsured?
Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
What's the plan, my guy? Okay? Because this is another
problem Democrats have.
Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
You cannot spend all day telling America what Republicans are
doing going wrong, and never clearly articulate what you're going.
Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
To do right.
Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
Opposition is not an agenda, Resistance is not an agenda,
where not them is not an agenda. And saying we
need to fix our broken healthcare system isn't a plan.
And tell you to tell people how you're going to
fix the broken healthcare system. Regular people don't wake up
debating the finer points of single pair of health care. Okay,
they wake up asking why am I paying hundreds of
dollars a month for insurance and still have a deductible
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that's thollands of dollars?
Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Why did my insurance company deny the procedure my doctor
said I need? Why does this prescription cost hundreds of
dollars that I don't have? Why am I afraid to
go to the er because I don't know what the
bill is going to look like? That's what people are
dealing with in real life, Hakim. So once again, Hakim,
I don't need you to support Medicare for all, but
I need you to explain why you supported Medicare for
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all when you weren't the Democratic leader but Democratic Hakim.
Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Democratic leader Hakem Jeffries. Does it? Okay? What changed? All?
Speaker 11 (01:08:58):
Right? Was it?
Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
The policy?
Speaker 13 (01:08:59):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
The country? Are your position?
Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
And I'm asking because leadership should make you know. Shouldn't
make your convictions harder to find. Leadership should make your
convictions clearer. Okay, If you believe Medicare for All was
a solution in twenty nineteen, and believe it enough to
become an original Cospontan in twenty twenty one, but you
don't believe it's the solution in twenty twenty six. You
have to tell us why, and more importantly, probably the
most important, tell us what replaced it, because you can't
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tell Americans healthcare is are right and then get vague
when they ask you how you're going to guarantee that right.
Rights require mechanisms, rights require policy, rights require somebody actually
fighting to make those rights real. And maybe that's the
lesson in all of this, all right, The easiest thing
for a politician to change is their position.
Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
When their position.
Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
Changes, when you're trying to climb the ladder, bold ideas
sound great, okay, and then you become responsible for protecting
suits and raising money and maintaining coalitions and potentially becoming speaker,
not to mention taking corporate back money, and suddenly those
bold ideas get a whole lot quiet on the creek.
Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
I understand the politics of that, but the American people
deserve more than politics. They deserve an explanation. So, Congressman Jeffries,
you don't owe anyone your support for medicae for all.
What you owe the American people is an explanation for
why something worthy of your signature in twenty twenty one
isn't worthy of your support in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
And until you.
Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
Explain that people have every right to wonder whether the
thing that changed was the policy or the politician. Please
give House Democratic Leader how King Jeffries the biggest he hull?
Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
What the hell is that? You need to go see
somebody right now, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 8 (01:10:39):
That's a damn biscuit. Gods like a damn cat. The
guy has stuff that sounds.
Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
You're about to call up a frog.
Speaker 13 (01:10:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
One time I seed somebody put rootwork on someone and
they called up a whole frog.
Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
Sounded just like that.
Speaker 8 (01:10:52):
It could be a hairball. You head.
Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
Right, thank you, thank you for that. Donkey of the day.
Speaker 4 (01:11:01):
Now when we come back, we were talking about young
Dog and the fact that he was talking to some kids.
Speaker 17 (01:11:06):
Yeah, break it down, talking to some kids at a
charter school down in Georgia and his message it was
about fame and how important it is, uh and got
some pushback for it.
Speaker 5 (01:11:17):
Let's listen, if you fers, you're almost as important as
the richest person in the world.
Speaker 24 (01:11:22):
So fame is like more so like than money. For
us is really the most important. It's very important. You
got to you gotta keep up with it. You got
to always make sure it leads. It leads to the right,
leads you to the right.
Speaker 20 (01:11:33):
Moom.
Speaker 25 (01:11:34):
You gotta know how to move, gotta move totally different.
Got a new MILITI so many, so many things. People
don't know about fame. That's like very important move. You
don't know how to be because you ain't up in
like situations. You know, I ended up in Siplin.
Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
All right, let's hope on up the phone lines. Let's
discuss eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
What do you think about what he said? He was
talking to a bunch of kids. He was talking about
fame not. The bad part about this is we didn't
get the full context.
Speaker 8 (01:11:58):
No, and I tried to find more video. I didn't
see more video because it sounds like he was.
Speaker 4 (01:12:02):
Saying fame could lead to having a bigger fortune. You
have to be responsible with it, you have to know
how to use it. That's what I think he was going.
Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
You can't just tell a room full of kids to
aspire to be famous, correct, because nowadays people will seek
fame by any means necessary.
Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
That's right, So let's.
Speaker 4 (01:12:18):
Discuss you want to man eight hundred and five five
five one, it's the Breakfast Level Morning.
Speaker 20 (01:12:30):
If you're all.
Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Talking about it, you know we talking about it.
Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
It's topic times called eight hundred five eight five one
five one to join into the discussion with the Breakfast
Club Morning.
Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Everybody's DJ Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy.
Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
We are the Breakfast Club law La roses here as
well if you're just joining us. During the latest sho
we reported that young Thug was talking to some kids,
and we'll break it down who he's talking to and
where it was.
Speaker 17 (01:12:55):
Yeah, so he was talking to a group of students
in Georgia at a charter academy and they were really
excited to see him, but they got into a conversation
somehow about fame and some of his comments. You know,
people are pushing back on should he have been talking
to because these students they're young, like they're it's like
I think it's like maybe third fourth grade.
Speaker 8 (01:13:15):
They're younger students, So people are trying to out they.
Speaker 17 (01:13:17):
Are, Yeah, these are these are kids like kids kids,
So people are trying to figure out why they were
having a conversation about fame and if it was the
right message about fame to these kids.
Speaker 8 (01:13:27):
Yeah, I didn't know they were that young.
Speaker 5 (01:13:29):
If you be fans, you're almost as important as the
richest person in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
So fame is like more so like the money for us.
Speaker 24 (01:13:37):
So fan is really the most important. It's very important.
You got to you gotta keep up with it. You
gotta always make sure you need it leads to the
right leads you to the right.
Speaker 20 (01:13:45):
Move.
Speaker 21 (01:13:45):
You gotta know how to move, gotta move totally different.
You gotta move move to so many, so many things.
People don't know that fame that's like very important that move.
You got know how to be because you end up
in like situations. You know, I ended up in situation.
Speaker 4 (01:13:57):
We're asking eight hundred and five and five, what are
your thoughts with you just I mean, we've been saying
it all morning.
Speaker 8 (01:14:04):
You know, you just can't tell a kid, you know,
fame is the most important thing. But I do think
it was his wording. I don't think he meant it
like you know a lot of people are taking it either.
I just think that he's speaking from his experience and
what fame did for him. And then he's also telling him,
if you're gonna be famous, this is the way to
do it because you have you can learn. Y'all can
learn as young as y'all are. From my mistakes, my
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fame ended up landing me in certain situations that it
was hard to get out of, and I got negative ascension.
And that's not necessarily the right thing to do when
you have a lot of eyes on you. But I mean,
I understand the objective and the message he was trying
to convey, but it was just the words, just you know, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
I mean I agree with you. I mean I think
you should want to be good at your craft.
Speaker 8 (01:14:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:14:47):
When I started DJ and I just wanted to be
the best DJ. Ever, it wasn't about fame. I just
wanted to be the best, you know, I mean, whatever
it was. And you know, sometimes if you are good
at your craft, fame comes with it. But I don't
think you should aspire to be I think that might
be a false way of thinking.
Speaker 8 (01:15:03):
But the kids are.
Speaker 17 (01:15:03):
But if we're being honest, when you talk to a
lot of these kids that charter school, from what I
see online is K through fourth grade, you talk to
a lot of these young kids, they care about, the streamers,
the people on snapchat and TikTok right now, so you
got to get you got it. It's like it's like
almost meeting them where they are to explain a better
Like I think it makes sense to they meet them
where they're at and try to develop their thinking process
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so it's not as like surface level.
Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
Well, you don't want to tell a room full of
kids something like that with no context, Like you can't
tell them to aspire to be famous because all these kids,
to your point, Lauren, just want to be famous nowadays,
but famous for what, no real gifts. And I think
America puts way too much emphasis on celebrity right Like,
fame itself isn't important. Doing actual work is what's important.
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Doing work with real intention behind it is what's important.
Every day I see professors on social media, lawyers, therapist, doctors,
and they are using those platforms to raise awareness to
the good work they're doing and they become famous. And
that's been going on since the beginning of time. I'm
not gonna sit there like that wasn't a doctor Phil,
There wasn't a doctor Oz. You know, there wasn't a
doctor Roof. You've seen spiritual leaders that have gotten a
lot of you know, television time that have gone on
to grow a.
Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
Ya lemon se Right.
Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
So if you're actually doing things with real intention and
you're actually doing really good work, you know you can
become I guess.
Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
Of famous in your own right.
Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
Think about all of those home renovation shows you'd be
watching envy, like those people.
Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
What's that dude that be come up here that look
like little Kendo sell the houses? Ryan sir? Oh, yeah,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
But I mean he does the work of selling houses,
and he's he does such a good job at it
that he's become famous when he got TV shows and
stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (01:16:38):
Even if you know, and I watch all those shows,
even the guys that buy the storage units and flip
the storage units like you, become fame.
Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
But they are good at their jobs.
Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
You got people that do teeth out here now that
have become famous. Doctor Miami became famous doingbody My point is,
do the real work, do the work with intention. Then
you'll have some fame, and then you got to figure
out what you're going to do with that fame. Another
person that I use an example, Mario carbone All his
restaurants are super famous. But guess what he focuses on.
And he'll come up here and tell you that the
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quality of the experience.
Speaker 8 (01:17:09):
You can't just.
Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
Aspire to be famous and then think that that fame
is going to translate into something else.
Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
Hello, who's this girl?
Speaker 13 (01:17:17):
Mary?
Speaker 12 (01:17:17):
This is mister show money or is that on.
Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
New Jersey famous for being fact? Yo?
Speaker 22 (01:17:27):
I think that like he was describing influence, but maybe
the world fame team up in a conversation. He was
describing influence and how to be you know'sp with which
what what what you do as as people follow you
or gain notoriety, and how your influence can help or
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hurt your.
Speaker 12 (01:17:52):
Life and those of others.
Speaker 22 (01:17:54):
So maybe, like I said, maybe someone in the room
with him asked the question that the question or whatever
or use the world.
Speaker 13 (01:18:01):
Fame he was he was describing influenced.
Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
You're absolutely right, mister show money. That's the word that
he should have been using influence. But even with that,
it has to be context because you know, what is
it what are you doing that has caused you to
have that type of influence. Like a lot of people
think they can just be influencers for the sake of
being influences because they got a bunch of followers.
Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
What did you do to get those followers? Eight hundred five?
You gotta go sensitive? He fat fat.
Speaker 3 (01:18:28):
People are very sensitive to stop calling him fat? Okay, exactly,
that is not jolly. Jolly people are very sensitive. He
go DM me right now. Why you hanging on?
Speaker 8 (01:18:38):
He's a caller of size.
Speaker 12 (01:18:40):
That's what.
Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
You can relate. You have to go hello, who's this.
Speaker 19 (01:18:49):
Day?
Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
Shod day?
Speaker 20 (01:18:51):
I love y'all you.
Speaker 19 (01:18:56):
I just feel like these parents are they're so important.
He's cock stars, he's rappers.
Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
Young, we gotta do better.
Speaker 19 (01:19:05):
Stop list said these rappers.
Speaker 12 (01:19:07):
And it's TikTok.
Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
Stars, TikTok just down now. People were dying young way
before TikTok. They always want to blame.
Speaker 8 (01:19:15):
And it is getting more and more out of hand.
Speaker 20 (01:19:17):
It's getting worse.
Speaker 13 (01:19:18):
It's getting worse.
Speaker 8 (01:19:23):
This is everything's getting worse.
Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
Morning, talk to us, what's your thoughts.
Speaker 19 (01:19:29):
Some morning, y'all?
Speaker 12 (01:19:30):
DJ if he just hilarious slam and I love all y'all.
Speaker 19 (01:19:34):
Can't believe I'm on the line. Yes, So, I feel
like this is the problem with society now we outolize
famous people that we even allow stuff like this to happen.
We should have people who are qualified talking to our
children in the classrooms anyway, Like why is he even there?
Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
But if these.
Speaker 4 (01:19:53):
Students are fans of him, regardless if you think he's
qualified or not, he has influence and he can possibly
influenced these kids to do some positive instead of doing
some negative things that they might have been taking.
Speaker 19 (01:20:07):
I can understand that I do envy, But my point
is is that that's the problem.
Speaker 8 (01:20:12):
Why is it only a rapper.
Speaker 20 (01:20:13):
Who should have enough influence to influence our children. Why
didn't that we not raise them in a way to
think that the lawyer is good enough to influence.
Speaker 8 (01:20:22):
Bring to the school though he just happened to be
there to day, right, But he.
Speaker 19 (01:20:25):
Shouldn't have been there.
Speaker 3 (01:20:26):
Imagine you were a parent and didn't know anything about
young thug and your child came home and said, Mom,
a young thug came to have a conversation.
Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
I don't know. He told me that I need to
be famous.
Speaker 19 (01:20:40):
Not like whoop, you do, not him.
Speaker 8 (01:20:48):
He shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Speaker 19 (01:20:51):
Now what are we doing in society, guys?
Speaker 3 (01:20:55):
I will say this, Jeffrey should be allowed to come
talk to people. He's an entrepreneur, and not only that,
he's been through real life experiences.
Speaker 2 (01:21:04):
He's there telling kids what not to do. Don't make
the same mistakes that I made. I don't have a
problem with that.
Speaker 19 (01:21:11):
I don't think that that would have been great. That
would have been great, But he didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
We only heard thirty seconds. You don't know if you did.
Speaker 17 (01:21:18):
It ain't that little thirty seconds. He's saying, my fame
got me into like he does treat He might be
getting to that.
Speaker 8 (01:21:24):
You got to move a certain way. He was saying,
you know, don't make the same mistakes.
Speaker 19 (01:21:27):
Right, but it does better so that next time he
gets in a classroom he can still a little more
qualified and speaks of life and to these children. Because
that fame speech, was not it that the parent age?
Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
Thank you, Alicia, good day. What's the story? I mean,
you just cannot tell kids to aspire to be famous.
Speaker 8 (01:21:48):
And that's the most important part.
Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
Yeah, with no context, like like all of these kids
want to be famous. We know that, we know all
of these kids just want to be on social media
being famous for a whole bunch of nothing. Fame itself
isn't important it's about doing the actual work. What are
we encouraging kids to actually do? Because I promise you,
if you do real work with real intention and this
day it is, you're gonna probably you're gonna get famous anyway,
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anybody do you know what that fame means? I just
I like what smister show Money said, You're going to
have a level of influence.
Speaker 2 (01:22:18):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
Like if you if you actually go do the work
with real intention and whatever it is that you're gonna do,
You're gonna have a level of influence.
Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
And there's a woman that I watch.
Speaker 3 (01:22:25):
I can't remember her name, but every time she wants
to call kids, I think she's in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
She'd be outside the court.
