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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Woke up, woke up, wake you up, wake you up,
wake that ass up.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Program your alarm to power 105.1 on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Good morning, USA!
Speaker 3 (00:09):
.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Jess is out today, Charlemagne the God. Peace to
the planet! Guess what day it is? Guess what day
it is? Pump day! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
How y'all feel out there? I feel blessed, black, and
highly favored. Happy to be here. Another day to serve
our beautiful listeners.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Good morning. How you feeling? What's up, Lo? Lauren just
walked in.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You know, Jess Elias is like one of them NBA
players that rests for load management.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying?
She rests for load management.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Too many days on, she's got to take a rest.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Too many days on, she's got to take a rest.
That's the way it goes sometimes. Good morning, LL Cool Bay.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Good morning, LL. You look professional this morning.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
What you got planned?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Nothing? Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You ain't coming to work dressed like that for no reason.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
You know what I thought?
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Every time I put on certain outfits, I'll be trying
to anticipate what y'all going to say. I thought y'all
was going to say I was giving like Bishop this morning,
like a preacher.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
No, you do look like First Lady. Yeah, very much
First Lady. You give very much First Lady at a church,
for sure.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
I just felt good today.
Speaker 7 (01:08):
You definitely going on the job interview. What are you
trying to work at?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Am I still interviewing for this job?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
No, your position is solidified. You've been now.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
I ain't got no.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
More interview with me. No, your position is solidified. Until
you get on my nerves. I get on my.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Nerves every day.
Speaker 7 (01:24):
Every single day. All right, now Cynthia K. McWilliams will
be joining us this morning. You know her from Average
Joe Season 2, streaming on Paramount right now.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes, and she also has an independent comedy drama called
Messy Lola, which you can scream on the Roku channel.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So she's working. She's doing.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
What I tell a lot of creators to do nowadays, okay?
It's like an inside-outside game. You got your industry thing
with Average Joe Season 2, right?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But then you got to use what you're building over
there to build your own thing, which is Messy Lola.
That's right. So salute to Cynthia K. McWilliams. We'll talk
to her later this morning.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well, let's get the show cracking. You know, of course,
get it off your chest. It's T-Pain's born day, by
the way. Oh, my God. 585-1051 if you need to
get it off your chest. T-Pain, what you at?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Buy me a drink? Buy you a drink?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Nah, that's Lil Wayne. Okay, that's Lil Wayne, though. Whose
song is this? It's Lil Wayne's song. Oh, well, start
it over then. Hold on now. You got Bobby the Drinker,
you got Bartender, you got I'm In Love With A Stripper. Oh,
my God. You can't never go wrong with Bobby the Drinker.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
All those was my ringtones.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I'm In Love With A Stripper?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
It's T-Pain. Like, you just, yeah. Like, I had all
that in the ringtones. I used to make ringtones.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
You used to make them?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah, like, I would put them on people's phones.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Like, you a DJ. I know Bobby the Drinker got
to be in this. Yeah, Bobby the Drinker. That was
a number one record for a while. You got it? Bartender,
Bobby the Drinker. Buy you a drink. Let's do it.
Buy you a drink. Happy birthday, T-Pain. Front page news
is up next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Lola Rose is here. Let's get in some front page news.
Happy birthday, T-Pain.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
That's why we started the show with some T-Pain. Let's
start off with some quick sports now. Last night, WNBA,
Fever beat the Aces 99-89.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yo, Fever, you see what happens when you play Raven Johnson? Okay,
when you give Raven Johnson meaningful minutes, changes the whole
complexion of the team.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Especially the defense. Dropping the clues bombs for Raven Johnson, okay?
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Last night, the Liberty beat the Lynx, sent the Lynx
home 87-71.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I know, man.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Poor Olivia Miles. They shut Olivia Miles down.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Shout out to the Liberty, though, because the Lynx were
the number one seed, and Liberty was the number eight seed.
I think that's the first time in WNBA history that
a number eight seed has beat a number one seed.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
And last night in baseball, of course, we're in the playoffs,
the wild card series. The Yankees destroyed the Boston Red
Sox 9-0. Hit a grand slam in the eighth inning. Yeah,
eighth inning hit a grand slam.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Are people back on steroids in baseball? No. No, they
test like crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That's the only time I used to like baseball. Back
in the 90s when everybody was on steroids.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
You sound like such an elder when you ask that.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
Nah, and Aaron Judge is still injured. Now, yesterday also
the Giants released Odell Beckham Jr.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Damn! He needed steroids.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
Damn.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
I don't even think he got a chance to really play. Yeah,
I think he had like three snaps or two snaps.
He didn't even get a chance to, they didn't even
throw him the ball one time. It's not like I
watched the Giants, but I haven't seen him play. No,
he hasn't played. Pre-show, amazing. You know, when they warm up,
it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
What the hell is a pre-show? Well, I said they
warm up, it's amazing.
Speaker 9 (04:13):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But he didn't get a chance to play, so he
was released yesterday. But what's up, Mimi?
Speaker 10 (04:18):
Good morning, Envy, Lauren, and Charlamagne. How y'all doing this morning?
Speaker 11 (04:22):
Good morning.
Speaker 10 (04:24):
Good morning.
Speaker 11 (04:25):
Front Page News is sponsored by Morgan & Morgan, America's
largest injury law firm. So we start this morning with
President Trump meeting with some of the biggest names in
artificial intelligence at the White House as concerns grow about
just how powerful this technology is becoming. They walked away
with a new agreement about how AI companies are supposed
to keep technology under control. That agreement is being called
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the White House Accord on Superintelligence. Companies that signed it
are agreeing to things like testing their most powerful AI systems,
putting more safeguards in place and having outside experts review
some of those safety measures.
Speaker 10 (05:03):
But here's the important part. All of this, all of
these rules, they are voluntary.
Speaker 11 (05:08):
There is no new federal law requiring companies to follow
them and no government regulator enforcing the agreement. Let's listen
to President Trump explain how this works.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
They're really going to be policing each other.
Speaker 9 (05:20):
It's going to be very, very safe, and there's a self-policing,
and there's also a group policing, and it's going to
be great.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It's ridiculous, right?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I mean, when the people building AI, when they admit
that the technology can behave in ways they didn't intend,
why should we, the public, trust the same companies to
police themselves?
Speaker 7 (05:43):
You can't expect somebody to police themselves over greed. You
can't expect somebody to police themselves over money.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
There's no way. There's no way.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And we're asking them to choose, I guess, our safety
over their growth, which I don't know is possible, right?
Because the more breakthroughs you have with AI, the more
valuable the technology becomes. But the more breakthroughs you have
with AI, then it runs the risk of all of
these bad things that they're warning us about.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It runs the risk of those things actually happening.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So how do we expect them to choose our safety
over Their growth, you know, a lot of money on
the table.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That's my point. I don't know. Greed over safety. I
don't know. Exactly.
Speaker 11 (06:24):
So so for now, the responsibility follows these new safety
rules and it's up to the companies to, you know,
police themselves. And this agreement, though, it does not stop
Congress from passing regulations later. Lawmakers are on vacation, but
when they get back, they have been talks about taking
this up.
Speaker 10 (06:43):
So we'll see.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
I'm going to say it just passed what we would put. Well,
the Senate just passed what would put new rules on
how college athletes get paid. So right now, athletes can
make money from endorsements, social media and other deals. But
this bill would limit how much money or how much
schools can pay athletes, cap what agents can make, and
also give the NCAA more power over its rules and
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protect the company or the organization from lawsuits. And supporters
say there are too many different rules across the country
and they want Congress to set rules for everybody. But
the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus, they are against this.
They say black athletes are finally making money from a
system that has made billions of dollars off of them,
and they don't want Congress putting limits on what those
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athletes can earn. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker played football
at Stanford, and he voted against this. Let's listen to
what he had to say.
Speaker 12 (07:36):
It's a bill that was written without input from college
athletes themselves whose lives will be directly affected. It violates
a simple rule, nothing about us without us. Well, this
is a bill going forward that where college athletes and
the organizations that represent them have not had a seat
on the table. It's a bill that was actually shaped
(07:57):
by millions of dollars in lobbying from the NCAA, and
at its core, it's a bill that undermines the rights
of young people who pour their blood, sweat, tears, countless
hours of work, and more into their craft.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Hey, man, let the college athletes police themselves. Treat them
like you're treating the technocrats, okay? Let them figure it out.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Amongst themselves. Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
As a father of somebody that played college football, you know,
Logan played, I would say this. Every day those kids
put their bodies on the line. They get up way
before anybody else, 4 o'clock.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
They work. If they get injured, they have to heal themselves.
They have to figure out their own.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
So the fact that these athletes are getting paid to
be able to support their families, to be able to
support themselves– It changed the game for a lot of
athletes out there. And I don't want to see that
changing because those kids each and every day they've been
practicing and training since since three, four years old. And
they put their bodies on the line and when they
get injured, it's a high five and see you later. So, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
They should be getting paid.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's also just hilarious to me that you could put
rules and regulations on the athletes, but not the technocrats
who are in charge of technology that can potentially ruin
the world.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
And these colleges make billions of dollars off the students.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Are they doing this?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
And I don't know if I missed this. If I did,
I'm sorry, Mimi.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
But are they doing this because they're trying to, you
know how we hear the stories about how the money
is spent incorrectly and it's like a distraction for the students?
Speaker 7 (09:20):
Now, they're just saying because the colleges are losing too
much money paying these kids.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
They're not gaining enough money on these kids. These kids
are making money off their jerseys now. They're making money
off their likeness.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Even the patches and stuff on the jerseys, right?
Speaker 7 (09:32):
But they can control where they want to go now. Now,
I can be like, you know what? This school is
offering me more. I'm going to this school.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (09:38):
And the colleges don't necessarily have a say where these
students are going now. They can't control it.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Might be too many black people making money, man. Too
many black people getting paid.
Speaker 10 (09:45):
That's exactly what it is. I think ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Too many young black people getting paid. That's what it is.
Let's put a rain in on this one. Let's rain
this in.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
All right.
Speaker 10 (09:54):
That's what it is.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
That's what it is.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
So this is not law yet, though. The House still
has a vote on it.
Speaker 11 (09:59):
So when they get back after midterms, they will have
to vote on this and it will go to the
president's desk for his signature. So we will continue to
watch this as this is a really, really big deal.
And this hour of front page news sponsored by Morgan & Morgan. Injured.
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up at 7, a Florida mom, she takes a trip
to the Bahamas, but what she leaves behind has everyone talking.
Speaker 10 (10:25):
So we're going to get into that.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
All right.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
And everybody else, get it off your chest. Let's clear
the phone lines.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
800-585-1051.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
How you feeling out there? How's everything on this Wednesday?
Call us up. Let us know.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
It's The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
This is your time to get it off your chest.
Speaker 13 (10:39):
800-585-1051.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello,
who's this? Hey, good morning.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
This is James calling from North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
James from North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
What part?
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Right now, I'm staying in Lumberton.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Okay. All right. I'm going to be in Charlotte. I
don't know if that's close. A lot going on in Charlotte.
It's homecoming season. Charlotte is close to Lumberton. Oh, it is?
Let me see. Like 30 minutes, maybe? Oh, not that far. No, no.
Not 30 minutes.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
It is like a good four or five hours.
Speaker 14 (11:05):
I think.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
It is? Oh, damn. All right.
Speaker 15 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
What's up, James? Oh, you're right. Two hours, 13 minutes driving.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Yeah, but yesterday we all interviewed Miss Pat, man. I
really enjoyed that interview, man. I was in there laughing
my behind off.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Love Miss Pat, man.
Speaker 16 (11:21):
I had that.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It's amazing. It's my girl.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Go pick up Miss Pat's new book, Miss American Dream,
available everywhere you buy books now.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Yeah, I ended up having to go and watch her show, man.
I never did get around to watching her show, but
after that interview, I said, man, let me check out
her show. And, oh, man, it's good. It's really, really good, man.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, Miss Patty's hilarious. I love Miss Patty. And that's
who she is. That's who she is all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Whether you're reading her books, whether you're watching her show
on BET, whether you go see her stand-up, that's Miss
Patty all the time.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
She don't never turn on. Because she not even on.
That's just her.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
Yeah, that's something. And, oh, yeah, and Envy and Charlotte
Young said that on A Different World they had too
many same things. But I didn't see anybody bumping ugly, man.
They just lip-locked.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I feel like they was having sex all the goddamn
time to me.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
He has a daughter in college, so he doesn't want
to think about that, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I don't even want to think about that. Everybody's going
to be going to class. Take your ass to class, okay?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Class is not the best part of that experience.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Man, shut up. Hello, who's this?
Speaker 14 (12:19):
What's good, what's good?
Speaker 17 (12:20):
It's Mike Frick from New York.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
What's up? Mike Frick. DJ Envy. Just hilarious. How y'all doing?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
What's happening, brother?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Lauren's in here today. What's going on? Get it off
your chest, brother.
Speaker 18 (12:30):
Hey, what's up, Lauren?
Speaker 8 (12:31):
How y'all doing, man?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Good morning.
Speaker 18 (12:33):
Black and highly favored.
Speaker 19 (12:34):
Good morning, beautiful.
Speaker 18 (12:35):
Now, I just want to explain how black people can't
have anything, man.
Speaker 14 (12:42):
Why they want to put restrictions on the college players, man?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You know why.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Because they making too much money. You got too many
young black men making too much money right now.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You know that.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Tax, everything. We can't have nothing.
Speaker 18 (12:53):
Look at these gas prices. I'm still going through it, man.
Speaker 17 (12:56):
I'm Mike Vick, by the way, with MRV and.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
The Positive Pro.
Speaker 20 (12:59):
Yes, man.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Why they can't let us have something?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Meanwhile, the technocrats get to police themselves.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Hey, we in a crisis, man. I think we should
really look at possibly moving.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Because U.S.
Speaker 14 (13:13):
Ain't it.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Nah, it's our country, too. We're not going nowhere.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
We're going to do what we always do. We're going
to keep fighting and we're going to figure this out.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Hey, we got to fight and we got to vote, man.
Speaker 18 (13:22):
We got to get everybody to vote.
Speaker 17 (13:23):
I agree.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
All right, Mike. You be safe out there, Mike. You
guys stay blessed, brother. All right, brother.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I think this is going to be one of the
best midterm elections ever because I think that people finally
realize this is just a business.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You don't got to feel no personal way towards any
of these elected officials.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You completely see that.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Elections have consequences and you got to put people in
position that actually care about people and people that we
know we can push.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Because conservatives definitely don't give a damn about us. You
know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And I ain't going to sit here and act like
Democrats give a damn about us either, but I know
that we can put a lot more pressure on them to,
you know, do things for us.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Hopefully. All right. Well, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.
If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's
The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Ray, Ray, Ray.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Yo, Charlemagne, Envy, what up?
Speaker 18 (14:12):
Are we live?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
This is your time to get it off your chest.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 18 (14:18):
We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell
you what it is.
Speaker 15 (14:21):
Are we live?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Hello, who's this?
Speaker 17 (14:24):
Yo, good morning, DJ Envy, Charlemagne the God, Lauren, what's happening?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
What's up, my brother? Where you calling from?
Speaker 8 (14:31):
I'm from Texas.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
All right, we'll get it off your chest, brother.
Speaker 17 (14:34):
Yo, these white people been making money for too long,
but now these black kids making money in the NFL?
I mean, college league, and they don't want to pay them?
Speaker 14 (14:41):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
It don't make sense to me.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
And I love the fact that a college player can
make $ 6, $ 7, $ 8, $ 9 million if they're that good
and make more than they do in the league, and
they can take care of their family. And if they
do get injured, they still have enough where they can
at least sit on it for a little bit.
Speaker 21 (14:53):
Pause.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
That's crazy.
Speaker 14 (14:56):
Exactly, though.
Speaker 17 (14:59):
The thing is that they've been making money off their
public image for a very long time. So now that
they're making money off their own names and faces and skills,
now you want to bring the money down? It's very
obvious what's going on here.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
You know what I'm saying? Yep. Somebody might have to
come to the front of the congregation this morning. Let
me ask you a question. Are you voting in Texas, bro? Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
Tell her we go.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Okay. All right, brother. Hello, who's this?
Speaker 18 (15:22):
Hey, this is Beverly from Midland, Texas.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Hey, Beverly from Texas. Come on and get it off
your chest.
Speaker 18 (15:27):
Okay, now first of all, I want to talk about,
you know, the election coming up. We have got to
get Governor Hot Wheels out of the seat. Greg Abbott
has to go. They trying to take all your land
from you. They keep raising our property taxes. It's crazy
out here.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Mm-mm-mm-mm.
Speaker 18 (15:45):
But, you know, we're a red state, so if we
can get them in there, we can. If we can't,
we don't do better.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Do you think, what's her name, Gina? What's her name? Gina,
he knows you? That's her name?
Speaker 18 (15:58):
Gina, he knows her.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
You think she got a good chance?
Speaker 18 (16:01):
Man, I would love for her to have a good chance,
but when I tell you that the pink people come
out and they decide who's going to be in office
for us, I really feel that way because the way...
Black people come out and vote. Man, we should have
had Jasmine Crockett in. We should have had Tallarico in.
We should have had, I can't even think of the
(16:22):
guy a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Well, y'all still got an opportunity to get Tallarico in.
Speaker 18 (16:27):
Yeah, we do. But when you're watching TV, all you
see is Ken Paxton commercials. You never see anything for
James Tallarico. All you see is negativity.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 18 (16:38):
So if that's what the younger people, if that's what
they're going off of, they're not going to vote him in.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Well, thank you for calling, Mama, and keep encouraging people
to get out there and vote.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Very important.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Okay, can I shout out?
Speaker 10 (16:48):
Can I shout out?
Speaker 18 (16:49):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
What do you think?
Speaker 18 (16:50):
Okay, I want to shout out my kids, Kayden and Kiera.
They turned 21 this year. And my sweet baby, Casey,
she's a senior. She plays varsity basketball, volleyball for Midland
High School. I'm just getting them out the way. My husband, Kevin,
I just wanted to shout everybody out. Love y'all.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
All right, love you, too.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
And salute to all our volleyball dads out there. I've
been hearing a lot from volleyball dads. They say volleyball
is very serious.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Is that true?
Speaker 18 (17:14):
Super serious. Super serious.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Salute to my man John and his daughter.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
They travel city to city every weekend, and I'm like, Jesus,
and they're there all day long, like four matches, five
matches a day. Well, salute to all the volleyball dads
and moms out there.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Thank you, Mama, for calling. All right, thanks.
Speaker 16 (17:29):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got the latest
with Laura coming up.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
We do.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
We're going to talk about Diddy because there are four
men who were in prison with him that.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Say he is living it up in Fort Dix, okay?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Shout out to the men.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
They talk about massages, Hennessy. We're going to get into
all the things. They say he done lined up for
himself in there, okay?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
He didn't even turn anything into a party.
Speaker 11 (17:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Okay. God damn. When I heard massages, I was like,
but how? And then I said, uh.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Prison pants. Shout out to the prison pants, man. Prison
pants will turn anything into a party.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
All right. We'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning. What, what, what, what, what you want to know?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
The latest with Lauren LaRosa.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Because you particularly are bringing the energy to mainstream radio,
the black radio.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That source is trusted. Did you hear that exclusive?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Lauren, I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about
everything and everything.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
She be having the latest on things.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
You ask the questions that need to be answered.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
On The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
If little brown girls look at you and go, I
want to be like you.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
LL Cool B.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Talk to me.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
All right, y'all.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
So Diddy is over in Fort Dix and we know
that he is serving a 50 month sentence following the
prostitution charges. Now, there is a story that NBC News
did exclusively. They said that they spoke to four men
who have spent time in the same unit as Diddy.
And they are anonymous in this article because they want
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to talk about the lifestyle Diddy is living. Now, they
break it down like this. They say Diddy is living
a life inside of Fort Dixie. He has men who
clean for him, men who do his laundry, men who
make his bed for him, men who give him Chinese
style massages.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Did he run in the yard? OK, Teddy is running
the yard. You hear me? He's executive producing in prison.
Tell me more about his artists.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Now, there are multiple sources that tell NBC News that
he has contraband cell phones where he scrolls on Instagram
and he gets to scan nude. He allegedly gets to
scan nude and sexually explicit photos that an old girlfriend
sends him. He's been able to buy from other inmates
these like NCI depressant drugs, allegedly, that help boost your
mood and different effects.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
They call them rim roms. And that's how they're known
in the prison anyway.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
And then they say on the weekend, he often taps
into a secret stash that he has a premium liquor.
I saw some at one point in here. They point
to him. as a premium liquor that he gets to
dive into on the weekends.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I would not want to get drunk around no bunch
of mans.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
And they say it's snuggled in by the guards.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Okay. Allegedly.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Now, I know the contraband is illegal, but other than
the contraband, what is he doing that... illegal because it's
not illegal to have people cleaning your bathrooms and making
your bed and cooking food for you and giving you
nice Chinese massages.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
No, I don't think so either. I mean, I can't
answer that. I've asked a lot of questions. I'm not
mad at that part. Like, you're ditty.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Like, you're what, a billionaire close to a billionaire? You're
getting commissary and people are making your beds and making
you food that you usually wouldn't have.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
You just figured out a chain of command.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
You did.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
But the Hennessy and the phone, though, no, I'm not saying, no,
I don't think it is, but.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
The contraband is, though.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Yeah, but when it comes to.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
There's a video that NBC News obtained, and you see
Diddy in the video, and he is holding something that
looks like a cell phone in his hand, and they
say that it is a cell phone.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
That's what NBC News is alleging.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
And then they also mentioned they have a direct quote
from one of the guys that says that he drank
with Diddy and that it was Hennessy that was smuggled
in by one of the guards. And they say that
this is a rich lifestyle that he is living while
he's locked up.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Now, I think the only thing it could probably hurt
is appeal because it gives the impression that he thinks
he's above the law.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
It gives the impression that he thinks he's bigger. than
the program but I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Diddy's used to a certain lifestyle and why should prison
stop that lifestyle if he wants some strong man hands
rubbing him down giving him a Chinese massage prison is
a great place to find a pair of strong man
hands you know they.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Just did an update on when he's coming home it's
supposed to be the top of 2028 That mean it'll be...
It's a little bit more sooner than what we've been
talking about. It's like a few weeks earlier because we
were talking about February last time. When he comes home,
he's going to come find you. You keep making all
these jokes.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
But I don't think... I was making jokes and then
he was on the screen.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
But there's so many people in jail that have cell phones, right?
Speaker 7 (21:41):
We've seen the cell phone footage a lot when they're
in there, you know, doing TikTok dances or even talking
to friends.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
So you see that a lot. Yes.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
But my thing is the liquor, right? That's what he's
supposed to be. I thought he was supposed to be
stopping drugs, stopping drinking and all that sort of stuff.
I just hope he doesn't go down that wrong angle
with the drugs and everything.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And also.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
You know, when I go to massage parlor, I get naked.
You think Diddy get naked when he did the massage?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I did not get naked at the massage parlor. Why
are you getting naked at the massage parlor? I get
naked to get naked at the massage parlor. No, I
leave my briefs on. Why the hell would I get
butt naked at the massage parlor? I get butt naked
at the massage parlor.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
You a crazy guy.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
I thought guys did that.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Girls do it. Yeah, I get naked to get a massage.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
You have a girl or a guy masseuse?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
A woman.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Don't say a woman.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Like, I just wanted to know. That only happened one time.
And I'm not talking about that. What only happened one time?
A guy masseuse while you were butt naked? Chinese man massage.
It was a couple's massage. We got a source close
to Diddy right here. Go ahead, Envy. It was a
couple's massage. And, you know, you and your wife do
a couple massage together.
Speaker 13 (22:31):
And it was.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
One masseuse, he was supposed to teach you how to massage.
And it just, it was a man. By the way,
it's nothing wrong with that because you know, it's so funny.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
There's a double standard because athletes, when they're getting stretched.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Out and you know, people are rubbing on them.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It's always, it's always a male physical trainer for the
most part.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah. I don't know why people trip out when it's
a man.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
It's just a little bit more sensual when the lighting
is low and candles are lit and you use aromas
and smells. That's normally how massages, especially couple massages, and
there's petals everywhere.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
It's a little different.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
But I did speak to Diddy's rep and they say,
because I actually, you know, the cell phone, the Hennessy,
this could mess them up. But, you know, when it
comes to like the way that they're looking at him.
They said a continued scrutiny of every mundane detail of
Sean Combs' life in prison has reached the point where
the media characterized ordinary prison life as news. The only
real news is that Sean Combs continues to serve his
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sentence while awaiting the court's decision on his appeal. And
I did ask about how is there video footage of
him on a cell phone if nobody's supposed to have
cell phones?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Imagine telling on me for having a cell phone while
you record me with your cell phone.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
And they say that their assumption is that another prisoner
had a phone and sold this information to NBC News.
I also asked what reprimands do they expect to come
back on him for this? And they say they don't
know any reprimands and what that would be yet. They
don't know if the Bureau of Prisons is even going
to investigate it, but they will know in a couple
of days or in the coming days.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Them dudes that did the interview was whack too. Like
that's whack.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Like, y'all were all in there doing the same thing.
You get out now, you get a couple of dollars
a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
But they not diddy, though. They sound like the scrumptious
hoes that you probably ran through. The food look good, too.
Don't the food look good? Bring the food up on
the shelf. The food look good.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
So there are three different meals that there are photos
of that Charlamagne is talking about.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
The one on, is that that? Because that looked like
that lunchroom pizza we used to get. The pizza on
the right, yeah. The pizza looked good. And the rice
and chicken looked banging. Rice and chicken looked banging.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
And then that looks like a taco or burrito the
last time.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Taco Tuesday in jail?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah, so there's a quote in here or some information
in here about the food. Wait, it went down. Information
in here about the food. They say those payback homes.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Include a man who would clean his toilet and shower
areas before he used them and men who would secretly
cook him special meals. Curry chicken, pizza, empanadas using a
makeshift heating element submerged in water.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I ain't mad at that. Diddy running the yard, you
hear me?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
And one of the dudes, I was reading the article,
one of the dudes said he got tired of cooking
for Diddy, and so Diddy started going to the Jamaicans.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Yep, he said, after a while, I got tired of cooking,
and I got tired of preparing meals, so he went
to one of the other inmates.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
He started going to the Jamaicans.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
So Diddy got, he could get Jamaican food, he could
get American food, Spanish food, Italian food.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Imagine Diddy asking you to cook me something, and you say, what?
And he says, Jerk chicken.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
See? I can't cook that. I want my chicken jerked.
I can't cook that. That could mean a number of things.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I want my chicken jerked. Then you're going to wipe
me to dark.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Damn.
Speaker 14 (25:19):
God damn.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 11 (25:21):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
God damn.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Yo, he even got somebody.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
They say he even got somebody holding his phones for
him in his fan mail.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
That's Sean Cone. That's Diddy. Yo, listen.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
I can't hold his phone because if I get caught,
I just extra time.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You hold that down. Oh, he ain't getting no appeal.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
You ain't getting no appeal, though.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Not with this story. I'm telling you that right now.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
That is insane.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Allegedly, you still out here drinking Hennessy. You still doing drugs.
You got men jerking your chicken in prison. You going
to be in there until January 2028. This is the
type of story that messes up his.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Appeal, though.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
I mean, they have to investigate it, though, and see
what they can find to be true, including probably interviewing
some other inmates or prior inmates if they want to.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Ain't nobody about to tell them that they jerk diddy chicken.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Y'all crazy. That was the latest for the hour.
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You got Bad Boy for life, Diddy for life?
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Let's rock that.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
It's the Breakfast Local Morning. Morning, everybody.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I feel like you're celebrating him. I feel like you're
celebrating Diddy.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I think you should be encouraging Diddy to, you know,
use this opportunity of him being a way to really
do some rehabilitation.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
No, I agree.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Because nothing I heard in that news story, if it's true,
lets me... shows me that he's you know trying to rehabilitate.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Well the most the biggest problem to me is the
liquor right the drugs and the drugs those are the
two biggest things because that was part of the problem
where he said he was.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Doing some of the things that he was doing allegedly
allegedly remember he.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
Said the drug he was addicted to drugs is what
his attorneys were saying and if he's still there drinking
and allegedly using drugs that's.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
A problem unless you know prison is not really a
correctional facility like they're not correcting anything like you know
if somebody has a alcohol drug problem they need to
be getting help for their alcohol drug problem.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
If it is true. If it's true.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
I would hate to like you said I wanted to
see that brother come out and have a clear mind
and not still on drugs if that is the case.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
But anyway let's get in some front page news. All right,
WNBA playoffs.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
The Fever beat the Aces 99-89. Liberty beat the Lynx 87-71.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Now, I want you to know the Fever Aces is
a tough one to watch for me because, you know,
you got Raven Johnson and Aaliyah Boston who played for
the Fever.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Then you got Asia Wilson who plays for the Aces.
That's all South.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Carolina all day, the Gamecocks, right? But I love to
see Raven Johnson in there for the Indiana Fever. And
the Fever, do y'all see what happens when you play
Raven Johnson more? Good things happen, goddammit.