Speaker 3 (01:22:31):
Room Wiley like wild with the people that she won with,
like doing dancing and all kinds off. I cannot remember
the sister name, and I look at it and I'm like, damn,
would I want this in an attorney? But the reality
is she wants he's winning. Forget what you feel about
how she celebrates she's winning. I'll be reading these long
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captions of hers and she'll break down exactly why she
won the case.
Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
That's what I'm That's what I want, I don't get
you dance or don't dance? Are you winning? That's the
point is she's doing the work. You don't let her.
Lady named Lauren no Am always yeah she's black and
she be okay.
Speaker 8 (01:23:07):
But that's the thing. Yeah, I don't care how you
celebrate you won.
Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
That's right. Ladies, with Lauren coming up, we do we want.
Speaker 17 (01:23:12):
To talk about some conversations because Sean Man, you do
this a lot where you'll call people out about things
that you feel like need to be called out. The
n ABJ is the National Association of Black Journalists, right,
that is the biggest organization supporting black journalists. They called
out stephen A. Smith and it sparked a really big
conversation about what you should and should not do when
critique is somebody, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
Sierra in Norris, let me see her. She's the Chicago
criminal defense attorney. She goes viral all the time because
she dances and celebrates with her clients.
Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
But she wins. She's doing great work. Is the point.
So do great work and you will gain a level
of notoriety and influence.
Speaker 8 (01:23:47):
That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:23:49):
Ladies, with Lauren's up next to the Breakfast Club, go morning.
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Speaker 8 (01:24:15):
So Stephen A.
Speaker 17 (01:24:16):
Smith in the National Association of Black Journalists. For those
of you guys who don't know, the National Association of
Black Journalists is an organization that uplifts black journalists, right,
So it's all about educating. They help you find jobs,
but it's a community, so it goes from like college
all the way through your career. A lot of black journalists,
big name black journals, including Steven A. Smith, started their
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careers within an organization. So they recently had their annual
conference in Chicago and they gave an award called the
Thumbs Down Award. Now, this award goes to people who
they feel are like disparaging or just making it harder
for black journalists to do their jobs. Steve n Asmith
was awarded the award. Let's take a listen to Steve
Nay Smith the award being given to him.
Speaker 11 (01:24:55):
NADJ presents the thumbs Down award to an individual organization, actions, reporting,
or institutional practices have significantly undermined fair, accurate, and inclusive
journalism about Black communities Britain, car Juwan McCoy, CBS, Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (01:25:12):
Smith The Washington Post.
Speaker 17 (01:25:15):
Yeah so, Stephen A. Smith was pretty upset about receiving
that award. And I mean he is a part of
the organization. Not only is it part of it, but
like he's brought First Take to their conferences. Like he's
done a lot to pour back into NABJ, a lot
to pour back into Black journalists.
Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
But whether he at the conference last year or honored
at the conference, or spoke at the.
Speaker 17 (01:25:36):
Conference, Yeah, and First Take was there, He's done a lot.
He was there last year, he wasn't there this year.
But he responded via his show and he was not happy.
Let's take a listen to Steven A. Smith responding to
the NABJ.
Speaker 27 (01:25:48):
It is BS, and I get a lot of people
want to pile on and they want to jump on
it because you have your own individual feelings about me.
I'm here to tell y'all, y'all are entitled to that,
not the NABACH. You're not entitled to that. I am
the same guy that brought a nationally televised show to
a journalism conference, which is the NABJ the last two years.
Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
Did you have anything to say about me?
Speaker 27 (01:26:14):
Then First Take, which has been number one for fourteen
straight years. We came to the National Association for Black
Journalists in Chicago and Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
I also stood in the booth over an hour doing
the jobs fair. I also gave a speech.
Speaker 27 (01:26:30):
I also mentored and talked to, as I continue to
do young aspiring black journalists, and I have done that
religiously for decades.
Speaker 3 (01:26:40):
I don't think anyone is above criticism, but if steven
A has done all of those things for them, it
should have been more of a.
Speaker 2 (01:26:46):
Call in than a call out.
Speaker 4 (01:26:47):
Yeah, I disagree, right, And the reason I say that
as an NABJ is an organization that is supposed to
empower journalists right, help journalists out right, and Steven A.
Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
Smith has done that. So the fact that they even
have a thumbs down.
Speaker 4 (01:27:00):
Award for a black journalist that's out there, that's working,
that's putting in the work outside of what he does
for the n A B J. When you look at
these campuses, these HBCUs as big as stephen A.
Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
Smith is, who's always on those campuses. Steven should have
been more.
Speaker 4 (01:27:16):
I don't even like the throws down, like they should
not have anything negative towards if there is.
Speaker 8 (01:27:21):
A question of calling.
Speaker 2 (01:27:27):
You have that award. But I'm not just saying for him.
I'm just saying, but.
Speaker 17 (01:27:35):
Here's the thing, and I'm going to play another stephen A.
Smith audio. The question I have for the room is
at what point, though, can the call in not be
a call out? But I be honest about what I
didn't like, because that's what n ABJ were trying to do.
They don't like some of the comments he's made about
Jasmine Crockett, Michelle Obama singer and Serena Williams, Kamala Harris,
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and he talks about that moment. Let's take a listen
to stephen A mention it, Ja Kroppt and Michelle What
the hell.
Speaker 27 (01:28:00):
This thumbs down a ward have to do with journalism
disparaging black women? How I've heard people bringing up Jasmine Crockett.
Did I sit up there asking why would you curse
out the President of the United States with the cameras rolling,
How is that going to help you?
Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
Yes, I did. Why did I do that?
Speaker 27 (01:28:16):
Not only because she's in Texas and I know they
were a little bit different in Texas, a bit more conservative,
and I didn't think that would work with her constituency
down there.
Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
How is that disparaging?
Speaker 27 (01:28:27):
Oh, stephen A goes after Michelle Obama. She's the one
that compared first Take to a reality show, And I
use that as an opportunity to say that this marvelous,
wonderful woman, who's the greatest first lady in American history, who.
Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
I have raised and praised and praised time and time
and don again. All I did was say, I don't
like the fact that.
Speaker 27 (01:28:47):
You said a vote for him, as in Donald Trump,
would be a vote against us as women.
Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
All I said was, there's a whole bunch of pro
lifers out there.
Speaker 27 (01:28:55):
There's a whole bunch of people that care about the
economy or immigration or safety in the streets.
Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
They might not even be thinking about this issue.
Speaker 8 (01:29:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 17 (01:29:05):
So, I just think I agreed that it should have
been done a different way. But I think you should
be able to disagree on things you should have been
done a different way.
Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
Thumbs down.
Speaker 4 (01:29:14):
The ward that was at an naba at NABJ Wah
supposed to be uplifting African American journalists, and I will
say the fact that he does it and it's forty
three hundred members and does all do all forty three
hundred members feel that way about Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
Smith?
Speaker 17 (01:29:25):
And Stephen they said that he received a lot of
text and phone calls from other board members and people
in the organization who were upset about the way that
they went about this because not only did he receive
the award and of course with a viral because of
who he is, but he says that the president, miss
Aaron Haynes, didn't reach out to him, like he didn't
even know that this was going to happen, and she spoke.
Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
They should have been that should have been done, especially
because he's done so much for him.
Speaker 17 (01:29:46):
Yes, she spoke to Roland Martin, who's also on the
board of NABJ, about the moment in her decision to
give Stephen A.
Speaker 8 (01:29:52):
Smith the thumbs down. The world let's say a listen, look.
Speaker 28 (01:29:54):
At who we named this year. I think we have
to agree that there's a clear through line. We're looking
at the forces that make it harder for black journalists
to do their jobs and harder for black communities to
be covered fairly and fully. Like that includes government officials
that are observing their pressure on the press, news organizations
that are making decisions that we can diversity and coverage,
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media owners who are facing questions about the treatment of
black journalists who we know are under attack by internal
and external forces across this country.
Speaker 8 (01:30:23):
And also influencer commentators whose.
Speaker 28 (01:30:26):
Rhetoric can be enforced awful narratives about black people, particularly
black women.
Speaker 12 (01:30:30):
Now you know me.
Speaker 28 (01:30:32):
We've been on this board together for a year now,
and I've been very clear that advocacy is central to
my presidency, particularly advocacy around black women and our professions.
Speaker 4 (01:30:43):
So Roland Martin was on one of the board members
that voted for him to get this award.
Speaker 17 (01:30:47):
I don't believe that he voted like I can't say that,
but he word he does work with NABJ, But I
don't know his stance on whether he signed. I don't
know his stance on whether STEVENI should have got the
award or not. I can't answer that.
Speaker 3 (01:31:00):
I'll tell you that, sadly, we wouldn't be talking about
NABJ Artist Conference if they didn't do this thumbs down award.
And what's even worse is there's people that they named
in the thumbs Down Award, like Brendan Carr, who's doing
way worse things to media than stephen A.
Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
Smith is.
Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
But you know, per usual, the vitri all goes to
the black person from a lot of other black people.
Speaker 17 (01:31:25):
I can update, I'm sorry. On his show, Roland Martin Unfiltered,
Roland Martin supported the decision. He showed pride in n
ABJ President's Aaron Hayes in the organization for having the courage.
Speaker 8 (01:31:37):
To give stephen A. Smith the twenty twenty six thumbs
Down Award.
Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
I don't think steven A makes it. Oh go ahead, nope,
I was gonna say, take me out of there. I
don't want to say nothing. I want to Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 8 (01:31:45):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:31:45):
I don't think, you know, because they said steven A
makes it harder for journalists to do their job. He actually,
you know, gives journalists a job to do because if
stephen A gets things wrong, then the journalists can actually
correct the rect right.
Speaker 8 (01:31:57):
And yeah, and that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 17 (01:31:58):
But look, yeah, like it I gonna get what you
said spark the conversation though, And I will say I
feel like I haven't I've known an NBA for some
time now, so she has a student that went through
school trying to work in this and I feel like
people don't talk about NABJ enough, and I mean sad
that this is why we are, but it does start
a conversation about how you what are the politics or
should not be politics around how you call things out.
Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
Yeah, I just think there's a lot more threats to
black journalism and black media.
Speaker 4 (01:32:25):
Smith absolutely, who knows all the time and it donates
all the time, that does so many And I'm not
and I don't want to say like I'm a Stephen
Asmith Glazer, but it's just what I see. I'm there
on the HBCU campuses when I see first take, I'm
there on those campuses when I see Steven A. Smith
talking to journalists and going to those classes and where
he's came from.
Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
Not, well, nobody's above criticism, not at all. But not
not that award.
Speaker 3 (01:32:47):
Not that's FAST's just the way to administer that criticism.
You know, some of y'all in the NABJ, you know
probably need to have more grace because some of y'all
getting thumbs up your ass, so you probably should have
a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (01:32:57):
That's why they want to go. That's why let's get
out here. She literally, I just want to go.
Speaker 8 (01:33:00):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (01:33:01):
Let's going.
Speaker 8 (01:33:02):
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Their bark is their bite. I put your thumb down,
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My wife is back.
Speaker 8 (01:33:34):
I know you're happy.
Speaker 2 (01:33:35):
Hey, that's right. So we got back from the airport
at at like two thirty am.
Speaker 4 (01:33:40):
PIU flight landed at ten forty and then by the
time she had the that was on the tarmac for
about an hour and then her luggage and go through customs.
Speaker 8 (01:33:49):
Yeah, ah, so I know you time. God damn.
Speaker 4 (01:33:53):
And then all the kids wanted to sleep in bed
and wait for mom. Sure, So I couldn't sleep in
the bed. So I had to sleep like on a
little platform, so you know, if you roll, you hit
the floor.
Speaker 13 (01:34:01):
So I was.
Speaker 8 (01:34:01):
You know, it's a lot of other rooms in your
house you could have slept in. Yeah, yeah, another bit.
Speaker 3 (01:34:07):
But it's crazy though, because you know how long you've
been with I watching your ass seventeen days.
Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
So she's back now he has washed.
Speaker 8 (01:34:14):
It's probably not as thoroughly clean as it could be.
Speaker 4 (01:34:17):
I washed my ass clean. I'm sorry I watched my
I'm a clean ass washer. I can watch my clean
mind now. But anyway, like when we call this morning,
he was saying that his job is causing him stress.
I think my job is causing me stressed. I know,
I think all of us.
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Yes, yeah, you'll cause me stressed. And so tell them
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I do the mental health Expow every year. This will
be the fourth or fifth year, I don't even remember.
But we're doing it again in Newark, New Jersey this
year at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness in the
Vince Center. On ten ten, which is actually World Mental
Health Day. So through my good sister Debbie Brown, she
is curating the programming for that day. And this year
we're focusing on nothing but solutions. You know we always
have conversations about eradicating the stigma around mental health. Well
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this year we're talking about solutions and actual pathways the healing.
So it's a free event. Go to mentalwealthexpot dot com.
The register to be there and we'll see you on
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I believe the event is so we'll see you there.
All right. You have food, yeah, you always have food,
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The positive note is coming from one of my favorite
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they posted the moment we refuse to hurt others because
of our own pain is the time we evolve as souls. Okay,
True growth is breaking the cycle of pain instead of
passing it on. When you choose compassion over retaliation and
refuse to make others suffer for what hurts you. You
transform pain into wisdom. Are you breaking that cycle? Are
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Everything's good?
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You know.
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It's a nice rainy day here in the Tri State areas.
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Now.
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I don't know.
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I don't know where you'll at right now, because you
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and I'm telling you right now it's gonna be one
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I want my I want every day of summer though.
I want my like, I want it to be summer like.
It's not full yet fall. I think fall starts in
September twenty something, fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
When was the last day of summer?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Because you know, once the kids go back to school,
the last day of summer is technically two to day
September twenty second September twenty. It never feels like that,
doesn't because once the kids go back to school something, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Pretty much over you. No, not pretty much, it's it's
pretty much. Yes, it's what two weeks until the kids
got to go back to school. So it depends where
you're at. Yeah, in some places kids were ready back
in school. I believe that. Yeah, I think they back. Yeah,
absolutely out South. Yeah, absolutely, Well.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Good morning to you. My wife is finally back. To
drop a bomb for my wife. Oh, I mean, you
gotta clean ass. When did she get Oh, my goodness,
last night, man, she did. She didn't get back.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
She didn't watch she probably won't watch the goodness. Yeah,
she didn't get back till about two three a m.
Last year. Yeah, still dirty? How long you have been dirty?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I mean it's been My ass is not dirty. But
she's been going seventeen days. Yeah, damn, seventeen days.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Hit win no white drawers. Throughout that whole period.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
She went on the girls trip. She went on a
girl's cruise. It was I think, uh seven of them.
Eight of them went and they went to like a
bees of Monaco, Barcelona, Roan.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
They went all over the place, so they got incredible.
Other than the cruise part, I'm not getting. I can't
do no both for that long period now.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Hell, but they go there every day, they do a
different city and then they I think they just hit
the water at night when they sleep, and it goes
to the next city.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I saw them surfing on Mercedes feet slew the Mercedes.
That's Vy's assistant. Yes, she had the size twelve and
men's Okay, I saw them just not have the size
twelve and men's. Yeah, but it was mercedes birthday.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Said.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
They all went out, had a great time. So I'm
up out of here early because I missed my wife.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I hadn't seen my wife.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
She we kind of passed each other this morning, like
she she came, I was leaving.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You still got things to do here. Yeah, I know,
you got duties here. And then she got to go
clean the duty out of your drugs.
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Let's get the show crack and I hate you man,
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Me Meal be joining us. What we're starting to show it? Oh,
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Can now you bring it back that dope meeting I
got when I was in when I went to go
see Mary a few weeks ago.
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You hear me, Oh, man, I see married other night.
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The next morning.
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Everybody is DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We
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Speaker 2 (02:56):
What's uping to me?
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Good morning, Charlotte, Good morning, And how I'm doing this morning?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
University alumni, what's happening there?
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You go?
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I like it? Good morning.
Speaker 9 (03:07):
So we start this morning with President Trump's family business
getting the green light to become a bank.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
From regulators appointed by President Trump.
Speaker 9 (03:16):
And that's raising it's raising, listen, it's raising a lot
of conflict of interest. So you're not the only one
pointing that out. Trump and his sons they helped launch
the crypto company World Liberty Financial, and the family still
has a financial.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Stake in it.
Speaker 9 (03:33):
So now federal regulators they have given the company preliminary
approval to become a national trust bank. So this would
not be a traditional bank where you deposit your paycheck
or get a mortgage. It would allow World Liberty Bank
to control its own crypto, so instead of paying other
companies to do it, the Trump family business would do it,
(03:53):
and they would have more control and more profit. And
that's where the conflict of interests is coming in. Let's
listen to a federal regulator.
Speaker 10 (04:01):
He's regulating himself, which means, in effect, there's no regulation.
So if he breaks a regulatory requirement, if his business
engages in more risky behavior than what's permitted under the law,
there's no way to hold him accountable.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Listen, the levels of corruption are unmatched. Like we shouldn't
be saying this is a conflic and interest. It's unprecedented corruption.
We have a whole generation of people who don't even
realize this shouldn't be happening.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 9 (04:32):
Yeah, well, Senate Democrats, they're introducing a bill that would
block federal regulators from approving banks own or controlled by
presidents and their families. So we'll see what happens with that.
But the approval is not final yet, but this is
in the works.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I don't think I don't think America can recover from
this level of corruption because once people see you can
get away with this type of stuff, like there's no
going back. Like if every single person in this administration
is and in jail in the next fivey is like
it's just a wrap up for America as a country.
We used to be a proper country that I thought
we had checks and balances, but maybe we never did well.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Maybe there was checks and balances to this situation, because
it seems like he just does what he wants to
do and it's just like but maybe.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
There's never been checks and balances, and maybe they nobody's
ever tried.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Maybe the Trump administration got an office and.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Realized that, like, you know, we can get away with
a whole lot because the ain't nobody gonna check us
booth at all.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
That is true, and that seems to be what is happening.
Speaker 9 (05:27):
And President Trump is pushing back of reports about conditions
aboard the Lincoln, the USS Abraham Lincoln, calling it fake news.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
So we've been talking to you.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
Guys about the growing concerns over the sailors and the
marines that are aboard that aircraft. The Lincoln hasn't been
deployed since November and now has spent about two hundred
and sixty days away from home, far longer than expected.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
The families and sailors they have described.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
Food shortages, rotten food, moldy showers, and growing mental health concerns,
and at least one sailor recently went overboard in what
the Navy described as at health episode. Now, Navy leaders
they met with families about those concerns, and over the weekend,
the head of the US Central Command they visited the
ship and they acknowledge that life aboard the aircraft currier
(06:11):
can be challenging and stressful. The President Trump says reports
about the condition on the Lincoln simply aren't true.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Let's listen, the Lincoln has been out there for a
period of time, good period of time. But over the years,
we've had him out there much longer. I was at
a group meeting and an admiral came up to see
me over the weekend, and it was at a big
group and he happened to be an admiral retired. He said,
I've been on ships are out there much longer than that.
(06:39):
Sir and I know people on the Lincoln they say
it's beautifully maintained and beautifully taken care of. And other
people went out and they found out to be true.
It was fake news reporting from CNN.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
So concern, though, is also coming from inside the military.
The former Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullin
says he has great concern about the conditions aboard the
ship and although he believes the truth will likely fall
somewhere in the middle and there is some relief for families.
I think we talked about this last week to the
Lincoln is finally coming home. They are replacing it with
(07:14):
another ship in the Middle East, but it will take
some time to get there. But families say they attribute
that to the public pressure. I know every time we
do this story, I get dozens of dms from families
and loved ones who say that their family members are
out there and they are worried about them.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Horrible harm.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
Yeah, and really quickly. The Trump administration is creating a
new way for some people with felony convictions to get
their gun rights back. So under a new federal law,
the federal conviction, you will not a new federal law
but a federal law can keep you from legally owning
a gun. And there's been a technical way to get
to ask for your gun rights back, but for more
(07:55):
than thirty years, the government hasn't processed those applications. But
now the Justice the Department is creating a new online system.
Applications will be reviewed case by case, looking for a
person's criminal history and whether they could pose a threat
to the public. But the Justice Department says, if you
don't have a violent if you're not a violent offender,
you're not a registered sex offender, you generally won't qualify.
(08:19):
But if you don't fall under that, Attorney General Todd
blanche He says people should not permanently lose their constitutional
right if they no longer pose a public safety risk.
So they will be putting out an application. So if
you fall under that category, you may be able to
get your gun rights back.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
How do you know when you no longer fall under
that category?
Speaker 11 (08:38):
Though?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Like, how do you know when somebody's no longer a
public safety risk? Like how long how much rehabilitation do
you have to see? Well that also a person before
you feel like they're not a public safety rist?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Well, it also going to be past that right, because
if you steal anything over two hundred fifty dollars, it's
a felony.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's a felon. Right.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
So if you steal something over twenty fifty dollars, you
did that when you were eighteen. Now you have a
felony on your account or a felony on your record
and you can't get a.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I thought it was violent felons. I didn't know it
was stuff like steal.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
No.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I think any type of feling you can't get.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
No, because I couldn't. I had to get my expungement
before I could apply for my license.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Well, they said they were viewing it on a case
by case basis envy, So I guess they'll decide, you know,
how long it's been, what the offense was, and if
they feel like enough time has passed.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I think they should because because you can make a
mistake or do something wrong at the age of eighteen
and then you're thirty years old and like, damn, I
want my license. I'm totally changed, that evolved. I got
a family. I want to protect them, and you can't.
So I think I think you should be case by casey.
I should all definitely.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Be case by case, because you know what if you
you would out and shot twenty people when you was nineteen.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But they're not gonna give it that. That's a case
I could do that you have.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I don't have to be twenty but two, all right.
I just want to make sure you perfectly. You're really rehabilitated,
that's all.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
That's all.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Yeah, So we'll continue to watch that.
Speaker 9 (09:55):
But coming up at seven at PennState University, a cocaine
ring ran by students. We're going to get into it
in the next hour. Not Socan Braiden, but something similar. Actually, yeah,
something similar.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
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Oh my gosh, our journalist and broadcast journalist. Yes, okay, yes,
I just wanted to let y'all know that I really
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Time, like I want to be an entertainment journalist, and
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because she came to Howard for the HBC Film Festival
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I love the interviews, I love everything. Shout out brown
girl grinding like that is real life, Like that is
me right now, trying to break out into the entertainment industry.
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But I love you that. I don't want you to
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Speaker 3 (11:53):
You know what I'm saying, Like media is media nowadays
because you can have a platform that's considering an entertainment platform,
but you might be sitting on there talking to elected officials,
you know, our people in government as well that are
delivering also hard hitting news. So you know, to put
yourself in one box and say you're just an entertainment
news reporter.
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just said that. I'm just telling you. Just say that, literally,
just that that's exactly what I said. I said it
like this. I said it like this. You reason like
I literally just said that, But you could do both.
Speaker 13 (12:30):
Mama.
Speaker 12 (12:30):
Well, if y'all, if y'all have any other advice to y'all,
please just give it to me really quickly, because I'm
I'm going to USC right now for specialized journalism, Entertainment
and Reporting, and I literally listen to you guys every morning.
I stayed up just to be able to call in.
It's like three am right now, so I wanted to
make sure a call before school started next week.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
So any advice we's wrong with.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Wrong with?
Speaker 8 (13:02):
No, she didn't, she just she a black girl. So
that's why she stayed brown.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
But she les, I am black, I'm brown, I'm brown.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Do you need advice on something specific? Do you have
a specific question?
Speaker 12 (13:12):
How do you Okay, so, y'all are really like well
into your career. What advice would you get to someone
starting off, like in the beginning of their journalism career,
trying to make it in the media industry with it
being so ever changing intention?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Intention is important. What's your intention? Like you, what do
you want to do this for? What is the reason?
Don't tell me because you want to be famous, don't
tell me because you want to get money?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
What is your actual intention?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
What is the story you're trying to tell as a
media personality every day?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
And I would say use the tools that you have,
but there's so many tools out there now that we
didn't have coming up, whether it's social media, whether it's
so many different you know, podcasts or forms of putting
it information out there.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Use it all and be intentional when you're using it.
Speaker 12 (13:52):
Okay, thank you guys so very much. I really appreciate it.
I hope you have a great right.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Do you have an intention? I need to know. Do
you have an intention?
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (13:59):
Yes, I do that's your intention in Charlotte Mane. I
want to be able to start the conversations. I want
to be able to make sure people are thinking, yes,
we want to talk about the entertainment industry, but what
about these actors makes us want to be into it?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Like that?
Speaker 12 (14:12):
Like you know what I'm saying, Like why do we
want to hear from these certain people?
Speaker 14 (14:15):
What makes them?
Speaker 12 (14:16):
What makes them tick?
Speaker 15 (14:17):
That's what I want to do.
Speaker 12 (14:18):
I want to start the conversation.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Okay, well, good luck with that, Mama.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Absolutely think you.
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Good morning, Matt, I just good morning.
Speaker 13 (14:53):
I just want to say that my birthday was Saturday.
Turned the Big three Oho Okay, I'm just just you know,
been going through all and what.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You've been going through, my brother, what you've been going through.
Speaker 13 (15:03):
Man life, man's life. But God has a plan for me.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
You're only thirty. I'm telling you right now. It gets
greater later, my brother. I promise you that if you're
doing it right, if you're doing this life thing right,
just later, it gets greater later.
Speaker 13 (15:17):
Yea, go birds?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
What he said, go birds? He's uh, he was fa. Hello,
who's this.
Speaker 13 (15:25):
Y'all?
Speaker 16 (15:27):
Hey, y'all, good morning morning.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Hey mama, it's Katie.
Speaker 16 (15:31):
I'm calling from the seventy five seven John.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
My girl.
Speaker 16 (15:35):
Okay, my birthday is Thursday.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Yes, big leo energy.
Speaker 16 (15:41):
Yes, into that man that tried to run up on
Craig Melvin and Al Roker at the Today Show. Yes,
because don't broker his birthday Thursday too.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
My birthday period.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Go see our roker girl.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, and salutor my guy, Craig Melvin. That was a
long time ago, it see him like, I mean, it
was only a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 16 (15:59):
Seem like I just remember that because I wroke a
birthday Thursday out to all the people on birthday in
August though, for real?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah, somebody every day by your clown.
Speaker 12 (16:12):
Yes, are you going to am?
Speaker 8 (16:14):
I moving to the seven five seven?
Speaker 11 (16:16):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Are you coming to the Cousins Cousins Festival?
Speaker 8 (16:19):
Oh? Yes, yes I am. That's in September, right, that's
next month. I be on there, y'all gotta be there
with my cousins. You already know what's up?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Are you lying? I mean, I just don't stand year.
I did last year?
Speaker 8 (16:32):
You know I saw her.
Speaker 16 (16:35):
I saw her in Andy last year.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, jar girl, I see. I don't know if she's
going this year, but she definitely went last year. I'll hello,
who's this? Yeah?
Speaker 13 (16:48):
This is Tommy? What's up? Birthdast Clubmy man? I'm calling
because my job is literally driving me crazy, like it's
becoming a mental health is you? And what's wild is like,
you know, I feel like a lot of times the
black community we're not in touch with her emotions. We're
not really aware of our mental health like that. And
(17:10):
my job is literally driving me crazy. And what's wild
about it is I'm a I'm a top performer. I
always meet my metrics, but they always pile on more responsibilities,
more spreadsheets, like and I work for the federal money.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
But not more money though.
Speaker 13 (17:27):
And the money's the same. I literally went to the
doctor and he told me to get a psychiato. Like,
he set me up with a psychiatrist.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I'm happy for you. I think you know, you know,
I'm a big perponing the therapy.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
But if all that is coming from your job, goddamn,
and what.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Do you do?
Speaker 8 (17:45):
What does you do?
Speaker 13 (17:46):
Yeah, coming from our job. I'm a contract administrator for
the federal government. And honestly made me feel a little
bit of relief when Charlott Magne just said he's happy
for me. But to me, it made me feel weird
because it's not even a therapist. We're talking about us
psychologists and they actually gave me some stuff called Laxi
(18:07):
pro like. It makes me feel kind of weird, but
say that, but yeah, Lexi pro like.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
If a job a job, maybe should think about you know,
if you can, if you if you can afford it
to maybe switching your job.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
If a job is job, you can tell you something though,
there's more to it than this. Your job, Like a
doctor ain't gonna give you a prescribe you as a
psychiatrist and put you on a lexi pro like there's
something there's probably something else going on that you haven't
revealed us than just discressful.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
Maybe you don't know.
Speaker 13 (18:38):
Yeah, no, it's not. I'm revealing everything like I literally,
like I take pride in my work ethic. I've never
been a type two, Like I'm fulling up to work
right now. I will probably sit in the car for
an hour getting mentally prepared trying to get up in there.
It's just it's just my job. Chawla.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
Man, you have never experienced this only at work.
Speaker 13 (18:58):
Only at work, yeah, work period. Outside of work, I
have like a positive mental attitude everything. It's literally, I
hate to say because it sounds cliche. This is a
toxic work environment. So I'm not sick of my job.
The job is making me sick.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
You might need to walk I'm saying that's your mental health.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
You start looking and you know, regardless you can afford
it or not, Like you don't want your job to
drive you crazy.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Because you're Lexapro is an antidepressant.
Speaker 13 (19:27):
Yeah, and I think it's more anxiety for me. But
y'all right, I do need to walk away. You know,
it's just the logistics of that. You know what I mean, Bill,
Every game moving so fast, you know, but I just
wanted to get that off my chest, just as a
black man. And I know you guys are big on
mental health, like, man, pray for your boy man's don't.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Don't.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Don't be ashamed of therapy, of going to see a
psychiatrist though, you know what I mean, Actually be grateful
that you have the means and the resources to talk
to a doctor and he can prescribe you those things, man,
because a lot of people don't have those.
Speaker 13 (20:00):
Right, That's true. It's definitely something to be grateful for. Also, sorry, No,
I ran into this one guy at speed Way.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
He's driving for Uber.
Speaker 13 (20:08):
He said, they're doing five dollars rides. Like, how are
they making any money?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It'srobably, that's crazy.