Speaker 13 (28:00):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Well, that series is tied 1-1. And like I said,
the Liberty wiped off the Lynx 87-71, 2-0. First time
that a No.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
8 seed has beat a No. 1 seed in the
WNBA playoffs. Now, also yesterday in baseball wildcard, the Yankees
beat the— what' s your team called?
Speaker 7 (28:17):
The Boston Red Sox 9-0. Hit a grand slam in
the fifth inning. They played amazingly, so salute to the Yankees.
And also in sad news, the Giants released Odell Beckham Jr.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yesterday.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
I didn't even see him really get a chance to play.
I think he had like one snap or two snaps.
He really didn't get an opportunity to play. And I
would have loved to see Odell Beckham play some ball
this year.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
But salute to Odell Beckham.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
I don't give a damn about what the New York
Giants do. But we are 2-1 in the top of
the NFC division.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Tallest midget. I just want to tell you that. What's up, Mimi?
Speaker 10 (28:49):
Good morning, guys.
Speaker 11 (28:50):
Front Page News is sponsored by Morgan & Morgan, America's
largest injury law firm. So we start this hour with
a very sad story out of South Los Angeles. A
19-year-old mother has been arrested for murder after her 4-year-old
baby girl was found inside a dumpster.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
The baby's name was Luna.
Speaker 11 (29:10):
Police say Luna was found Monday night by a woman
taking out the trash.
Speaker 10 (29:14):
She initially thought the baby was a doll.
Speaker 11 (29:17):
Luna was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
Her grandparents say they had baby Luna with.
Speaker 11 (29:26):
Them earlier that day, and they had been helping care
for this baby since she was just two weeks old.
The mother was having problems, you know, just caring for
the baby. And so the grandparents had kind of stepped in.
And earlier that day, the baby was with them. And
then later that night, that Monday night, they had dropped
the baby at home. Hours later, they saw a news
report about a baby found in a dumpster near the
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apartment where Luna and her mother were staying. And they
immediately rushed over. Luna's grandfather is now talking about the
moment he realized the news report could be his granddaughter.
Speaker 10 (30:00):
Let's listen.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
And I saved the area. They said they found the
baby in a dumpster. And red flags went up immediately.
And I woke Laura up. And Laura said, that's your house.
And I said, let's go over here and say about Luna.
And that was the sweetest little baby in the world.
To be found in a dumpster, a dirty dumpster. It
just broke my heart. I don't know what to do, man.
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I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I love it, baby. Like, why resort to that option?
I mean, clearly the grandparents cared for the child. You know,
you got adoption. You got safe surrender options. Like, there's
so much. Like, why? Why a dumpster?
Speaker 11 (30:38):
Like, why?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
And Mimi, also, I think you said four-year-old. You meant four-month-old.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Yes, four-month-old.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 22 (30:44):
Yep, four-month-old.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
That's horrible. So horrible.
Speaker 10 (30:48):
Yeah, very, very sad.
Speaker 11 (30:50):
Police later arrested Luna's mother, 19-year-old Takiyah Babbers, on suspicion
of murder.
Speaker 10 (30:57):
Her bail is set at $ 2 million.
Speaker 11 (30:58):
Police have not yet said how Luna died, and the
case is still under investigation. But LAPD has now officially
identified the victim.
Speaker 10 (31:08):
I know yesterday when.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I was following the story, there was some back and forth.
Speaker 11 (31:11):
Yes, she's a cutie, right? There was some back and
forth about... you know, identifying the baby. And one, one thing,
how the grandparents said that they knew it was their
baby is she was born with six toes. And that
was in the news report that, uh, the baby found
had six toes. And so that's how they, they knew
for sure, even though there was no identification made yet
that that was baby Luna.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I hate hearing stories like that because, you know, number one,
you hate what happened to the, you know, the young baby,
but also The fact that that young girl thought she
had no other option.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Right.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I promise you there was other options like that. That
was not that should not have been your plan and
your only plan.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (31:48):
And now to Florida, where a mother is accused of
leaving her four children home alone while she went on
a cruise to the Bahamas. She has now appeared before
a judge. Police say 29 year old Natalie Bellazari. She
went on a three day cruise and she was arrested
when she returned to Miami. She's now facing four counts
of child neglect. When the judge heard the details of
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the case, including just how young some of her children.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
Was, she had a lot to say.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Let's listen.
Speaker 16 (32:16):
It says she went on a cruise and left her
children home alone.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Including a two-month-old baby.
Speaker 16 (32:20):
She's going to drop them off at the mother's house,
but never did. These poor kids, four of them were
home alone for three days. I guess there's probable cause
for child neglect. We're just grateful nothing worse happened.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
To these kids. Judge Ms.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Belizer denies these allegations.
Speaker 18 (32:36):
Of course she does.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
One baby, the baby was born in July of this year.
Speaker 11 (32:40):
Jesus.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Who leaves a baby alone like that?
Speaker 5 (32:42):
You would agree to supervised visitation. I don't think I
want to do that.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Who leaves a kid.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Four little kids alone?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Judge, it's an allegation at this time. To go on
a cruise.
Speaker 16 (32:51):
They arrested her disembarking from the cruise ship.
Speaker 14 (32:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (32:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So I know one was two months old. What ages?
What kids do we know?
Speaker 11 (33:02):
I believe they range up to seven. I think the
oldest child was seven. I'm not sure of the individual ages.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah. Don't tell me she don't care.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I'm just looking at her mugshot and I'm saying to myself,
you know what?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
She's thinking about the good time she had on that
carnival cruise.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Look at her. Look at the mugshot.
Speaker 18 (33:18):
Look.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Put the mugshot back up. She don't care. Does she
look like she care?
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Now she got a 10.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
You see what I'm saying?
Speaker 5 (33:26):
She don't care.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
One of the brothers of one of the children said
the only way he knew that she was on a
cruise is he seen her posting it on social media.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
She was on InstaStory.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
That's crazy. Go ahead, Lois.
Speaker 10 (33:40):
I was going to ask mentally, where are these.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
What is the.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (33:50):
The father, as you were saying.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
You gotta be out your mind to do something to
these babies like that.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
You wanna hear that.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Whenever I hear Mimi report these stories, anybody report these stories,
I need to hear the other part.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
What was wrong with her? This wasn't just a regular human.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Was she on drugs?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Was she mentally ill?
Speaker 11 (34:07):
That's the question because right now people are still asking
that same question.
Speaker 10 (34:11):
Like what, what happened? What's wrong with her? You know,
it's right now, to be honest, it sounds like she.
Speaker 11 (34:16):
Just needed a break because no one has given a better,
you know, explanation for why she would go off and
leave her children like that.
Speaker 10 (34:22):
The father of the youngest child became concerned.
Speaker 11 (34:24):
He went to the house and he saw the TV
on her, the children inside too. So he called 911.
When the police got inside, they found all four children dead.
hiding in a bathroom together. There was no adult there.
She bonded out of jail. Her bail was set at $ 10, 000.
And she's been, you know, ordered no contact with the children.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
And authorities say those children are now in foster care.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
Yeah, that's weird because they said that she was supposed
to drop off at the grandmother's house, but she just
never got there. Something seems strange. There's no way that
you leave your two-month-old. In the hands of a seven-year-old?
To feed, to change the pimp? Like, what is going on?
That is insane.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
A two-month-old?
Speaker 10 (35:07):
Very, very strange. So we will continue to follow this.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Have me in here trying to figure out why people
are crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
But two-month-old? People are crazy. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 17 (35:15):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I mean, any age is crazy, but a two-month-old?
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Yeah, like that baby can't even sit up.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
No. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 10 (35:23):
Yeah, and how you feeding the baby.
Speaker 11 (35:24):
That's a breast, but I mean, I don't know if
she breast.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
You know what I'm saying, though?
Speaker 18 (35:27):
It could be formula.
Speaker 15 (35:27):
It could be formula.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Yeah, I wouldn't want none of that breast milk from
what I saw just now.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I already know what that type of breast milk breeds. Okay? Oh, goodness.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
All right, y'all.
Speaker 10 (35:39):
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Speaker 1 (35:47):
You couldn't leave with a positive story?
Speaker 7 (35:49):
I'm sorry, I tried to get to the positive story.
Speaker 10 (35:53):
I had one in the wings and we didn't get
to it.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Well, thank you, Mimi.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
We'll talk about it.
Speaker 7 (35:58):
Now, when we come back, Cynthia K. McWilliams will be
joining us. Of course, you know her from Average Joe
Season 2, streaming on Paramount. Also, Messy Lola is her
independent comedy drama series. We're going to talk to her next,
so don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Good morning.
Speaker 8 (36:12):
Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 7 (36:12):
It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are
The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is here as well. We
got a special guest in the building. You might know
her from Average Joe Season 2. Also, Messy Lola, Cynthia K.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
McWilliams.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I'm wonderful. Blessed and highly favored.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Blessed black and highly favored.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Black and highly favored. Ain't that right?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Hey, beautiful.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Lightly melanated, but hella black.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Right.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Who is Cynthia K. McWilliams, for those who don't know?
Speaker 5 (36:41):
First and foremost, I'm a storyteller more than anything. I'm
an artist.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
I am right now the comedic actress who plays on
average Joe opposite of the incredible Dion Cole. My amazing partner,
Malcolm Barrett, who plays my husband on the show. And
also Michael Trucco and an incredible group of people that
I think have made some really dynamic television that's streaming
on Paramount Plus right now. I'm also an executive producer
(37:07):
and the creator of Messy Lola.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
Yes, of Messy Lola.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
But you've definitely had a successful career.
Speaker 11 (37:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
So what's the difference between having a successful career and
I guess actually becoming a quote unquote star?
Speaker 6 (37:20):
Honestly, I think being a star has nothing to do
with success unless that's how you define success.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
But to me, having a successful career.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Is about first and foremost just having the audacity to
do it. Really, every one of us at one point
were kids thinking about doing things that seemed unimaginable.
Speaker 18 (37:42):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (37:42):
At the end of the day, I look around the
room and I'm like, These are people that I have.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Watched become who they are to the rest of America.
But you were always who you were.
Speaker 14 (37:53):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
You know?
Speaker 6 (37:54):
And so I think what's so dope about being successful
in a career like this is just the audacity to
dream it and then the consistency and commitment and discipline
to yourself to keep living it out.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
You know?
Speaker 5 (38:06):
That's success.
Speaker 8 (38:08):
You know?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
That's why.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
And then for anybody along the way who sees it,
who recognizes it, who's touched by it, who's inspired by it,
That's like the real success. I think all the time
about people who I grew up with in Kansas City or,
you know, people that really never thought they could that
just because I'm doing it, whether or not, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Like, again, star or not.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Because I'm doing it, it gives them the permission and
the belief that they can too, you know? Have you
always had that attitude about... your success and where you
are now? Because like real storytellers, you're like, people need
to get this.
Speaker 11 (38:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
And sometimes when people don't get it, it's like, I
know you're sensitive about your art. So has that always
been your mantra?
Speaker 5 (38:47):
I guess, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
I've definitely always been that way because again, if it's
about the story, if that's really what matters and there's
so many different ones, right?
Speaker 5 (38:53):
I also am from the theater.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
So, you know, that's one audience at a time.
Speaker 9 (38:58):
Right.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
Like it's a very different world. Like in the theater,
you're literally it's so present. It demands you to just
be there. And the only goal that night is literally
to just be present, be honest, moment to moment, line
to line.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
I'm there.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
I'm just here.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
I can't do anything about how the audience is going
to receive it at the end of the show. I
can't do anything about reviews are going to say like
that is the world that I really was trained in.
And that's about literally just in every moment, I need
to be listening.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
I need to be open.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
I need to be able to be ready for whatever
the next moment is. I guess that's really.
Speaker 6 (39:30):
How I just still perform period whether there's a camera
around or not I'm very much like I am interested
in the truth of this moment and living the most
whatever that thing demands of me as an actor living
the most joy or the most authenticity the most pain
whatever in a true.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
Moment like That's really it.
Speaker 6 (39:48):
And if I'm, I don't know, I just feel like, yeah,
that for me is, it's the best thing about being
an actor. I think so many people now think of
being an actor as being a star. But for me,
the best thing about being an actor is that it
is the art. of understanding yourself and humanity at the
same time.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
But your inspiration comes out of your theater, right, DePaul?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Yes, DePaul University.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
Theater kid, you grew up reading all these books.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I sure did.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
Grabbing all these images.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
I literally was a librarian. Yeah, that's a different type
of motivation. I worked in the, I don't want to
say a librarian. I worked in the library. Like I
had some sort of degree in it, no. I worked
in a library when I was young. And that's, I
literally did.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
I worked in the library. I stacked books, you know?
Speaker 6 (40:29):
So I know like the Dewey Decimal System. Like I
was in the 811.5, 812. That was like poetry and
prose and theater. And I was in there reading plays.
Like literally what you just said, I was reading those books.
Do you think that the motivations now, like how some
people are motivated by like social media and having following
or whatever, does that change the way that the artwork
is looked at or talked about?
Speaker 5 (40:48):
Oh, of course. I mean, you know, everything is changing.
Speaker 6 (40:51):
I mean, this is just a drastically changing media landscape
every day. So of course it changes things. social media
didn't exist when I was entering into this industry. And
I think about all of the women before me, you know, they're, um,
you know, the great Cicely Tyson, like you think about
what motivated people before there's always been the.
Speaker 5 (41:09):
Motivation to tell the stories.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
But of course, what now is the incentive is, um,
recognition and money, right? Those are, those are now the
things I think that draw people to the field more
is they want to feel, um, yeah, acknowledged. Uh, but
In a way, right, I still think about that as, yes,
we want the likes, we want the money, but really
(41:32):
that all still ties to, right.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
Don't it? That what you want is to be seen.
So it's still the same thing.
Speaker 6 (41:39):
I think every storyteller was still trying to make sure
that unseen people are seen, you know?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
You know, it's interesting what you said about social media
because I think about all of those women that you named, right?
Like everybody that, really just any woman that came before
social media. I feel like just human beings were able
to grow and evolve and become who they really are
destined to be prior to having all of these strangers'
opinions about them.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Like they didn't have all of these people telling them who.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
They're supposed to be. They were just able to figure
it out on their own.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
And maybe be able to figure it out on your
own opposite of people that mattered, right?
Speaker 5 (42:14):
Like it's like the.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
People that really, you.
Speaker 5 (42:17):
Know, that you had to judge.
Speaker 6 (42:18):
Like I remember my mom and dad, you know, I'm
very close with them and they would always say to me,
my dad, like when I would leave the house or
go out and do something, he would be like, if
you don't want it on the front page of your
local paper, don't do it.
Speaker 5 (42:30):
Like that was like a, you know.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Like just.
Speaker 6 (42:32):
The idea was that what you're living for is that
you don't want your parents to be disappointed. You don't
want your family to be disappointed. And you want to
make them proud, right? So it's the fear of like,
I don't want to disappoint my parents. I don't want
to disappoint my family. But also, I want to make
these people proud. That's who used to matter to you
because the world.
Speaker 5 (42:47):
I think about this a lot, too. This is crazy.
Speaker 6 (42:49):
This is a side venture. But, you know, the idea
that now I think... we all feel like we have
to be super wealthy or super successful. But going back, like,
I don't know, let's say 40s, 50s, right? Because we
didn't have an awareness of the world, your comparison was
really like your neighbor, right? So, like, coming up, if
you want, like, coming up was literally like, oh, shoot,
(43:09):
you looked over and, like, they might have got a
new car in their driveway. Or someone had a tire
swing out front, right? And it was like, oh, so
now the kids were like, well, they have a tire swing.
Why don't I have a tire swing?
Speaker 1 (43:20):
But.
Speaker 6 (43:20):
You could nip that in the bud right away and
just be like, why are you worried about having a
tire swing? Just go knock on Billy door and go
play on a tire swing because you knew your neighbors
and because that was really about it. So unless the
entire neighborhood suddenly had a new car and a new
tire swing, you didn't think about it. It wasn't bombarding
you in the same way. But now what's crazy is
(43:41):
the expectation. And this is what's insane to me is
that most of America, and we know this, we know
this to be true because of the nation we really
live in. Most of America is getting by, like barely
getting by. We are a fortunate group of people who
are just like living in what is most would consider wealth.
You know, we are a fortunate group of people doing that.
(44:02):
Most people do not have $ 1, 500.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
Saved up to be able to cover an emergency, right?
Speaker 6 (44:06):
And yet those people are really, instead of thinking about
how to cover that emergency, instead of thinking about groceries,
instead of thinking about things that really matter, right?
Speaker 5 (44:13):
They're having to deal with also somehow being on feeds
all day.
Speaker 6 (44:16):
That's telling them that they should have their face done
like you got done, right? And that they should be
able to be blinged out like you blinged out. And
that they should be able to have books and successes
like you have. Which is, we should be dreaming that.
But it's also okay to understand the gap. That like, yo,
everybody should not be expected to live this way.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
I don't know why you looked at me and couldn't
pick nothing physical.
Speaker 10 (44:40):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Just like them people.
Speaker 5 (44:43):
Also, you know, I don't really like to flirt with
married men like that. I don't play them games. You know,
I like to keep it real.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
It ain't nothing like that. Let's talk about Average Joe.
Speaker 5 (44:52):
Yes. Get into it.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (44:54):
Kathy Montgomery is Average Joe.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Ambitious, complicated, unapologetic.
Speaker 23 (44:58):
But what do you feel that the viewers misunderstand about
her character?
Speaker 5 (45:03):
The viewers right now, they hate me, don't they? Ooh,
they on the internet, cut me up.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
That's a little misunderstood.
Speaker 5 (45:08):
What you feel like they did wrong? Look, here's the thing.
I'm an actress, right? And so I got to love
my character.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (45:12):
Like, I mean, I'm an actress. First of all, I'm
just like, I'm an actress. People really don't like to
separate your character.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
For years when I.
Speaker 6 (45:18):
Was Trina Shaw, when I tell you folks would be
in the street.
Speaker 5 (45:20):
Like, Trina!
Speaker 16 (45:21):
Stop!
Speaker 5 (45:22):
But that means you're doing a good job.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 5 (45:25):
I'm like, hey, man, and they hate me right now.
And I'm like, that's great.
Speaker 6 (45:28):
That means I'm doing my job. But what I will
say is because it's my character and I love her,
I'm going to defend her. OK, because as an actor,
we got to fall in love with our characters. We
have to know who they are and see their points
of view. I just want to say one thing. Everybody
keep being like Kathy has a. In season one, everyone
loved Kathy, right? It was, that's my girl. She ride
(45:50):
or die.
Speaker 5 (45:50):
She's so gangsta. We love her, right?
Speaker 6 (45:53):
And in season two, they, hey, literally at the end
of season one, I don't know if y'all, I'm not
ruining it because most people, they've seen at least season one.
They might have caught up with two. But in season one,
when we thought she was dead, When I say people
was like, if Kathy died, I ain't watching this show
no more.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
I'm done.
Speaker 5 (46:08):
Now we cut to season two and people like, kill
this hoe. Kill this old light-skinned ass hoe.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
I always knew she was shit.
Speaker 5 (46:16):
And I'm like, yeah, I did.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Something happened when we thought she was dead.
Speaker 5 (46:20):
And I really sat up and thought about it. And
I said, you know what's interesting? She's always been nasty
mouth and nasty energy, really. I mean, I still think
she's funny, though. But what she was was loyal to Leon, right?
Speaker 11 (46:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (46:31):
Now, in season two, because people think she's not being loyal,
then they so ready to be done with her. My
thing is that she's a villain. She's always been a villain.
She's an anti-hero, you know what I mean? And I just,
what I find interesting about it is that people will
always champion you when you're loyal to others.
Speaker 5 (46:48):
But when you loyal to yourself... Ooh. They don't like that.
They don't like that. Spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
Spoiler alert.
Speaker 5 (46:56):
Spoiler.
Speaker 4 (46:57):
Spoiler.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (46:58):
So, y'all good? Y'all just cover your ears.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (47:01):
We coming right back.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (47:02):
So, in case you haven't watched.
Speaker 6 (47:04):
It yet, but in this last episode, everybody thought she
was throwing them to the wolves and putting them in prison.
She literally said, hey, man, I wasn't ever going to
leave you there.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
I was going to come back. She was not. She's not. Now, look,
does she serve herself?
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (47:19):
She has said from day one, episode one, I'm about
this money. I was always about the money. I married
this man because we were supposed to do something together.
But as we saw in flashbacks, this is what I mean.
Leon said this, our family. She never said that. Kathy said,
you my family. You're my husband. I've chosen you. And
for two seasons, she's been begging him to choose her,
(47:40):
and he keeps choosing his friend, which is hilarious to.
Speaker 5 (47:42):
Me that we all see that she's not loyal. That's
what we think. She's not loyal. And I'm like, they
said she was a gold digger.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Was she?
Speaker 6 (47:48):
Because the man lost his job, lost the hardware store,
lost the whole franchise, and.
Speaker 5 (47:52):
She's still been there. She ain't cheated on him. She
ain't left nowhere.
Speaker 6 (47:55):
So what she did was she was promised a certain life,
a certain thing. And even when she didn't get it,
she didn't abandon him. She's been with him. His friends
the whole time been calling her a bitch and a
hoe and everything else.
Speaker 5 (48:07):
And he's letting that happen.
Speaker 6 (48:09):
So I'm just saying that my argument would be that
actually Kathy has been faithful to him all along and
he has not been loyal to her.
Speaker 5 (48:18):
And she is about tired of it. But she still
is like, look, do you. You got a little soft heart.
I know you. It's okay.
Speaker 6 (48:25):
You go save your friend, be with your boy, do
what you got to do. But I'm going to go
get this money. And when I get it, I'm going
to come back and get you. I'll even let your
little friend out of jail too. But when we get
that money, we got to go and it's got to
be me and you. Because I'm tired of all this
talk about him and his family.
Speaker 5 (48:42):
And his daughter. That's not my family. And I think
for me.
Speaker 6 (48:46):
Kathy is just, she's someone who has always been who
she was, and she's shrunken herself a little bit. If
we remember on day one, when things started popping off,
she was the first one ready. She was shooting and
taking bodies on episode one.
Speaker 23 (48:59):
That's why everybody loved Kathy in the first season.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
Like, you were ride or die. You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (49:04):
You still are ride or die, but it was just.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
I don't know, it's a little fluff this season.
Speaker 23 (49:08):
And do you feel like the audience, they will judge
an ambitious woman differently than they judge an ambitious man?
Speaker 5 (49:13):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Here's what's crazy.
Speaker 5 (49:15):
Y'all, we have a villain this season. sepo sepo out.
Speaker 6 (49:17):
Here cutting off heads sepo out here drowning kids in
the pool do you know no one on the internet
is talking about sepo they are only talking about me
yes they judge a woman differently are you crazy like
a woman do she's all she's doing is trying to
get the money and get the money to give to
her she ain't trying to skip town on him She
wants more than anything for her and Leon to have
(49:39):
a chance to live a life. And also, look, I
will say this. She's also a little bit of a psychopath.
Let's not undermine that.
Speaker 5 (49:45):
Okay, thank you. She a little crazy. She's been a
little crazy. Leon was a little weird. Everybody a little weird.
Speaker 6 (49:50):
You know, I think the show is also about saying
it's average Joe, right? It's what happens if average people
get put into situations.
Speaker 5 (49:56):
And what do we say? You're going to find out.
Are you a Nat Turner?
Speaker 9 (49:59):
Right?
Speaker 1 (49:59):
Are you an Uncle Tom?
Speaker 15 (50:00):
Right.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Who are you?
Speaker 6 (50:01):
And I just think that, you know, are you the
godfather or are you Fredo? Kathy was just a different,
she cut from a different cloth. That actually she really
is good at being a criminal, whereas the rest of
them are kind of fumbling through it. She's always been
a little bit a step ahead of them. But she just,
I think, would love it if she could be a
(50:22):
criminal and if Leon would still love her. And so
it's two things. Again, I'm just an actress, so I
got to play what's true to me. And I really
have just found it wildly fun and interesting to play
a woman who loves her husband but is not a
lover girl.
Speaker 5 (50:39):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 23 (50:40):
Well, let's state her then. How much of Cynthia is
in your character? How much of you is in.
Speaker 5 (50:47):
If I say any, it's going to be.
Honestly, I feel like this is going to sound so terrible.
You said it was true to you. You got to
say it was true to you. I'm not a killer, obviously,
but honestly, Kathy is the closest to me than anything
I've ever played.
Speaker 1 (51:01):
You ain't no killer, so don't push it.
Speaker 5 (51:02):
That's all I'm saying. I ain't no killer. Don't push it.
Speaker 6 (51:07):
But again, Kathy is much more vicious than me. Also,
I just think all my life I've played a lot
of things that were very like lawyers and people who are.
Speaker 5 (51:15):
All put together.
Speaker 6 (51:16):
And I am not that person at all. I think
there's a public-facing version of me where people kind of...
You know, when I was working with Kevin, I remember
on our first season, at the end of Real Husbands,
and he met my husband.
Speaker 5 (51:32):
Kevin Hart. Yes, Kevin Hart.
Speaker 18 (51:33):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5 (51:33):
Kevin Hart, yes. And he met my husband, who is
now my ex-husband.
Speaker 6 (51:37):
Um who we will not mention but uh most people
know this again this is pretty public uh but my
ex-husband was in jail um and when i say in
jail i mean he was in jail before he became
my husband so yes i married the dude after he
got out um so there's a whole lot there uh
yes yeah honey i was with him the whole time
he was there i was with him before i was
with him before he went into jail i was with
him during the time he was in jail and i
was with him and then we married afterwards um in
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the end i should have known better like my mama
tried to tell me see parents My mama tried to
tell me, but what's funny is he was in jail
for basically being a con.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
And guess what, y'all?
Speaker 5 (52:08):
He turned out to be a con. Conned me into marriage. Anyway, so.
You real life ride or die?
Speaker 6 (52:15):
Honey, so that's what I'm saying. So what's funny is, like,
it actually. Y'all remember when I was on prison break?
I was also on prison break. That show was on
at the time I was going to visit him in jail.
And when I tell you the way them guards used
to mess with.
Speaker 5 (52:29):
Me, y'all, I used to get so much. They would
be like, oh, you coming to break them out?
Speaker 1 (52:36):
You coming to break your neck?
Speaker 5 (52:37):
Shut the, it'd be like, shut the up.
Speaker 6 (52:40):
Anyway, so yes, Kathy is probably the closest in the
sense that like.
Speaker 5 (52:45):
I don't, and again, I don't mean I'm a killer.
I don't mean I'm vicious. I don't mean, I just
mean that I am loyal. I think, let me say,
I'll say it that way.
Speaker 19 (52:53):
I am loyal.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
I was going to close, but I feel like you
got to take this opportunity to talk about Sin City.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
Oh, yes.
Speaker 5 (53:00):
Sin City Productions. It's my production company.
Speaker 8 (53:03):
Yeah, sure.
Speaker 5 (53:03):
I'll try to make it real quick.
Speaker 6 (53:05):
Sin City Production Company is an independent production company. I'm
out of Chicago. Chicago is where I went to DePaul.
It's where I started my career. And so it's where
I went back home.
Speaker 5 (53:13):
I left L.A. and I moved back home. And I
really decided that it was a place I could make
the most impact. In L.A., it's very hard to do
anything independently.
Speaker 6 (53:20):
I'm going to be super transparent too because I always
love to talk about money because I think that people
think they can't do things and I want to be clear.
Messy Lola is my first project. It's a 10-episode series
that's now on Roku. It's really hard to get an
independent scene by anybody, let alone the streaming. I have
no team behind me.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
I have no investors.
Speaker 5 (53:37):
This is 100% self-funded.
Speaker 6 (53:39):
And then what I learned from that was all of
the things that I could do to make that budget
go even further.
Speaker 5 (53:43):
My next project was Fried Catfish. We did it all
in Chicago, all Chicago locations.
Speaker 6 (53:48):
We worked very much with the Illinois Film Office, with
the SAG, with unions, WGA signatory. But really, and I
always say this, the bottom line is money is not
the resource. People are the resource. That you can get
anything done if you reach across, if you look at
your phone book and you realize that all your life
you've been creating and sowing seeds. Now, that's if you
are a person who's been sowing good seeds. Which is
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why I also say, and I warn against, sometimes people
be so busy trying to chase something that they forget
to sow any seeds along the way to plant anything.
Speaker 5 (54:16):
To support anybody else.
Speaker 6 (54:18):
You want the support and you look back and realize
I haven't showed up for anybody. And that's why nobody
showed up for you. Because I'm really fortunate to be
surrounded by so many incredible creatives. When I say each
one of these projects, I was able to call actors.
I didn't audition anybody. I knew exactly who to hire
because I know these people. I've been in the city
for years working, watching them work.
Speaker 18 (54:35):
Why?
Speaker 6 (54:35):
I hate when I have to go audition for something
that I'm like, I just played that character yesterday.
Speaker 1 (54:39):
You know?