Speaker 13 (20:17):
Like no, he said, he's not really getting that much
money on the app. Like I didn't even know Uber
Uber drivers our door rides for like five dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
That's nothing, nickelbag Uber rides.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
Yeah, it is crazy, but it's probably especially just like
it's a special right now on DoorDash. You can get
like hell of food for like five to seven dollars
right now. He's just doing a special Thank you for
checking in.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Brother.
Speaker 13 (20:38):
Thank y'all, man, I have a good day.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
My next My Mental Health Expo was October tenth in Newark,
New Jersey at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness in
Events Center. So you know, when we talk about people
having access to the access to resources, a lot of
people don't.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
But this event is a free event that I do
every year.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I've been doing it for like the last five years,
and we'll be doing it again on World Mental Health
Day at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness in the
Vincent in Newark, New Jersey. Through my good sister Debbie Brown.
She's curating all the programming this year. So I'll see
y'all there all.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Right, and get it off your chest. Eight ondred five
one O five one. Now we got the latest with
Lauren coming up, so don't move. It's to Breakfast Club
Good morning, where Laura.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
La ros you particularly bringing the energy to mainstream radio
with black radio sources.
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Trust An, I'm the homegrown that knows a little bit
about everything.
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In Harry's school, she'd be having the latest.
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One thing you asked the question that need to be
answered on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Little brown girls look at you and I want to
be like you.
Speaker 17 (21:38):
Hello, So Clarissa shields guys the guoat and pat post.
You know, Clarissa just locked her shutdown, say for Marina,
but now.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
She says she might be pregnant.
Speaker 17 (21:52):
So there were fans who were reposting a part of
her interview with that she did with Shannon Sharper your
single after the fight, and she responded jokingly. But let's
say let in first to the part of the interview
with Shannon Sharp and single Gula on.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
A great victory last night. Get some rest, We'll see
December January.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
At the club.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I ain't getting no for the rest.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
I'm at the club.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
At the club.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
I'm sitting outside right now. Yeah, party right now. I
haven't done nothing in fourteen weeks. And then I haven't
had well, we hadn't had six and six weeks. Oh many,
(22:33):
they said, an undisciplined man is not a good man. Yeah,
so she retweeted.
Speaker 17 (22:38):
There was the Nightcap show posted this on x and
she retweeted it and said, I'm probably pregnant right now,
laughing emoji's pat poos went crazy after the fight with
the the you know.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
What's the emoji. No, what's the acrobat?
Speaker 17 (22:52):
What a flip of moji? I forgot the day mostly
but yes, So all right, y'all, let's move on.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
What's it flips? Yes, but shout out to Clarissa six weeks.
It's tough. I can't. I don't know.
Speaker 17 (23:14):
Yeah, but I'm just saying I know it's tough. They're
always together. They do everything together, Like, yeah, it'll be difficult,
but yeah. So she said the baby might come next
year and maybe they're working on it now, moving on Yesterday,
A Different World we've been talking about how there's going
to be the sequel to A Different World is coming up.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
Excited twenty fourth on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I'm excited.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
So they've dropped first look photos.
Speaker 17 (23:34):
We heard the theme song, but now we got our
first trailer, hearing and seeing some of the characters in
the log line.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Welcome to Hilly, a pre given at HBCU in the country.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
My parents have been pushing Homan since before they knew
my names.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
You didn't get in anywhere else, did you.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
We are forging your own legacy at Hell Then.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
We are studying. We are high, We are living our best.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Young gifted black time to lie.
Speaker 13 (24:05):
I missed this.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Back to him and my first day on the yard.
Speaker 17 (24:12):
Oh my, have you been seeing the viral videos of
the HBCU students in their like first days on campus.
I saw one of the like it was like a
bunch of girls from Spellman and they were like in
like an auditorium going crazy, and I was like, that
first week of school is like the best time.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
It was everything.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
And even though just just watching that and seeing you're
talking to your guidance counselor and you're seeing you know,
you're meeting people for the first time, the first time
you had to walk to the cafeteria by yourself and
you're trying to find your classes by yourself.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
It brought me back Man.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
But also the first week of partying too, just being
away from home.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Oh Hampton at the lead Hampton University, be at curfew
the first couple of months because we just want to.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Whatever.
Speaker 17 (24:52):
But people don't talk enough about the legacy of HBCUs too,
as far as like when you come in, those kids
who have to come in and live up to the legacy.
I saways feel bad for those kids who have to
plagu something because their mom and dad did it, or
they're only at the school because their mama to dad.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
They don't have to pleasure just because your mom and
dad did a lot of people do.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
I mean, it's a big issue, is not what especially.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yes, you should encourage your kids to find their own path.
It's good that they're in college. Would let them find
their own way.
Speaker 17 (25:17):
Now, leg see it's such a thing though, like it is,
it's crazy and I used always feel bad for those
students because some of them they don't want to do it.
But you see maybe mom, aunt, grandma, generations of graduate
fraternations of.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
They don't be having and that's don't like they just
disown you, disown you.
Speaker 17 (25:37):
But I mean, like I know in my family there's
like there'll be like little jokes about, like you know,
if you plage something different or whatever.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
But that's the log line of.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
This for the because if you're already in college, I
just want you to be great, find your major, do
what do professionally?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
That all that other stuff. If you want to be
in a sorority, cool if not cool?
Speaker 17 (25:56):
Well that's what Deborah, who is the voice that we
heard the youngest child of doing Wayne, Wayne and Whitney
Whitley Gilbert in the new the New rendition of A
Different World will be doing She'll be trying to forge
her own path.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
So that air September twenty fourth.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
What does Man doing it? Because I see Mathews in
it to her.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
Yes, I don't know what methad Man doesn't show.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
He's playing a professor or something like that. Oh, I
could see him being like the Sinbad character.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
He's a coach exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (26:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 17 (26:23):
He joined the cast of the Netflix upcoming sequel series
A Different World as Coach Cole's, alongside other new additions
returning to the original stars like Jasmine Guy, Kadem Harrison.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
Yeah, so he's a coach.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I can't wait because Different World is just one of
them shows that I just don't feel like a god
is just doing.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It was on and it was literally the second biggest
show in the country. All guys just do for me.
That's that's the whole reason I went to a love it.
Speaker 17 (26:46):
Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to see it. Well, that
is the latest for the hour, and then in the
next latest, we're gonna talk a bit. We're gonna stay
in the schools because Young Thug has some advice to
the children in the schools that he's getting a little
bit of pushback on.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
We'll talk about it all right. We got front page
news next, and don't go anywhere. It's to breakfast Club.
Good morning, morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne
the guy we are the breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Let's get in some front page news. What's uping to me?
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Good morning, Envy, Jess, Charlamagne. How y'a doing this morning?
Good morning?
Speaker 9 (27:17):
So we start this hour at Penn State University where
authorities say a fraternity drug operation was selling cocaine to students.
Now fourteen people are now facing charges. Thirteen where Penn
State students, while investigators say this case was going on
for at least four are still students. Authorities say the
men supply the cocaine, other students allegedly sold it, packaged it,
(27:41):
and cut it.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
So let's listen to Attorney General Dave Sunday.
Speaker 18 (27:46):
What we learned during this investigation was at between twenty
twenty three and twenty twenty four, large amounts of cocaine
kilos were brought from Philadelphia and New York to State College,
where they were cut and packaged for sale primarily to
Penn State students. The two main deal dealers were senior
members of the Delta Upsilon and Sigma Kai fraternities. The
(28:10):
evidence showed that cocaine was primarily packaged at the fraternity houses,
and that packaging was done by fraternity brothers and oftentime pledges.
In fact, we found a pattern of events that showed
cutting and bagging cocaine was for some pledges and indoctrination
(28:30):
into the Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi fraternities.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
That's a very interesting way to hate me, and actually
very innovative.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Instead of doing something crazy like paddling you, you know,
putting the banana in the toilet and blindfolding you and
making you.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Squish on it, they had the bagging up.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
They say, when I heard it on the news, this
one because I heard the story. They said that the
people doing it weren't students, so I guess they made
maybe exgraduates, but they weren't actual students.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Said they would say, now they.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
Were, they were, so they were.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
They've been doing this since twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four.
There are only four who are currently students right now.
The people that have been arrested. They were they've been
doing this for so long that they've graduated, so now
they have people who come back. But the people who
have been arrested, I believe Envy were still students.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Oh it's still students.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Watching way too much power, That's what I'm saying. And
I can't wait till they stitch on the plug. Oh
my god.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
So investigators though they said this wasn't like your normal
street dealing. The cocaine was allegedly sold friend of friend,
fraternity brother to fraternity brother at social events social fraternity houses.
Four The defendants are facing some of the serious charges,
including felony, conspiracy and corruption and organized crime charges. Others
are facing like possession paraphernalia charges. Investigators say they eventually
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how they broke this case was they use a confidential
informant who bought cocaine six times from a f tternity house.
The fourteenth Yeah, the fourteenth person.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Though, you guys get this is the father of one
of the students.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
Authorities are accusing him of trying to hide evidence and
interfere with the investigation to kind of help save hist son.
Now Penn State, they release a statement saying in part
that they are horrified by these allegations.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I'll tell you one thing. I don't like how sophisticated
they're making this sound either. Because this was the HBCU,
they'd be talking like this was the mafia. They'd be
reco charges for everybody. Yes, okay, they'd be talking like
these folks with a second coming to BMF for something.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Yep, very true, very true.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
So we'll continue to watch that one, and shopping for
the cheapest flight could soon get a lot more confusing.
So right now, airlines have to show you the full
ticket price up front, including mandatory fees and taxes. But
the Transportation Department is proposing a new role that will
let airlines lead with a lower face bear and show
you the total price somewhere else. And the difference can
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be really, really huge. So the La Times they found
a Jet Blue flight from Los Angeles to London with
a base fare of twenty one dollars, and that sounds
like a deal until you add the three hundred and twenty.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Eight dollars in taxes and fees, so that.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
Twenty one dollar flight it becomes a three hundred and
forty nine dollars flight. And that's of course before check bag,
seat selection and all those sort of things. So the
Department of Transportation says its current rules are too rigid
and it needs more flexibility, and then they want to
change it. So bottom line, if this proposal does become final,
you'll want to not shot by the first number you see.
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You want to look at that total fare because that
will be what the actual flight actually cost.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
So lady can check the flights regardless that. If Trump
need to do something, that's what he needs to regulate.
Because them flights are expensive and I keep seeing it.
I keep traveling, and I'm traveling not that far at
our flight to hour flight to Virginia or Detroit. And
when you see eight nine hundred dollars for a flight,
there's no way anybody can afford that.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I'll tell you what time of day you look, because
yesterday I looked for a flight for somebody else actually,
and it wasn't expensive.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
At all.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
In New York.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Wasn't expensive.
Speaker 11 (32:05):
No, it was like.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I was trying to fly to Detroit and it was
eight hundred and fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Class.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
No, it wasn't first class.
Speaker 13 (32:13):
It was.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Yeah, but it depends on what I say. You book
at the time that you're leaving in the city and
state that you're into.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
Yeah, and going back to what you just said, I mean,
I think they're trying to get rid of that sticker shock.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
So they want to show you a cheaper price first, get.
Speaker 9 (32:27):
You locked in, and then when you get to that
final you know, you filled out everything, and then you
see that final price, then they want you to just
go ahead and book it because you went through.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
You can still press canceled.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
You can still press but you know it doesn't this
This doesn't make a lot of sense, because you're right,
you can still press cancel, but so why change the
final price.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
You're still going to see the final price just at.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
The end, and if I ain't got it, I ain't
got it to win the full title, the full total, it.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Makes make it make sense, right, I have no problem
walking away from a number I don't like. I don't care.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Well, they're hoping, I think they said that, they're hoping that,
you know, once you do all that, you'll you'll kind
of be locked in.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
So we'll see if that goes through.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
And we've talked a lot about splitting things fifty to fifty,
but a new study shows just how differently moms and
dads see the workload at home. So let's say you
both worked eight hours, you come home tired. So who's
making dinner, who's helping with homework, who's doing laundry, who's
getting the kids ready for bed?
Speaker 13 (33:25):
Well?
Speaker 9 (33:25):
According to a new Pew Research study, moms say it's
still mostly them. Among families where both parents work full time,
sixty three percent of moms say they do more the
parenting and the household responsibilities. Dads, however, are much more
likely to say things are split equally. And so while
nearly half of dad say they are very satisfied with
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the arrangement, only about a quarter of moms say the same.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
So the question on.
Speaker 9 (33:51):
Social media is, after everybody gets after everybody gets home
from work, who starts the second shift?
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Is it usually moms? Or is it dad's I'm gonna
go with moms.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
It mad?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
It depends on what you consider the second.
Speaker 7 (34:06):
Shift is right putting the kids down for bad, starting dinner.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Like my homewowner, I might get the kids ready for bed,
I take the trash out. Gia might do this like
it's like we both divide what has to be done?
Speaker 8 (34:19):
Yeah, when I am home in Maryland, I do it
because I want to. But you know, my mother in
law or my husband or you know what I mean,
sometimes don't.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Everybody is always on homework, So I do this. I
might pick up the girls from the school and she
might do home. Like if we divide duties.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I don't think it should be a shift thing.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
But you know, I'm definitely one of those husbands who
act like they doing something else when all of that's
going on, you know what I mean. And then by
the time it's all over, I come in and get
everybody a hugging kids say there.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
You know what I mean. Definitely don't do the homework
lashing up. I gotta do something. I'm too dumb for homework.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Homework dad, talk to your college educated mother, talk to
you about quit your grandmother.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
But you know, when it comes to all of that
taking baths and all, I gotta take a bath too.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I gotta get ready for bed. I gotta get up early.
Wanted to you found okay, but it shouldn't be a ship.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
If my wife tell me, hey, all right, you go
handle that, I'm gonna go handle it. It's not something
I volunteered.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Dude, you gotta be and I always forget something. Did
you put lotion on the baby back?
Speaker 19 (35:15):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Come, inyon, I always forget going to sleep. I always forget,
so sleep always.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
Because you sleep better when you moisturize.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Y'all know, make sure you wash, brush your teeth, say.
Speaker 8 (35:25):
Pray, don't go to sleep ashy.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Depends how I feel, It really does. Depends on. Sometimes
I feel like putting on. Sometimes I don't.
Speaker 8 (35:34):
Oh God, okay, all right, y'all.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
That is your friend page news for today. Thank you,
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If
you were just joining us, Lauren broke down that different
world is coming back. Yes, And we were asking eight
hundred five eight five one oh five to one parents,
do you want your kids to follow in your footstep
when it comes to college fraternities or sororities.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Now, me and me, before you leave, you went to
that other ehu what's the name of it? Again? Well
she left already. Oh damn, y'all cut her off.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
She needed her nap.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
She got right out of dodge. I was gonna ask
her she went to Howard University? Does she care if
her son went to Howard? Does she want her son
to go to Howard? And that's the question that we're
asking today. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club, Go Morning Warning. Everybody
is DJ Envyes hilarious. Charlamagne the guy we all the
Breakfast Club law Laosa is here as well, and we're
asking eight hundred five eight five one oh five ones up.
(36:27):
If you didn't see the trailer, Different World is coming back, Yes,
ten episodes and I think they released September twenty fourth,
September twenty fourth, So we're asking eight hundred five eight
five one oh five one.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
In the premise of it a part of what we
know so far sequel.
Speaker 17 (36:40):
Yeah, it's Deborah that's played by Malie Joy Moon. She
is the daughter of Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert and
she's going to Hillman because that's where her parents went.
But she's there and she's rebellious and she's trying to
escape their shadows. So she's finding her own world.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
So we're asking eight hundred five eight five one oh
five one.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Parents, do you want your kids to follow in your
footsteps when it comes to going to the same college
or for two trinities or sororities and Mimi ran out
like Mimi got out of dodge like he was like,
I'm gonna take my name. I said, maybe you was gone.
So Mimi went to the other, the other college, that
other HU Howard University.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Yes, okay, Howard University.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Talk that talk now.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
We were asking, now you have a song, would you
want your son to follow in your footsteps and go to.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Howard as well?
Speaker 9 (37:19):
Absolutely? And he fights me on it. We have this
conversation all the time. He fights me every single time.
Speaker 8 (37:24):
He doesn't want to go.
Speaker 9 (37:24):
He wants to go to just you know, uh USC
or something like that. But I think he needs an
HBCU experience, especially growing up in California.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
So yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
But what do you think? Why do you think he
needs it? What is he missing?
Speaker 9 (37:37):
You believe he's missing culture? Yes, exactly, you know he
you know, even me. That's why I went to an
HBCU because I grew up in Alaska and I was
missing culture. When I got to Howard, I have missed
out on a bunch of movies that people knew about.
I had to sit down and have lessons.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
On didn't know how to watch, you didn't know how.
Speaker 9 (37:57):
I did not know how to do anything. But I
learned that at eighteen, so I'm trying to help him
learn it now. But I think he needs community to
help him learn that as well. And so I think
he'll do that at an HBC here.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
But don't kids have to forge their own path? Like
I mean, your your son, your son doesn't even want
to do what you wanted to do. Me me, like,
your son wants to do what do you want to?
Want to be an astronaut or something? Right, afro physicist.
So it's like you can still find community with other
afro physicists at whatever the.
Speaker 7 (38:28):
Whatever school, one or two of those.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
But you know, so he might not know, he might
not know what he by going it like for me, right,
I didn't care. Right, I was the first person in
my family go to college. I didn't care what college
my mom wanted me to go to. More Hampton was closed.
I'm like, I'm going to Hampton's.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
That's what it was for me.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
I wanted Madison to go to an HBCU. But Madison,
like I wanted her to experience what Hampton was about.
She wanted to go to n YU. Right, it's an
elite school, but there's no campus. I want her to
have that campus. Like same thing with Logan, but Logan
played football and he was like that I got a
chance to play at University of Miami, you know, which
is a huge school, or go to hampt University and play.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Football, and for him it was sports. You know what
I mean?
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Hopefully when of my kids go, I got four more,
but I want them to experience what college life is
at a black school.
Speaker 8 (39:18):
Yeah, like what you said mean like that's what you want.
Like you said, mama knows best. And also your kids
don't know what they want, and sometimes you gotta steer that.
You gotta guide them because I'm pretty sure you don't
want to skateboarding with the vans on like you normally, dude,
like you want him they can do that, but you
still want to be able to go watch Love Jones.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
You know what what just is saying is true. Sometimes
kids don't know what they want.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
But what about when they do, when their instinct and
their intuition in God is telling them, Hey, this is
where I want you to go.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
If it's not at an HBCU, cool, I get it.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
I understand what the parents want, but you still got
to let the kids want me at HBCU.
Speaker 8 (39:57):
She wanted me to go to NYU, like she wanted
me in a big city.
Speaker 11 (40:00):
All of that.
Speaker 17 (40:01):
She didn't understand why I wanted to stand Delaware, even
though they were giving you money to go to the
school she didn't want.
Speaker 8 (40:05):
She wanted the complete opposite.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Of what I did. I'm glad you went to HBCU
and that n y U.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
I don't know if I would have finished college.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
If I finish college, I would have figured out because
is New York City. Yeah, events, you would have been everywhere.
So but I'm glad you said. I just want to say,
this is bigger than college.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
The reason I think you should just let kids forge
their own path is because all of us in this
room probably wouldn't be here if we did what our
parents wanted us to do. I'm sure your parents didn't
want you to be a DJ. The didn't even understand
what the hell. I'm sure your parents didn't want you
to be as a professional media.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (40:39):
You mean you're gonna be a comedian like they want
you to go? Get up, go to school, get a
nice job, working a day.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Not your path. That's not your path.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
But if it wasn't for my parents, I wouldn't went
to a HBCU, you know what I'm saying. I probably
would have went to Saint John's University or Sunni School
or Aquity School that was way cheaper. My parents dream
was to go to HBCU and they couldn't, so they
pretty much forced me to go to an HBCU.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
And then watching a Different World was like, I I'm
gonna try.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
That cause you get a scholarship because you're not black,
like they like foreign exchange.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
No, I did not, and I am black. I actually
got a scholarship with VSU and of Virginia un I.
Speaker 8 (41:18):
Wanted to go to Virginia State because College Hill was
fim there.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Yeah, I wanted I got, but I wanted to go
to Hampton So.
Speaker 8 (41:25):
And first of all, my parents never say they didn't
want me to go to college. You didn't want me
to be a comedian. So she was grown. She went
to a hbc when she got grown. My dad went
straight to the military. And when I told them what
I wanted to do, they was like, all right, cool.
They never say, you know, you need to be a doctor,
you need to go to school, you need to be
a lawyer. My mother was just like, you're not gonna
lay around my house and I do anything. So you're
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gonna get a job, but you need to figure out
what you want to do with your life.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
Like that's what it was.
Speaker 8 (41:50):
And that's when I said, all right, cool, I'm gonna
be funny. I said that they always supported me from
the jo. Only one who didn't support me was gonna
be father.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Shout the room.
Speaker 19 (42:08):
I'm good.
Speaker 6 (42:08):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
To go high school or be a part of the
fraternity of the sorority. You in what sorority that you in?
Speaker 20 (42:15):
Most definitely I am a part of or I'm a
member excuse me, of the Delta Sigma Staya Sorority Incorporated.
So of course I want him to, you know, be
in the fraternity as well as my daughter. I want
her to be a legacy as well. I actually just
graduated from Houston Tellnesse University, which is an HBC you
down here in Austin, and I actually dropped off my
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son on Sunday to HD to start us, you know,
the process, because he's a legacy there now too. And
my mom she went to HD as well, so you know,
we we continue in the legacy here on this side.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Why does you know Charlomagne ask why does it matter
so much?
Speaker 13 (42:56):
So?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Why does it matter that your kids go to an
hbc you say that, you know, not saying anything like that.
Speaker 12 (43:05):
I don't think it matters.
Speaker 20 (43:06):
I mean, I'm just that awesome, you know it's it's
awesome that they want to continue your footsteps.
Speaker 8 (43:12):
I think the legacy part of it. We don't let kids,
you know, family.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
All I said is let kids forge their own path.
I understand completely why you want your child to go
to an HBCU. If you went to an hbc U.
I under think completely why you would want you chid
to pledge if you pledged.
Speaker 8 (43:31):
But no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
I did not say that's the sentiment. I got what
he said it because you you for nothing. You can't
use that I can tell you, you know cool, you
you can't use that comprehension skills what you can't use
that word. There's people out there, just stop you, right
eight hundred and five and five one O five one.
If you're just joining us, we're asking are your do.
Speaker 8 (43:55):
They have special egg places in college?
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Did you go to.
Speaker 8 (44:00):
Maybe I wasn't even comin. I just didn't have like
a different look at me when you had a specialleg
college because you went. I didn't go, Charlotte didn't go.
You don't have special agg closes in college, not that
I knew, all right, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (44:14):
Like now that I know, they high classes like lower
tier classes, right, so you may not be in math
five hundred, you may be in math two fifty.
Speaker 7 (44:21):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (44:22):
They didn't have that Hampton. Maybe just at Howard. Hello,
who's this?
Speaker 6 (44:25):
Hello?
Speaker 19 (44:27):
Good morning?
Speaker 15 (44:28):
I had follow you. I don't want to hear me
swallow my out vitamins. I'm sorry. Good morning, how y'all.
Speaker 7 (44:32):
Doing good morning.
Speaker 15 (44:36):
So I wanted to talk about the ACCU, the legacy. Basically,
I grew up in Atlanta, and I went to the
public schools in Atlanta, and so I went to a
p w Y. My kids, however, grew up here in Yorktown, Virginia.
They went to a p w Y high school and
they were like, oh, we're going to ABCU. So I
wanted to North of State and I got one at
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Howard right now, Yeah, it's interesting. While I can say
I did not want them to have the same high
school experience with me, and unfortunately that caused them to
go to an HBCU and they don't really like an
ACCU experience and it's because of the administration. But I
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was like, hey, just go and play, so I can
play too.
Speaker 8 (45:22):
But what about the administration? They don't like what is it?
Speaker 15 (45:25):
They don't like how the financial aid offices handle the business.
They don't like how the Bursar's office handle the business.
Like it's very limited information. It literally is the ACCU
is the fraternity, Like they say, oh, you're the birthday,
the ACCU are the fraternity. So you have to know
somebody to know somebody. Like my oldest daughter who's at.
Speaker 7 (45:46):
Norfolk State, she had to get in good with one sorority.
Speaker 15 (45:50):
That's a certain color that me me don't wear in
order to get a scholarship, right, in order to get
a scholarship. But my youngest had to get in good
were the third garity that MENI does wear in order
to get good. So it's like, yeah, it's kind of
like you gotta know somebody to know somebody. And they
weren't familiar with that culture because they went to a
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very god first high school and they were their diversity
at the high school. So yeah, they they liked the experience,
but I was not. I was not agreeable to paying
for an experience. I'm like, you need to go for school,
not for an experience. So they literally experienced at a
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very extensive call.
Speaker 17 (46:38):
Friends like that though that their parents was like, you
can go wherever, but if you don't go here, I'm
not paying for it.
Speaker 6 (46:43):
No.
Speaker 4 (46:43):
But you know what she said is like when your
kid goes to I'm sure you're saying your kids with
the white high schools. Correct, Yes, they did, yes, right,
and they and going to a white high school, especially
if you have a daughter. I think a lot of
times your black daughter is not treated the way that
she should be because she goes to the white school.
She's not I love respected, She's not a priority.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
So that was the main reason I wanted my mars.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Treated like a spectacle. She's like like they can't, but
they're like, oh my god, look at you so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (47:12):
That's the reason I wanted her to go to HBCU,
so they have more of the people that look like them,
you know, the guys that were kicking it to them
opposed to you know, these white boys that probably can't
bring a black girl home.
Speaker 17 (47:24):
You know, whatever, the way you think about yourself as
a black person, but as a black like one hundred
percent you. It felt like that, like the first week
you walk on campus and you see all those other
black kids.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
That's when you got into your fashion.
Speaker 8 (47:36):
You know, the fashion was born into it.
Speaker 6 (47:38):
You know me? You know what I mean?
Speaker 8 (47:43):
State is known for like the pretty girls and the
parties in the fashion.
Speaker 13 (47:51):
People.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
That's crazy.
Speaker 8 (47:55):
Right now.
Speaker 17 (47:57):
List we're like top twenty HBCUs on the Forbes list,
so we know me. All the other things matter too,
but the fashion, the party, that was a thing.
Speaker 7 (48:04):
Nobody go to the party, Lauren, I'm trying to walk.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
About the fashion.
Speaker 8 (48:18):
Fashion, okay, giving the looks?
Speaker 2 (48:23):
What about the fashion? Hello? Hey, hello, more than everybody. Hey,
what's your name?
Speaker 14 (48:31):
My name is Tolanda. I'm from Chicago. My first time
calling in, but I live in New Orleans now. My
experience it was a little different. Both of my parents
and about seventy percent of my family went to Southern
University in Baton Rouge. I had relatives who worked there.
That was the dean of that was the assistant being
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of the cousins that were going there, and I grew
up with both of my parents being teachers and I
didn't have my own idea identity in Chicago, so I
wanted to go somewhere where nobody knew my parents I
could have my own identity. Graduated eleventh in my class,
got accepted to almost every school for real. Didn't want
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to go to a white school. God accepted to Spellman.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Was going to go there.
Speaker 14 (49:18):
Grambling was the only.
Speaker 15 (49:19):
School that rejected me.
Speaker 14 (49:22):
And I was like, damn, this school must be Hella.
I got to get in this school like I got
into Penn State, I got into Temple, I got into Syracuse.
You know what I'm saying, like Stamford. This school gotta
be Hella. And that's what I decided to do. I
went to Grambler, come to find out later, once I
got on campus because it was so easy to go
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through and get everything taken care of. My counselor, who
was white, didn't want me to go to an HBCU
because he felt that an HBCU was beneath me, and
he wanted me to go to Notre Dame, which was
his alma mada. But I wouldn't change my experience for anything.
Gsu Graham famis for life. There's nothing about Grammlin and
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I'm gonna say that's bad. I try to push kids
to go there. I used to do college tours HBCU
College Tours in Northwest Indiana for eighteen years, and I
would take those kids every year, either the East Coast
or the South, and then we'd all end up at
Disney World or Universal Studios so that they could experience,
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you know, or see that there are other schools out
there other than the Notre Dames, the Produce, the Illinois States,
all of that that they could attend with people look
just like them. I would never change that for the world. Now,
my sisters didn't do what my parents wanted because she said, well,
if she didn't have to go to southern why do
I got to go. She went to Jackson State and
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my parents loved all of it because we were there
with HBCUs. Now, my mom's a Delta and I didn't
get the pledge while I was undergrad, but I definitely
pledged grad level and I'm adulta all day long.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
We thank you for sharing your story. We appreciate you all.
I love you, Love you to baby. Were pink and green?
Speaker 7 (51:10):
Yeah, always see the pink in the background, the green always?
Speaker 2 (51:14):
Oh wait, what are you. You don't play with her,
she might fight.
Speaker 7 (51:17):
You said, no, I'm an alpha Kappa Alpha.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
I'm gonna play with you.
Speaker 8 (51:31):
If it's wrong.
Speaker 13 (51:32):
She was trying a.
Speaker 21 (51:36):
A K.
Speaker 8 (51:38):
You know, not that infil know what happened. I've been
said that I did not know.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
Let me something, man. One of my favorite things do
in the world, to be the a K and be like,
oh you are Aida.
Speaker 6 (51:52):
So bad?
Speaker 11 (51:56):
I love I just know.
Speaker 13 (52:02):
All.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
I love all the Zaders too, but don't like when
you know, why do you do that when you profile
the sorority?
Speaker 2 (52:11):
Let me guess.
Speaker 19 (52:15):
Too much?
Speaker 6 (52:17):
Do not like that?
Speaker 22 (52:19):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (52:20):
I'm gonna take my nap. Thank you, and all the
Zadas out there.
Speaker 8 (52:29):
Man, you go with your parents?