Speaker 6 (54:40):
So I wanted to find writers like Kevin Douglas, who
created this incredible, funny, quirky show. who are pushing and
scraping and trying to make it and just say, I'm
going to hire you. I'm going to put a crew
together of people that might be like they're in the
union or they're outside of the union. They can't break
through because of gatekeeping. And I'm like, come get over
here on this set. On our set, we operate what
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one of my executive producers that works with me, Latarion Perry,
what we sort of created called a.
Speaker 5 (55:08):
Teaching set, like a teaching hospital.
Speaker 6 (55:09):
So our department heads are people who are like in
unions or who have experience.
Speaker 5 (55:13):
And then everyone underneath them is green.
Speaker 6 (55:15):
And we make sure then that you can come in
to get more black people, more brown people, more women
in positions that they don't often get to do. So
when you come and you do sound, you're going to
actually be able to, you know, you're going to get
up in here and not just mic me up.
Speaker 5 (55:25):
You're going to hold a boom. If you're a camera operator,
you're not just, you know, doing slate. You're going to
come touch this camera. We're going to get you in here.
You're going to work.
Speaker 1 (55:33):
Teaching them as well.
Speaker 5 (55:34):
Teaching them.
Speaker 6 (55:35):
And then also just giving them an opportunity to see,
but there's also a wildly active filmmaking community in Chicago already.
Speaker 5 (55:41):
Please do not make me sound like I have changed
the world or anything. They were there.
Speaker 6 (55:45):
I just wanted to galvanize, put people together, and get
some folks that maybe wouldn't have had an opportunity to
be in those opportunities.
Speaker 5 (55:52):
Sin City Studios. Sin City Studios. Now, Sin City Studios
is what evolved into Sin City Productions.
Speaker 1 (55:57):
So that's how it happened.
Speaker 6 (55:58):
I started because sometimes you don't know. You've got to
fail at a couple things to get it right. I
started just because I bought a building when I moved
back to Chicago because I believe in real estate. I
needed to live somewhere. And I always feel like if
you buy something, it's better to just have choices. Anywho,
I had this building. Eventually, I decided that the two
floors that were residential, we would instead of making it residential,
we would take this really creative thing we were doing.
Speaker 5 (56:18):
Well, we were just kind of like we were doing
so much. We were doing so much. But we were.
Speaker 6 (56:22):
Doing like experimental, creative campaign ads, editorial shoots.
Speaker 5 (56:30):
We had an amazing photographer. We had a hair and
makeup team.
Speaker 6 (56:32):
We had videographers. And then we expanded and we got
these podcast studios. And we were doing a bunch of stuff.
But I was kind of throwing spaghetti at the wall,
you know, but again, sometimes God, you just, and I
really think to this day, you don't even know what
you're doing.
Speaker 5 (56:45):
But if you're operating in the will of God, it's like,
it'll work itself out.
Speaker 6 (56:48):
And I really just, what I realized is that the
business kind of wasn't right for Chicago.
Speaker 5 (56:52):
The market, they didn't have enough creatives that were real.
Speaker 6 (56:55):
Willing to invest in their um careers and like the
media behind you know what I mean they weren't willing
to do that uh in a way that could sustain
our business so I was putting a lot of money
into something that wasn't bringing a lot of money out
but then I realized look if I'm gonna go broke
you know doing something let me at least do it
so that I have product at the end so then
I decided what was crazy anyways I go well Cynthia
you are an actress and you're a storyteller and you're
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a writer and you're a thinker and you're a director
and you've been you've left your field to kind of
basically I wanted to fill the gap for the things
I didn't have in my career right I was like
as an actor there were things I had always wanted
I wanted a place that I could go to where
someone could help advise my career could come up with
strategies for publicity could help me with hair and makeup
and styling. Like I wanted a one sort of house
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place where I could do that. I thought that would
be great for actors, right? Where you go one place
and like, we can take all of your brand and
elevate it in every way, you know, whether that, and
help you with media training and just any and everything
that you needed.
Speaker 5 (57:51):
It was a great idea.
Speaker 6 (57:52):
It just didn't suit my market. But then I thought,
I still got all these amazing people though. I had
all these amazing people. And from that, it was like, literally,
I looked to my left and my right and I said,
Why am I doing everything other than the thing that
I actually do for a living? And then I just said,
so Sensity Creative became Sensity Productions. We did not know
what was going to happen.
Speaker 5 (58:12):
We just went. I didn't wait. I didn't consult. And
sometimes that's a fail on my part because I move fast.
I do. I also, though, move with inspiration. And attention.
An intention.
Speaker 6 (58:23):
And sometimes that means, you know, I might mess up
a contract. I might fail at a thing.
Speaker 16 (58:27):
I might.
Speaker 5 (58:28):
I'm just I'm gonna make mistakes. I'm gonna make mistakes.
Speaker 6 (58:30):
But I really try to be like, hey, I'm OK
with making mistakes. As long as what I'm also making
is a possibility. You know, I want to make space
for more instead of I hate when people say what
can't happen. I feel like let's not talk about what
we can't do. Let's talk about what we can't do
and how we can do it. So we gathered together.
We did that first production.
Speaker 5 (58:50):
We learned an enormous amount.
Speaker 6 (58:52):
And then very quickly after, I did my first feature film,
which was my directorial debut.
Speaker 5 (58:57):
Got the chance to work with my very dear friend,
Terry Vaughn. Oh, I love her. Yes, Terry Vaughn and
I play besties in this movie.
Speaker 6 (59:05):
And it's a rom-com that is a rom-com that turns
on its head. You know, every rom-com is about some
woman trying to find a man again.
Speaker 5 (59:10):
Get married.
Speaker 6 (59:10):
This one is about a woman who is married who's
trying to get rid of her husband. And she catfishes
him in order to get rid of it. And it's
black people, so we called it fried catfish.
Speaker 5 (59:17):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (59:20):
So that's that movie.
Speaker 5 (59:21):
And that's our second project.
Speaker 1 (59:22):
We're done.
Speaker 6 (59:22):
We're in post right now. So in less than a
year and a half, we have gotten two really incredible projects,
not just ideated, but actually completed. And most importantly, we
finished it and we got it to streaming. And we
did that with no marketing, no money, really outside of
our original budget, no team. I really just because Chicago loves,
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you know, loves us down.
Speaker 5 (59:47):
And then we have spread from there. And now we're
out here. We're streaming.
Speaker 6 (59:50):
And so I really just again, I mean, when I
say like this does come to us, meaning just that
I am self-funded.
Speaker 5 (59:57):
I really did go broke doing. I put all of
my money into this. I invested in myself, but it's
not myself.
Speaker 6 (01:00:05):
I invested in what I really believe so many people
around me are capable of. I invested in people the
way I always wanted somebody to invest in me.
Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
Well, congratulations, Cynthia.
Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
And others.
Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
Cynthia K. McWilliams, it's The Breakfast Club. Thank you for
joining us.
Speaker 5 (01:00:19):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Let's get to the latest with Lauren. What you want
to know?
Speaker 4 (01:00:25):
The latest with Lauren LaRosa.
Speaker 5 (01:00:27):
Because you particularly are bringing the energy to mainstream radio,
the black radio.
Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
That source is trusted. Did you hear that exclusive? Lauren,
I'm the.
Speaker 5 (01:00:33):
Homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everything.
Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
She be having the latest on things.
Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
You ask the questions that need to be answered.
Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
On The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 5 (01:00:41):
If little brown girls look at you and go, I
want to be like you.
Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
LL Cool B. Talk to me.
Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
All right, y'all.
Speaker 6 (01:00:47):
So let's get into a conversation that Charlamagne had on
The Pivot.
Speaker 12 (01:00:52):
What?
Speaker 9 (01:00:52):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
Yeah, you were on the pivot, but the guys were
on the pivot.
Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Who's my guys? Ryan, Clark, Channing, Crowder, and Fred Taylor, man.
Drop on the clues box for the pivot.
Speaker 16 (01:01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:01:01):
So I thought that this was a great conversation. It
was about all things about business, about ownership. But one
of the things that you got into, I thought was
worth bringing back in here for conversation. They asked you
about Colin Kaepernick. And this came during a conversation where
they were talking to you about choosing when and when
not to have certain conversations or say certain things. And
(01:01:22):
they specifically talked to you about the fact that. It
seems like you've been calling things out from the other side,
from the Roc Nation, Jay-Z side of things. So let's
take a listen to CTG on Colin Kaepernick and Jay-Z.
Speaker 19 (01:01:35):
When Fred started the last question, he mentioned Colin Kaepernick.
You mentioned something about the Jay-Z and reaching out and
some of those things.
Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
And you seem to be in the know a little
bit more.
Speaker 19 (01:01:46):
How did you come to the decision that, OK, I'm
going to share this piece of the information I have?
Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Only because of what you just said.
Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
When you see certain conversations happening and you have more information,
like you was front and center for a lot of things,
I think it is important just to be like, that
didn't quite happen in that way. Because I don't want
to see Colin get thrown under the bus. I don't
want to see Jay get thrown under the bus. But
I don't want to see them throwing each other under
the bus either. A lot of the conversations that are
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happening right now, especially over the past week with the
book promo, They've been a little disingenuous. A lot of
that didn't go the way Colin said it went. It's
not as nefarious as it's being made out to be
as well.
Speaker 6 (01:02:31):
So what's missing from the things that Colin Kaepernick, we're
hearing him say in these interviews, because he's talking about
Jay-Z because Jay-Z is a part of his book, The
Perilous Fight, right?
Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
What is missing?
Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
I don't.
Speaker 11 (01:02:46):
Know.
Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
I don't speak for anybody but myself.
Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
I'm only speaking on what I know and what I've
seen with my own eyes and heard my own ears.
Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
Right. So and I talked about it.
Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
I said that, you know, one of the one of
the things is when Jay-Z did the freestyle and everybody
act like he commented on Colin unprompted as if. colin's
team hadn't been going at jay for.
Speaker 7 (01:03:06):
You yeah they said colin wasn't saying anything and that
jg just poked the bear out for.
Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
No reason there's additional hold on but let's take a
listen to ctg on colin kaepernick's team talking it's just
a lot in that whole scenario i think that a
lot of people don't know and it's because you don't
hear too much from jay and rock nation they're not
going to acknowledge it you know they're not even going
to going to speak on it, which gives a lot
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of other people the opportunity to say one side and
then everybody focuses on that one side. And if you
don't have no other side to base it on, you
just be like, well, what that person's saying sounds true.
Speaker 19 (01:03:43):
And I think for the longest time, no side spoke.
Because he was quiet for a very long time. Like
you say, Roc Nation and Jay continued.
Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Well, he was quiet, but not the people around him.
So it's like even when people talk about, you know,
the freestyle that Jay-Z did, he.
Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
Was responding to Colin's team, to Nessa. You know what
I'm saying? Like they were the ones talking and saying things.
Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
And, you know, like, you know, you had people from
her radio station going on rants about it. So he
was replying to that. It's not like it just came.
Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Out of nowhere, unprompted.
Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
And the only thing I will add to that is
that Colin also spoke about Jay and his book.
Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
If you've read the book.
Speaker 5 (01:04:20):
The Perilous Fight.
Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
And advanced copies of that book went out months ago.
Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
And they asked Roc Nation for a quote months ago.
And Roc Nation never gave one. But I guess, you know,
what he put that freestyle might have been a quote.
Speaker 5 (01:04:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:04:34):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Yep. And that's just me.
Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Listen, once again, I don't speak for anybody but myself.
I'm only speaking what I know.
Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
And I know a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
And I could say a lot more. I mean, I
don't think I don't think there's a reason to. I
think that, you know, I would love to see both
parties sit down at the table and, you know, have
a real conversation.
Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
And let's just move.
Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
Why hasn't that happened?
Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Well, you said they tried.
Speaker 7 (01:04:57):
They tried and they didn't want to have a conversation
that happened.
Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
No, no, no. Like I said, one side wanted to
have a conversation. Colin did not.
Speaker 5 (01:05:07):
But now, right?
Speaker 6 (01:05:08):
We don't hear from Colin Kaepernick directly all the time,
but his book is out. He's talking about it. I
know it hit the bestsellers list. He's having the conversations.
Why not sit down and have the conversation with Jay-Z
so that as we were talking to you about these things,
it's updated and it's here and it's now in the
time that like we're talking about right now.
Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Because maybe he's not really interested in having a conversation.
Maybe he'd rather sell the book.
Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
I'll be honest. I don't care. I think they could
do some really good things together.
Speaker 7 (01:05:34):
There's so much going on that that We'll be better
if they work together. But the fact that they don't
want to work together, we're talking about a lot of
things that who cares? Like they don't F with each other.
They look at things differently. But there's so much more
to attack when it comes to this world. We got
midterms coming up. We got the fact that they're taking
so much away from us. Gas prices are high. Grocery
prices are high. We're still getting shot and attacked at
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alarming rates. It's so much more.
Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
To talk about.
Speaker 7 (01:05:58):
And I feel like we lose the positive stuff that
both of those brothers doing.
Speaker 5 (01:06:01):
Use the plot.
Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
There's bigger issues to be to focus on.
Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Correct. Absolutely. I completely agree.
Speaker 6 (01:06:09):
Well, make sure you guys go and check out that conversation.
It is now live on the Pivots Netflix. So go
check that out. And we'll bring some back in our
overtalk as well, too, because you had just some good
life stuff that I think would be good talking.
Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
About as well. I've been alive since 1978. I've lived
a little.
Speaker 5 (01:06:22):
We know you predate the Internet.
Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
You know, definitely.
Speaker 9 (01:06:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:06:26):
That empathy, the honesty without empathy. And we'll get into
it later. I thought that that was one of the
best things I've heard you say. You say a lot
of dumb things, but that was good.
Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
Excuse me?
Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
That was the latest for the hour, guys.
Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
All right. Who are you giving your donkey to, Charlemagne? Man,
four after the hour, man.
Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Something happened yesterday between the United States Senate and the
White House. I just think it's an interesting juxtaposition that
happened yesterday between the Protect College Sports Act And the
fact that the president wants these technocrats to police themselves.
Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
But we'll discuss for after the hour. All right. We'll
get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (01:06:57):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (01:06:58):
Your execution on the donkey of the day is something
to behold.
Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Is it a read?
Speaker 5 (01:07:02):
He gave me donkey of the day and I deserve it.
Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
You need to know.
Speaker 5 (01:07:05):
Well, you need to tell them.
Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
I am.
Speaker 8 (01:07:07):
You have the voice.
Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Tell them.
Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
It's time for donkey of the day.
Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
It's a read, but you're so good at it. You're
trying to be a fake ass Charlemagne.
Speaker 8 (01:07:16):
You're the only one Charlemagne to go.
Speaker 13 (01:07:17):
Charlemagne.
Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
Damn, Charlemagne, who you give a ducky of the day
to now?
Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
Well, donkey of the day for Wednesday, September 30th is
the double donkey.
Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
It's going to both the United States Senate and the
White House because yesterday the Senate passed the Protect College
Sports Act 77 to 22, which establishes a uniform federal
framework to regulate NIL compensation, transfers, eligibility in college athletics. Yes,
transfers and eligibility in college athletics. Okay, let's go to
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CBS News for the.
Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
Report, please.
Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
The bill as amended is passed. A bipartisan victory scored
in the U.S. Senate.
Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
It is about making sports about sports again.
Speaker 24 (01:07:58):
After an overwhelming vote to pass the Protect College Sports Act.
Speaker 8 (01:08:03):
Yet the system we have today is unsustainable, plain and simple.
Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
Students are transferring three and four times.
Speaker 6 (01:08:10):
Pros are trying to play ball against college kids.
Speaker 24 (01:08:13):
The legislation would implement new national standards for college sports.
That includes codifying the rights of student-athletes to earn money
from their name, image, and likeness, permitting up to five
years of eligibility to play, but only allowing them to
transfer schools once. and capping agent fees. The bill is
backed by some of the biggest names in sports, from
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coaches like Nick Saban and John Calipari to athletic conferences
and professional sports leagues.
Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
This is a hastily done bill.
Speaker 24 (01:08:43):
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, a former Stanford football player,
is one of several lawmakers who oppose the bill.
Speaker 13 (01:08:49):
There needs to be rules of the road. It can't
be the wild, wild west out there. But you can't
have wealthy interests and Congress making a deal that the
actual player are not a part of.
Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
Now, meanwhile, yesterday, the White House had some of the
biggest technology companies in the world, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic,
all of them agreed to basically police themselves when it
comes to artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
Let's listen to President Trump discuss. They're really going to
be policing each other.
Speaker 9 (01:09:17):
It's going to be very, very safe. And there's a
self-policing and there's also a group policing.
Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
And it's going to be great. Now, think about that
for a second.
Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
The people who built the A.I., who are now admitting
to us that technology can behave in ways they didn't
intend it to. OK, they're telling us AI could be dangerous.
We are now supposed to trust those same companies and
those same people, the police themselves. OK, we really think
we can trust those companies to put safety.
Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Over growth, a.k.a.
Speaker 8 (01:09:47):
Money.
Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
OK, now I'm not the highest grade of weed in
the dispensary or the strongest Avengers.
Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
So, America, let me see if I understand this correctly.
Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
A 19-year-old wide receiver gets an NIL deal and Washington says,
slow down, we need some rules around this. But some
of the richest corporations on planet Earth are building AI
that even the people developing it acknowledge can potentially destroy
us all.
Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
And we just trust them to not let things get
too crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
And yes, I know the agreement calls for outside audits
and I know there are internal controls. I know there's
going to be board oversight, but that's not my point.
My point is the agreement is voluntary. OK, President Trump
himself called it self-policing. When is letting powerful corporations police
themselves ever been the gold standard for protecting the public?
There is a reason independent regulation exists, because it's always.
Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
A conflict of interest.
Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
And there is no bigger conflict of interest than telling
companies that spend hundreds of billions of dollars that are
all racing each other to build the most powerful AI
systems in the world. Hey, you guys determine whether you're
being safe enough. I don't see how you can improve
the intelligence of AI and improve the safeguards at the
same time. We have no evidence that the safeguards can
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keep winning that race. But then on the other hand,
Congress looked at college sports and suddenly discovered the importance
of enforceable federal rules. Now, I'd like to be fair. OK,
everything in the Protect College Sports Act isn't bad. There's
protections for athletes in there. There's health care protections, protections
for scholarships, protection from predatory agents. You heard in the
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news report they have federal NIL rights. They got revenue sharing.
Speaker 17 (01:11:22):
Great.
Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
Protect the athletes. I'm all for that. But here's where
the BS starts. I was born in 1978.
Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
And for as long as I can remember, everybody around
college athletes was making money.
Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
Universities, coaches.
Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
Conferences, TV networks, apparel companies all made billions of dollars.
Everybody could participate in capitalism except the people putting their
bodies on the field. And when that was happening, nobody
was screaming, we got to get this money under control. OK,
then NIL happens. Players get some power. Revenue sharing happens.
Athletes start making money. And suddenly Washington says we need
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federal legislation, a.k.a. it's too many Negroes making money. Let's
get this under control. OK, it's no secret that.
Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
A lot of the young men.
Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
Benefiting from this new college sports economy, especially in football
and basketball, are black. And I can't factually say that
the 77 United States senators voted for this bill because
they saw young black.
Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
Men making money.
Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
You know, I can't factually ask that, but I can
ask a question. And the question is simply, why does
America's appetite for regulation seem to change depending on who
has the leverage? When the labor gets leveraged, Congress has
to get involved, okay? It has to be regulations. But meanwhile,
some of the most powerful corporations humanity has ever created
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are developing technology that could change employment and warfare, education,
and damn near everything else about how we live.
Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
And we're talking about a morally binding agreement.
Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
What humans break morally binding agreements every damn day that's
why we have contracts that's why we have laws that's
why we have regulators and i'm not anti-ai okay i
use ai i'm investing in ai companies i just want
real oversight okay if the people building the technology are
telling us the technology is becoming more powerful shouldn't the
public have somebody at the table whose only responsibility is
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protecting the public And that's what.
Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
Makes today's double donkey so ridiculous. I'm watching Washington apply.
Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Two completely different philosophies at the exact same time.
Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
College athletes, we need federal rules. Trillion dollar technology companies,
we trust you guys. Okay, no.
Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
If anything, my instinct would be the opposite. The greater
the power... the greater the independent oversight should be. Because
the real question isn't whether America believes in regulation. The
question is, who does America believe needs regulating? OK, because
apparently if you're 19 years old and can run a
4-3-40 and somebody wants to give you a couple million dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
Because you're good at football or basketball, Washington needs to
keep an eye on you. But if you're worth hundreds
of billions of dollars, trillions.
Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
And you're building technology powerful enough that the people creating
it are telling us can kill us all.
Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
We just trust you. We just trust that you'll promise
to behave.
Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
Please let Remy Ma give the United States Senate and
the White House the biggest hee-haw.
Speaker 5 (01:14:24):
Hee-haw, hee-haw.
Speaker 23 (01:14:26):
You stupid mother f * * * er.
Speaker 5 (01:14:27):
You dumb.
Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
Crazy world we're living in, man. It is. It is
a crazy world. Come on.
Speaker 5 (01:14:33):
You're going to need some water for that. The water's
almost gone.
Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
What'd you say?
Speaker 5 (01:14:38):
He's eating a muffin.
Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
He can't even talk.
Speaker 5 (01:14:39):
And it's like a thick muffin. He's eating a lot
of it at a time.
Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
He's... I know somebody got me in their phone under
that name, too. What? Thick Muffin.
Speaker 5 (01:14:49):
Do you know what?
Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
I know it.
Speaker 5 (01:14:50):
That is a great Aunt Muffin.
Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
I'm sure he does.
Speaker 7 (01:14:53):
I'm sure he does.
Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
You give Auntie Muffin.
Speaker 5 (01:14:55):
I cannot call you Auntie Thick Muffin.
Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
I'm sure there's a dude out there that got you
under the phone Thick Muffin. Just make sure the first
and stick last name is Muffin. Okay.
Speaker 17 (01:15:03):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (01:15:04):
Let me change the name.
Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
Of my phone. Thick Muffin. Do not put him under
your phone as Thick Muffin. All right?
Speaker 7 (01:15:09):
Yes, I am. Thank you for that donk of the day. Now,
let's open up the phone lines. 800- Five, eight, five, one, oh, five, one.
Savannah James was doing a podcast. They were talking about
the way that they travel, right?
Speaker 6 (01:15:20):
Well, they were Savannah James and her podcast co-host, her
best friend. They were on the boardroom. They were doing
an interview because they have a podcast and they brought
up the conversation that they've had on their podcast about
how they travel.
Speaker 22 (01:15:32):
My friends are very respectful of my situation.
Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
OK, all of them.
Speaker 22 (01:15:36):
Like, I've never had an instance like that one time.
Speaker 20 (01:15:40):
And I think that they are, you know, if I'm like,
we're going somewhere, they already understand what it is. There's
no expectation of like taking care of something or, you know,
just having me be.
Speaker 21 (01:15:50):
Responsible for them. There's two different lifestyles that exist. Like
we're not delusional to that. And I think accommodating, like
even if we're going on the same trip, I don't
feel the need to be in first because that's not
in my budget. Like, so we always laugh about it.
And we actually talked about it on our pod about, That's.
Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
A good friend.
Speaker 5 (01:16:10):
I don't feel the need.
Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
I respect that. Well, let's open up the phone lines.
Speaker 14 (01:16:14):
800-585-1051.
Speaker 6 (01:16:14):
Salute to April McDaniel.
Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
That's a good friend there.
Speaker 7 (01:16:20):
Are you responsible to fund your friends' financials if you're
in a different financial class? You heard her saying they
were going on a trip. One is sitting first class.
One is sitting in the back. Are you expected to
cover your friends financially if you earn more? People were
getting on Savannah James talking about, well, you're a billionaire and.
Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
You should be able to do it. Let's discuss. Oh, God.
Let's discuss. We'll take your phone calls when we come back.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 7 (01:16:41):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
Morning, everybody.
Speaker 7 (01:16:53):
It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
We are The Breakfast Club. Lola Rose is here as well.
Speaker 7 (01:16:59):
If you're just joining us, we're opening up the phone
line 800-585-1051.
Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
And we're talking about Savannah James. Break down a conversation
that she had on the boardroom.
Speaker 6 (01:17:07):
Yeah, so Savannah James and her co-host from her podcast,
April McDaniel, they do the Everybody's Crazy podcast. They were
on Boardroom during the interview, and they were talking about
how they travel and how it's different because Savannah, you know,
flies first class and April doesn't. And people were really
pissed off at Savannah for this being the conversation, for
how they travel.
Speaker 5 (01:17:27):
Let me have the audio.
Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
Let's hear it.
Speaker 22 (01:17:28):
My friends are very respectful of my situation.
Speaker 14 (01:17:31):
Good. Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:17:32):
All of them.
Speaker 22 (01:17:32):
Like, I've never had an instance like that one time.
Speaker 20 (01:17:36):
And I think that they are, you know, if I'm
like we're going somewhere, they already understand what it is.
It's no expectation of like taking care of something or,
you know, just having me be responsible for them.
Speaker 21 (01:17:47):
There's two different lifestyles that exist. Like we're not delusional
to that. And I think accommodating, like even if we're
going on the same trip, I don't feel the need
to be in first because that's not in my budget.
Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
So people were saying that Savannah should pay for it.
She's a billionaire. She should have it. That's her best friend.
That's our co-host.
Speaker 16 (01:18:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:18:06):
And I, but I saw, and I think bringing up
the podcast thing, it doesn't work in this scenario because
they referenced the fact that like, this was, this is
like them traveling leisurely. And they talk about a time on,
they've talked about this on their podcast. They went to
Japan one time and Savannah flew first class and April didn't,
but April made her way to first class and they
were in the same, like lay flat bed.
Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
You, I, why am I responsible?
Speaker 5 (01:18:27):
If you decide that you want to come on a trip, like,
Even if I initiate the trade.
Speaker 7 (01:18:31):
I don't think you're financially responsible for your friends at all.
Like you said, there's different classes. If you can afford it,
that's cool. And nobody can tell Savannah James what she's
doing with her money.
Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
She's a billionaire. We see the numbers.
Speaker 7 (01:18:43):
You don't know what she's doing, what she's investing in,
what she has, or how her money set up her
kids and none of that that's her money and nobody
could tell that person and by the way a first
class trip the first class flight to japan could be
twenty thousand dollars so it can be twenty thousand dollars
so that's how i feel you can't tell somebody and
her friend shouldn't be entitled which she's not she understands
no this is my life this.
Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
Is how high this is how what i make This
is how I travel.
Speaker 6 (01:19:06):
If they were traveling for the podcast, I think you
would try to work it out in the budget of
whoever bringing y'all somewhere where both of y'all could fly
first class.
Speaker 5 (01:19:13):
But if you had to pick and choose... I don't know.
That's a whole different conversation. I don't even know if
it even makes sense.
Speaker 7 (01:19:18):
I don't think it's a different conversation. If somebody is
paying me to go somewhere, right, and I can afford
first class, I'm going to fly first class. Like, in
a couple of weeks, I have to go to China, right?
First class is expensive as ish. I got people coming
with me. They're not flying first class. There's no way
I'm spending $ 20, 000 on first class tickets. I got six
kids and families to take care of.
Speaker 5 (01:19:38):
No, it's not happening.
Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
That's just me personally. Yeah, I mean... That's me personally. Now,
if I could afford it and I had it, then
maybe I would, but.
Speaker 24 (01:19:45):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (01:19:46):
I mean, you're going to say I'm counting her pockets,
but Savannah, they got it.
Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
Oh, Savannah definitely got it. But, I mean, I don't
think it's a matter of if she got it or not.
Can't count that money, though.
Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
I think the reality of the situation is I'm that friend,
especially in regards to work, right? If it's work-related, you know,
if I'm in first class, the person traveling with me
is going to be in first class. You know, whatever
hotel I'm staying at, that person is going to stay at.
But I've definitely seen where that can breed a sense
of entitlement. Now, there's another caveat to this conversation that
I didn't hear in this clip. I don't know if
it was discussed. On this podcast, I've never listened to
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their podcast. If Savannah told her friends, hey, we're going
to Japan, I'm just basing this off how I roll,
how I roll when it's vacation. I'm the type of person,
when I go out of the country, I'm going to
rent a big place. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
And we'll invite our friends and our family, and they
pay for their way to get there. You know what
I'm saying? And if they pay for their way to get.
Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
There, I don't hear nobody talking about the fact maybe
Savannah already got a house rented for them in Japan,
so when they land in Japan, she don't got to
do nothing. You know what I'm saying? I'm sure when
she gets to Japan, her and Savannah stay in some
house and they got the butlers and the maids.
Speaker 5 (01:20:49):
And the food is taken care of. She's going to
have to stay a certain way, Savannah James.
Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Absolutely. And I'm only basing that on how I roll.
Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
When I go on vacation and I'm out the country,
I've usually written a house or something and I invite
my friends and my family and however they get there
is how they get there.
Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
But when they get there, they good.
Speaker 4 (01:21:08):
I see.
Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
I'm the same.
Speaker 7 (01:21:09):
Even when I go on, when I go on vacation,
I do the same. Even when I do my car
shows and I do it in different cities, you get there.
Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
Ben's got your hotels. Just get your information. We take
care of everything else. Just get there. And I don't
know how you flying there.
Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
And if we're on the same plane, like, and this is,
by the way, this has happened. If we're on the
same plane, and me and my family in first, does
it matter?
Speaker 17 (01:21:30):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
If you're not in first? Because once we land, you're
coming to the house. You ain't got to pay for
no food.
Speaker 1 (01:21:36):
You're good. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 5 (01:21:38):
I get what you're saying, but I think when people
look at this, they're like.
Speaker 6 (01:21:42):
Because in the original clip from their podcast, I didn't
listen fully. I only saw the clip where they posted
about the Japan trip. It was a trip that Savannah
wanted to go on.
Speaker 5 (01:21:51):
And April said.
Speaker 6 (01:21:53):
She ain't need to be spending no money going to Japan,
but Savannah wanted to go. So it's like, all right,
we out.
Speaker 7 (01:21:56):
So sometimes you just got to say no to like, nah,
it ain't my budget.
Speaker 1 (01:21:59):
I can't tell you. I bet you any amount of money.
And I have not looked at that podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
I bet you when they got to Japan, Savannah already
had them a place to stay. She probably had all
her friends staying in that place. And I guarantee you
she footed that bill.
Speaker 7 (01:22:11):
Savannah ain't obligated to pay anybody's check but her family's,
in my opinion.
Speaker 6 (01:22:15):
Well, the people was like, this is why she don't
need a podcast. She need to just sit pretty because
she looks like a mean girl because she not paying
for her friend to be.
Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
In first class. But I guarantee you there's more to
this story. I guarantee you when they got to Japan,
she was good.
Speaker 5 (01:22:30):
I'll go to the original and see.
Speaker 1 (01:22:32):
Hello, who's this? This is Tyrone. How you doing? Good morning. Tyrone,
what's up, brother?
Speaker 14 (01:22:37):
Not much.
Speaker 15 (01:22:37):
I was just calling on that topic, and I think
that a person who thinks that a friend of theirs
is obligated to finance them because they're a billionaire, they
have bad motives.
Speaker 18 (01:22:47):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (01:22:48):
I agree.
Speaker 18 (01:22:49):
I don't think just because you have money that.
Speaker 8 (01:22:52):
That makes that, you know, you don't have to take.
Speaker 18 (01:22:54):
Care of somebody else's financial obligations.
Speaker 17 (01:22:57):
That's not part of being a friend.
Speaker 1 (01:22:58):
I agree with you. Thank you, brother.
Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
And it's all, and I hate to say it like this, man,
but boy, it's a lot of backseat drivers in these conversations.
Speaker 1 (01:23:05):
You're always trying to tell people what they should be
doing with their money. Absolutely. Like, you don't know what,
you don't know what the full situation is. Hello? Who's this?
Speaker 8 (01:23:13):
Hello, my name is Sire the Five.
Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
Sire, what up?
Speaker 14 (01:23:16):
How are you doing, guys?
Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
Talk to us. What's your opinion, man?
Speaker 14 (01:23:19):
So my opinion is that, you know, because they're friends
with them, they already receive a good experience and everything.
They give gifts and everything. I don't think they should
share the trip and everything, the experience. But she has
a duty to give back to the association and charity
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and all that.
Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
Do you get free cab rides, dear friend? Shut up, man.
What's up, Charlamagne?
Speaker 5 (01:23:45):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
I'm asking him a question. What'd you say? I said,
do you get free cab rides? Goodbye, son. Never mind.
Y'all always make me act like I'm stupid. Why do
y'all do that? I'm asking him a legitimate question here. Now, Monet,
did I say your name right? Monet?
Speaker 9 (01:23:59):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (01:23:59):
Monet from Jersey.
Speaker 1 (01:24:00):
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (01:24:01):
Now, you think that Savannah was foul for not paying
for it.
Speaker 1 (01:24:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (01:24:05):
I mean, honestly, she don't even have to pay for it.
If I'm flying with my friend, we're going on a vacation.
She said on the podcast that her friend sits in
business class. Put me down to business class. Like, I
want to sit with my friend when we're going somewhere naturally. Like,
I don't want to sit by myself in the front.
That is weird. And like Lauren was saying, if they're
going on a business trip, it's a tax write-off anyway.
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So why wouldn't we?
Speaker 1 (01:24:28):
Why do y'all say that? Y'all don't even know. That's
just something that people say. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
She said if it's a work trip, it's a business trip.
Why do y'all say that? That's not always true. Where
do y'all get that from? Where did you get that from?
Speaker 5 (01:24:40):
It is true.
Speaker 15 (01:24:41):
I do taxes. I went to school for accounting.
Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Well, everybody's not always writing that off as a business trip. Well,
if it is a business trip and you're flying somewhere, yes.
Speaker 5 (01:24:49):
But in this instance, though, they were just talking about
going on a trip as friends.
Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
Yeah, a girl's trip. Yes.
Speaker 15 (01:24:54):
Yeah, if it's a friend's trip, I want to sit
with my friends. So I'll bump down to business class
because I want to sit with my friends.
Speaker 1 (01:25:02):
Would you go to economy?
Speaker 15 (01:25:03):
No, I would bump her up to business.
Speaker 1 (01:25:05):
All right, so let's say.
Speaker 15 (01:25:06):
When I go out to eat with my friends, I
make more money than my friends and I'll pay for
them to go to dinner. I'll buy rounds of shots.
That's just what I do. And I feel like when
you don't, that kind of builds jealousy and envy in
the friend group.
Speaker 1 (01:25:19):
But that ain't your friend. You got other expenses, too.
Speaker 7 (01:25:22):
If you're flying, let's say, out the country, let's say Japan,
and that first class flight could be $ 15, 000, right?
Speaker 9 (01:25:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
It's a 15-hour flight.
Speaker 7 (01:25:30):
Are you going to sit in economy or are you
going to bump your friend up for $ 15, 000? You got kids.
You got expenses. You got a husband. You got parents
that you're taking care of. You're just going to spend
that $.
Speaker 6 (01:25:38):
15, 000 on your friend?
Speaker 15 (01:25:38):
She said her friend is already paying for business class.
Her friend is not sitting in economy either.
Speaker 1 (01:25:46):
Business class is very expensive too, by the way. It is.
And once again, we don't know. What happened once they
got to Japan?
Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
If Savannah told them, hey, I want to go to Japan,
I guarantee you she rented a house.
Speaker 5 (01:26:00):
I guarantee you.
Speaker 2 (01:26:01):
I guarantee you she probably rented a house and all
her friends stayed with her.
Speaker 1 (01:26:04):
And I bet you Savannah took care of that house bill.
Speaker 11 (01:26:06):
800-585-1051.
Speaker 1 (01:26:06):
I just want you to know.
Speaker 2 (01:26:09):
Too, all work trips and travel expenses cannot just be
written off on your taxes.
Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
That's what they be telling you. They have to qualify.
They qualify for it. Have the tax deduction. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 7 (01:26:19):
Are you responsible to fund your friend's financial if you're
in a different financial class? This conversation comes from Savannah
James and her friend talking about how they travel, how
they move, the fact that Savannah is a billionaire and
her friend is not. So let's discuss this at The
Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (01:26:31):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
We are The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 7 (01:26:44):
Now, if you're just joining us, we open up the
phone lines 800-585-1051. We're asking, are you expected to cover
your friends financially if you earn more?
Speaker 1 (01:26:53):
That is the question. What are your thoughts on it, Lauren? I,
if I.
Speaker 6 (01:26:56):
Can, wouldn't mind looking out for my friend, but I
don't want to feel obligated to have to do that.
And I don't even want friends that come like, you're
supposed to do this because this is what is happening.
Speaker 5 (01:27:06):
I've never had friends like that.
Speaker 6 (01:27:08):
And I don't want any, because I think that that
type of friend, the minute that you can't do the,
the friendship is done. Like it changes the dynamic of like,
what are you really here for and around for? Like
the perks of being my friend is our friendship. What
I choose to do for you is what I choose
to do for you. But I don't think there's anything
wrong with, with if Savannah wanted to being like, yo,
I got you.
Speaker 14 (01:27:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:27:28):
I don't have any, any friends that would be upset
if I'm sitting in first class and they sit in
an economy. I don't have any friends like that. I'm,
friendship is not based around money. It's based around friendship
and love and the fact that we care for one another.
There's not one friend that I can think of that's
going to be like, oh, you were first class on
Black Kid? None of my friends are like that.
Speaker 1 (01:27:45):
I mean, I'm telling you, if it's work-related... I want
us rolling the same way. Same way.
Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
Because, you know, if it's work-related, most of the time,
if it's work-related, I'm not paying for the flights or
anything anyway, okay? So if I'm in first, you in first,
we're going to stay at the same hotel.
Speaker 1 (01:27:59):
You put me in Southwest one time, and we friends.
You deserve to be back there.
Speaker 11 (01:28:02):
See?
Speaker 1 (01:28:03):
But also, Southwest don't have no categories. They don't have
no firsts.
Speaker 5 (01:28:05):
Everybody's equal.
Speaker 1 (01:28:06):
Everybody's equal.
Speaker 6 (01:28:08):
No, I went somewhere with Sher before, and the hotel,
I was like, oh, this is so nice.
Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
Where the hell we went?
Speaker 6 (01:28:13):
The movies in D.C., Lauren be talking about stuff that
I don't even remember. What's the black woman that owns
the Salamander?
Speaker 1 (01:28:18):
Oh, Sheila Johnson. Sheila Johnson.
Speaker 6 (01:28:21):
Me and Nyla had this really nice suite and I
think it was on accident but it was so nice.
Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
No, it wasn't on accident but see, that's me though.
That's how I roll. So you put everybody in suites?
Y'all share the suite, right?
Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
Yeah. But it was big.
Speaker 5 (01:28:36):
It was like we had our own side of an apartment.
Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
Okay, Charlotte. But also, it's easier. First of all, it's
sweet to Sheila. That's the homie right there. I love Sheila.
But also, it's easier because we're all rolling together. That
was work. That's when we were doing the night of
the election. Election night. Yeah, so that was work.
Speaker 6 (01:28:51):
But I never come somewhere expecting that. I come like,
all right, I got to get a hotel. In my mind,
I'm like, I have a cousin that live in D.C.
Speaker 5 (01:28:57):
I'll just stay with her. He's like, no, we have
a suite. But that's what I'm saying. It's an expectation.
Speaker 6 (01:29:02):
And I think when people are trying to be upset
at Savannah, it's like, why would you want her just
because she has the money to be in this situation?
But if your friend is like, financially, I'm not there
and I want us to all enjoy the things. Because
Savannah did say in the older podcast, she's a very
particular traveler. So she does require certain things. And come
if you can do all the things, but don't worry
(01:29:22):
about it if you can't. Maybe she does look out
in other places.
Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
I guarantee you when they got to Japan, they stayed
at a place that Savannah paid for.
Speaker 1 (01:29:29):
I would almost bet... A lot on that. And I
don't even gamble.
Speaker 7 (01:29:33):
Well, we have Tasha on the line. Tasha, what's your thoughts, mama?
Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
Yeah, so listen.
Speaker 18 (01:29:37):
First of all, we're talking about grown women, right?
Speaker 15 (01:29:40):
So if we are grown women, we should not have
any expectation for anyone to pay for anything.
Speaker 4 (01:29:47):
I agree.
Speaker 15 (01:29:47):
Oh, I think Savannah's like at least 40.
Speaker 22 (01:29:49):
Our friendships are based off energy, not about how much
money you make.
Speaker 8 (01:29:52):
So if we going on a trip, I'm.
Speaker 15 (01:29:54):
More focused on getting on a trip, not who paying
for what and all that.
Speaker 1 (01:29:57):
That's childish. And get there and have a good time.
Speaker 4 (01:30:00):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
You're right. You're right.
Speaker 2 (01:30:04):
That is the biggest thing. Stuff like this can breed
expectation and entitlement.
Speaker 1 (01:30:07):
What's the moral of the story?
Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
If there is a moral, the moral of the story
is I need to hear more of this story because
I'm telling you, I'm just basing this off how I move.
If I'm saying, yo, it's vacation time. We all going
on vacation. It is because I've already secured a house
for everybody to stay in wherever we going and get
on a plane and Pull up, you good.
Speaker 11 (01:30:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
So I guarantee you Savannah had the place for them
when they got to Japan.
Speaker 5 (01:30:34):
My moral is.
Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
And that's the part nobody's thinking about.
Speaker 5 (01:30:36):
Get your flight miles up. You can upgrade with the miles.
Speaker 17 (01:30:42):
Right.
Speaker 7 (01:30:44):
My moral is it is what it is, man. You
fly your class. Like, if you can afford first class, fly.
Speaker 1 (01:30:49):
If not, it's okay. It's all right. It is what
it is.
Speaker 5 (01:30:52):
They love coming for Savannah. She seems so cool.
Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
They love coming for anybody who is too rich. And
let me tell you something. Especially if you black. And
let me tell you something. I will fly any class
it takes to get home. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 7 (01:31:04):
If my son got a game, I will sit in
the back of the plane to get home to my family.
Speaker 1 (01:31:08):
I don't care. It is what it is. We all
get in the same place.
Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
I'll be out. I'll be like, all right. What y'all
got left?
Speaker 1 (01:31:14):
Get me.
Speaker 5 (01:31:14):
I want to go Vegas. I was like, I want
to go home. Get me home.
Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
I'm not mad at you. All right. When we come back,
we got the latest. We'll know what we're talking about, Lauren.
We do.
Speaker 6 (01:31:22):
Quavo just made a major announcement. He is a daddy now.
We're going to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
All right. We'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 13 (01:31:29):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:31:30):
Lauren, we're coming for free. Tell us. Tell us. She
gets them from somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details.
Speaker 5 (01:31:35):
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
Speaker 2 (01:31:39):
She be having the latest on it.
Speaker 4 (01:31:42):
The latest with Lauren LaRosa.
Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
have a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
What is the latest?
Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
Brought to you by Top Dog Law. On The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (01:31:51):
Talk to me. Top Dog Law. Body roll low.
Speaker 5 (01:31:55):
Body roller.
Speaker 1 (01:31:56):
I think my son, what you talking over there, girl?
Speaker 5 (01:31:58):
What's happening?
Speaker 1 (01:31:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:32:00):
Let's get into the latest because we've been talking a
lot about Chris Brown and that dog attack that happened
at his home now.
Speaker 5 (01:32:07):
But this is an update.
Speaker 6 (01:32:09):
So remember, we talked about the fact that Chris Brown
was asking the judge for a new trial because Chris
Brown felt like that twelve point nine million dollar award
was a lot was way too much money.
Speaker 5 (01:32:17):
So it is.
Speaker 6 (01:32:18):
He might have gotten a victory. The judge has decided
to consider or to give him a new trial. But
only if Maria Avila, who is the woman that was
attacked by the dog, the former housekeeper, doesn't agree to
the offer. So right now they're offering her a reduced
amount of money. Nine point five million dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:32:35):
A lot of money. A lot of money.
Speaker 5 (01:32:36):
A lot of money.
Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
Right.
Speaker 6 (01:32:38):
And remember, that award is going to be split between her,
her husband and her sister, who also say that, you know,
they were affected negatively.
Speaker 5 (01:32:45):
Because of the trauma she was suffering.
Speaker 1 (01:32:46):
Who's offering her this? Is the court or is Chris
offering her?
Speaker 5 (01:32:49):
It's the court.
Speaker 6 (01:32:50):
So the court, basically, they've looked at everything that was
presented and they say she does deserve to get something
because of what she experienced and the damage that it did.
But what the judge is saying is that the judge
doesn't believe that there's going to be permanent nerve damage
and that the value assigned to all the future pain
and suffering that they brought into the case, the judge does...
There's not enough evidence. The judge isn't buying it.
Speaker 1 (01:33:12):
And why do I got to pay the husband and sister?
They didn't get bit by the goddamn dog.
Speaker 6 (01:33:15):
Yeah, but the husband talked about, you know, like, just...
he's caring for her and some of the trauma that
has come into their family. And, and then the sister,
I believe was actually there when it happened and, and
like saw her.
Speaker 1 (01:33:27):
She didn't get bit though. She didn't get bit though.
Speaker 7 (01:33:29):
But there, you can't say you, you seen some in traumatized.
You could sue somebody for that. That's crazy. And that's
why I got.
Speaker 2 (01:33:35):
To pay you because your sister got bit by the dog.
By the way, we paying her enough money for all
of y'all.
Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
Okay. So if I got to pay extra money, if
that 9 million equates, that don't make sense. Y'all too,
as well. No, no, sir. That don't make sense.
Speaker 6 (01:33:47):
Well, we'll find out what happens because she either has
to accept this offer or take it back to trial.
Speaker 5 (01:33:51):
If I was her, I would just take the offer.
I wouldn't even chance going back to trial.
Speaker 6 (01:33:54):
Because now you're gambling with even potentially even less than
that nine point five.
Speaker 5 (01:34:00):
So because it can.
Speaker 6 (01:34:01):
Be reduced the less that you make the court believe,
you know, there's all these all this stuff is going
to happen to you.
Speaker 5 (01:34:07):
You won't be able to work. You won't be able
to do this. The less money you go.
Speaker 1 (01:34:10):
She should leave well enough alone. Don't don't bite off
more than the dog can chew. Yeah, but just, I mean,
$ 9 million is a lot of money.
Speaker 7 (01:34:16):
But remember, $ 9 million, the lawyer gets third, so she gets, what,
$ 6 million? And then she gets to divvy that out
to her family. That's still a lot of money, boy.
I think so, too.
Speaker 1 (01:34:24):
It's still a lot of money.
Speaker 7 (01:34:25):
But she's probably going for the gusto, the $ 12, $ 13 million.
Speaker 6 (01:34:29):
I mean, and to be fair, she's going for this
because what she is arguing is that she... She's a
housekeeper and she can't work the same way that she
was able to work prior to being attacked by this
dog because of the nurse damage. But so we'll keep
you guys updated there and let you know what happens.
Speaker 2 (01:34:44):
Whatever she gets, I understand. But paying the husbands and
the sisters and all that makes no sense.
Speaker 4 (01:34:50):
No.
Speaker 6 (01:34:51):
Well, we'll let you guys know what happens. Now, shifting
gears a bit. Family, Quavo is a dad. He announced
it yesterday officially.
Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
Drop a bomb for Quavo.
Speaker 5 (01:35:01):
Yeah, so there was a.
Speaker 1 (01:35:02):
One of Clue's bombs, man. It's not just a regular bomb.
Drop one of Clue's bombs for Quavo. Why did you
close bomb?
Speaker 14 (01:35:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:35:12):
So he was on Idea Generation and he was having
a conversation about the fact that he's a dad. Now,
before we play this clip, I do want to say
we were all up in Quavo's business before this.
Speaker 1 (01:35:21):
Who is we? Stop saying we. That'd be you. Don't
be saying no we. I ain't know nothing about no
Quavo and no baby.
Speaker 6 (01:35:27):
Listen, because the word on the street was that Quavo
had a baby that we just did not know about
because they bought it like a year ago.
Speaker 5 (01:35:33):
It was in 20. It was a year ago.
Speaker 6 (01:35:36):
It was some time ago, Quavo was on this private
jet and he posted a video. And in the background
of the video, you heard a baby cry. People was like,
do you have a kid? But yeah, he's talking about
being a dad. And when he posted a teaser for
his new album that he's dropping, there was a baby
in the trailer that people was like, OK, this is
the daughter. Let's take a listen to Quavo on being
(01:35:56):
a dad.
Speaker 1 (01:35:56):
You mentioned bringing in a new life. You recently announced
that you have a daughter. Right.
Speaker 25 (01:36:02):
Can you tell me a little bit about how the
experience of fatherhood has started to change you? I mean,
that's just adding more fuel to the fire. And it's
a blessing that God gave me. Being that I came,
I'm coming from so much, and I didn't even know
what was happening. So I'm just, it's a whole new state.
It brings joy to me. It brings a new light.
(01:36:22):
It brings a new reason why I'm doing this. It
brings a new hunger, a new fire to me. We
used to always talk about that.
Speaker 1 (01:36:28):
And so I'm just happy. I'm just happy about it.
Speaker 25 (01:36:30):
It's just, I'm real sensitive when it come to that.
That's my self part. Just seeing her light, seeing her smile,
you know, seeing her call me dad and just looking
just like me. That's the scary and beautiful part about it.
Speaker 1 (01:36:44):
Well, congratulations. Congratulations. How old is the baby?
Speaker 5 (01:36:48):
We don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:36:49):
But in the trailer, it's a baby baby. She's so adorable, though.
She's got a little chunky cheeks. You can only see
the top part of her face. But beautiful baby girl, yes.
But he also gets into, because remember we talked about
how Quavo and Offset are going to do the final
Migos album. He talks about them mending their relationship and
(01:37:09):
Takeoff's passing being responsible for that. Let's take a listen
on Quavo on relationship with Offset.
Speaker 1 (01:37:15):
How did his passing change your relationship with Offset? It
eased it a little bit.
Speaker 25 (01:37:20):
I felt like it threw out all the things that
I was upset about or that we had friction about.
Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 25 (01:37:27):
On his end, I'm just talking for me. I feel
like it was enough for me to just say, all right, cool, whatever.
You know what I'm saying? Whatever you're going through, I
go through it with you and whatever. You know what
I'm saying? I'm going through it. I hope you understand
what I'm going through. And I think that as long
as I understand Whatever everybody be going through and I
can't control, that I can't control or can't be upset
(01:37:47):
or emotional about, that's what I think. That chrome outer
layer come from that part, me losing my brother and
understanding that it can't get no tougher than that. So
whatever that's in front of me that I got to
deal with to make my life more easier and this
music get through and to get these fans that they want,
I'm going to do it.
Speaker 5 (01:38:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:38:06):
So he got his album dropping and then him and Offset,
they're doing a Migos album?
Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:38:11):
So Quavo's project, Chrome Life, drops this Friday, October 2nd.
But yes, they are currently working on a final Migos album.
We don't know when that will drop, but we know
that they're working on it. And Quavo and Offset have
a song on the Chrome Life project that people are
really excited to hear. Just see them back together, you know,
doing music. That's what we said yesterday. Yeah, sitting in
(01:38:32):
a club with each other.
Speaker 1 (01:38:32):
I guess an album release party.
Speaker 5 (01:38:33):
Yeah, they were out in L.A.
Speaker 1 (01:38:35):
So salute to them.
Speaker 7 (01:38:35):
And I'm glad that they let the pettiness or whatever
their beef was to decide to.
Speaker 1 (01:38:39):
Start working on some new music. Just be friends again.
That's dope.
Speaker 2 (01:38:42):
And, I mean, you know, listen, you can say whatever
you want about the Migos, but you have to rank
them as one of the greatest hip-hop groups of all time.
Speaker 5 (01:38:49):
I was asking, will we ever see that? Like, will
we ever see that again?
Speaker 1 (01:38:52):
What do you mean? See what?
Speaker 6 (01:38:53):
Like a hip-hop... young, all-male group get together and do.
Speaker 1 (01:38:58):
All the things that they have. I'm sure you will.
We saw that multiple times.
Speaker 5 (01:39:02):
Who have we seen since the Migos do that?
Speaker 17 (01:39:04):
Before?
Speaker 1 (01:39:04):
Well, since the Migos, but before.
Speaker 6 (01:39:05):
Yeah, I'm saying right now. They're kind of like in
the same time period-ish.
Speaker 1 (01:39:11):
I'm just saying as far as hip-hop goes. We will
see that again. Hopefully. We've seen it with OutKast.
Speaker 6 (01:39:17):
It's just always so many years in between, in my opinion.
Shout out to the Migos.
Speaker 1 (01:39:22):
We talk about this on Netflix.
Speaker 6 (01:39:24):
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Speaker 1 (01:39:32):
All right the mix is up next is the breakfast
club good morning morning everybody.
Speaker 7 (01:39:35):
It's dj envy just hilarious charlemagne the guy we are
the breakfast club again uh salute to little ball somebody
called me about him yesterday executive called me about him
yesterday envy you have no idea you have no idea
no i had Two called me yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:39:51):
Bruh, the amount, the amounts of people, and it's not
just the fact that it's executives. It's like who some
of these executives are. I'm talking about legendary figures that
got their feet kicked up. They've been home already for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (01:40:05):
They're like, yo. Who's on me? What's up with that?
You know what I'm saying? That's a different ballgame.
Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
It's a different ballgame when the people who done created
multiple superstars see somebody and be like, yo, that's... special
so yes he got a lot of dope stuff coming
in the next few months so i can't wait to
see i can't wait for y'all to see what little
boss uh does.
Speaker 7 (01:40:25):
Next yeah dope dope dope and also salute to cynthia
k mcwilliams for joining us this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:40:29):
Salute to cynthia k she's on average joe's uh average
joe season two is now screaming on paramount plus plus
with our guy dion cole i love.
Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
Her spirit oh everybody see i love dion No, I'm
saying I love person.
Speaker 1 (01:40:40):
I didn't know if I was listening. I was trying
to get you in trouble. I was trying to get
you in trouble. I wanted to see if you started
blinking fast.
Speaker 5 (01:40:47):
Blinking fast about what?
Speaker 1 (01:40:48):
Hey, you.
Speaker 5 (01:40:49):
Go to hell. Go to hell.
Speaker 1 (01:40:52):
Ain't it time to wrap up or go somewhere or
talk to somebody? It's time to get up out of here?
Speaker 8 (01:40:57):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 2 (01:40:57):
But I got to tell y'all, man, y'all know I'm
doing my sixth annual Mental Wealth Expo on World Mental
Health Day at the Joelle and Diane Bloom Wellness and
Events Center in Newark, New Jersey. I bring together some
of the best mental health professionals in the country that
have a day of just mental health education. And this
year we're focusing on nothing but education. solutions we're focusing
on pathways to healing and i gotta salute village books
(01:41:21):
because this year for the first time we're doing the
mental wealth expo bookshop and you will be able to
you know buy books written by the mental wealth Expo speakers.
Speaker 9 (01:41:33):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:41:33):
So, you know, Ayan Labanzan is going to be there.
Debbie Brown is going to be there.
Speaker 1 (01:41:37):
Dr.
Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
Rita Walker, whose book I recommend all the time, The
Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health. Elliot Connie, you know,
he has a lot of books around solution focused therapy.
Speaker 1 (01:41:47):
Of course, you know, my own books as well.
Speaker 2 (01:41:49):
So you'll be able to meet the speakers and they'll
be doing author signings throughout the day.
Speaker 1 (01:41:55):
So we'll see you. World Mental Health Day. It is
a free event.
Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
All you got to do is go to MentalWealthExpo.com and
RSVP to be there. And we'll have the Mental Wealth
Expo bookshop presented by Village Books out there as well.
Speaker 1 (01:42:07):
Salute to Village Books. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:42:09):
Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:42:10):
Now, the positive note.
Speaker 5 (01:42:11):
Wait before you do it. I got to say something.
Speaker 6 (01:42:13):
This Friday, I'm going to be at something in New
York that I think a lot of people should get
a ticket to.
Speaker 5 (01:42:17):
It's about to sell out.
Speaker 6 (01:42:19):
If you're looking to like really build real relationships across media, marketing, communications, PR,
this is an amazing event. I just signed on to host.
It's called Procon. It's right here in New York. So
they bring together on this Friday from 5 to 8 p.m.
all professionals across media, PR, marketing who are looking to build,
but also working with corporations. And it's just a good time.
You just have some drinks, have some conversations and you
(01:42:40):
can network. And I don't even like the word networking,
but this room and this event, it's worth coming to if.
Speaker 5 (01:42:45):
That is what you're looking to do, if you're looking
to build something.
Speaker 1 (01:42:47):
Where is it?
Speaker 6 (01:42:48):
It's in New York City. I don't know the actual venue. Oh,
it's at the Edelman. It's at the Edelman in New
York City from 5 to 8 p.m. this Friday, October 2nd.
You can find tickets in the Experience Procon Instagram bio.
That's Experience Procon. And it's put on by a small
boutique PR firm. Shout out to my homegirl, Keisha Butler.
She's a HBCU grad who, when she graduated from college,
(01:43:10):
it was tough. to figure out relationships. So she is
very intentional about coming to cities and putting people in
a room that you can build in and grow from.
So if your business is looking for a publicist, a
marketing professional or anything like that, come out and have
a good time with us this Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:43:23):
Word. And the positive note is this, man.
Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
Some chances don't come back ever. Time does not wait, okay?
Time doesn't wait around while you overthink, hesitate, or try
to feel ready. Some doors open once, quietly, and close
the same way. No warning, no second shot. Yeah, it's
scary to take the risk, to step into something uncertain,
but missing it stays with you way longer than failing
ever will. Opportunities don't care if you are confused. They
(01:43:49):
don't care if you are tired or not in the mood.
Speaker 1 (01:43:50):
They move on.
Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
And watching someone else live the life you almost chose,
that hits different. So when something feels right, even if
it's uncomfortable as hell, move! Because regret isn't allowed in
the moment. It builds slowly. And one day, it's the
only thing you have left. Y'all have a great day.
Speaker 1 (01:44:06):
Breakfast Club, bitches! You all finished or y'all done? Woke up,
woke up, wake you up. Wake that ass up.