Speaker 3 (52:32):
No, I think that you well, that's a good point too.
I just think you should let kids forward their own path,
you know what I mean? Like, I don't think you
should force anything on kids, like you should let them
use their natural intuition and let God, God THEMN to where.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
It is they need to be. But sometimes, you know
what's better than they do.
Speaker 4 (52:48):
A lot of times most times, Yeah, Howard, All right,
now when we come back, we got the latest.
Speaker 17 (52:56):
What were talking about law, young thugs speaking of God
and the kids. He is God in the youth, talking
to the kids.
Speaker 8 (53:01):
Talk about it.
Speaker 2 (53:01):
We'll get to that nexus to the breakfast club come morning. A. Yeah,
what's the name of that biscuit place? Ir regardless biscuit shot.
I'm sorry, I come on, man, man, man, they can't
understand you. Ir regardless biscuit. There you go.
Speaker 3 (53:16):
It's this amazing biscuits spot that I go to when
I'm in Rhode Island because you know, my daughter she
does competitive cheerleading, so we end up in places like
Rhode Islands. We always talk about it and ir regardless
biscuit is so good. You've heard me shout them out.
I didn't even know they was coming this morning. They
came up here this morning and they provided us breakfast.
Speaker 11 (53:29):
Yo.
Speaker 4 (53:30):
He started getting so excited. Oh my god, I'm like, no, no,
but it's banging like I just I usually don't eat
this early. I usually don't eat and usually until about
twelve o'clock. But I just had a biscuit.
Speaker 2 (53:41):
I'm trying to tell you, Jess got too. Did you
have the maps? Did you have the maple grilled chicken?
Speaker 23 (53:46):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (53:47):
Man, all right, keep going keep going to the late lad.
Speaker 13 (53:52):
What what you.
Speaker 8 (53:55):
Particularly hands.
Speaker 2 (54:02):
All even got? Yeah, that's the class on the breakfast club.
Speaker 8 (54:10):
Little brown girls, look at you and I want.
Speaker 12 (54:11):
To be like you.
Speaker 3 (54:14):
Aaron Galler's biscuits just had a hair in her biscuits,
so she wanted something else.
Speaker 2 (54:17):
I think it was her own.
Speaker 8 (54:18):
But yeah, right, that's strength too long to be mine.
And it's all right, y'all.
Speaker 17 (54:27):
So Young Thug, You guys know that Young Thug has
been doing a lot of community service work talking to
the kids.
Speaker 8 (54:32):
He's been doing music things with the community as well too.
Speaker 17 (54:35):
So he was at a school called Serious Charter Academy
in Macon, Georgia, and he popped in to speak to
some students and his message to the students is getting
a little pushback.
Speaker 8 (54:46):
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 5 (54:47):
If you you're almost as important as the richest person
in the world, so fain it's like more so like
the money for us is.
Speaker 24 (54:56):
Really the most important. It's very important. You got to
you gotta keep up with you. Always make sure they
need it.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
Leads to the right, leads you to the right.
Speaker 25 (55:03):
Move to move, Gotta move totally different, got to move.
Militis so many, so many.
Speaker 21 (55:08):
Things people don't know that famous like very important, definite
move to be because you end up in like situations.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
You know, I've ended up in situations. I understand what
he's saying. But nobody should aspire to be famous.
Speaker 3 (55:20):
You know what you should aspire to do it just
be great, right, Like you know, I see doctors nowadays,
I see attorneys, I see you know, therapists. They're on
social media and they have Instagram pages and they have
YouTube pages, but they're actually good at what they do,
at what they do, and they're using those platforms to
amplify their work. So I guess they're I hate that
word famous, but I guess they are quote unquote famous,
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but it's bringing attention to what it is they actually do.
Speaker 4 (55:44):
Yeah, but some people want to just be famous, that's
what they think. Fame is what pays. But if you
look at any industry rather it's Kai right. Kai didn't
start up being famous. Kai is a great stream and
because of that that made them famously. Yes, I think
most people don't get that.
Speaker 17 (55:59):
But think about how we talk about how Ky sinat
right has established all these numbers, all this platform, but
he knows what to do with and even though he's
just having a good time.
Speaker 8 (56:07):
He knows what to do.
Speaker 17 (56:08):
But you got other people on streaming it out here.
I mean they risking it all for the stream. So
I think it's him trying to teach people. And again
we don't know the question that was asking him or
that was just something he volunteered too. But I think
he's trying to let them know, like, Yo, this could
happen for you and if so, it could change your life,
but you got to know what to do with it.
Speaker 8 (56:24):
And I said, I said, it's making Georgia. I said,
I want to correct that.
Speaker 3 (56:27):
Yes, And you know, I guess when you have a
certain level of fame, it does provide you a different
level of access, right, That's why you know, once again,
I see so many actual professionals who do who do
great work in their field on social media, using YouTube
and stuff to amplify what it is that they're doing,
and they're becoming I guess.
Speaker 8 (56:46):
Famous, famous, famous.
Speaker 3 (56:47):
I guess I hate the word because I don't want
to tell kids that go be famine, Like what does
that even mean?
Speaker 4 (56:54):
But it's also you know, when you do things like
you said, so good, it makes you famous, right, like
you look it could be anything like, look at me
a Mallory.
Speaker 2 (57:00):
Right to a Mai.
Speaker 4 (57:01):
She's an activist, yes right back in it that you
really didn't hear much about activists.
Speaker 2 (57:05):
But she's doing such an amazing job. It's made her famous. Man,
look at top Dog Laws Law. We don't know his
face because I don't know who he is.
Speaker 8 (57:14):
I know, I know he do commercials. Now he gets
out of his car in the commercial.
Speaker 3 (57:17):
I know two things about Top Dog Law. They've won
over a billion dollars in cases. But that's only because
they've bought so much attention to what it is that
they do. When I hear the commercials, I pay attention.
Would you consider that famous? I don't know, But you
know what I want to hear. I want to hear
the people that actually got money or the cases. You
know what I mean, you're not used to like you
know what, I went to top Doug lun I hired
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him and I got my mom.
Speaker 2 (57:38):
No one's gonna tell you that because that family gonna
be what they know you just wanted.
Speaker 24 (57:41):
This was money.
Speaker 2 (57:42):
Now they're gonna ask you for money.
Speaker 8 (57:43):
But you know, I don't think this is.
Speaker 17 (57:48):
Especially why are But yeah, I mean he was getting
some pushback. I saw some people like, that's just not
the right message for kids. But I understand where he
was trying to understand.
Speaker 8 (57:58):
He was trying to go to.
Speaker 13 (57:59):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (57:59):
I mean, that's the wording, that's all.
Speaker 3 (58:01):
It's not the right message for kids because you have
to add a lot of context to it. There was
a lot of context lost all these kids here is
I gotta be famous. I gotta be famous. I gotta
be famous. That's the problem with the world nowadays. Everybody
wants to be famous, but famous for what for what?
Speaker 2 (58:15):
Well?
Speaker 8 (58:16):
Nothing shifting gears.
Speaker 17 (58:18):
Speaking of fame and music, Chris Brown and Usher, did
you guys see yesterday that they announced that they're going
to be extending their tour bet Yes, because of the
high demand, they are extending their tour. It's going to
be eight show extension for the Trek on the Well.
They announced this yesterday, Monday, August seventeen. So they are
coming back here to Jersey. They'll be at matt Life
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Stadium the fifteen. Okay, yeah, now this time, I say,
because I missed it the first time.
Speaker 2 (58:47):
Do you know records?
Speaker 17 (58:49):
I know Usher, and I know Chris Brown. Come on, yes,
Envy all right, whatever. They're gonna be in Miami in
December for a third show. They'll all go back for
a fourth day in Atlanta on November fifth, and then
they're also going to go back to l A as well.
So yeah, if you you want to go. They're also
going to Baltimore back. They're going back to Baltimore to go.
Speaker 8 (59:12):
See Usher and Chris Brown.
Speaker 2 (59:15):
Vegas.
Speaker 8 (59:16):
No, No, I should get I should go. You know,
I should be feeding a couple of cherries.
Speaker 2 (59:23):
That's not a bad would be.
Speaker 8 (59:27):
And it's a lot of feel good R and B.
That the cherry that got him. He wanted to get
the cherry so bad. Going to work.
Speaker 17 (59:37):
Wow, you were sitting up here. Come back and swallow
that biscuit with that thick neck. All right, that was
the latest hour. The next latest will be getting into
some conversations about black journalism and and if you can
call people out or not, because Stephen A. Smith has
been having a lot of conversations.
Speaker 8 (59:57):
We'll tell you about it.
Speaker 2 (59:58):
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Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
Now, who are you giving your donkey too? You know
I need a congressman Keem Jefferies to come to the
front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word
with him.
Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Yo, seven o'clock on the dock, seven o'clock on the door.
Speaker 8 (01:00:42):
No, I understand the song.
Speaker 17 (01:00:43):
I was like seven o'clock on the dock like I
had to sing the okay to do seven o'clock on
the dot.
Speaker 8 (01:00:49):
Y'all gotta up.
Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
We'll get on a nice and hopefully you can learn
the words when we go. It's the breakfast luve, good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
It's time for Donkey of the Day. One donkeys out.
Don't here to day called Donkey of the day.
Speaker 8 (01:01:04):
It really caught me off guard.
Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
If you live a life where we might are tongue
based off who we may offenised. He never would say
any time give us you are a donkey.
Speaker 8 (01:01:14):
That is why Charlamagne is.
Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
Some donkey today the breakfast Club. Okay, Charlamage, we would
giving a Donkey of the Day too today.
Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Well, you know, Donkey to Day for Tuesday, August eighteenth
goes to one of the most confusing people in American politics,
Congressman Hakeem Jefferson. Well, actually he's not confusing. If you
follow the corporate pack money, then you know exactly why
Hakum moves the way he moves. Okay, it's a reason
they call him a pac shakor it's a reason they
call him a pac Rocky. But today we are here
to talk about APAC. We are here to discuss Medicare
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for All. Okay, what is Medicare for All? It is
a proposed single pair national health insurance system for the US.
It would expand and improve the current public Medicare program
to cover all US residents, replacing private health insurance companies
and eliminating out of could cost like premiums, co pays,
indeductibles care.
Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
A lot of data I've seen.
Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Says around fifty to sixty percent of all Americans support
a national Medicare for all, our single payer healthcare system.
But Hakim Jeffries is not one of those people. See
Hakim was on Meet the Press with Christen Welker, and
the House Minority Leader indicated that he does not currently
support Medicare for All Okay legislation, even though he co
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sponsored similar bills from twenty thirteen to twenty twenty one.
Let's go to meet the presford the report.
Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
Please, all right, let's move on.
Speaker 23 (01:02:29):
To Medicare for All. You co sponsored Medicare for All
legislation from twenty thirteen to twenty twenty one, You've not
co sponsored it since you became Democratic leader. Will you
put Medicare for All up for a vote if you
become speaker?
Speaker 26 (01:02:44):
Well, listen, these are all conversations that the House Democratic
Caucus is going to have to have.
Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
Right now.
Speaker 26 (01:02:48):
We're focused on November third, not January third. What we
are promising the American people is that we're going to
fight to make healthcare affordable for every single American. I
know there's a lot of damage that Republicans have done
that we've got to restore and repair. For instance, Republicans
have enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in American history.
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More than a trillion dollars or so has been cut
from Medicaid. And what you're going to have is about
fourteen million Americans lose access to healthcare.
Speaker 8 (01:03:19):
Do you personally support Medicare for all?
Speaker 23 (01:03:21):
Do you personally support Medicare for All?
Speaker 26 (01:03:24):
No, as you indicate it, I haven't co sponsored the
Medicare for All legislation that has been introduced over the
last several years. I do think we need to figure
out how to fix our broken health care system and
then build something better once we repair the damage that
has been done now. That will include doing things like
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extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits so that more
than twenty million people who have seen their health insurance
premium skyrocket in some cases by up to one thousand
dollars a month. That's not sustainable, and that's something that
Donald Trump and Republicans have visited upon the American people.
Speaker 23 (01:04:03):
Just be very clear, though, as a Democratic leader in
the House, would you vote for or against Medicare for All?
Speaker 26 (01:04:09):
I think, as you've indicated in your question to me,
it's not legislation that I currently am co sponsoring or
that I support. Okay, but we do support the notion
that we've got to find a path forward to fix
our broken healthcare system and make health care affordable for
every single American pathetic.
Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
Some Democrats don't want to win, and it's about time
folks stop pretending that they do. Okay, now, listen, I
want to be clear, Hakim Jeffrees is not getting donkey
of today because he doesn't support Medicare for All. You
are allowed to not support Medicare for All. You can
believe in a public option. You can believe in scrimphening Obamacare.
You can believe in expanding Medicare and Medicaid. You can
believe there's another way to get every American affordable health care.
Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
That's called having a policy position.
Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
But what Hakim did on Meet the Press illustrates one
of the biggest problems Democrats have right now, and it's
one of the things that pisses me off the most
about the Democratic Party. They will tell people what they're
against without giving them something equally clear that they're for. Okay,
we will come back to that, But I have a
question for Hakim Jeffries in regard to the Medicare for All.
Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Simply what changed? Okay, right, Hakim?
Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
In September twenty nineteen, you became a co sponsor of
the Medicare for All Act. Then in twenty twenty one. Hakim,
you know you wasn't just somebody who eventually jumped onto
Medicare for All. No, you was an original co sponsor
of the Medicare for All Act of twenty twenty one meeting.
Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
When that bill was introduced, your name was already on it.
Speaker 8 (01:05:35):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
Now fast forward to twenty twenty six, Hakim Jeffries, as
you just heard, goes on meet the Press and says
Medicare for All is not legislation that he currently co sponsors.
Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
Our supports.
Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
Once again, what changed? What did you learn between twenty
twenty one and now that changed your mind? Did the
economics change? Did you discover something about Medicare for All
that you didn't you know when you co sponsored it.
Did America's healthcare system suddenly get better? We know the
answer to that. Did premiums get so cheap that I
missed the announcement? Did deductibles disappear? Did prescription drugs become free?
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Did medical debt go away? The insurance companies stopped the
nine claims? Because if any of that happened, we all
missed it.
Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
And by the way, politicians are absolutely allowed to change
their minds. Okay, we should actually encourage people. People to
change their minds when they get new information. Growth requires
changing your mind sometimes, Wisdom requires changing your mind sometimes.
But when you're an elected official and you change your
position on something this significant, the people deserve to know why,
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especially when the thing that changed the most dramatically during
that time appears to be your position. Okay, not your
policy position, your actual position. Because once again, in twenty
twenty one, Hakem you was a congressman from Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Remember that. Remember when you was a congressman from Brooklyn
and you was quoting Biggie and Jay appearing to be
down with the people.
Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
Today, you're the leader of the House Democrats okay, the
House Democratic Caucus, and could potentially become Speaker.
Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
Of the House.
Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
But you appear to be done with corporate America, not
the people. So I have to ask did your beliefs
change when your title changed? Because that's what people hate
about politics. Okay, It's not disagreement, all right, It's the
feeling that politicians believe one thing when they're trying to
move up, and another thing once they moved up. Okay,
And Akim Jeffreys has repeatedly said healthcare is are.
Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
Right, all right? If healthcare is are right, how are
you gonna guarantee that? Right? That's all we want to know.
Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Okay, because if medicare for all isn't the answer anymore,
what's the answer. Don't just tell me what you don't support,
tell me what you do support. How are Democrats gonna
make sure every American has health care? How are you
gonna lower premiums? How are you gonna load deductibles? How
are you gonna lower prescription drug prices? How are you
gonna stop families from being financially destroyed because somebody simply
got sick? What happens to the millions of Americans who
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are uninsured are underinsured?
Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
What's the plan, my guy? Okay? Because this is another
problem Democrats have.
Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
You cannot spend all day telling America what Republicans are
doing going wrong, and never clearly articulate what you're going.
Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
To do right.
Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
Opposition is not an agenda, Resistance is not an agenda,
where not them is not an agenda. And saying we
need to fix our broken healthcare system isn't a plan.
And tell you to tell people how you're going to
fix the broken healthcare system. Regular people don't wake up
debating the finer points of single pair of health care. Okay,
they wake up asking why am I paying hundreds of
dollars a month for insurance and still have a deductible
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that's thollands of dollars?
Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Why did my insurance company deny the procedure my doctor
said I need? Why does this prescription cost hundreds of
dollars that I don't have? Why am I afraid to
go to the er because I don't know what the
bill is going to look like? That's what people are
dealing with in real life, Hakim. So once again, Hakim,
I don't need you to support Medicare for all, but
I need you to explain why you supported Medicare for
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all when you weren't the Democratic leader but Democratic Hakim.
Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Democratic leader Hakem Jeffries. Does it? Okay? What changed? All?
Speaker 11 (01:08:58):
Right? Was it?
Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
The policy?
Speaker 13 (01:08:59):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
The country? Are your position?
Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
And I'm asking because leadership should make you know. Shouldn't
make your convictions harder to find. Leadership should make your
convictions clearer. Okay, If you believe Medicare for All was
a solution in twenty nineteen, and believe it enough to
become an original Cospontan in twenty twenty one, but you
don't believe it's the solution in twenty twenty six. You
have to tell us why, and more importantly, probably the
most important, tell us what replaced it, because you can't
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tell Americans healthcare is are right and then get vague
when they ask you how you're going to guarantee that right.
Rights require mechanisms, rights require policy, rights require somebody actually
fighting to make those rights real. And maybe that's the
lesson in all of this, all right, The easiest thing
for a politician to change is their position.
Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
When their position.
Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
Changes, when you're trying to climb the ladder, bold ideas
sound great, okay, and then you become responsible for protecting
suits and raising money and maintaining coalitions and potentially becoming speaker,
not to mention taking corporate back money, and suddenly those
bold ideas get a whole lot quiet on the creek.
Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
I understand the politics of that, but the American people
deserve more than politics. They deserve an explanation. So, Congressman Jeffries,
you don't owe anyone your support for medicae for all.
What you owe the American people is an explanation for
why something worthy of your signature in twenty twenty one
isn't worthy of your support in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
And until you.
Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
Explain that people have every right to wonder whether the
thing that changed was the policy or the politician. Please
give House Democratic Leader how King Jeffries the biggest he hull?
Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
What the hell is that? You need to go see
somebody right now, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 8 (01:10:39):
That's a damn biscuit. Gods like a damn cat. The
guy has stuff that sounds.
Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
You're about to call up a frog.
Speaker 13 (01:10:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
One time I seed somebody put rootwork on someone and
they called up a whole frog.
Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
Sounded just like that.
Speaker 8 (01:10:52):
It could be a hairball. You head.
Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
Right, thank you, thank you for that. Donkey of the day.
Speaker 4 (01:11:01):
Now when we come back, we were talking about young
Dog and the fact that he was talking to some kids.
Speaker 17 (01:11:06):
Yeah, break it down, talking to some kids at a
charter school down in Georgia and his message it was
about fame and how important it is, uh and got
some pushback for it.
Speaker 5 (01:11:17):
Let's listen, if you fers, you're almost as important as
the richest person in the world.
Speaker 24 (01:11:22):
So fame is like more so like than money. For
us is really the most important. It's very important. You
got to you gotta keep up with it. You got
to always make sure it leads. It leads to the right,
leads you to the right.
Speaker 20 (01:11:33):
Moom.
Speaker 25 (01:11:34):
You gotta know how to move, gotta move totally different.
Got a new MILITI so many, so many things. People
don't know about fame. That's like very important move. You
don't know how to be because you ain't up in
like situations. You know, I ended up in Siplin.
Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
All right, let's hope on up the phone lines. Let's
discuss eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
What do you think about what he said? He was
talking to a bunch of kids. He was talking about
fame not. The bad part about this is we didn't
get the full context.
Speaker 8 (01:11:58):
No, and I tried to find more video. I didn't
see more video because it sounds like he was.
Speaker 4 (01:12:02):
Saying fame could lead to having a bigger fortune. You
have to be responsible with it, you have to know
how to use it. That's what I think he was going.
Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
You can't just tell a room full of kids to
aspire to be famous, correct, because nowadays people will seek
fame by any means necessary.
Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
That's right, So let's.
Speaker 4 (01:12:18):
Discuss you want to man eight hundred and five five
five one, it's the Breakfast Level Morning.
Speaker 20 (01:12:30):
If you're all.
Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Talking about it, you know we talking about it.
Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
It's topic times called eight hundred five eight five one
five one to join into the discussion with the Breakfast
Club Morning.
Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Everybody's DJ Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy.
Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
We are the Breakfast Club law La roses here as
well if you're just joining us. During the latest sho
we reported that young Thug was talking to some kids,
and we'll break it down who he's talking to and
where it was.
Speaker 17 (01:12:55):
Yeah, so he was talking to a group of students
in Georgia at a charter academy and they were really
excited to see him, but they got into a conversation
somehow about fame and some of his comments. You know,
people are pushing back on should he have been talking
to because these students they're young, like they're it's like
I think it's like maybe third fourth grade.
Speaker 8 (01:13:15):
They're younger students, So people are trying to out they.
Speaker 17 (01:13:17):
Are, Yeah, these are these are kids like kids kids,
So people are trying to figure out why they were
having a conversation about fame and if it was the
right message about fame to these kids.
Speaker 8 (01:13:27):
Yeah, I didn't know they were that young.
Speaker 5 (01:13:29):
If you be fans, you're almost as important as the
richest person in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
So fame is like more so like the money for us.
Speaker 24 (01:13:37):
So fan is really the most important. It's very important.
You got to you gotta keep up with it. You
gotta always make sure you need it leads to the
right leads you to the right.
Speaker 20 (01:13:45):
Move.
Speaker 21 (01:13:45):
You gotta know how to move, gotta move totally different.
You gotta move move to so many, so many things.
People don't know that fame that's like very important that move.
You got know how to be because you end up
in like situations. You know, I ended up in situation.
Speaker 4 (01:13:57):
We're asking eight hundred and five and five, what are
your thoughts with you just I mean, we've been saying
it all morning.
Speaker 8 (01:14:04):
You know, you just can't tell a kid, you know,
fame is the most important thing. But I do think
it was his wording. I don't think he meant it
like you know a lot of people are taking it either.
I just think that he's speaking from his experience and
what fame did for him. And then he's also telling him,
if you're gonna be famous, this is the way to
do it because you have you can learn. Y'all can
learn as young as y'all are. From my mistakes, my
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fame ended up landing me in certain situations that it
was hard to get out of, and I got negative ascension.
And that's not necessarily the right thing to do when
you have a lot of eyes on you. But I mean,
I understand the objective and the message he was trying
to convey, but it was just the words, just you know, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
I mean I agree with you. I mean I think
you should want to be good at your craft.
Speaker 8 (01:14:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:14:47):
When I started DJ and I just wanted to be
the best DJ. Ever, it wasn't about fame. I just
wanted to be the best, you know, I mean, whatever
it was. And you know, sometimes if you are good
at your craft, fame comes with it. But I don't
think you should aspire to be I think that might
be a false way of thinking.
Speaker 8 (01:15:03):
But the kids are.
Speaker 17 (01:15:03):
But if we're being honest, when you talk to a
lot of these kids that charter school, from what I
see online is K through fourth grade, you talk to
a lot of these young kids, they care about, the streamers,
the people on snapchat and TikTok right now, so you
got to get you got it. It's like it's like
almost meeting them where they are to explain a better
Like I think it makes sense to they meet them
where they're at and try to develop their thinking process
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so it's not as like surface level.
Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
Well, you don't want to tell a room full of
kids something like that with no context, Like you can't
tell them to aspire to be famous because all these kids,
to your point, Lauren, just want to be famous nowadays,
but famous for what, no real gifts. And I think
America puts way too much emphasis on celebrity right Like,
fame itself isn't important. Doing actual work is what's important.
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Doing work with real intention behind it is what's important.
Every day I see professors on social media, lawyers, therapist, doctors,
and they are using those platforms to raise awareness to
the good work they're doing and they become famous. And
that's been going on since the beginning of time. I'm
not gonna sit there like that wasn't a doctor Phil,
There wasn't a doctor Oz. You know, there wasn't a
doctor Roof. You've seen spiritual leaders that have gotten a
lot of you know, television time that have gone on
to grow a.
Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
Ya lemon se Right.
Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
So if you're actually doing things with real intention and
you're actually doing really good work, you know you can
become I guess.
Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
Of famous in your own right.
Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
Think about all of those home renovation shows you'd be
watching envy, like those people.
Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
What's that dude that be come up here that look
like little Kendo sell the houses? Ryan sir? Oh, yeah,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
But I mean he does the work of selling houses,
and he's he does such a good job at it
that he's become famous when he got TV shows and
stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (01:16:38):
Even if you know, and I watch all those shows,
even the guys that buy the storage units and flip
the storage units like you, become fame.
Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
But they are good at their jobs.
Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
You got people that do teeth out here now that
have become famous. Doctor Miami became famous doingbody My point is,
do the real work, do the work with intention. Then
you'll have some fame, and then you got to figure
out what you're going to do with that fame. Another
person that I use an example, Mario carbone All his
restaurants are super famous. But guess what he focuses on.
And he'll come up here and tell you that the
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quality of the experience.
Speaker 8 (01:17:09):
You can't just.
Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
Aspire to be famous and then think that that fame
is going to translate into something else.
Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
Hello, who's this girl?
Speaker 13 (01:17:17):
Mary?
Speaker 12 (01:17:17):
This is mister show money or is that on.
Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
New Jersey famous for being fact? Yo?
Speaker 22 (01:17:27):
I think that like he was describing influence, but maybe
the world fame team up in a conversation. He was
describing influence and how to be you know'sp with which
what what what you do as as people follow you
or gain notoriety, and how your influence can help or
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hurt your.
Speaker 12 (01:17:52):
Life and those of others.
Speaker 22 (01:17:54):
So maybe, like I said, maybe someone in the room
with him asked the question that the question or whatever
or use the world.
Speaker 13 (01:18:01):
Fame he was he was describing influenced.
Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
You're absolutely right, mister show money. That's the word that
he should have been using influence. But even with that,
it has to be context because you know, what is
it what are you doing that has caused you to
have that type of influence. Like a lot of people
think they can just be influencers for the sake of
being influences because they got a bunch of followers.
Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
What did you do to get those followers? Eight hundred five?
You gotta go sensitive? He fat fat.
Speaker 3 (01:18:28):
People are very sensitive to stop calling him fat? Okay, exactly,
that is not jolly. Jolly people are very sensitive. He
go DM me right now. Why you hanging on?
Speaker 8 (01:18:38):
He's a caller of size.
Speaker 12 (01:18:40):
That's what.
Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
You can relate. You have to go hello, who's this.
Speaker 19 (01:18:49):
Day?
Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
Shod day?
Speaker 20 (01:18:51):
I love y'all you.
Speaker 19 (01:18:56):
I just feel like these parents are they're so important.
He's cock stars, he's rappers.
Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
Young, we gotta do better.
Speaker 19 (01:19:05):
Stop list said these rappers.
Speaker 12 (01:19:07):
And it's TikTok.
Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
Stars, TikTok just down now. People were dying young way
before TikTok. They always want to blame.
Speaker 8 (01:19:15):
And it is getting more and more out of hand.
Speaker 20 (01:19:17):
It's getting worse.
Speaker 13 (01:19:18):
It's getting worse.
Speaker 8 (01:19:23):
This is everything's getting worse.
Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
Morning, talk to us, what's your thoughts.
Speaker 19 (01:19:29):
Some morning, y'all?
Speaker 12 (01:19:30):
DJ if he just hilarious slam and I love all y'all.
Speaker 19 (01:19:34):
Can't believe I'm on the line. Yes, So, I feel
like this is the problem with society now we outolize
famous people that we even allow stuff like this to happen.
We should have people who are qualified talking to our
children in the classrooms anyway, Like why is he even there?
Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
But if these.
Speaker 4 (01:19:53):
Students are fans of him, regardless if you think he's
qualified or not, he has influence and he can possibly
influenced these kids to do some positive instead of doing
some negative things that they might have been taking.
Speaker 19 (01:20:07):
I can understand that I do envy, But my point
is is that that's the problem.
Speaker 8 (01:20:12):
Why is it only a rapper.
Speaker 20 (01:20:13):
Who should have enough influence to influence our children. Why
didn't that we not raise them in a way to
think that the lawyer is good enough to influence.
Speaker 8 (01:20:22):
Bring to the school though he just happened to be
there to day, right, But he.
Speaker 19 (01:20:25):
Shouldn't have been there.
Speaker 3 (01:20:26):
Imagine you were a parent and didn't know anything about
young thug and your child came home and said, Mom,
a young thug came to have a conversation.
Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
I don't know. He told me that I need to
be famous.
Speaker 19 (01:20:40):
Not like whoop, you do, not him.
Speaker 8 (01:20:48):
He shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Speaker 19 (01:20:51):
Now what are we doing in society, guys?
Speaker 3 (01:20:55):
I will say this, Jeffrey should be allowed to come
talk to people. He's an entrepreneur, and not only that,
he's been through real life experiences.
Speaker 2 (01:21:04):
He's there telling kids what not to do. Don't make
the same mistakes that I made. I don't have a
problem with that.
Speaker 19 (01:21:11):
I don't think that that would have been great. That
would have been great, But he didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
We only heard thirty seconds. You don't know if you did.
Speaker 17 (01:21:18):
It ain't that little thirty seconds. He's saying, my fame
got me into like he does treat He might be
getting to that.
Speaker 8 (01:21:24):
You got to move a certain way. He was saying,
you know, don't make the same mistakes.
Speaker 19 (01:21:27):
Right, but it does better so that next time he
gets in a classroom he can still a little more
qualified and speaks of life and to these children. Because
that fame speech, was not it that the parent age?
Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
Thank you, Alicia, good day. What's the story? I mean,
you just cannot tell kids to aspire to be famous.
Speaker 8 (01:21:48):
And that's the most important part.
Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
Yeah, with no context, like like all of these kids
want to be famous. We know that, we know all
of these kids just want to be on social media
being famous for a whole bunch of nothing. Fame itself
isn't important it's about doing the actual work. What are
we encouraging kids to actually do? Because I promise you,
if you do real work with real intention and this
day it is, you're gonna probably you're gonna get famous anyway,
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anybody do you know what that fame means? I just
I like what smister show Money said, You're going to
have a level of influence.