Speaker 4 (01:44:13):
Program your alarm to power 105.1 on iHeartRadio.
Woke up, woke up, wake you up, wake you up,
wake that ass up.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Program your alarm to power 105.1 on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Good morning, USA!
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Speaker 1 (00:13):
the planet! Guess what day it is? Guess what day
it is? Pump day! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
How y'all feel out there? I feel blessed, black, and
highly favored. Happy to be here. Another day to serve
our beautiful listeners.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Good morning. How you feeling? What's up, Lo? Lauren just
walked in.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You know, Jess Elias is like one of them NBA
players that rests for load management.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying?
She rests for load management.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Too many days on, she's got to take a rest.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Too many days on, she's got to take a rest.
That's the way it goes sometimes. Good morning, LL Cool Bay.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Good morning, LL. You look professional this morning.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
What you got planned?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Nothing? Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You ain't coming to work dressed like that for no reason.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
You know what I thought?
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Every time I put on certain outfits, I'll be trying
to anticipate what y'all going to say. I thought y'all
was going to say I was giving like Bishop this morning,
like a preacher.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
No, you do look like First Lady. Yeah, very much
First Lady. You give very much First Lady at a church,
for sure.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
I just felt good today.
Speaker 7 (01:08):
You definitely going on the job interview. What are you
trying to work at?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Am I still interviewing for this job?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
No, your position is solidified. You've been now.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
I ain't got no.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
More interview with me. No, your position is solidified. Until
you get on my nerves. I get on my.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Nerves every day.
Speaker 7 (01:24):
Every single day. All right, now Cynthia K. McWilliams will
be joining us this morning. You know her from Average
Joe Season 2, streaming on Paramount right now.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes, and she also has an independent comedy drama called
Messy Lola, which you can scream on the Roku channel.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So she's working. She's doing.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
What I tell a lot of creators to do nowadays, okay?
It's like an inside-outside game. You got your industry thing
with Average Joe Season 2, right?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But then you got to use what you're building over
there to build your own thing, which is Messy Lola.
That's right. So salute to Cynthia K. McWilliams. We'll talk
to her later this morning.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well, let's get the show cracking. You know, of course,
get it off your chest. It's T-Pain's born day, by
the way. Oh, my God. 585-1051 if you need to
get it off your chest. T-Pain, what you at?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Buy me a drink? Buy you a drink?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Nah, that's Lil Wayne. Okay, that's Lil Wayne, though. Whose
song is this? It's Lil Wayne's song. Oh, well, start
it over then. Hold on now. You got Bobby the Drinker,
you got Bartender, you got I'm In Love With A Stripper. Oh,
my God. You can't never go wrong with Bobby the Drinker.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
All those was my ringtones.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I'm In Love With A Stripper?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
It's T-Pain. Like, you just, yeah. Like, I had all
that in the ringtones. I used to make ringtones.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
You used to make them?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah, like, I would put them on people's phones.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Like, you a DJ. I know Bobby the Drinker got
to be in this. Yeah, Bobby the Drinker. That was
a number one record for a while. You got it? Bartender,
Bobby the Drinker. Buy you a drink. Let's do it.
Buy you a drink. Happy birthday, T-Pain. Front page news
is up next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Lola Rose is here. Let's get in some front page news.
Happy birthday, T-Pain.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
That's why we started the show with some T-Pain. Let's
start off with some quick sports now. Last night, WNBA,
Fever beat the Aces 99-89.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yo, Fever, you see what happens when you play Raven Johnson? Okay,
when you give Raven Johnson meaningful minutes, changes the whole
complexion of the team.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Especially the defense. Dropping the clues bombs for Raven Johnson, okay?
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Last night, the Liberty beat the Lynx, sent the Lynx
home 87-71.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I know, man.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Poor Olivia Miles. They shut Olivia Miles down.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Shout out to the Liberty, though, because the Lynx were
the number one seed, and Liberty was the number eight seed.
I think that's the first time in WNBA history that
a number eight seed has beat a number one seed.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
And last night in baseball, of course, we're in the playoffs,
the wild card series. The Yankees destroyed the Boston Red
Sox 9-0. Hit a grand slam in the eighth inning. Yeah,
eighth inning hit a grand slam.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Are people back on steroids in baseball? No. No, they
test like crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That's the only time I used to like baseball. Back
in the 90s when everybody was on steroids.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
You sound like such an elder when you ask that.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
Nah, and Aaron Judge is still injured. Now, yesterday also
the Giants released Odell Beckham Jr.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Damn! He needed steroids.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
Damn.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
I don't even think he got a chance to really play. Yeah,
I think he had like three snaps or two snaps.
He didn't even get a chance to, they didn't even
throw him the ball one time. It's not like I
watched the Giants, but I haven't seen him play. No,
he hasn't played. Pre-show, amazing. You know, when they warm up,
it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
What the hell is a pre-show? Well, I said they
warm up, it's amazing.
Speaker 9 (04:13):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But he didn't get a chance to play, so he
was released yesterday. But what's up, Mimi?
Speaker 10 (04:18):
Good morning, Envy, Lauren, and Charlamagne. How y'all doing this morning?
Speaker 11 (04:22):
Good morning.
Speaker 10 (04:24):
Good morning.
Speaker 11 (04:25):
Front Page News is sponsored by Morgan & Morgan, America's
largest injury law firm. So we start this morning with
President Trump meeting with some of the biggest names in
artificial intelligence at the White House as concerns grow about
just how powerful this technology is becoming. They walked away
with a new agreement about how AI companies are supposed
to keep technology under control. That agreement is being called
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the White House Accord on Superintelligence. Companies that signed it
are agreeing to things like testing their most powerful AI systems,
putting more safeguards in place and having outside experts review
some of those safety measures.
Speaker 10 (05:03):
But here's the important part. All of this, all of
these rules, they are voluntary.
Speaker 11 (05:08):
There is no new federal law requiring companies to follow
them and no government regulator enforcing the agreement. Let's listen
to President Trump explain how this works.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
They're really going to be policing each other.
Speaker 9 (05:20):
It's going to be very, very safe, and there's a self-policing,
and there's also a group policing, and it's going to
be great.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It's ridiculous, right?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I mean, when the people building AI, when they admit
that the technology can behave in ways they didn't intend,
why should we, the public, trust the same companies to
police themselves?
Speaker 7 (05:43):
You can't expect somebody to police themselves over greed. You
can't expect somebody to police themselves over money.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
There's no way. There's no way.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And we're asking them to choose, I guess, our safety
over their growth, which I don't know is possible, right?
Because the more breakthroughs you have with AI, the more
valuable the technology becomes. But the more breakthroughs you have
with AI, then it runs the risk of all of
these bad things that they're warning us about.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
It runs the risk of those things actually happening.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So how do we expect them to choose our safety
over Their growth, you know, a lot of money on
the table.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That's my point. I don't know. Greed over safety. I
don't know. Exactly.
Speaker 11 (06:24):
So so for now, the responsibility follows these new safety
rules and it's up to the companies to, you know,
police themselves. And this agreement, though, it does not stop
Congress from passing regulations later. Lawmakers are on vacation, but
when they get back, they have been talks about taking
this up.
Speaker 10 (06:43):
So we'll see.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
I'm going to say it just passed what we would put. Well,
the Senate just passed what would put new rules on
how college athletes get paid. So right now, athletes can
make money from endorsements, social media and other deals. But
this bill would limit how much money or how much
schools can pay athletes, cap what agents can make, and
also give the NCAA more power over its rules and
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protect the company or the organization from lawsuits. And supporters
say there are too many different rules across the country
and they want Congress to set rules for everybody. But
the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus, they are against this.
They say black athletes are finally making money from a
system that has made billions of dollars off of them,
and they don't want Congress putting limits on what those
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athletes can earn. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker played football
at Stanford, and he voted against this. Let's listen to
what he had to say.
Speaker 12 (07:36):
It's a bill that was written without input from college
athletes themselves whose lives will be directly affected. It violates
a simple rule, nothing about us without us. Well, this
is a bill going forward that where college athletes and
the organizations that represent them have not had a seat
on the table. It's a bill that was actually shaped
(07:57):
by millions of dollars in lobbying from the NCAA, and
at its core, it's a bill that undermines the rights
of young people who pour their blood, sweat, tears, countless
hours of work, and more into their craft.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Hey, man, let the college athletes police themselves. Treat them
like you're treating the technocrats, okay? Let them figure it out.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Amongst themselves. Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
As a father of somebody that played college football, you know,
Logan played, I would say this. Every day those kids
put their bodies on the line. They get up way
before anybody else, 4 o'clock.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
They work. If they get injured, they have to heal themselves.
They have to figure out their own.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
So the fact that these athletes are getting paid to
be able to support their families, to be able to
support themselves– It changed the game for a lot of
athletes out there. And I don't want to see that
changing because those kids each and every day they've been
practicing and training since since three, four years old. And
they put their bodies on the line and when they
get injured, it's a high five and see you later. So, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
They should be getting paid.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's also just hilarious to me that you could put
rules and regulations on the athletes, but not the technocrats
who are in charge of technology that can potentially ruin
the world.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
And these colleges make billions of dollars off the students.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Are they doing this?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
And I don't know if I missed this. If I did,
I'm sorry, Mimi.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
But are they doing this because they're trying to, you
know how we hear the stories about how the money
is spent incorrectly and it's like a distraction for the students?
Speaker 7 (09:20):
Now, they're just saying because the colleges are losing too
much money paying these kids.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
They're not gaining enough money on these kids. These kids
are making money off their jerseys now. They're making money
off their likeness.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Even the patches and stuff on the jerseys, right?
Speaker 7 (09:32):
But they can control where they want to go now. Now,
I can be like, you know what? This school is
offering me more. I'm going to this school.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (09:38):
And the colleges don't necessarily have a say where these
students are going now. They can't control it.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Might be too many black people making money, man. Too
many black people getting paid.
Speaker 10 (09:45):
That's exactly what it is. I think ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Too many young black people getting paid. That's what it is.
Let's put a rain in on this one. Let's rain
this in.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
All right.
Speaker 10 (09:54):
That's what it is.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
That's what it is.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
So this is not law yet, though. The House still
has a vote on it.
Speaker 11 (09:59):
So when they get back after midterms, they will have
to vote on this and it will go to the
president's desk for his signature. So we will continue to
watch this as this is a really, really big deal.
And this hour of front page news sponsored by Morgan & Morgan. Injured.
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up at 7, a Florida mom, she takes a trip
to the Bahamas, but what she leaves behind has everyone talking.
Speaker 10 (10:25):
So we're going to get into that.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
All right.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
And everybody else, get it off your chest. Let's clear
the phone lines.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
800-585-1051.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
How you feeling out there? How's everything on this Wednesday?
Call us up. Let us know.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
It's The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
This is your time to get it off your chest.
Speaker 13 (10:39):
800-585-1051.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello,
who's this? Hey, good morning.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
This is James calling from North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
James from North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
What part?
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Right now, I'm staying in Lumberton.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Okay. All right. I'm going to be in Charlotte. I
don't know if that's close. A lot going on in Charlotte.
It's homecoming season. Charlotte is close to Lumberton. Oh, it is?
Let me see. Like 30 minutes, maybe? Oh, not that far. No, no.
Not 30 minutes.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
It is like a good four or five hours.
Speaker 14 (11:05):
I think.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
It is? Oh, damn. All right.
Speaker 15 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
What's up, James? Oh, you're right. Two hours, 13 minutes driving.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Yeah, but yesterday we all interviewed Miss Pat, man. I
really enjoyed that interview, man. I was in there laughing
my behind off.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Love Miss Pat, man.
Speaker 16 (11:21):
I had that.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It's amazing. It's my girl.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Go pick up Miss Pat's new book, Miss American Dream,
available everywhere you buy books now.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Yeah, I ended up having to go and watch her show, man.
I never did get around to watching her show, but
after that interview, I said, man, let me check out
her show. And, oh, man, it's good. It's really, really good, man.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, Miss Patty's hilarious. I love Miss Patty. And that's
who she is. That's who she is all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Whether you're reading her books, whether you're watching her show
on BET, whether you go see her stand-up, that's Miss
Patty all the time.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
She don't never turn on. Because she not even on.
That's just her.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
Yeah, that's something. And, oh, yeah, and Envy and Charlotte
Young said that on A Different World they had too
many same things. But I didn't see anybody bumping ugly, man.
They just lip-locked.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I feel like they was having sex all the goddamn
time to me.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
He has a daughter in college, so he doesn't want
to think about that, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I don't even want to think about that. Everybody's going
to be going to class. Take your ass to class, okay?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Class is not the best part of that experience.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Man, shut up. Hello, who's this?
Speaker 14 (12:19):
What's good, what's good?
Speaker 17 (12:20):
It's Mike Frick from New York.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
What's up? Mike Frick. DJ Envy. Just hilarious. How y'all doing?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
What's happening, brother?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Lauren's in here today. What's going on? Get it off
your chest, brother.
Speaker 18 (12:30):
Hey, what's up, Lauren?
Speaker 8 (12:31):
How y'all doing, man?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Good morning.
Speaker 18 (12:33):
Black and highly favored.
Speaker 19 (12:34):
Good morning, beautiful.
Speaker 18 (12:35):
Now, I just want to explain how black people can't
have anything, man.
Speaker 14 (12:42):
Why they want to put restrictions on the college players, man?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You know why.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Because they making too much money. You got too many
young black men making too much money right now.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You know that.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Tax, everything. We can't have nothing.
Speaker 18 (12:53):
Look at these gas prices. I'm still going through it, man.
Speaker 17 (12:56):
I'm Mike Vick, by the way, with MRV and.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
The Positive Pro.
Speaker 20 (12:59):
Yes, man.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
Why they can't let us have something?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Meanwhile, the technocrats get to police themselves.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Hey, we in a crisis, man. I think we should
really look at possibly moving.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Because U.S.
Speaker 14 (13:13):
Ain't it.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Nah, it's our country, too. We're not going nowhere.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
We're going to do what we always do. We're going
to keep fighting and we're going to figure this out.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Hey, we got to fight and we got to vote, man.
Speaker 18 (13:22):
We got to get everybody to vote.
Speaker 17 (13:23):
I agree.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
All right, Mike. You be safe out there, Mike. You
guys stay blessed, brother. All right, brother.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I think this is going to be one of the
best midterm elections ever because I think that people finally
realize this is just a business.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You don't got to feel no personal way towards any
of these elected officials.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You completely see that.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Elections have consequences and you got to put people in
position that actually care about people and people that we
know we can push.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Because conservatives definitely don't give a damn about us. You
know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And I ain't going to sit here and act like
Democrats give a damn about us either, but I know
that we can put a lot more pressure on them to,
you know, do things for us.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Hopefully. All right. Well, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.
If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's
The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Ray, Ray, Ray.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Yo, Charlemagne, Envy, what up?
Speaker 18 (14:12):
Are we live?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
This is your time to get it off your chest.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 18 (14:18):
We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell
you what it is.
Speaker 15 (14:21):
Are we live?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Hello, who's this?
Speaker 17 (14:24):
Yo, good morning, DJ Envy, Charlemagne the God, Lauren, what's happening?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
What's up, my brother? Where you calling from?
Speaker 8 (14:31):
I'm from Texas.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
All right, we'll get it off your chest, brother.
Speaker 17 (14:34):
Yo, these white people been making money for too long,
but now these black kids making money in the NFL?
I mean, college league, and they don't want to pay them?
Speaker 14 (14:41):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
It don't make sense to me.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
And I love the fact that a college player can
make $ 6, $ 7, $ 8, $ 9 million if they're that good
and make more than they do in the league, and
they can take care of their family. And if they
do get injured, they still have enough where they can
at least sit on it for a little bit.
Speaker 21 (14:53):
Pause.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
That's crazy.
Speaker 14 (14:56):
Exactly, though.
Speaker 17 (14:59):
The thing is that they've been making money off their
public image for a very long time. So now that
they're making money off their own names and faces and skills,
now you want to bring the money down? It's very
obvious what's going on here.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
You know what I'm saying? Yep. Somebody might have to
come to the front of the congregation this morning. Let
me ask you a question. Are you voting in Texas, bro? Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
Tell her we go.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Okay. All right, brother. Hello, who's this?
Speaker 18 (15:22):
Hey, this is Beverly from Midland, Texas.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Hey, Beverly from Texas. Come on and get it off
your chest.
Speaker 18 (15:27):
Okay, now first of all, I want to talk about,
you know, the election coming up. We have got to
get Governor Hot Wheels out of the seat. Greg Abbott
has to go. They trying to take all your land
from you. They keep raising our property taxes. It's crazy
out here.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Mm-mm-mm-mm.
Speaker 18 (15:45):
But, you know, we're a red state, so if we
can get them in there, we can. If we can't,
we don't do better.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Do you think, what's her name, Gina? What's her name? Gina,
he knows you? That's her name?
Speaker 18 (15:58):
Gina, he knows her.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
You think she got a good chance?
Speaker 18 (16:01):
Man, I would love for her to have a good chance,
but when I tell you that the pink people come
out and they decide who's going to be in office
for us, I really feel that way because the way...
Black people come out and vote. Man, we should have
had Jasmine Crockett in. We should have had Tallarico in.
We should have had, I can't even think of the
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guy a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Well, y'all still got an opportunity to get Tallarico in.
Speaker 18 (16:27):
Yeah, we do. But when you're watching TV, all you
see is Ken Paxton commercials. You never see anything for
James Tallarico. All you see is negativity.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 18 (16:38):
So if that's what the younger people, if that's what
they're going off of, they're not going to vote him in.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Well, thank you for calling, Mama, and keep encouraging people
to get out there and vote.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Very important.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Okay, can I shout out?
Speaker 10 (16:48):
Can I shout out?
Speaker 18 (16:49):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
What do you think?
Speaker 18 (16:50):
Okay, I want to shout out my kids, Kayden and Kiera.
They turned 21 this year. And my sweet baby, Casey,
she's a senior. She plays varsity basketball, volleyball for Midland
High School. I'm just getting them out the way. My husband, Kevin,
I just wanted to shout everybody out. Love y'all.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
All right, love you, too.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
And salute to all our volleyball dads out there. I've
been hearing a lot from volleyball dads. They say volleyball
is very serious.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Is that true?
Speaker 18 (17:14):
Super serious. Super serious.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Salute to my man John and his daughter.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
They travel city to city every weekend, and I'm like, Jesus,
and they're there all day long, like four matches, five
matches a day. Well, salute to all the volleyball dads
and moms out there.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Thank you, Mama, for calling. All right, thanks.
Speaker 16 (17:29):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got the latest
with Laura coming up.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
We do.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
We're going to talk about Diddy because there are four
men who were in prison with him that.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Say he is living it up in Fort Dix, okay?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Shout out to the men.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
They talk about massages, Hennessy. We're going to get into
all the things. They say he done lined up for
himself in there, okay?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
He didn't even turn anything into a party.
Speaker 11 (17:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Okay. God damn. When I heard massages, I was like,
but how? And then I said, uh.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Prison pants. Shout out to the prison pants, man. Prison
pants will turn anything into a party.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
All right. We'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning. What, what, what, what, what you want to know?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
The latest with Lauren LaRosa.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Because you particularly are bringing the energy to mainstream radio,
the black radio.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That source is trusted. Did you hear that exclusive?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Lauren, I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about
everything and everything.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
She be having the latest on things.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
You ask the questions that need to be answered.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
On The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
If little brown girls look at you and go, I
want to be like you.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
LL Cool B.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Talk to me.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
All right, y'all.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
So Diddy is over in Fort Dix and we know
that he is serving a 50 month sentence following the
prostitution charges. Now, there is a story that NBC News
did exclusively. They said that they spoke to four men
who have spent time in the same unit as Diddy.
And they are anonymous in this article because they want
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to talk about the lifestyle Diddy is living. Now, they
break it down like this. They say Diddy is living
a life inside of Fort Dixie. He has men who
clean for him, men who do his laundry, men who
make his bed for him, men who give him Chinese
style massages.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Did he run in the yard? OK, Teddy is running
the yard. You hear me? He's executive producing in prison.
Tell me more about his artists.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Now, there are multiple sources that tell NBC News that
he has contraband cell phones where he scrolls on Instagram
and he gets to scan nude. He allegedly gets to
scan nude and sexually explicit photos that an old girlfriend
sends him. He's been able to buy from other inmates
these like NCI depressant drugs, allegedly, that help boost your
mood and different effects.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
They call them rim roms. And that's how they're known
in the prison anyway.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
And then they say on the weekend, he often taps
into a secret stash that he has a premium liquor.
I saw some at one point in here. They point
to him. as a premium liquor that he gets to
dive into on the weekends.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I would not want to get drunk around no bunch
of mans.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
And they say it's snuggled in by the guards.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Okay. Allegedly.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Now, I know the contraband is illegal, but other than
the contraband, what is he doing that... illegal because it's
not illegal to have people cleaning your bathrooms and making
your bed and cooking food for you and giving you
nice Chinese massages.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
No, I don't think so either. I mean, I can't
answer that. I've asked a lot of questions. I'm not
mad at that part. Like, you're ditty.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Like, you're what, a billionaire close to a billionaire? You're
getting commissary and people are making your beds and making
you food that you usually wouldn't have.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
You just figured out a chain of command.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
You did.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
But the Hennessy and the phone, though, no, I'm not saying, no,
I don't think it is, but.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
The contraband is, though.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Yeah, but when it comes to.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
There's a video that NBC News obtained, and you see
Diddy in the video, and he is holding something that
looks like a cell phone in his hand, and they
say that it is a cell phone.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
That's what NBC News is alleging.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
And then they also mentioned they have a direct quote
from one of the guys that says that he drank
with Diddy and that it was Hennessy that was smuggled
in by one of the guards. And they say that
this is a rich lifestyle that he is living while
he's locked up.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Now, I think the only thing it could probably hurt
is appeal because it gives the impression that he thinks
he's above the law.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
It gives the impression that he thinks he's bigger. than
the program but I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Diddy's used to a certain lifestyle and why should prison
stop that lifestyle if he wants some strong man hands
rubbing him down giving him a Chinese massage prison is
a great place to find a pair of strong man
hands you know they.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Just did an update on when he's coming home it's
supposed to be the top of 2028 That mean it'll be...
It's a little bit more sooner than what we've been
talking about. It's like a few weeks earlier because we
were talking about February last time. When he comes home,
he's going to come find you. You keep making all
these jokes.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
But I don't think... I was making jokes and then
he was on the screen.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
But there's so many people in jail that have cell phones, right?
Speaker 7 (21:41):
We've seen the cell phone footage a lot when they're
in there, you know, doing TikTok dances or even talking
to friends.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
So you see that a lot. Yes.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
But my thing is the liquor, right? That's what he's
supposed to be. I thought he was supposed to be
stopping drugs, stopping drinking and all that sort of stuff.
I just hope he doesn't go down that wrong angle
with the drugs and everything.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And also.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
You know, when I go to massage parlor, I get naked.
You think Diddy get naked when he did the massage?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I did not get naked at the massage parlor. Why
are you getting naked at the massage parlor? I get
naked to get naked at the massage parlor. No, I
leave my briefs on. Why the hell would I get
butt naked at the massage parlor? I get butt naked
at the massage parlor.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
You a crazy guy.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
I thought guys did that.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Girls do it. Yeah, I get naked to get a massage.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
You have a girl or a guy masseuse?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
A woman.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Don't say a woman.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Like, I just wanted to know. That only happened one time.
And I'm not talking about that. What only happened one time?
A guy masseuse while you were butt naked? Chinese man massage.
It was a couple's massage. We got a source close
to Diddy right here. Go ahead, Envy. It was a
couple's massage. And, you know, you and your wife do
a couple massage together.
Speaker 13 (22:31):
And it was.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
One masseuse, he was supposed to teach you how to massage.
And it just, it was a man. By the way,
it's nothing wrong with that because you know, it's so funny.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
There's a double standard because athletes, when they're getting stretched.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Out and you know, people are rubbing on them.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
It's always, it's always a male physical trainer for the
most part.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah. I don't know why people trip out when it's
a man.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
It's just a little bit more sensual when the lighting
is low and candles are lit and you use aromas
and smells. That's normally how massages, especially couple massages, and
there's petals everywhere.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
It's a little different.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
But I did speak to Diddy's rep and they say,
because I actually, you know, the cell phone, the Hennessy,
this could mess them up. But, you know, when it
comes to like the way that they're looking at him.
They said a continued scrutiny of every mundane detail of
Sean Combs' life in prison has reached the point where
the media characterized ordinary prison life as news. The only
real news is that Sean Combs continues to serve his
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sentence while awaiting the court's decision on his appeal. And
I did ask about how is there video footage of
him on a cell phone if nobody's supposed to have
cell phones?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Imagine telling on me for having a cell phone while
you record me with your cell phone.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
And they say that their assumption is that another prisoner
had a phone and sold this information to NBC News.
I also asked what reprimands do they expect to come
back on him for this? And they say they don't
know any reprimands and what that would be yet. They
don't know if the Bureau of Prisons is even going
to investigate it, but they will know in a couple
of days or in the coming days.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Them dudes that did the interview was whack too. Like
that's whack.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Like, y'all were all in there doing the same thing.
You get out now, you get a couple of dollars
a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
But they not diddy, though. They sound like the scrumptious
hoes that you probably ran through. The food look good, too.
Don't the food look good? Bring the food up on
the shelf. The food look good.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
So there are three different meals that there are photos
of that Charlamagne is talking about.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
The one on, is that that? Because that looked like
that lunchroom pizza we used to get. The pizza on
the right, yeah. The pizza looked good. And the rice
and chicken looked banging. Rice and chicken looked banging.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
And then that looks like a taco or burrito the
last time.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Taco Tuesday in jail?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah, so there's a quote in here or some information
in here about the food. Wait, it went down. Information
in here about the food. They say those payback homes.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Include a man who would clean his toilet and shower
areas before he used them and men who would secretly
cook him special meals. Curry chicken, pizza, empanadas using a
makeshift heating element submerged in water.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I ain't mad at that. Diddy running the yard, you
hear me?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
And one of the dudes, I was reading the article,
one of the dudes said he got tired of cooking
for Diddy, and so Diddy started going to the Jamaicans.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Yep, he said, after a while, I got tired of cooking,
and I got tired of preparing meals, so he went
to one of the other inmates.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
He started going to the Jamaicans.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
So Diddy got, he could get Jamaican food, he could
get American food, Spanish food, Italian food.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Imagine Diddy asking you to cook me something, and you say, what?
And he says, Jerk chicken.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
See? I can't cook that. I want my chicken jerked.
I can't cook that. That could mean a number of things.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I want my chicken jerked. Then you're going to wipe
me to dark.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Damn.
Speaker 14 (25:19):
God damn.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 11 (25:21):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
God damn.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Yo, he even got somebody.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
They say he even got somebody holding his phones for
him in his fan mail.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
That's Sean Cone. That's Diddy. Yo, listen.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
I can't hold his phone because if I get caught,
I just extra time.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You hold that down. Oh, he ain't getting no appeal.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
You ain't getting no appeal, though.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Not with this story. I'm telling you that right now.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
That is insane.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Allegedly, you still out here drinking Hennessy. You still doing drugs.
You got men jerking your chicken in prison. You going
to be in there until January 2028. This is the
type of story that messes up his.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Appeal, though.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
I mean, they have to investigate it, though, and see
what they can find to be true, including probably interviewing
some other inmates or prior inmates if they want to.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Ain't nobody about to tell them that they jerk diddy chicken.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Y'all crazy. That was the latest for the hour.
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You got Bad Boy for life, Diddy for life?
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Let's rock that.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
It's the Breakfast Local Morning. Morning, everybody.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I feel like you're celebrating him. I feel like you're
celebrating Diddy.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I think you should be encouraging Diddy to, you know,
use this opportunity of him being a way to really
do some rehabilitation.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
No, I agree.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Because nothing I heard in that news story, if it's true,
lets me... shows me that he's you know trying to rehabilitate.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Well the most the biggest problem to me is the
liquor right the drugs and the drugs those are the
two biggest things because that was part of the problem
where he said he was.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Doing some of the things that he was doing allegedly
allegedly remember he.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
Said the drug he was addicted to drugs is what
his attorneys were saying and if he's still there drinking
and allegedly using drugs that's.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
A problem unless you know prison is not really a
correctional facility like they're not correcting anything like you know
if somebody has a alcohol drug problem they need to
be getting help for their alcohol drug problem.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
If it is true. If it's true.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
I would hate to like you said I wanted to
see that brother come out and have a clear mind
and not still on drugs if that is the case.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
But anyway let's get in some front page news. All right,
WNBA playoffs.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
The Fever beat the Aces 99-89. Liberty beat the Lynx 87-71.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Now, I want you to know the Fever Aces is
a tough one to watch for me because, you know,
you got Raven Johnson and Aaliyah Boston who played for
the Fever.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Then you got Asia Wilson who plays for the Aces.
That's all South.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Carolina all day, the Gamecocks, right? But I love to
see Raven Johnson in there for the Indiana Fever. And
the Fever, do y'all see what happens when you play
Raven Johnson more? Good things happen, goddammit.
Speaker 13 (28:00):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Well, that series is tied 1-1. And like I said,
the Liberty wiped off the Lynx 87-71, 2-0. First time
that a No.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
8 seed has beat a No. 1 seed in the
WNBA playoffs. Now, also yesterday in baseball wildcard, the Yankees
beat the— what' s your team called?
Speaker 7 (28:17):
The Boston Red Sox 9-0. Hit a grand slam in
the fifth inning. They played amazingly, so salute to the Yankees.
And also in sad news, the Giants released Odell Beckham Jr.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Yesterday.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
I didn't even see him really get a chance to play.
I think he had like one snap or two snaps.
He really didn't get an opportunity to play. And I
would have loved to see Odell Beckham play some ball
this year.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
But salute to Odell Beckham.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
I don't give a damn about what the New York
Giants do. But we are 2-1 in the top of
the NFC division.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Tallest midget. I just want to tell you that. What's up, Mimi?
Speaker 10 (28:49):
Good morning, guys.
Speaker 11 (28:50):
Front Page News is sponsored by Morgan & Morgan, America's
largest injury law firm. So we start this hour with
a very sad story out of South Los Angeles. A
19-year-old mother has been arrested for murder after her 4-year-old
baby girl was found inside a dumpster.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
The baby's name was Luna.
Speaker 11 (29:10):
Police say Luna was found Monday night by a woman
taking out the trash.
Speaker 10 (29:14):
She initially thought the baby was a doll.
Speaker 11 (29:17):
Luna was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
Her grandparents say they had baby Luna with.
Speaker 11 (29:26):
Them earlier that day, and they had been helping care
for this baby since she was just two weeks old.
The mother was having problems, you know, just caring for
the baby. And so the grandparents had kind of stepped in.
And earlier that day, the baby was with them. And
then later that night, that Monday night, they had dropped
the baby at home. Hours later, they saw a news
report about a baby found in a dumpster near the
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apartment where Luna and her mother were staying. And they
immediately rushed over. Luna's grandfather is now talking about the
moment he realized the news report could be his granddaughter.
Speaker 10 (30:00):
Let's listen.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
And I saved the area. They said they found the
baby in a dumpster. And red flags went up immediately.
And I woke Laura up. And Laura said, that's your house.
And I said, let's go over here and say about Luna.
And that was the sweetest little baby in the world.
To be found in a dumpster, a dirty dumpster. It
just broke my heart. I don't know what to do, man.
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I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I love it, baby. Like, why resort to that option?
I mean, clearly the grandparents cared for the child. You know,
you got adoption. You got safe surrender options. Like, there's
so much. Like, why? Why a dumpster?
Speaker 11 (30:38):
Like, why?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
And Mimi, also, I think you said four-year-old. You meant four-month-old.
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Yes, four-month-old.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 22 (30:44):
Yep, four-month-old.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
That's horrible. So horrible.
Speaker 10 (30:48):
Yeah, very, very sad.
Speaker 11 (30:50):
Police later arrested Luna's mother, 19-year-old Takiyah Babbers, on suspicion
of murder.
Speaker 10 (30:57):
Her bail is set at $ 2 million.
Speaker 11 (30:58):
Police have not yet said how Luna died, and the
case is still under investigation. But LAPD has now officially
identified the victim.
Speaker 10 (31:08):
I know yesterday when.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I was following the story, there was some back and forth.
Speaker 11 (31:11):
Yes, she's a cutie, right? There was some back and
forth about... you know, identifying the baby. And one, one thing,
how the grandparents said that they knew it was their
baby is she was born with six toes. And that
was in the news report that, uh, the baby found
had six toes. And so that's how they, they knew
for sure, even though there was no identification made yet
that that was baby Luna.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I hate hearing stories like that because, you know, number one,
you hate what happened to the, you know, the young baby,
but also The fact that that young girl thought she
had no other option.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Right.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I promise you there was other options like that. That
was not that should not have been your plan and
your only plan.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (31:48):
And now to Florida, where a mother is accused of
leaving her four children home alone while she went on
a cruise to the Bahamas. She has now appeared before
a judge. Police say 29 year old Natalie Bellazari. She
went on a three day cruise and she was arrested
when she returned to Miami. She's now facing four counts
of child neglect. When the judge heard the details of
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the case, including just how young some of her children.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
Was, she had a lot to say.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Let's listen.
Speaker 16 (32:16):
It says she went on a cruise and left her
children home alone.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Including a two-month-old baby.
Speaker 16 (32:20):
She's going to drop them off at the mother's house,
but never did. These poor kids, four of them were
home alone for three days. I guess there's probable cause
for child neglect. We're just grateful nothing worse happened.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
To these kids. Judge Ms.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Belizer denies these allegations.
Speaker 18 (32:36):
Of course she does.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
One baby, the baby was born in July of this year.
Speaker 11 (32:40):
Jesus.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Who leaves a baby alone like that?
Speaker 5 (32:42):
You would agree to supervised visitation. I don't think I
want to do that.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Who leaves a kid.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Four little kids alone?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Judge, it's an allegation at this time. To go on
a cruise.
Speaker 16 (32:51):
They arrested her disembarking from the cruise ship.
Speaker 14 (32:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (32:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So I know one was two months old. What ages?
What kids do we know?
Speaker 11 (33:02):
I believe they range up to seven. I think the
oldest child was seven. I'm not sure of the individual ages.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah. Don't tell me she don't care.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I'm just looking at her mugshot and I'm saying to myself,
you know what?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
She's thinking about the good time she had on that
carnival cruise.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Look at her. Look at the mugshot.
Speaker 18 (33:18):
Look.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Put the mugshot back up. She don't care. Does she
look like she care?
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Now she got a 10.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
You see what I'm saying?
Speaker 5 (33:26):
She don't care.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
One of the brothers of one of the children said
the only way he knew that she was on a
cruise is he seen her posting it on social media.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
She was on InstaStory.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
That's crazy. Go ahead, Lois.
Speaker 10 (33:40):
I was going to ask mentally, where are these.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
What is the.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (33:50):
The father, as you were saying.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
You gotta be out your mind to do something to
these babies like that.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
You wanna hear that.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Whenever I hear Mimi report these stories, anybody report these stories,
I need to hear the other part.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
What was wrong with her? This wasn't just a regular human.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Was she on drugs?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Was she mentally ill?
Speaker 11 (34:07):
That's the question because right now people are still asking
that same question.
Speaker 10 (34:11):
Like what, what happened? What's wrong with her? You know,
it's right now, to be honest, it sounds like she.
Speaker 11 (34:16):
Just needed a break because no one has given a better,
you know, explanation for why she would go off and
leave her children like that.
Speaker 10 (34:22):
The father of the youngest child became concerned.
Speaker 11 (34:24):
He went to the house and he saw the TV
on her, the children inside too. So he called 911.
When the police got inside, they found all four children dead.
hiding in a bathroom together. There was no adult there.
She bonded out of jail. Her bail was set at $ 10, 000.
And she's been, you know, ordered no contact with the children.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
And authorities say those children are now in foster care.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
Yeah, that's weird because they said that she was supposed
to drop off at the grandmother's house, but she just
never got there. Something seems strange. There's no way that
you leave your two-month-old. In the hands of a seven-year-old?
To feed, to change the pimp? Like, what is going on?
That is insane.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
A two-month-old?
Speaker 10 (35:07):
Very, very strange. So we will continue to follow this.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Have me in here trying to figure out why people
are crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
But two-month-old? People are crazy. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 17 (35:15):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I mean, any age is crazy, but a two-month-old?
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Yeah, like that baby can't even sit up.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
No. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 10 (35:23):
Yeah, and how you feeding the baby.
Speaker 11 (35:24):
That's a breast, but I mean, I don't know if
she breast.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
You know what I'm saying, though?
Speaker 18 (35:27):
It could be formula.
Speaker 15 (35:27):
It could be formula.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Yeah, I wouldn't want none of that breast milk from
what I saw just now.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I already know what that type of breast milk breeds. Okay? Oh, goodness.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
All right, y'all.
Speaker 10 (35:39):
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Speaker 1 (35:47):
You couldn't leave with a positive story?
Speaker 7 (35:49):
I'm sorry, I tried to get to the positive story.
Speaker 10 (35:53):
I had one in the wings and we didn't get
to it.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Well, thank you, Mimi.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
We'll talk about it.
Speaker 7 (35:58):
Now, when we come back, Cynthia K. McWilliams will be
joining us. Of course, you know her from Average Joe
Season 2, streaming on Paramount. Also, Messy Lola is her
independent comedy drama series. We're going to talk to her next,
so don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Good morning.
Speaker 8 (36:12):
Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 7 (36:12):
It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are
The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is here as well. We
got a special guest in the building. You might know
her from Average Joe Season 2. Also, Messy Lola, Cynthia K.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
McWilliams.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I'm wonderful. Blessed and highly favored.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Blessed black and highly favored.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Black and highly favored. Ain't that right?
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Hey, beautiful.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Lightly melanated, but hella black.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Right.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Who is Cynthia K. McWilliams, for those who don't know?
Speaker 5 (36:41):
First and foremost, I'm a storyteller more than anything. I'm
an artist.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
I am right now the comedic actress who plays on
average Joe opposite of the incredible Dion Cole. My amazing partner,
Malcolm Barrett, who plays my husband on the show. And
also Michael Trucco and an incredible group of people that
I think have made some really dynamic television that's streaming
on Paramount Plus right now. I'm also an executive producer
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and the creator of Messy Lola.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
Yes, of Messy Lola.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
But you've definitely had a successful career.
Speaker 11 (37:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
So what's the difference between having a successful career and
I guess actually becoming a quote unquote star?
Speaker 6 (37:20):
Honestly, I think being a star has nothing to do
with success unless that's how you define success.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
But to me, having a successful career.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Is about first and foremost just having the audacity to
do it. Really, every one of us at one point
were kids thinking about doing things that seemed unimaginable.
Speaker 18 (37:42):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (37:42):
At the end of the day, I look around the
room and I'm like, These are people that I have.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Watched become who they are to the rest of America.
But you were always who you were.
Speaker 14 (37:53):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
You know?
Speaker 6 (37:54):
And so I think what's so dope about being successful
in a career like this is just the audacity to
dream it and then the consistency and commitment and discipline
to yourself to keep living it out.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
You know?
Speaker 5 (38:06):
That's success.
Speaker 8 (38:08):
You know?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
That's why.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
And then for anybody along the way who sees it,
who recognizes it, who's touched by it, who's inspired by it,
That's like the real success. I think all the time
about people who I grew up with in Kansas City or,
you know, people that really never thought they could that
just because I'm doing it, whether or not, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Like, again, star or not.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Because I'm doing it, it gives them the permission and
the belief that they can too, you know? Have you
always had that attitude about... your success and where you
are now? Because like real storytellers, you're like, people need
to get this.
Speaker 11 (38:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
And sometimes when people don't get it, it's like, I
know you're sensitive about your art. So has that always
been your mantra?
Speaker 5 (38:47):
I guess, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
I've definitely always been that way because again, if it's
about the story, if that's really what matters and there's
so many different ones, right?
Speaker 5 (38:53):
I also am from the theater.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
So, you know, that's one audience at a time.
Speaker 9 (38:58):
Right.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
Like it's a very different world. Like in the theater,
you're literally it's so present. It demands you to just
be there. And the only goal that night is literally
to just be present, be honest, moment to moment, line
to line.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
I'm there.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
I'm just here.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
I can't do anything about how the audience is going
to receive it at the end of the show. I
can't do anything about reviews are going to say like
that is the world that I really was trained in.
And that's about literally just in every moment, I need
to be listening.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
I need to be open.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
I need to be able to be ready for whatever
the next moment is. I guess that's really.
Speaker 6 (39:30):
How I just still perform period whether there's a camera
around or not I'm very much like I am interested
in the truth of this moment and living the most
whatever that thing demands of me as an actor living
the most joy or the most authenticity the most pain
whatever in a true.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
Moment like That's really it.
Speaker 6 (39:48):
And if I'm, I don't know, I just feel like, yeah,
that for me is, it's the best thing about being
an actor. I think so many people now think of
being an actor as being a star. But for me,
the best thing about being an actor is that it
is the art. of understanding yourself and humanity at the
same time.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
But your inspiration comes out of your theater, right, DePaul?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Yes, DePaul University.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
Theater kid, you grew up reading all these books.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I sure did.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
Grabbing all these images.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
I literally was a librarian. Yeah, that's a different type
of motivation. I worked in the, I don't want to
say a librarian. I worked in the library. Like I
had some sort of degree in it, no. I worked
in a library when I was young. And that's, I
literally did.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
I worked in the library. I stacked books, you know?
Speaker 6 (40:29):
So I know like the Dewey Decimal System. Like I
was in the 811.5, 812. That was like poetry and
prose and theater. And I was in there reading plays.
Like literally what you just said, I was reading those books.
Do you think that the motivations now, like how some
people are motivated by like social media and having following
or whatever, does that change the way that the artwork
is looked at or talked about?
Speaker 5 (40:48):
Oh, of course. I mean, you know, everything is changing.
Speaker 6 (40:51):
I mean, this is just a drastically changing media landscape
every day. So of course it changes things. social media
didn't exist when I was entering into this industry. And
I think about all of the women before me, you know, they're, um,
you know, the great Cicely Tyson, like you think about
what motivated people before there's always been the.
Speaker 5 (41:09):
Motivation to tell the stories.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
But of course, what now is the incentive is, um,
recognition and money, right? Those are, those are now the
things I think that draw people to the field more
is they want to feel, um, yeah, acknowledged. Uh, but
In a way, right, I still think about that as, yes,
we want the likes, we want the money, but really
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that all still ties to, right.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
Don't it? That what you want is to be seen.
So it's still the same thing.
Speaker 6 (41:39):
I think every storyteller was still trying to make sure
that unseen people are seen, you know?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
You know, it's interesting what you said about social media
because I think about all of those women that you named, right?
Like everybody that, really just any woman that came before
social media. I feel like just human beings were able
to grow and evolve and become who they really are
destined to be prior to having all of these strangers'
opinions about them.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Like they didn't have all of these people telling them who.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
They're supposed to be. They were just able to figure
it out on their own.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
And maybe be able to figure it out on your
own opposite of people that mattered, right?
Speaker 5 (42:14):
Like it's like the.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
People that really, you.
Speaker 5 (42:17):
Know, that you had to judge.
Speaker 6 (42:18):
Like I remember my mom and dad, you know, I'm
very close with them and they would always say to me,
my dad, like when I would leave the house or
go out and do something, he would be like, if
you don't want it on the front page of your
local paper, don't do it.
Speaker 5 (42:30):
Like that was like a, you know.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Like just.
Speaker 6 (42:32):
The idea was that what you're living for is that
you don't want your parents to be disappointed. You don't
want your family to be disappointed. And you want to
make them proud, right? So it's the fear of like,
I don't want to disappoint my parents. I don't want
to disappoint my family. But also, I want to make
these people proud. That's who used to matter to you
because the world.
Speaker 5 (42:47):
I think about this a lot, too. This is crazy.
Speaker 6 (42:49):
This is a side venture. But, you know, the idea
that now I think... we all feel like we have
to be super wealthy or super successful. But going back, like,
I don't know, let's say 40s, 50s, right? Because we
didn't have an awareness of the world, your comparison was
really like your neighbor, right? So, like, coming up, if
you want, like, coming up was literally like, oh, shoot,
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you looked over and, like, they might have got a
new car in their driveway. Or someone had a tire
swing out front, right? And it was like, oh, so
now the kids were like, well, they have a tire swing.
Why don't I have a tire swing?
Speaker 1 (43:20):
But.
Speaker 6 (43:20):
You could nip that in the bud right away and
just be like, why are you worried about having a
tire swing? Just go knock on Billy door and go
play on a tire swing because you knew your neighbors
and because that was really about it. So unless the
entire neighborhood suddenly had a new car and a new
tire swing, you didn't think about it. It wasn't bombarding
you in the same way. But now what's crazy is
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the expectation. And this is what's insane to me is
that most of America, and we know this, we know
this to be true because of the nation we really
live in. Most of America is getting by, like barely
getting by. We are a fortunate group of people who
are just like living in what is most would consider wealth.
You know, we are a fortunate group of people doing that.
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Most people do not have $ 1, 500.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
Saved up to be able to cover an emergency, right?
Speaker 6 (44:06):
And yet those people are really, instead of thinking about
how to cover that emergency, instead of thinking about groceries,
instead of thinking about things that really matter, right?
Speaker 5 (44:13):
They're having to deal with also somehow being on feeds
all day.
Speaker 6 (44:16):
That's telling them that they should have their face done
like you got done, right? And that they should be
able to be blinged out like you blinged out. And
that they should be able to have books and successes
like you have. Which is, we should be dreaming that.
But it's also okay to understand the gap. That like, yo,
everybody should not be expected to live this way.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
I don't know why you looked at me and couldn't
pick nothing physical.
Speaker 10 (44:40):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Just like them people.
Speaker 5 (44:43):
Also, you know, I don't really like to flirt with
married men like that. I don't play them games. You know,
I like to keep it real.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
It ain't nothing like that. Let's talk about Average Joe.
Speaker 5 (44:52):
Yes. Get into it.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (44:54):
Kathy Montgomery is Average Joe.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Ambitious, complicated, unapologetic.
Speaker 23 (44:58):
But what do you feel that the viewers misunderstand about
her character?
Speaker 5 (45:03):
The viewers right now, they hate me, don't they? Ooh,
they on the internet, cut me up.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
That's a little misunderstood.
Speaker 5 (45:08):
What you feel like they did wrong? Look, here's the thing.
I'm an actress, right? And so I got to love
my character.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (45:12):
Like, I mean, I'm an actress. First of all, I'm
just like, I'm an actress. People really don't like to
separate your character.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
For years when I.
Speaker 6 (45:18):
Was Trina Shaw, when I tell you folks would be
in the street.
Speaker 5 (45:20):
Like, Trina!
Speaker 16 (45:21):
Stop!
Speaker 5 (45:22):
But that means you're doing a good job.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 5 (45:25):
I'm like, hey, man, and they hate me right now.
And I'm like, that's great.
Speaker 6 (45:28):
That means I'm doing my job. But what I will
say is because it's my character and I love her,
I'm going to defend her. OK, because as an actor,
we got to fall in love with our characters. We
have to know who they are and see their points
of view. I just want to say one thing. Everybody
keep being like Kathy has a. In season one, everyone
loved Kathy, right? It was, that's my girl. She ride
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or die.
Speaker 5 (45:50):
She's so gangsta. We love her, right?
Speaker 6 (45:53):
And in season two, they, hey, literally at the end
of season one, I don't know if y'all, I'm not
ruining it because most people, they've seen at least season one.
They might have caught up with two. But in season one,
when we thought she was dead, When I say people
was like, if Kathy died, I ain't watching this show
no more.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
I'm done.
Speaker 5 (46:08):
Now we cut to season two and people like, kill
this hoe. Kill this old light-skinned ass hoe.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
I always knew she was shit.
Speaker 5 (46:16):
And I'm like, yeah, I did.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Something happened when we thought she was dead.
Speaker 5 (46:20):
And I really sat up and thought about it. And
I said, you know what's interesting? She's always been nasty
mouth and nasty energy, really. I mean, I still think
she's funny, though. But what she was was loyal to Leon, right?
Speaker 11 (46:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (46:31):
Now, in season two, because people think she's not being loyal,
then they so ready to be done with her. My
thing is that she's a villain. She's always been a villain.
She's an anti-hero, you know what I mean? And I just,
what I find interesting about it is that people will
always champion you when you're loyal to others.
Speaker 5 (46:48):
But when you loyal to yourself... Ooh. They don't like that.
They don't like that. Spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
Spoiler alert.
Speaker 5 (46:56):
Spoiler.
Speaker 4 (46:57):
Spoiler.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (46:58):
So, y'all good? Y'all just cover your ears.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (47:01):
We coming right back.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (47:02):
So, in case you haven't watched.
Speaker 6 (47:04):
It yet, but in this last episode, everybody thought she
was throwing them to the wolves and putting them in prison.
She literally said, hey, man, I wasn't ever going to
leave you there.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
I was going to come back. She was not. She's not. Now, look,
does she serve herself?
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (47:19):
She has said from day one, episode one, I'm about
this money. I was always about the money. I married
this man because we were supposed to do something together.
But as we saw in flashbacks, this is what I mean.
Leon said this, our family. She never said that. Kathy said,
you my family. You're my husband. I've chosen you. And
for two seasons, she's been begging him to choose her,
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and he keeps choosing his friend, which is hilarious to.
Speaker 5 (47:42):
Me that we all see that she's not loyal. That's
what we think. She's not loyal. And I'm like, they
said she was a gold digger.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Was she?
Speaker 6 (47:48):
Because the man lost his job, lost the hardware store,
lost the whole franchise, and.
Speaker 5 (47:52):
She's still been there. She ain't cheated on him. She
ain't left nowhere.
Speaker 6 (47:55):
So what she did was she was promised a certain life,
a certain thing. And even when she didn't get it,
she didn't abandon him. She's been with him. His friends
the whole time been calling her a bitch and a
hoe and everything else.
Speaker 5 (48:07):
And he's letting that happen.
Speaker 6 (48:09):
So I'm just saying that my argument would be that
actually Kathy has been faithful to him all along and
he has not been loyal to her.
Speaker 5 (48:18):
And she is about tired of it. But she still
is like, look, do you. You got a little soft heart.
I know you. It's okay.
Speaker 6 (48:25):
You go save your friend, be with your boy, do
what you got to do. But I'm going to go
get this money. And when I get it, I'm going
to come back and get you. I'll even let your
little friend out of jail too. But when we get
that money, we got to go and it's got to
be me and you. Because I'm tired of all this
talk about him and his family.
Speaker 5 (48:42):
And his daughter. That's not my family. And I think
for me.
Speaker 6 (48:46):
Kathy is just, she's someone who has always been who
she was, and she's shrunken herself a little bit. If
we remember on day one, when things started popping off,
she was the first one ready. She was shooting and
taking bodies on episode one.
Speaker 23 (48:59):
That's why everybody loved Kathy in the first season.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
Like, you were ride or die. You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (49:04):
You still are ride or die, but it was just.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
I don't know, it's a little fluff this season.
Speaker 23 (49:08):
And do you feel like the audience, they will judge
an ambitious woman differently than they judge an ambitious man?
Speaker 5 (49:13):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Here's what's crazy.
Speaker 5 (49:15):
Y'all, we have a villain this season. sepo sepo out.
Speaker 6 (49:17):
Here cutting off heads sepo out here drowning kids in
the pool do you know no one on the internet
is talking about sepo they are only talking about me
yes they judge a woman differently are you crazy like
a woman do she's all she's doing is trying to
get the money and get the money to give to
her she ain't trying to skip town on him She
wants more than anything for her and Leon to have
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a chance to live a life. And also, look, I
will say this. She's also a little bit of a psychopath.
Let's not undermine that.
Speaker 5 (49:45):
Okay, thank you. She a little crazy. She's been a
little crazy. Leon was a little weird. Everybody a little weird.
Speaker 6 (49:50):
You know, I think the show is also about saying
it's average Joe, right? It's what happens if average people
get put into situations.
Speaker 5 (49:56):
And what do we say? You're going to find out.
Are you a Nat Turner?
Speaker 9 (49:59):
Right?
Speaker 1 (49:59):
Are you an Uncle Tom?
Speaker 15 (50:00):
Right.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Who are you?
Speaker 6 (50:01):
And I just think that, you know, are you the
godfather or are you Fredo? Kathy was just a different,
she cut from a different cloth. That actually she really
is good at being a criminal, whereas the rest of
them are kind of fumbling through it. She's always been
a little bit a step ahead of them. But she just,
I think, would love it if she could be a
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criminal and if Leon would still love her. And so
it's two things. Again, I'm just an actress, so I
got to play what's true to me. And I really
have just found it wildly fun and interesting to play
a woman who loves her husband but is not a
lover girl.
Speaker 5 (50:39):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 23 (50:40):
Well, let's state her then. How much of Cynthia is
in your character? How much of you is in.
Speaker 5 (50:47):
If I say any, it's going to be.
Honestly, I feel like this is going to sound so terrible.
You said it was true to you. You got to
say it was true to you. I'm not a killer, obviously,
but honestly, Kathy is the closest to me than anything
I've ever played.
Speaker 1 (51:01):
You ain't no killer, so don't push it.
Speaker 5 (51:02):
That's all I'm saying. I ain't no killer. Don't push it.
Speaker 6 (51:07):
But again, Kathy is much more vicious than me. Also,
I just think all my life I've played a lot
of things that were very like lawyers and people who are.
Speaker 5 (51:15):
All put together.
Speaker 6 (51:16):
And I am not that person at all. I think
there's a public-facing version of me where people kind of...
You know, when I was working with Kevin, I remember
on our first season, at the end of Real Husbands,
and he met my husband.
Speaker 5 (51:32):
Kevin Hart. Yes, Kevin Hart.
Speaker 18 (51:33):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5 (51:33):
Kevin Hart, yes. And he met my husband, who is
now my ex-husband.
Speaker 6 (51:37):
Um who we will not mention but uh most people
know this again this is pretty public uh but my
ex-husband was in jail um and when i say in
jail i mean he was in jail before he became
my husband so yes i married the dude after he
got out um so there's a whole lot there uh
yes yeah honey i was with him the whole time
he was there i was with him before i was
with him before he went into jail i was with
him during the time he was in jail and i
was with him and then we married afterwards um in
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the end i should have known better like my mama
tried to tell me see parents My mama tried to
tell me, but what's funny is he was in jail
for basically being a con.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
And guess what, y'all?
Speaker 5 (52:08):
He turned out to be a con. Conned me into marriage. Anyway, so.
You real life ride or die?
Speaker 6 (52:15):
Honey, so that's what I'm saying. So what's funny is, like,
it actually. Y'all remember when I was on prison break?
I was also on prison break. That show was on
at the time I was going to visit him in jail.
And when I tell you the way them guards used
to mess with.
Speaker 5 (52:29):
Me, y'all, I used to get so much. They would
be like, oh, you coming to break them out?
Speaker 1 (52:36):
You coming to break your neck?
Speaker 5 (52:37):
Shut the, it'd be like, shut the up.
Speaker 6 (52:40):
Anyway, so yes, Kathy is probably the closest in the
sense that like.
Speaker 5 (52:45):
I don't, and again, I don't mean I'm a killer.
I don't mean I'm vicious. I don't mean, I just
mean that I am loyal. I think, let me say,
I'll say it that way.
Speaker 19 (52:53):
I am loyal.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
I was going to close, but I feel like you
got to take this opportunity to talk about Sin City.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
Oh, yes.
Speaker 5 (53:00):
Sin City Productions. It's my production company.
Speaker 8 (53:03):
Yeah, sure.
Speaker 5 (53:03):
I'll try to make it real quick.
Speaker 6 (53:05):
Sin City Production Company is an independent production company. I'm
out of Chicago. Chicago is where I went to DePaul.
It's where I started my career. And so it's where
I went back home.
Speaker 5 (53:13):
I left L.A. and I moved back home. And I
really decided that it was a place I could make
the most impact. In L.A., it's very hard to do
anything independently.
Speaker 6 (53:20):
I'm going to be super transparent too because I always
love to talk about money because I think that people
think they can't do things and I want to be clear.
Messy Lola is my first project. It's a 10-episode series
that's now on Roku. It's really hard to get an
independent scene by anybody, let alone the streaming. I have
no team behind me.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
I have no investors.
Speaker 5 (53:37):
This is 100% self-funded.
Speaker 6 (53:39):
And then what I learned from that was all of
the things that I could do to make that budget
go even further.
Speaker 5 (53:43):
My next project was Fried Catfish. We did it all
in Chicago, all Chicago locations.
Speaker 6 (53:48):
We worked very much with the Illinois Film Office, with
the SAG, with unions, WGA signatory. But really, and I
always say this, the bottom line is money is not
the resource. People are the resource. That you can get
anything done if you reach across, if you look at
your phone book and you realize that all your life
you've been creating and sowing seeds. Now, that's if you
are a person who's been sowing good seeds. Which is
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why I also say, and I warn against, sometimes people
be so busy trying to chase something that they forget
to sow any seeds along the way to plant anything.
Speaker 5 (54:16):
To support anybody else.
Speaker 6 (54:18):
You want the support and you look back and realize
I haven't showed up for anybody. And that's why nobody
showed up for you. Because I'm really fortunate to be
surrounded by so many incredible creatives. When I say each
one of these projects, I was able to call actors.
I didn't audition anybody. I knew exactly who to hire
because I know these people. I've been in the city
for years working, watching them work.
Speaker 18 (54:35):
Why?
Speaker 6 (54:35):
I hate when I have to go audition for something
that I'm like, I just played that character yesterday.
Speaker 1 (54:39):
You know?