Speaker 2 (01:22:18):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
Like if you if you actually go do the work
with real intention and whatever it is that you're gonna do,
You're gonna have a level of influence.
Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
And there's a woman that I watch.
Speaker 3 (01:22:25):
I can't remember her name, but every time she wants
to call kids, I think she's in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
She'd be outside the court.
Speaker 3 (01:22:31):
Room Wiley like wild with the people that she won with,
like doing dancing and all kinds off. I cannot remember
the sister name, and I look at it and I'm like, damn,
would I want this in an attorney? But the reality
is she wants he's winning. Forget what you feel about
how she celebrates she's winning. I'll be reading these long
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captions of hers and she'll break down exactly why she
won the case.
Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
That's what I'm That's what I want, I don't get
you dance or don't dance? Are you winning? That's the
point is she's doing the work. You don't let her.
Lady named Lauren no Am always yeah she's black and
she be okay.
Speaker 8 (01:23:07):
But that's the thing. Yeah, I don't care how you
celebrate you won.
Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
That's right. Ladies, with Lauren coming up, we do we want.
Speaker 17 (01:23:12):
To talk about some conversations because Sean Man, you do
this a lot where you'll call people out about things
that you feel like need to be called out. The
n ABJ is the National Association of Black Journalists, right,
that is the biggest organization supporting black journalists. They called
out stephen A. Smith and it sparked a really big
conversation about what you should and should not do when
critique is somebody, Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
Sierra in Norris, let me see her. She's the Chicago
criminal defense attorney. She goes viral all the time because
she dances and celebrates with her clients.
Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
But she wins. She's doing great work. Is the point.
So do great work and you will gain a level
of notoriety and influence.
Speaker 8 (01:23:47):
That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:23:49):
Ladies, with Lauren's up next to the Breakfast Club, go morning.
I want to becoming a straight fast tell us she gets.
Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
Somebody that knows somebody she used to detail.
Speaker 8 (01:23:57):
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything, and.
Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
Ate the latest with Lauren la Rosa.
Speaker 3 (01:24:05):
Sometimes you have fact, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
have a little bit of every.
Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Time to you by top Dog Law on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 8 (01:24:15):
So Stephen A.
Speaker 17 (01:24:16):
Smith in the National Association of Black Journalists. For those
of you guys who don't know, the National Association of
Black Journalists is an organization that uplifts black journalists, right,
So it's all about educating. They help you find jobs,
but it's a community, so it goes from like college
all the way through your career. A lot of black journalists,
big name black journals, including Steven A. Smith, started their
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careers within an organization. So they recently had their annual
conference in Chicago and they gave an award called the
Thumbs Down Award. Now, this award goes to people who
they feel are like disparaging or just making it harder
for black journalists to do their jobs. Steve n Asmith
was awarded the award. Let's take a listen to Steve
Nay Smith the award being given to him.
Speaker 11 (01:24:55):
NADJ presents the thumbs Down award to an individual organization, actions, reporting,
or institutional practices have significantly undermined fair, accurate, and inclusive
journalism about Black communities Britain, car Juwan McCoy, CBS, Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (01:25:12):
Smith The Washington Post.
Speaker 17 (01:25:15):
Yeah so, Stephen A. Smith was pretty upset about receiving
that award. And I mean he is a part of
the organization. Not only is it part of it, but
like he's brought First Take to their conferences. Like he's
done a lot to pour back into NABJ, a lot
to pour back into Black journalists.
Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
But whether he at the conference last year or honored
at the conference, or spoke at the.
Speaker 17 (01:25:36):
Conference, Yeah, and First Take was there, He's done a lot.
He was there last year, he wasn't there this year.
But he responded via his show and he was not happy.
Let's take a listen to Steven A. Smith responding to
the NABJ.
Speaker 27 (01:25:48):
It is BS, and I get a lot of people
want to pile on and they want to jump on
it because you have your own individual feelings about me.
I'm here to tell y'all, y'all are entitled to that,
not the NABACH. You're not entitled to that. I am
the same guy that brought a nationally televised show to
a journalism conference, which is the NABJ the last two years.
Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
Did you have anything to say about me?
Speaker 27 (01:26:14):
Then First Take, which has been number one for fourteen
straight years. We came to the National Association for Black
Journalists in Chicago and Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
I also stood in the booth over an hour doing
the jobs fair. I also gave a speech.
Speaker 27 (01:26:30):
I also mentored and talked to, as I continue to
do young aspiring black journalists, and I have done that
religiously for decades.
Speaker 3 (01:26:40):
I don't think anyone is above criticism, but if steven
A has done all of those things for them, it
should have been more of a.
Speaker 2 (01:26:46):
Call in than a call out.
Speaker 4 (01:26:47):
Yeah, I disagree, right, And the reason I say that
as an NABJ is an organization that is supposed to
empower journalists right, help journalists out right, and Steven A.
Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
Smith has done that. So the fact that they even
have a thumbs down.
Speaker 4 (01:27:00):
Award for a black journalist that's out there, that's working,
that's putting in the work outside of what he does
for the n A B J. When you look at
these campuses, these HBCUs as big as stephen A.
Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
Smith is, who's always on those campuses. Steven should have
been more.
Speaker 4 (01:27:16):
I don't even like the throws down, like they should
not have anything negative towards if there is.
Speaker 8 (01:27:21):
A question of calling.
Speaker 2 (01:27:27):
You have that award. But I'm not just saying for him.
I'm just saying, but.
Speaker 17 (01:27:35):
Here's the thing, and I'm going to play another stephen A.
Smith audio. The question I have for the room is
at what point, though, can the call in not be
a call out? But I be honest about what I
didn't like, because that's what n ABJ were trying to do.
They don't like some of the comments he's made about
Jasmine Crockett, Michelle Obama singer and Serena Williams, Kamala Harris,
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and he talks about that moment. Let's take a listen
to stephen A mention it, Ja Kroppt and Michelle What
the hell.
Speaker 27 (01:28:00):
This thumbs down a ward have to do with journalism
disparaging black women? How I've heard people bringing up Jasmine Crockett.
Did I sit up there asking why would you curse
out the President of the United States with the cameras rolling,
How is that going to help you?
Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
Yes, I did. Why did I do that?
Speaker 27 (01:28:16):
Not only because she's in Texas and I know they
were a little bit different in Texas, a bit more conservative,
and I didn't think that would work with her constituency
down there.
Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
How is that disparaging?
Speaker 27 (01:28:27):
Oh, stephen A goes after Michelle Obama. She's the one
that compared first Take to a reality show, And I
use that as an opportunity to say that this marvelous,
wonderful woman, who's the greatest first lady in American history, who.
Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
I have raised and praised and praised time and time
and don again. All I did was say, I don't
like the fact that.
Speaker 27 (01:28:47):
You said a vote for him, as in Donald Trump,
would be a vote against us as women.
Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
All I said was, there's a whole bunch of pro
lifers out there.
Speaker 27 (01:28:55):
There's a whole bunch of people that care about the
economy or immigration or safety in the streets.
Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
They might not even be thinking about this issue.
Speaker 8 (01:29:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 17 (01:29:05):
So, I just think I agreed that it should have
been done a different way. But I think you should
be able to disagree on things you should have been
done a different way.
Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
Thumbs down.
Speaker 4 (01:29:14):
The ward that was at an naba at NABJ Wah
supposed to be uplifting African American journalists, and I will
say the fact that he does it and it's forty
three hundred members and does all do all forty three
hundred members feel that way about Stephen A.
Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
Smith?
Speaker 17 (01:29:25):
And Stephen they said that he received a lot of
text and phone calls from other board members and people
in the organization who were upset about the way that
they went about this because not only did he receive
the award and of course with a viral because of
who he is, but he says that the president, miss
Aaron Haynes, didn't reach out to him, like he didn't
even know that this was going to happen, and she spoke.
Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
They should have been that should have been done, especially
because he's done so much for him.
Speaker 17 (01:29:46):
Yes, she spoke to Roland Martin, who's also on the
board of NABJ, about the moment in her decision to
give Stephen A.
Speaker 8 (01:29:52):
Smith the thumbs down. The world let's say a listen, look.
Speaker 28 (01:29:54):
At who we named this year. I think we have
to agree that there's a clear through line. We're looking
at the forces that make it harder for black journalists
to do their jobs and harder for black communities to
be covered fairly and fully. Like that includes government officials
that are observing their pressure on the press, news organizations
that are making decisions that we can diversity and coverage,
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media owners who are facing questions about the treatment of
black journalists who we know are under attack by internal
and external forces across this country.
Speaker 8 (01:30:23):
And also influencer commentators whose.
Speaker 28 (01:30:26):
Rhetoric can be enforced awful narratives about black people, particularly
black women.
Speaker 12 (01:30:30):
Now you know me.
Speaker 28 (01:30:32):
We've been on this board together for a year now,
and I've been very clear that advocacy is central to
my presidency, particularly advocacy around black women and our professions.
Speaker 4 (01:30:43):
So Roland Martin was on one of the board members
that voted for him to get this award.
Speaker 17 (01:30:47):
I don't believe that he voted like I can't say that,
but he word he does work with NABJ, But I
don't know his stance on whether he signed. I don't
know his stance on whether STEVENI should have got the
award or not. I can't answer that.
Speaker 3 (01:31:00):
I'll tell you that, sadly, we wouldn't be talking about
NABJ Artist Conference if they didn't do this thumbs down award.
And what's even worse is there's people that they named
in the thumbs Down Award, like Brendan Carr, who's doing
way worse things to media than stephen A.
Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
Smith is.
Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
But you know, per usual, the vitri all goes to
the black person from a lot of other black people.
Speaker 17 (01:31:25):
I can update, I'm sorry. On his show, Roland Martin Unfiltered,
Roland Martin supported the decision. He showed pride in n
ABJ President's Aaron Hayes in the organization for having the courage.
Speaker 8 (01:31:37):
To give stephen A. Smith the twenty twenty six thumbs
Down Award.
Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
I don't think steven A makes it. Oh go ahead, nope,
I was gonna say, take me out of there. I
don't want to say nothing. I want to Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 8 (01:31:45):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:31:45):
I don't think, you know, because they said steven A
makes it harder for journalists to do their job. He actually,
you know, gives journalists a job to do because if
stephen A gets things wrong, then the journalists can actually
correct the rect right.
Speaker 8 (01:31:57):
And yeah, and that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 17 (01:31:58):
But look, yeah, like it I gonna get what you
said spark the conversation though, And I will say I
feel like I haven't I've known an NBA for some
time now, so she has a student that went through
school trying to work in this and I feel like
people don't talk about NABJ enough, and I mean sad
that this is why we are, but it does start
a conversation about how you what are the politics or
should not be politics around how you call things out.
Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
Yeah, I just think there's a lot more threats to
black journalism and black media.
Speaker 4 (01:32:25):
Smith absolutely, who knows all the time and it donates
all the time, that does so many And I'm not
and I don't want to say like I'm a Stephen
Asmith Glazer, but it's just what I see. I'm there
on the HBCU campuses when I see first take, I'm
there on those campuses when I see Steven A. Smith
talking to journalists and going to those classes and where
he's came from.
Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
Not, well, nobody's above criticism, not at all. But not
not that award.
Speaker 3 (01:32:47):
Not that's FAST's just the way to administer that criticism.
You know, some of y'all in the NABJ, you know
probably need to have more grace because some of y'all
getting thumbs up your ass, so you probably should have
a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (01:32:57):
That's why they want to go. That's why let's get
out here. She literally, I just want to go.
Speaker 8 (01:33:00):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (01:33:01):
Let's going.
Speaker 8 (01:33:02):
Yeah, that was brought to you.
Speaker 17 (01:33:06):
That was brought to y'all by top Dog Law. Any accident, wait, shoot,
that's the wrong one. That was brought to you by
top Dog Law. They have won over a billion one billion,
one billion dollars for their client. So if y'all get
in an accident, y'all make the call top Dog Law.
Their bark is their bite. I put your thumb down,
just put it down.
Speaker 2 (01:33:22):
You're good, You're good. Good. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 8 (01:33:25):
Good morning morning.
Speaker 4 (01:33:27):
Everybody is DJ Envy, Jess, Hilarry, God, we are the
Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (01:33:33):
My wife is back.
Speaker 8 (01:33:34):
I know you're happy.
Speaker 2 (01:33:35):
Hey, that's right. So we got back from the airport
at at like two thirty am.
Speaker 4 (01:33:40):
PIU flight landed at ten forty and then by the
time she had the that was on the tarmac for
about an hour and then her luggage and go through customs.
Speaker 8 (01:33:49):
Yeah, ah, so I know you time. God damn.
Speaker 4 (01:33:53):
And then all the kids wanted to sleep in bed
and wait for mom. Sure, So I couldn't sleep in
the bed. So I had to sleep like on a
little platform, so you know, if you roll, you hit
the floor.
Speaker 13 (01:34:01):
So I was.
Speaker 8 (01:34:01):
You know, it's a lot of other rooms in your
house you could have slept in. Yeah, yeah, another bit.
Speaker 3 (01:34:07):
But it's crazy though, because you know how long you've
been with I watching your ass seventeen days.
Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
So she's back now he has washed.
Speaker 8 (01:34:14):
It's probably not as thoroughly clean as it could be.
Speaker 4 (01:34:17):
I washed my ass clean. I'm sorry I watched my
I'm a clean ass washer. I can watch my clean
mind now. But anyway, like when we call this morning,
he was saying that his job is causing him stress.
I think my job is causing me stressed. I know,
I think all of us.
Speaker 2 (01:34:30):
Yes, yeah, you'll cause me stressed. And so tell them
about your your health wealth expo that you got coming up.
Speaker 3 (01:34:35):
I do the mental health Expow every year. This will
be the fourth or fifth year, I don't even remember.
But we're doing it again in Newark, New Jersey this
year at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness in the
Vince Center. On ten ten, which is actually World Mental
Health Day. So through my good sister Debbie Brown, she
is curating the programming for that day. And this year
we're focusing on nothing but solutions. You know we always
have conversations about eradicating the stigma around mental health. Well
(01:35:00):
this year we're talking about solutions and actual pathways the healing.
So it's a free event. Go to mentalwealthexpot dot com.
The register to be there and we'll see you on
ten ten in Newark, New Jersey. It's to Joel and
Diane blowing wellness in the Venzulam from eleven to six.
Speaker 2 (01:35:15):
I believe the event is so we'll see you there.
All right. You have food, yeah, you always have food,
all right? Every event we got a positive note, I do.
Speaker 3 (01:35:24):
The positive note is coming from one of my favorite
pages on Instagram. It's called the Healing gud and today
they posted the moment we refuse to hurt others because
of our own pain is the time we evolve as souls. Okay,
True growth is breaking the cycle of pain instead of
passing it on. When you choose compassion over retaliation and
refuse to make others suffer for what hurts you. You
transform pain into wisdom. Are you breaking that cycle? Are
(01:35:47):
repeating it?
Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
Have a great day, breakfast club you don't finish for
y'all done.
Speaker 1 (01:35:52):
Woke up, Wake up, wakes up, the program your alarm
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