Speaker 6 (54:40):
So I wanted to find writers like Kevin Douglas, who
created this incredible, funny, quirky show. who are pushing and
scraping and trying to make it and just say, I'm
going to hire you. I'm going to put a crew
together of people that might be like they're in the
union or they're outside of the union. They can't break
through because of gatekeeping. And I'm like, come get over
here on this set. On our set, we operate what
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one of my executive producers that works with me, Latarion Perry,
what we sort of created called a.
Speaker 5 (55:08):
Teaching set, like a teaching hospital.
Speaker 6 (55:09):
So our department heads are people who are like in
unions or who have experience.
Speaker 5 (55:13):
And then everyone underneath them is green.
Speaker 6 (55:15):
And we make sure then that you can come in
to get more black people, more brown people, more women
in positions that they don't often get to do. So
when you come and you do sound, you're going to
actually be able to, you know, you're going to get
up in here and not just mic me up.
Speaker 5 (55:25):
You're going to hold a boom. If you're a camera operator,
you're not just, you know, doing slate. You're going to
come touch this camera. We're going to get you in here.
You're going to work.
Speaker 1 (55:33):
Teaching them as well.
Speaker 5 (55:34):
Teaching them.
Speaker 6 (55:35):
And then also just giving them an opportunity to see,
but there's also a wildly active filmmaking community in Chicago already.
Speaker 5 (55:41):
Please do not make me sound like I have changed
the world or anything. They were there.
Speaker 6 (55:45):
I just wanted to galvanize, put people together, and get
some folks that maybe wouldn't have had an opportunity to
be in those opportunities.
Speaker 5 (55:52):
Sin City Studios. Sin City Studios. Now, Sin City Studios
is what evolved into Sin City Productions.
Speaker 1 (55:57):
So that's how it happened.
Speaker 6 (55:58):
I started because sometimes you don't know. You've got to
fail at a couple things to get it right. I
started just because I bought a building when I moved
back to Chicago because I believe in real estate. I
needed to live somewhere. And I always feel like if
you buy something, it's better to just have choices. Anywho,
I had this building. Eventually, I decided that the two
floors that were residential, we would instead of making it residential,
we would take this really creative thing we were doing.
Speaker 5 (56:18):
Well, we were just kind of like we were doing
so much. We were doing so much. But we were.
Speaker 6 (56:22):
Doing like experimental, creative campaign ads, editorial shoots.
Speaker 5 (56:30):
We had an amazing photographer. We had a hair and
makeup team.
Speaker 6 (56:32):
We had videographers. And then we expanded and we got
these podcast studios. And we were doing a bunch of stuff.
But I was kind of throwing spaghetti at the wall,
you know, but again, sometimes God, you just, and I
really think to this day, you don't even know what
you're doing.
Speaker 5 (56:45):
But if you're operating in the will of God, it's like,
it'll work itself out.
Speaker 6 (56:48):
And I really just, what I realized is that the
business kind of wasn't right for Chicago.
Speaker 5 (56:52):
The market, they didn't have enough creatives that were real.
Speaker 6 (56:55):
Willing to invest in their um careers and like the
media behind you know what I mean they weren't willing
to do that uh in a way that could sustain
our business so I was putting a lot of money
into something that wasn't bringing a lot of money out
but then I realized look if I'm gonna go broke
you know doing something let me at least do it
so that I have product at the end so then
I decided what was crazy anyways I go well Cynthia
you are an actress and you're a storyteller and you're
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a writer and you're a thinker and you're a director
and you've been you've left your field to kind of
basically I wanted to fill the gap for the things
I didn't have in my career right I was like
as an actor there were things I had always wanted
I wanted a place that I could go to where
someone could help advise my career could come up with
strategies for publicity could help me with hair and makeup
and styling. Like I wanted a one sort of house
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place where I could do that. I thought that would
be great for actors, right? Where you go one place
and like, we can take all of your brand and
elevate it in every way, you know, whether that, and
help you with media training and just any and everything
that you needed.
Speaker 5 (57:51):
It was a great idea.
Speaker 6 (57:52):
It just didn't suit my market. But then I thought,
I still got all these amazing people though. I had
all these amazing people. And from that, it was like, literally,
I looked to my left and my right and I said,
Why am I doing everything other than the thing that
I actually do for a living? And then I just said,
so Sensity Creative became Sensity Productions. We did not know
what was going to happen.
Speaker 5 (58:12):
We just went. I didn't wait. I didn't consult. And
sometimes that's a fail on my part because I move fast.
I do. I also, though, move with inspiration. And attention.
An intention.
Speaker 6 (58:23):
And sometimes that means, you know, I might mess up
a contract. I might fail at a thing.
Speaker 16 (58:27):
I might.
Speaker 5 (58:28):
I'm just I'm gonna make mistakes. I'm gonna make mistakes.
Speaker 6 (58:30):
But I really try to be like, hey, I'm OK
with making mistakes. As long as what I'm also making
is a possibility. You know, I want to make space
for more instead of I hate when people say what
can't happen. I feel like let's not talk about what
we can't do. Let's talk about what we can't do
and how we can do it. So we gathered together.
We did that first production.
Speaker 5 (58:50):
We learned an enormous amount.
Speaker 6 (58:52):
And then very quickly after, I did my first feature film,
which was my directorial debut.
Speaker 5 (58:57):
Got the chance to work with my very dear friend,
Terry Vaughn. Oh, I love her. Yes, Terry Vaughn and
I play besties in this movie.
Speaker 6 (59:05):
And it's a rom-com that is a rom-com that turns
on its head. You know, every rom-com is about some
woman trying to find a man again.
Speaker 5 (59:10):
Get married.
Speaker 6 (59:10):
This one is about a woman who is married who's
trying to get rid of her husband. And she catfishes
him in order to get rid of it. And it's
black people, so we called it fried catfish.
Speaker 5 (59:17):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (59:20):
So that's that movie.
Speaker 5 (59:21):
And that's our second project.
Speaker 1 (59:22):
We're done.
Speaker 6 (59:22):
We're in post right now. So in less than a
year and a half, we have gotten two really incredible projects,
not just ideated, but actually completed. And most importantly, we
finished it and we got it to streaming. And we
did that with no marketing, no money, really outside of
our original budget, no team. I really just because Chicago loves,
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you know, loves us down.
Speaker 5 (59:47):
And then we have spread from there. And now we're
out here. We're streaming.
Speaker 6 (59:50):
And so I really just again, I mean, when I
say like this does come to us, meaning just that
I am self-funded.
Speaker 5 (59:57):
I really did go broke doing. I put all of
my money into this. I invested in myself, but it's
not myself.
Speaker 6 (01:00:05):
I invested in what I really believe so many people
around me are capable of. I invested in people the
way I always wanted somebody to invest in me.
Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
Well, congratulations, Cynthia.
Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
And others.
Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
Cynthia K. McWilliams, it's The Breakfast Club. Thank you for
joining us.
Speaker 5 (01:00:19):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Let's get to the latest with Lauren. What you want
to know?
Speaker 4 (01:00:25):
The latest with Lauren LaRosa.
Speaker 5 (01:00:27):
Because you particularly are bringing the energy to mainstream radio,
the black radio.
Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
That source is trusted. Did you hear that exclusive? Lauren,
I'm the.
Speaker 5 (01:00:33):
Homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everything.
Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
She be having the latest on things.
Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
You ask the questions that need to be answered.
Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
On The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 5 (01:00:41):
If little brown girls look at you and go, I
want to be like you.
Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
LL Cool B. Talk to me.
Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
All right, y'all.
Speaker 6 (01:00:47):
So let's get into a conversation that Charlamagne had on
The Pivot.
Speaker 12 (01:00:52):
What?
Speaker 9 (01:00:52):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
Yeah, you were on the pivot, but the guys were
on the pivot.
Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Who's my guys? Ryan, Clark, Channing, Crowder, and Fred Taylor, man.
Drop on the clues box for the pivot.
Speaker 16 (01:01:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:01:01):
So I thought that this was a great conversation. It
was about all things about business, about ownership. But one
of the things that you got into, I thought was
worth bringing back in here for conversation. They asked you
about Colin Kaepernick. And this came during a conversation where
they were talking to you about choosing when and when
not to have certain conversations or say certain things. And
(01:01:22):
they specifically talked to you about the fact that. It
seems like you've been calling things out from the other side,
from the Roc Nation, Jay-Z side of things. So let's
take a listen to CTG on Colin Kaepernick and Jay-Z.
Speaker 19 (01:01:35):
When Fred started the last question, he mentioned Colin Kaepernick.
You mentioned something about the Jay-Z and reaching out and
some of those things.
Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
And you seem to be in the know a little
bit more.
Speaker 19 (01:01:46):
How did you come to the decision that, OK, I'm
going to share this piece of the information I have?
Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Only because of what you just said.
Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
When you see certain conversations happening and you have more information,
like you was front and center for a lot of things,
I think it is important just to be like, that
didn't quite happen in that way. Because I don't want
to see Colin get thrown under the bus. I don't
want to see Jay get thrown under the bus. But
I don't want to see them throwing each other under
the bus either. A lot of the conversations that are
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happening right now, especially over the past week with the
book promo, They've been a little disingenuous. A lot of
that didn't go the way Colin said it went. It's
not as nefarious as it's being made out to be
as well.
Speaker 6 (01:02:31):
So what's missing from the things that Colin Kaepernick, we're
hearing him say in these interviews, because he's talking about
Jay-Z because Jay-Z is a part of his book, The
Perilous Fight, right?
Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
What is missing?
Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
I don't.
Speaker 11 (01:02:46):
Know.
Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
I don't speak for anybody but myself.
Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
I'm only speaking on what I know and what I've
seen with my own eyes and heard my own ears.
Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
Right. So and I talked about it.
Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
I said that, you know, one of the one of
the things is when Jay-Z did the freestyle and everybody
act like he commented on Colin unprompted as if. colin's
team hadn't been going at jay for.
Speaker 7 (01:03:06):
You yeah they said colin wasn't saying anything and that
jg just poked the bear out for.
Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
No reason there's additional hold on but let's take a
listen to ctg on colin kaepernick's team talking it's just
a lot in that whole scenario i think that a
lot of people don't know and it's because you don't
hear too much from jay and rock nation they're not
going to acknowledge it you know they're not even going
to going to speak on it, which gives a lot
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of other people the opportunity to say one side and
then everybody focuses on that one side. And if you
don't have no other side to base it on, you
just be like, well, what that person's saying sounds true.
Speaker 19 (01:03:43):
And I think for the longest time, no side spoke.
Because he was quiet for a very long time. Like
you say, Roc Nation and Jay continued.
Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Well, he was quiet, but not the people around him.
So it's like even when people talk about, you know,
the freestyle that Jay-Z did, he.
Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
Was responding to Colin's team, to Nessa. You know what
I'm saying? Like they were the ones talking and saying things.
Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
And, you know, like, you know, you had people from
her radio station going on rants about it. So he
was replying to that. It's not like it just came.
Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Out of nowhere, unprompted.
Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
And the only thing I will add to that is
that Colin also spoke about Jay and his book.
Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
If you've read the book.
Speaker 5 (01:04:20):
The Perilous Fight.
Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
And advanced copies of that book went out months ago.
Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
And they asked Roc Nation for a quote months ago.
And Roc Nation never gave one. But I guess, you know,
what he put that freestyle might have been a quote.
Speaker 5 (01:04:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:04:34):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Yep. And that's just me.
Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Listen, once again, I don't speak for anybody but myself.
I'm only speaking what I know.
Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
And I know a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
And I could say a lot more. I mean, I
don't think I don't think there's a reason to. I
think that, you know, I would love to see both
parties sit down at the table and, you know, have
a real conversation.
Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
And let's just move.
Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
Why hasn't that happened?
Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Well, you said they tried.
Speaker 7 (01:04:57):
They tried and they didn't want to have a conversation
that happened.
Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
No, no, no. Like I said, one side wanted to
have a conversation. Colin did not.
Speaker 5 (01:05:07):
But now, right?
Speaker 6 (01:05:08):
We don't hear from Colin Kaepernick directly all the time,
but his book is out. He's talking about it. I
know it hit the bestsellers list. He's having the conversations.
Why not sit down and have the conversation with Jay-Z
so that as we were talking to you about these things,
it's updated and it's here and it's now in the
time that like we're talking about right now.
Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Because maybe he's not really interested in having a conversation.
Maybe he'd rather sell the book.
Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
I'll be honest. I don't care. I think they could
do some really good things together.
Speaker 7 (01:05:34):
There's so much going on that that We'll be better
if they work together. But the fact that they don't
want to work together, we're talking about a lot of
things that who cares? Like they don't F with each other.
They look at things differently. But there's so much more
to attack when it comes to this world. We got
midterms coming up. We got the fact that they're taking
so much away from us. Gas prices are high. Grocery
prices are high. We're still getting shot and attacked at
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alarming rates. It's so much more.
Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
To talk about.
Speaker 7 (01:05:58):
And I feel like we lose the positive stuff that
both of those brothers doing.
Speaker 5 (01:06:01):
Use the plot.
Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
There's bigger issues to be to focus on.
Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Correct. Absolutely. I completely agree.
Speaker 6 (01:06:09):
Well, make sure you guys go and check out that conversation.
It is now live on the Pivots Netflix. So go
check that out. And we'll bring some back in our
overtalk as well, too, because you had just some good
life stuff that I think would be good talking.
Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
About as well. I've been alive since 1978. I've lived
a little.
Speaker 5 (01:06:22):
We know you predate the Internet.
Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
You know, definitely.
Speaker 9 (01:06:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:06:26):
That empathy, the honesty without empathy. And we'll get into
it later. I thought that that was one of the
best things I've heard you say. You say a lot
of dumb things, but that was good.
Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
Excuse me?
Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
That was the latest for the hour, guys.
Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
All right. Who are you giving your donkey to, Charlemagne? Man,
four after the hour, man.
Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Something happened yesterday between the United States Senate and the
White House. I just think it's an interesting juxtaposition that
happened yesterday between the Protect College Sports Act And the
fact that the president wants these technocrats to police themselves.
Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
But we'll discuss for after the hour. All right. We'll
get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (01:06:57):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (01:06:58):
Your execution on the donkey of the day is something
to behold.
Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Is it a read?
Speaker 5 (01:07:02):
He gave me donkey of the day and I deserve it.
Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
You need to know.
Speaker 5 (01:07:05):
Well, you need to tell them.
Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
I am.
Speaker 8 (01:07:07):
You have the voice.
Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Tell them.
Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
It's time for donkey of the day.
Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
It's a read, but you're so good at it. You're
trying to be a fake ass Charlemagne.
Speaker 8 (01:07:16):
You're the only one Charlemagne to go.
Speaker 13 (01:07:17):
Charlemagne.
Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
Damn, Charlemagne, who you give a ducky of the day
to now?
Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
Well, donkey of the day for Wednesday, September 30th is
the double donkey.
Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
It's going to both the United States Senate and the
White House because yesterday the Senate passed the Protect College
Sports Act 77 to 22, which establishes a uniform federal
framework to regulate NIL compensation, transfers, eligibility in college athletics. Yes,
transfers and eligibility in college athletics. Okay, let's go to
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CBS News for the.
Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
Report, please.
Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
The bill as amended is passed. A bipartisan victory scored
in the U.S. Senate.
Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
It is about making sports about sports again.
Speaker 24 (01:07:58):
After an overwhelming vote to pass the Protect College Sports Act.
Speaker 8 (01:08:03):
Yet the system we have today is unsustainable, plain and simple.
Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
Students are transferring three and four times.
Speaker 6 (01:08:10):
Pros are trying to play ball against college kids.
Speaker 24 (01:08:13):
The legislation would implement new national standards for college sports.
That includes codifying the rights of student-athletes to earn money
from their name, image, and likeness, permitting up to five
years of eligibility to play, but only allowing them to
transfer schools once. and capping agent fees. The bill is
backed by some of the biggest names in sports, from
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coaches like Nick Saban and John Calipari to athletic conferences
and professional sports leagues.
Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
This is a hastily done bill.
Speaker 24 (01:08:43):
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, a former Stanford football player,
is one of several lawmakers who oppose the bill.
Speaker 13 (01:08:49):
There needs to be rules of the road. It can't
be the wild, wild west out there. But you can't
have wealthy interests and Congress making a deal that the
actual player are not a part of.
Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
Now, meanwhile, yesterday, the White House had some of the
biggest technology companies in the world, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic,
all of them agreed to basically police themselves when it
comes to artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
Let's listen to President Trump discuss. They're really going to
be policing each other.
Speaker 9 (01:09:17):
It's going to be very, very safe. And there's a
self-policing and there's also a group policing.
Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
And it's going to be great. Now, think about that
for a second.
Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
The people who built the A.I., who are now admitting
to us that technology can behave in ways they didn't
intend it to. OK, they're telling us AI could be dangerous.
We are now supposed to trust those same companies and
those same people, the police themselves. OK, we really think
we can trust those companies to put safety.
Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Over growth, a.k.a.
Speaker 8 (01:09:47):
Money.
Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
OK, now I'm not the highest grade of weed in
the dispensary or the strongest Avengers.
Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
So, America, let me see if I understand this correctly.
Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
A 19-year-old wide receiver gets an NIL deal and Washington says,
slow down, we need some rules around this. But some
of the richest corporations on planet Earth are building AI
that even the people developing it acknowledge can potentially destroy
us all.
Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
And we just trust them to not let things get
too crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
And yes, I know the agreement calls for outside audits
and I know there are internal controls. I know there's
going to be board oversight, but that's not my point.
My point is the agreement is voluntary. OK, President Trump
himself called it self-policing. When is letting powerful corporations police
themselves ever been the gold standard for protecting the public?
There is a reason independent regulation exists, because it's always.
Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
A conflict of interest.
Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
And there is no bigger conflict of interest than telling
companies that spend hundreds of billions of dollars that are
all racing each other to build the most powerful AI
systems in the world. Hey, you guys determine whether you're
being safe enough. I don't see how you can improve
the intelligence of AI and improve the safeguards at the
same time. We have no evidence that the safeguards can
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keep winning that race. But then on the other hand,
Congress looked at college sports and suddenly discovered the importance
of enforceable federal rules. Now, I'd like to be fair. OK,
everything in the Protect College Sports Act isn't bad. There's
protections for athletes in there. There's health care protections, protections
for scholarships, protection from predatory agents. You heard in the
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news report they have federal NIL rights. They got revenue sharing.
Speaker 17 (01:11:22):
Great.
Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
Protect the athletes. I'm all for that. But here's where
the BS starts. I was born in 1978.
Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
And for as long as I can remember, everybody around
college athletes was making money.
Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
Universities, coaches.
Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
Conferences, TV networks, apparel companies all made billions of dollars.
Everybody could participate in capitalism except the people putting their
bodies on the field. And when that was happening, nobody
was screaming, we got to get this money under control. OK,
then NIL happens. Players get some power. Revenue sharing happens.
Athletes start making money. And suddenly Washington says we need
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federal legislation, a.k.a. it's too many Negroes making money. Let's
get this under control. OK, it's no secret that.
Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
A lot of the young men.
Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
Benefiting from this new college sports economy, especially in football
and basketball, are black. And I can't factually say that
the 77 United States senators voted for this bill because
they saw young black.
Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
Men making money.
Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
You know, I can't factually ask that, but I can
ask a question. And the question is simply, why does
America's appetite for regulation seem to change depending on who
has the leverage? When the labor gets leveraged, Congress has
to get involved, okay? It has to be regulations. But meanwhile,
some of the most powerful corporations humanity has ever created
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are developing technology that could change employment and warfare, education,
and damn near everything else about how we live.
Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
And we're talking about a morally binding agreement.
Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
What humans break morally binding agreements every damn day that's
why we have contracts that's why we have laws that's
why we have regulators and i'm not anti-ai okay i
use ai i'm investing in ai companies i just want
real oversight okay if the people building the technology are
telling us the technology is becoming more powerful shouldn't the
public have somebody at the table whose only responsibility is
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protecting the public And that's what.
Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
Makes today's double donkey so ridiculous. I'm watching Washington apply.
Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Two completely different philosophies at the exact same time.
Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
College athletes, we need federal rules. Trillion dollar technology companies,
we trust you guys. Okay, no.
Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
If anything, my instinct would be the opposite. The greater
the power... the greater the independent oversight should be. Because
the real question isn't whether America believes in regulation. The
question is, who does America believe needs regulating? OK, because
apparently if you're 19 years old and can run a
4-3-40 and somebody wants to give you a couple million dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
Because you're good at football or basketball, Washington needs to
keep an eye on you. But if you're worth hundreds
of billions of dollars, trillions.
Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
And you're building technology powerful enough that the people creating
it are telling us can kill us all.
Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
We just trust you. We just trust that you'll promise
to behave.
Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
Please let Remy Ma give the United States Senate and
the White House the biggest hee-haw.
Speaker 5 (01:14:24):
Hee-haw, hee-haw.
Speaker 23 (01:14:26):
You stupid mother f * * * er.
Speaker 5 (01:14:27):
You dumb.
Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
Crazy world we're living in, man. It is. It is
a crazy world. Come on.
Speaker 5 (01:14:33):
You're going to need some water for that. The water's
almost gone.
Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
What'd you say?
Speaker 5 (01:14:38):
He's eating a muffin.
Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
He can't even talk.
Speaker 5 (01:14:39):
And it's like a thick muffin. He's eating a lot
of it at a time.
Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
He's... I know somebody got me in their phone under
that name, too. What? Thick Muffin.
Speaker 5 (01:14:49):
Do you know what?
Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
I know it.
Speaker 5 (01:14:50):
That is a great Aunt Muffin.
Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
I'm sure he does.
Speaker 7 (01:14:53):
I'm sure he does.
Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
You give Auntie Muffin.
Speaker 5 (01:14:55):
I cannot call you Auntie Thick Muffin.
Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
I'm sure there's a dude out there that got you
under the phone Thick Muffin. Just make sure the first
and stick last name is Muffin. Okay.
Speaker 17 (01:15:03):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (01:15:04):
Let me change the name.
Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
Of my phone. Thick Muffin. Do not put him under
your phone as Thick Muffin. All right?
Speaker 7 (01:15:09):
Yes, I am. Thank you for that donk of the day. Now,
let's open up the phone lines. 800- Five, eight, five, one, oh, five, one.
Savannah James was doing a podcast. They were talking about
the way that they travel, right?
Speaker 6 (01:15:20):
Well, they were Savannah James and her podcast co-host, her
best friend. They were on the boardroom. They were doing
an interview because they have a podcast and they brought
up the conversation that they've had on their podcast about
how they travel.
Speaker 22 (01:15:32):
My friends are very respectful of my situation.
Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
OK, all of them.
Speaker 22 (01:15:36):
Like, I've never had an instance like that one time.
Speaker 20 (01:15:40):
And I think that they are, you know, if I'm like,
we're going somewhere, they already understand what it is. There's
no expectation of like taking care of something or, you know,
just having me be.
Speaker 21 (01:15:50):
Responsible for them. There's two different lifestyles that exist. Like
we're not delusional to that. And I think accommodating, like
even if we're going on the same trip, I don't
feel the need to be in first because that's not
in my budget. Like, so we always laugh about it.
And we actually talked about it on our pod about, That's.
Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
A good friend.
Speaker 5 (01:16:10):
I don't feel the need.
Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
I respect that. Well, let's open up the phone lines.
Speaker 14 (01:16:14):
800-585-1051.
Speaker 6 (01:16:14):
Salute to April McDaniel.
Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
That's a good friend there.
Speaker 7 (01:16:20):
Are you responsible to fund your friends' financials if you're
in a different financial class? You heard her saying they
were going on a trip. One is sitting first class.
One is sitting in the back. Are you expected to
cover your friends financially if you earn more? People were
getting on Savannah James talking about, well, you're a billionaire and.
Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
You should be able to do it. Let's discuss. Oh, God.
Let's discuss. We'll take your phone calls when we come back.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 7 (01:16:41):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
Morning, everybody.
Speaker 7 (01:16:53):
It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
We are The Breakfast Club. Lola Rose is here as well.
Speaker 7 (01:16:59):
If you're just joining us, we're opening up the phone
line 800-585-1051.
Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
And we're talking about Savannah James. Break down a conversation
that she had on the boardroom.
Speaker 6 (01:17:07):
Yeah, so Savannah James and her co-host from her podcast,
April McDaniel, they do the Everybody's Crazy podcast. They were
on Boardroom during the interview, and they were talking about
how they travel and how it's different because Savannah, you know,
flies first class and April doesn't. And people were really
pissed off at Savannah for this being the conversation, for
how they travel.
Speaker 5 (01:17:27):
Let me have the audio.
Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
Let's hear it.
Speaker 22 (01:17:28):
My friends are very respectful of my situation.
Speaker 14 (01:17:31):
Good. Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:17:32):
All of them.
Speaker 22 (01:17:32):
Like, I've never had an instance like that one time.
Speaker 20 (01:17:36):
And I think that they are, you know, if I'm
like we're going somewhere, they already understand what it is.
It's no expectation of like taking care of something or,
you know, just having me be responsible for them.
Speaker 21 (01:17:47):
There's two different lifestyles that exist. Like we're not delusional
to that. And I think accommodating, like even if we're
going on the same trip, I don't feel the need
to be in first because that's not in my budget.
Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
So people were saying that Savannah should pay for it.
She's a billionaire. She should have it. That's her best friend.
That's our co-host.
Speaker 16 (01:18:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:18:06):
And I, but I saw, and I think bringing up
the podcast thing, it doesn't work in this scenario because
they referenced the fact that like, this was, this is
like them traveling leisurely. And they talk about a time on,
they've talked about this on their podcast. They went to
Japan one time and Savannah flew first class and April didn't,
but April made her way to first class and they
were in the same, like lay flat bed.
Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
You, I, why am I responsible?
Speaker 5 (01:18:27):
If you decide that you want to come on a trip, like,
Even if I initiate the trade.
Speaker 7 (01:18:31):
I don't think you're financially responsible for your friends at all.
Like you said, there's different classes. If you can afford it,
that's cool. And nobody can tell Savannah James what she's
doing with her money.
Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
She's a billionaire. We see the numbers.
Speaker 7 (01:18:43):
You don't know what she's doing, what she's investing in,
what she has, or how her money set up her
kids and none of that that's her money and nobody
could tell that person and by the way a first
class trip the first class flight to japan could be
twenty thousand dollars so it can be twenty thousand dollars
so that's how i feel you can't tell somebody and
her friend shouldn't be entitled which she's not she understands
no this is my life this.
Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
Is how high this is how what i make This
is how I travel.
Speaker 6 (01:19:06):
If they were traveling for the podcast, I think you
would try to work it out in the budget of
whoever bringing y'all somewhere where both of y'all could fly
first class.
Speaker 5 (01:19:13):
But if you had to pick and choose... I don't know.
That's a whole different conversation. I don't even know if
it even makes sense.
Speaker 7 (01:19:18):
I don't think it's a different conversation. If somebody is
paying me to go somewhere, right, and I can afford
first class, I'm going to fly first class. Like, in
a couple of weeks, I have to go to China, right?
First class is expensive as ish. I got people coming
with me. They're not flying first class. There's no way
I'm spending $ 20, 000 on first class tickets. I got six
kids and families to take care of.
Speaker 5 (01:19:38):
No, it's not happening.
Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
That's just me personally. Yeah, I mean... That's me personally. Now,
if I could afford it and I had it, then
maybe I would, but.
Speaker 24 (01:19:45):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (01:19:46):
I mean, you're going to say I'm counting her pockets,
but Savannah, they got it.
Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
Oh, Savannah definitely got it. But, I mean, I don't
think it's a matter of if she got it or not.
Can't count that money, though.
Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
I think the reality of the situation is I'm that friend,
especially in regards to work, right? If it's work-related, you know,
if I'm in first class, the person traveling with me
is going to be in first class. You know, whatever
hotel I'm staying at, that person is going to stay at.
But I've definitely seen where that can breed a sense
of entitlement. Now, there's another caveat to this conversation that
I didn't hear in this clip. I don't know if
it was discussed. On this podcast, I've never listened to
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their podcast. If Savannah told her friends, hey, we're going
to Japan, I'm just basing this off how I roll,
how I roll when it's vacation. I'm the type of person,
when I go out of the country, I'm going to
rent a big place. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
And we'll invite our friends and our family, and they
pay for their way to get there. You know what
I'm saying? And if they pay for their way to get.
Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
There, I don't hear nobody talking about the fact maybe
Savannah already got a house rented for them in Japan,
so when they land in Japan, she don't got to
do nothing. You know what I'm saying? I'm sure when
she gets to Japan, her and Savannah stay in some
house and they got the butlers and the maids.
Speaker 5 (01:20:49):
And the food is taken care of. She's going to
have to stay a certain way, Savannah James.
Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Absolutely. And I'm only basing that on how I roll.
Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
When I go on vacation and I'm out the country,
I've usually written a house or something and I invite
my friends and my family and however they get there
is how they get there.
Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
But when they get there, they good.
Speaker 4 (01:21:08):
I see.
Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
I'm the same.
Speaker 7 (01:21:09):
Even when I go on, when I go on vacation,
I do the same. Even when I do my car
shows and I do it in different cities, you get there.
Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
Ben's got your hotels. Just get your information. We take
care of everything else. Just get there. And I don't
know how you flying there.
Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
And if we're on the same plane, like, and this is,
by the way, this has happened. If we're on the
same plane, and me and my family in first, does
it matter?
Speaker 17 (01:21:30):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
If you're not in first? Because once we land, you're
coming to the house. You ain't got to pay for
no food.
Speaker 1 (01:21:36):
You're good. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 5 (01:21:38):
I get what you're saying, but I think when people
look at this, they're like.
Speaker 6 (01:21:42):
Because in the original clip from their podcast, I didn't
listen fully. I only saw the clip where they posted
about the Japan trip. It was a trip that Savannah
wanted to go on.
Speaker 5 (01:21:51):
And April said.
Speaker 6 (01:21:53):
She ain't need to be spending no money going to Japan,
but Savannah wanted to go. So it's like, all right,
we out.
Speaker 7 (01:21:56):
So sometimes you just got to say no to like, nah,
it ain't my budget.
Speaker 1 (01:21:59):
I can't tell you. I bet you any amount of money.
And I have not looked at that podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
I bet you when they got to Japan, Savannah already
had them a place to stay. She probably had all
her friends staying in that place. And I guarantee you
she footed that bill.
Speaker 7 (01:22:11):
Savannah ain't obligated to pay anybody's check but her family's,
in my opinion.
Speaker 6 (01:22:15):
Well, the people was like, this is why she don't
need a podcast. She need to just sit pretty because
she looks like a mean girl because she not paying
for her friend to be.
Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
In first class. But I guarantee you there's more to
this story. I guarantee you when they got to Japan,
she was good.
Speaker 5 (01:22:30):
I'll go to the original and see.
Speaker 1 (01:22:32):
Hello, who's this? This is Tyrone. How you doing? Good morning. Tyrone,
what's up, brother?
Speaker 14 (01:22:37):
Not much.
Speaker 15 (01:22:37):
I was just calling on that topic, and I think
that a person who thinks that a friend of theirs
is obligated to finance them because they're a billionaire, they
have bad motives.
Speaker 18 (01:22:47):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (01:22:48):
I agree.
Speaker 18 (01:22:49):
I don't think just because you have money that.
Speaker 8 (01:22:52):
That makes that, you know, you don't have to take.
Speaker 18 (01:22:54):
Care of somebody else's financial obligations.
Speaker 17 (01:22:57):
That's not part of being a friend.
Speaker 1 (01:22:58):
I agree with you. Thank you, brother.
Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
And it's all, and I hate to say it like this, man,
but boy, it's a lot of backseat drivers in these conversations.
Speaker 1 (01:23:05):
You're always trying to tell people what they should be
doing with their money. Absolutely. Like, you don't know what,
you don't know what the full situation is. Hello? Who's this?
Speaker 8 (01:23:13):
Hello, my name is Sire the Five.
Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
Sire, what up?
Speaker 14 (01:23:16):
How are you doing, guys?
Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
Talk to us. What's your opinion, man?
Speaker 14 (01:23:19):
So my opinion is that, you know, because they're friends
with them, they already receive a good experience and everything.
They give gifts and everything. I don't think they should
share the trip and everything, the experience. But she has
a duty to give back to the association and charity
(01:23:41):
and all that.
Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
Do you get free cab rides, dear friend? Shut up, man.
What's up, Charlamagne?
Speaker 5 (01:23:45):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
I'm asking him a question. What'd you say? I said,
do you get free cab rides? Goodbye, son. Never mind.
Y'all always make me act like I'm stupid. Why do
y'all do that? I'm asking him a legitimate question here. Now, Monet,
did I say your name right? Monet?
Speaker 9 (01:23:59):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (01:23:59):
Monet from Jersey.
Speaker 1 (01:24:00):
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (01:24:01):
Now, you think that Savannah was foul for not paying
for it.
Speaker 1 (01:24:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (01:24:05):
I mean, honestly, she don't even have to pay for it.
If I'm flying with my friend, we're going on a vacation.
She said on the podcast that her friend sits in
business class. Put me down to business class. Like, I
want to sit with my friend when we're going somewhere naturally. Like,
I don't want to sit by myself in the front.
That is weird. And like Lauren was saying, if they're
going on a business trip, it's a tax write-off anyway.
(01:24:27):
So why wouldn't we?
Speaker 1 (01:24:28):
Why do y'all say that? Y'all don't even know. That's
just something that people say. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
She said if it's a work trip, it's a business trip.
Why do y'all say that? That's not always true. Where
do y'all get that from? Where did you get that from?
Speaker 5 (01:24:40):
It is true.
Speaker 15 (01:24:41):
I do taxes. I went to school for accounting.
Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Well, everybody's not always writing that off as a business trip. Well,
if it is a business trip and you're flying somewhere, yes.
Speaker 5 (01:24:49):
But in this instance, though, they were just talking about
going on a trip as friends.
Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
Yeah, a girl's trip. Yes.
Speaker 15 (01:24:54):
Yeah, if it's a friend's trip, I want to sit
with my friends. So I'll bump down to business class
because I want to sit with my friends.
Speaker 1 (01:25:02):
Would you go to economy?
Speaker 15 (01:25:03):
No, I would bump her up to business.
Speaker 1 (01:25:05):
All right, so let's say.
Speaker 15 (01:25:06):
When I go out to eat with my friends, I
make more money than my friends and I'll pay for
them to go to dinner. I'll buy rounds of shots.
That's just what I do. And I feel like when
you don't, that kind of builds jealousy and envy in
the friend group.
Speaker 1 (01:25:19):
But that ain't your friend. You got other expenses, too.
Speaker 7 (01:25:22):
If you're flying, let's say, out the country, let's say Japan,
and that first class flight could be $ 15, 000, right?
Speaker 9 (01:25:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
It's a 15-hour flight.
Speaker 7 (01:25:30):
Are you going to sit in economy or are you
going to bump your friend up for $ 15, 000? You got kids.
You got expenses. You got a husband. You got parents
that you're taking care of. You're just going to spend
that $.
Speaker 6 (01:25:38):
15, 000 on your friend?
Speaker 15 (01:25:38):
She said her friend is already paying for business class.
Her friend is not sitting in economy either.
Speaker 1 (01:25:46):
Business class is very expensive too, by the way. It is.
And once again, we don't know. What happened once they
got to Japan?
Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
If Savannah told them, hey, I want to go to Japan,
I guarantee you she rented a house.
Speaker 5 (01:26:00):
I guarantee you.
Speaker 2 (01:26:01):
I guarantee you she probably rented a house and all
her friends stayed with her.
Speaker 1 (01:26:04):
And I bet you Savannah took care of that house bill.
Speaker 11 (01:26:06):
800-585-1051.
Speaker 1 (01:26:06):
I just want you to know.
Speaker 2 (01:26:09):
Too, all work trips and travel expenses cannot just be
written off on your taxes.
Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
That's what they be telling you. They have to qualify.
They qualify for it. Have the tax deduction. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 7 (01:26:19):
Are you responsible to fund your friend's financial if you're
in a different financial class? This conversation comes from Savannah
James and her friend talking about how they travel, how
they move, the fact that Savannah is a billionaire and
her friend is not. So let's discuss this at The
Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (01:26:31):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
We are The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 7 (01:26:44):
Now, if you're just joining us, we open up the
phone lines 800-585-1051. We're asking, are you expected to cover
your friends financially if you earn more?
Speaker 1 (01:26:53):
That is the question. What are your thoughts on it, Lauren? I,
if I.
Speaker 6 (01:26:56):
Can, wouldn't mind looking out for my friend, but I
don't want to feel obligated to have to do that.
And I don't even want friends that come like, you're
supposed to do this because this is what is happening.
Speaker 5 (01:27:06):
I've never had friends like that.
Speaker 6 (01:27:08):
And I don't want any, because I think that that
type of friend, the minute that you can't do the,
the friendship is done. Like it changes the dynamic of like,
what are you really here for and around for? Like
the perks of being my friend is our friendship. What
I choose to do for you is what I choose
to do for you. But I don't think there's anything
wrong with, with if Savannah wanted to being like, yo,
I got you.
Speaker 14 (01:27:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:27:28):
I don't have any, any friends that would be upset
if I'm sitting in first class and they sit in
an economy. I don't have any friends like that. I'm,
friendship is not based around money. It's based around friendship
and love and the fact that we care for one another.
There's not one friend that I can think of that's
going to be like, oh, you were first class on
Black Kid? None of my friends are like that.
Speaker 1 (01:27:45):
I mean, I'm telling you, if it's work-related... I want
us rolling the same way. Same way.
Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
Because, you know, if it's work-related, most of the time,
if it's work-related, I'm not paying for the flights or
anything anyway, okay? So if I'm in first, you in first,
we're going to stay at the same hotel.
Speaker 1 (01:27:59):
You put me in Southwest one time, and we friends.
You deserve to be back there.
Speaker 11 (01:28:02):
See?
Speaker 1 (01:28:03):
But also, Southwest don't have no categories. They don't have
no firsts.
Speaker 5 (01:28:05):
Everybody's equal.
Speaker 1 (01:28:06):
Everybody's equal.
Speaker 6 (01:28:08):
No, I went somewhere with Sher before, and the hotel,
I was like, oh, this is so nice.
Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
Where the hell we went?
Speaker 6 (01:28:13):
The movies in D.C., Lauren be talking about stuff that
I don't even remember. What's the black woman that owns
the Salamander?
Speaker 1 (01:28:18):
Oh, Sheila Johnson. Sheila Johnson.
Speaker 6 (01:28:21):
Me and Nyla had this really nice suite and I
think it was on accident but it was so nice.
Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
No, it wasn't on accident but see, that's me though.
That's how I roll. So you put everybody in suites?
Y'all share the suite, right?
Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
Yeah. But it was big.
Speaker 5 (01:28:36):
It was like we had our own side of an apartment.
Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
Okay, Charlotte. But also, it's easier. First of all, it's
sweet to Sheila. That's the homie right there. I love Sheila.
But also, it's easier because we're all rolling together. That
was work. That's when we were doing the night of
the election. Election night. Yeah, so that was work.
Speaker 6 (01:28:51):
But I never come somewhere expecting that. I come like,
all right, I got to get a hotel. In my mind,
I'm like, I have a cousin that live in D.C.
Speaker 5 (01:28:57):
I'll just stay with her. He's like, no, we have
a suite. But that's what I'm saying. It's an expectation.
Speaker 6 (01:29:02):
And I think when people are trying to be upset
at Savannah, it's like, why would you want her just
because she has the money to be in this situation?
But if your friend is like, financially, I'm not there
and I want us to all enjoy the things. Because
Savannah did say in the older podcast, she's a very
particular traveler. So she does require certain things. And come
if you can do all the things, but don't worry
(01:29:22):
about it if you can't. Maybe she does look out
in other places.
Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
I guarantee you when they got to Japan, they stayed
at a place that Savannah paid for.
Speaker 1 (01:29:29):
I would almost bet... A lot on that. And I
don't even gamble.
Speaker 7 (01:29:33):
Well, we have Tasha on the line. Tasha, what's your thoughts, mama?
Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
Yeah, so listen.
Speaker 18 (01:29:37):
First of all, we're talking about grown women, right?
Speaker 15 (01:29:40):
So if we are grown women, we should not have
any expectation for anyone to pay for anything.
Speaker 4 (01:29:47):
I agree.
Speaker 15 (01:29:47):
Oh, I think Savannah's like at least 40.
Speaker 22 (01:29:49):
Our friendships are based off energy, not about how much
money you make.
Speaker 8 (01:29:52):
So if we going on a trip, I'm.
Speaker 15 (01:29:54):
More focused on getting on a trip, not who paying
for what and all that.
Speaker 1 (01:29:57):
That's childish. And get there and have a good time.
Speaker 4 (01:30:00):
Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
You're right. You're right.
Speaker 2 (01:30:04):
That is the biggest thing. Stuff like this can breed
expectation and entitlement.
Speaker 1 (01:30:07):
What's the moral of the story?
Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
If there is a moral, the moral of the story
is I need to hear more of this story because
I'm telling you, I'm just basing this off how I move.
If I'm saying, yo, it's vacation time. We all going
on vacation. It is because I've already secured a house
for everybody to stay in wherever we going and get
on a plane and Pull up, you good.
Speaker 11 (01:30:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
So I guarantee you Savannah had the place for them
when they got to Japan.
Speaker 5 (01:30:34):
My moral is.
Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
And that's the part nobody's thinking about.
Speaker 5 (01:30:36):
Get your flight miles up. You can upgrade with the miles.
Speaker 17 (01:30:42):
Right.
Speaker 7 (01:30:44):
My moral is it is what it is, man. You
fly your class. Like, if you can afford first class, fly.
Speaker 1 (01:30:49):
If not, it's okay. It's all right. It is what
it is.
Speaker 5 (01:30:52):
They love coming for Savannah. She seems so cool.
Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
They love coming for anybody who is too rich. And
let me tell you something. Especially if you black. And
let me tell you something. I will fly any class
it takes to get home. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 7 (01:31:04):
If my son got a game, I will sit in
the back of the plane to get home to my family.
Speaker 1 (01:31:08):
I don't care. It is what it is. We all
get in the same place.
Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
I'll be out. I'll be like, all right. What y'all
got left?
Speaker 1 (01:31:14):
Get me.
Speaker 5 (01:31:14):
I want to go Vegas. I was like, I want
to go home. Get me home.
Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
I'm not mad at you. All right. When we come back,
we got the latest. We'll know what we're talking about, Lauren.
We do.
Speaker 6 (01:31:22):
Quavo just made a major announcement. He is a daddy now.
We're going to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
All right. We'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 13 (01:31:29):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:31:30):
Lauren, we're coming for free. Tell us. Tell us. She
gets them from somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details.
Speaker 5 (01:31:35):
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
Speaker 2 (01:31:39):
She be having the latest on it.
Speaker 4 (01:31:42):
The latest with Lauren LaRosa.
Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
have a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
What is the latest?
Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
Brought to you by Top Dog Law. On The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (01:31:51):
Talk to me. Top Dog Law. Body roll low.
Speaker 5 (01:31:55):
Body roller.
Speaker 1 (01:31:56):
I think my son, what you talking over there, girl?
Speaker 5 (01:31:58):
What's happening?
Speaker 1 (01:31:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:32:00):
Let's get into the latest because we've been talking a
lot about Chris Brown and that dog attack that happened
at his home now.
Speaker 5 (01:32:07):
But this is an update.
Speaker 6 (01:32:09):
So remember, we talked about the fact that Chris Brown
was asking the judge for a new trial because Chris
Brown felt like that twelve point nine million dollar award
was a lot was way too much money.
Speaker 5 (01:32:17):
So it is.
Speaker 6 (01:32:18):
He might have gotten a victory. The judge has decided
to consider or to give him a new trial. But
only if Maria Avila, who is the woman that was
attacked by the dog, the former housekeeper, doesn't agree to
the offer. So right now they're offering her a reduced
amount of money. Nine point five million dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:32:35):
A lot of money. A lot of money.
Speaker 5 (01:32:36):
A lot of money.
Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
Right.
Speaker 6 (01:32:38):
And remember, that award is going to be split between her,
her husband and her sister, who also say that, you know,
they were affected negatively.
Speaker 5 (01:32:45):
Because of the trauma she was suffering.
Speaker 1 (01:32:46):
Who's offering her this? Is the court or is Chris
offering her?
Speaker 5 (01:32:49):
It's the court.
Speaker 6 (01:32:50):
So the court, basically, they've looked at everything that was
presented and they say she does deserve to get something
because of what she experienced and the damage that it did.
But what the judge is saying is that the judge
doesn't believe that there's going to be permanent nerve damage
and that the value assigned to all the future pain
and suffering that they brought into the case, the judge does...
There's not enough evidence. The judge isn't buying it.
Speaker 1 (01:33:12):
And why do I got to pay the husband and sister?
They didn't get bit by the goddamn dog.
Speaker 6 (01:33:15):
Yeah, but the husband talked about, you know, like, just...
he's caring for her and some of the trauma that
has come into their family. And, and then the sister,
I believe was actually there when it happened and, and
like saw her.
Speaker 1 (01:33:27):
She didn't get bit though. She didn't get bit though.
Speaker 7 (01:33:29):
But there, you can't say you, you seen some in traumatized.
You could sue somebody for that. That's crazy. And that's
why I got.
Speaker 2 (01:33:35):
To pay you because your sister got bit by the dog.
By the way, we paying her enough money for all
of y'all.
Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
Okay. So if I got to pay extra money, if
that 9 million equates, that don't make sense. Y'all too,
as well. No, no, sir. That don't make sense.
Speaker 6 (01:33:47):
Well, we'll find out what happens because she either has
to accept this offer or take it back to trial.
Speaker 5 (01:33:51):
If I was her, I would just take the offer.
I wouldn't even chance going back to trial.
Speaker 6 (01:33:54):
Because now you're gambling with even potentially even less than
that nine point five.
Speaker 5 (01:34:00):
So because it can.
Speaker 6 (01:34:01):
Be reduced the less that you make the court believe,
you know, there's all these all this stuff is going
to happen to you.
Speaker 5 (01:34:07):
You won't be able to work. You won't be able
to do this. The less money you go.
Speaker 1 (01:34:10):
She should leave well enough alone. Don't don't bite off
more than the dog can chew. Yeah, but just, I mean,
$ 9 million is a lot of money.
Speaker 7 (01:34:16):
But remember, $ 9 million, the lawyer gets third, so she gets, what,
$ 6 million? And then she gets to divvy that out
to her family. That's still a lot of money, boy.
I think so, too.
Speaker 1 (01:34:24):
It's still a lot of money.
Speaker 7 (01:34:25):
But she's probably going for the gusto, the $ 12, $ 13 million.
Speaker 6 (01:34:29):
I mean, and to be fair, she's going for this
because what she is arguing is that she... She's a
housekeeper and she can't work the same way that she
was able to work prior to being attacked by this
dog because of the nurse damage. But so we'll keep
you guys updated there and let you know what happens.
Speaker 2 (01:34:44):
Whatever she gets, I understand. But paying the husbands and
the sisters and all that makes no sense.
Speaker 4 (01:34:50):
No.
Speaker 6 (01:34:51):
Well, we'll let you guys know what happens. Now, shifting
gears a bit. Family, Quavo is a dad. He announced
it yesterday officially.
Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
Drop a bomb for Quavo.
Speaker 5 (01:35:01):
Yeah, so there was a.
Speaker 1 (01:35:02):
One of Clue's bombs, man. It's not just a regular bomb.
Drop one of Clue's bombs for Quavo. Why did you
close bomb?
Speaker 14 (01:35:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:35:12):
So he was on Idea Generation and he was having
a conversation about the fact that he's a dad. Now,
before we play this clip, I do want to say
we were all up in Quavo's business before this.
Speaker 1 (01:35:21):
Who is we? Stop saying we. That'd be you. Don't
be saying no we. I ain't know nothing about no
Quavo and no baby.
Speaker 6 (01:35:27):
Listen, because the word on the street was that Quavo
had a baby that we just did not know about
because they bought it like a year ago.
Speaker 5 (01:35:33):
It was in 20. It was a year ago.
Speaker 6 (01:35:36):
It was some time ago, Quavo was on this private
jet and he posted a video. And in the background
of the video, you heard a baby cry. People was like,
do you have a kid? But yeah, he's talking about
being a dad. And when he posted a teaser for
his new album that he's dropping, there was a baby
in the trailer that people was like, OK, this is
the daughter. Let's take a listen to Quavo on being
(01:35:56):
a dad.
Speaker 1 (01:35:56):
You mentioned bringing in a new life. You recently announced
that you have a daughter. Right.
Speaker 25 (01:36:02):
Can you tell me a little bit about how the
experience of fatherhood has started to change you? I mean,
that's just adding more fuel to the fire. And it's
a blessing that God gave me. Being that I came,
I'm coming from so much, and I didn't even know
what was happening. So I'm just, it's a whole new state.
It brings joy to me. It brings a new light.
(01:36:22):
It brings a new reason why I'm doing this. It
brings a new hunger, a new fire to me. We
used to always talk about that.
Speaker 1 (01:36:28):
And so I'm just happy. I'm just happy about it.
Speaker 25 (01:36:30):
It's just, I'm real sensitive when it come to that.
That's my self part. Just seeing her light, seeing her smile,
you know, seeing her call me dad and just looking
just like me. That's the scary and beautiful part about it.
Speaker 1 (01:36:44):
Well, congratulations. Congratulations. How old is the baby?
Speaker 5 (01:36:48):
We don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:36:49):
But in the trailer, it's a baby baby. She's so adorable, though.
She's got a little chunky cheeks. You can only see
the top part of her face. But beautiful baby girl, yes.
But he also gets into, because remember we talked about
how Quavo and Offset are going to do the final
Migos album. He talks about them mending their relationship and
(01:37:09):
Takeoff's passing being responsible for that. Let's take a listen
on Quavo on relationship with Offset.
Speaker 1 (01:37:15):
How did his passing change your relationship with Offset? It
eased it a little bit.
Speaker 25 (01:37:20):
I felt like it threw out all the things that
I was upset about or that we had friction about.
Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 25 (01:37:27):
On his end, I'm just talking for me. I feel
like it was enough for me to just say, all right, cool, whatever.
You know what I'm saying? Whatever you're going through, I
go through it with you and whatever. You know what
I'm saying? I'm going through it. I hope you understand
what I'm going through. And I think that as long
as I understand Whatever everybody be going through and I
can't control, that I can't control or can't be upset
(01:37:47):
or emotional about, that's what I think. That chrome outer
layer come from that part, me losing my brother and
understanding that it can't get no tougher than that. So
whatever that's in front of me that I got to
deal with to make my life more easier and this
music get through and to get these fans that they want,
I'm going to do it.
Speaker 5 (01:38:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:38:06):
So he got his album dropping and then him and Offset,
they're doing a Migos album?
Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:38:11):
So Quavo's project, Chrome Life, drops this Friday, October 2nd.
But yes, they are currently working on a final Migos album.
We don't know when that will drop, but we know
that they're working on it. And Quavo and Offset have
a song on the Chrome Life project that people are
really excited to hear. Just see them back together, you know,
doing music. That's what we said yesterday. Yeah, sitting in
(01:38:32):
a club with each other.
Speaker 1 (01:38:32):
I guess an album release party.
Speaker 5 (01:38:33):
Yeah, they were out in L.A.
Speaker 1 (01:38:35):
So salute to them.
Speaker 7 (01:38:35):
And I'm glad that they let the pettiness or whatever
their beef was to decide to.
Speaker 1 (01:38:39):
Start working on some new music. Just be friends again.
That's dope.
Speaker 2 (01:38:42):
And, I mean, you know, listen, you can say whatever
you want about the Migos, but you have to rank
them as one of the greatest hip-hop groups of all time.
Speaker 5 (01:38:49):
I was asking, will we ever see that? Like, will
we ever see that again?
Speaker 1 (01:38:52):
What do you mean? See what?
Speaker 6 (01:38:53):
Like a hip-hop... young, all-male group get together and do.
Speaker 1 (01:38:58):
All the things that they have. I'm sure you will.
We saw that multiple times.
Speaker 5 (01:39:02):
Who have we seen since the Migos do that?
Speaker 17 (01:39:04):
Before?
Speaker 1 (01:39:04):
Well, since the Migos, but before.
Speaker 6 (01:39:05):
Yeah, I'm saying right now. They're kind of like in
the same time period-ish.
Speaker 1 (01:39:11):
I'm just saying as far as hip-hop goes. We will
see that again. Hopefully. We've seen it with OutKast.
Speaker 6 (01:39:17):
It's just always so many years in between, in my opinion.
Shout out to the Migos.
Speaker 1 (01:39:22):
We talk about this on Netflix.
Speaker 6 (01:39:24):
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Speaker 1 (01:39:32):
All right the mix is up next is the breakfast
club good morning morning everybody.
Speaker 7 (01:39:35):
It's dj envy just hilarious charlemagne the guy we are
the breakfast club again uh salute to little ball somebody
called me about him yesterday executive called me about him
yesterday envy you have no idea you have no idea
no i had Two called me yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:39:51):
Bruh, the amount, the amounts of people, and it's not
just the fact that it's executives. It's like who some
of these executives are. I'm talking about legendary figures that
got their feet kicked up. They've been home already for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (01:40:05):
They're like, yo. Who's on me? What's up with that?
You know what I'm saying? That's a different ballgame.
Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
It's a different ballgame when the people who done created
multiple superstars see somebody and be like, yo, that's... special
so yes he got a lot of dope stuff coming
in the next few months so i can't wait to
see i can't wait for y'all to see what little
boss uh does.
Speaker 7 (01:40:25):
Next yeah dope dope dope and also salute to cynthia
k mcwilliams for joining us this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:40:29):
Salute to cynthia k she's on average joe's uh average
joe season two is now screaming on paramount plus plus
with our guy dion cole i love.
Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
Her spirit oh everybody see i love dion No, I'm
saying I love person.
Speaker 1 (01:40:40):
I didn't know if I was listening. I was trying
to get you in trouble. I was trying to get
you in trouble. I wanted to see if you started
blinking fast.
Speaker 5 (01:40:47):
Blinking fast about what?
Speaker 1 (01:40:48):
Hey, you.
Speaker 5 (01:40:49):
Go to hell. Go to hell.
Speaker 1 (01:40:52):
Ain't it time to wrap up or go somewhere or
talk to somebody? It's time to get up out of here?
Speaker 8 (01:40:57):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 2 (01:40:57):
But I got to tell y'all, man, y'all know I'm
doing my sixth annual Mental Wealth Expo on World Mental
Health Day at the Joelle and Diane Bloom Wellness and
Events Center in Newark, New Jersey. I bring together some
of the best mental health professionals in the country that
have a day of just mental health education. And this
year we're focusing on nothing but education. solutions we're focusing
on pathways to healing and i gotta salute village books
(01:41:21):
because this year for the first time we're doing the
mental wealth expo bookshop and you will be able to
you know buy books written by the mental wealth Expo speakers.
Speaker 9 (01:41:33):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:41:33):
So, you know, Ayan Labanzan is going to be there.
Debbie Brown is going to be there.
Speaker 1 (01:41:37):
Dr.
Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
Rita Walker, whose book I recommend all the time, The
Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health. Elliot Connie, you know,
he has a lot of books around solution focused therapy.
Speaker 1 (01:41:47):
Of course, you know, my own books as well.
Speaker 2 (01:41:49):
So you'll be able to meet the speakers and they'll
be doing author signings throughout the day.
Speaker 1 (01:41:55):
So we'll see you. World Mental Health Day. It is
a free event.
Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
All you got to do is go to MentalWealthExpo.com and
RSVP to be there. And we'll have the Mental Wealth
Expo bookshop presented by Village Books out there as well.
Speaker 1 (01:42:07):
Salute to Village Books. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:42:09):
Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:42:10):
Now, the positive note.
Speaker 5 (01:42:11):
Wait before you do it. I got to say something.
Speaker 6 (01:42:13):
This Friday, I'm going to be at something in New
York that I think a lot of people should get
a ticket to.
Speaker 5 (01:42:17):
It's about to sell out.
Speaker 6 (01:42:19):
If you're looking to like really build real relationships across media, marketing, communications, PR,
this is an amazing event. I just signed on to host.
It's called Procon. It's right here in New York. So
they bring together on this Friday from 5 to 8 p.m.
all professionals across media, PR, marketing who are looking to build,
but also working with corporations. And it's just a good time.
You just have some drinks, have some conversations and you
(01:42:40):
can network. And I don't even like the word networking,
but this room and this event, it's worth coming to if.
Speaker 5 (01:42:45):
That is what you're looking to do, if you're looking
to build something.
Speaker 1 (01:42:47):
Where is it?
Speaker 6 (01:42:48):
It's in New York City. I don't know the actual venue. Oh,
it's at the Edelman. It's at the Edelman in New
York City from 5 to 8 p.m. this Friday, October 2nd.
You can find tickets in the Experience Procon Instagram bio.
That's Experience Procon. And it's put on by a small
boutique PR firm. Shout out to my homegirl, Keisha Butler.
She's a HBCU grad who, when she graduated from college,
(01:43:10):
it was tough. to figure out relationships. So she is
very intentional about coming to cities and putting people in
a room that you can build in and grow from.
So if your business is looking for a publicist, a
marketing professional or anything like that, come out and have
a good time with us this Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:43:23):
Word. And the positive note is this, man.
Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
Some chances don't come back ever. Time does not wait, okay?
Time doesn't wait around while you overthink, hesitate, or try
to feel ready. Some doors open once, quietly, and close
the same way. No warning, no second shot. Yeah, it's
scary to take the risk, to step into something uncertain,
but missing it stays with you way longer than failing
ever will. Opportunities don't care if you are confused. They
(01:43:49):
don't care if you are tired or not in the mood.
Speaker 1 (01:43:50):
They move on.
Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
And watching someone else live the life you almost chose,
that hits different. So when something feels right, even if
it's uncomfortable as hell, move! Because regret isn't allowed in
the moment. It builds slowly. And one day, it's the
only thing you have left. Y'all have a great day.
Speaker 1 (01:44:06):
Breakfast Club, bitches! You all finished or y'all done? Woke up,
woke up, wake you up. Wake that ass up.
Speaker 4 (01:44:13):
Program your alarm to power 105.1 on iHeartRadio.
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