FULL SHOW: Megan Thee Stallion Says She Wants To Become The ‘Mariah Carey Of Summer’ + Zhuri Hall Interview

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Woke up, woke up, wake you up.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Wake that ass up.

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Program your alarm to power 105.1 on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Jess is out today. Charlamagne Tha God.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
Peace to the planet. It's Thursday.

Speaker 5 (00:20):
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 1 (00:26):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Fun fact.

Speaker 6 (00:28):
Today is the 30th anniversary of this song right here, Nirvana.
Smells Like Teen Spirit. Came out 30 years ago today, yes.
And MTV is actually... honoring them this year at the VMA. So,
salute to Nirvana.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
There's still MTV? MTV? What comes on MTV nowadays?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
I don't even know.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
There can't be videos. That would be dope. That's what
MTV needs to be. Just be a nostalgia station.

Speaker 7 (00:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
You know? That plays all of the classics like this.

Speaker 7 (00:55):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
There's always room for that. Absolutely.

Speaker 6 (00:57):
And salute to all the parents out there. I know
New York City today is their first day of school.
I mean, my kids been back to school, but today
is their first day of school. And I ain't gonna lie.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I like the kids back at.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
School, boy. New York's just late on everything.

Speaker 7 (01:09):
Yes, they are.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
I mean, what the hell? Kids have been back in
school for a damn damn month. That's right. At least
two weeks at the most.

Speaker 6 (01:14):
But today is the first day, and it's a no
AI school day. So none of the kids want any
of the AI platforms or chats using them for anything.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
I think that's a big thing. But anyway, Zuri Hall
will be joining us this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
My good sister Zuri Hall. Zuri Hall, she was on
Access Hollywood for many years. Access Hollywood is coming to
an end, but she's also on American Ninja Warrior. But
she's launching a YouTube series called Not About Sports.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
So she'll be here to talk about that series. And
so much more.

Speaker 7 (01:43):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
And so much more.

Speaker 7 (01:45):
All right.

Speaker 6 (01:45):
Now, we got front page news coming up. And, of course,
get it off your chest, 800-585-1051. Now, I know you've
seen this.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
I know you all over.

Speaker 6 (01:52):
You've seen the fact that they're saying AI will probably, well,
there's a 10% chance that AI will destroy all humans by.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
The end of the decade. Yeah, I don't believe that.
I mean, they've always been saying things like that. Every
time there's a new advancement of technology. Does everybody remember
the Y2K scare?

Speaker 8 (02:07):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Remember that back in the day? I do.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
But this is one of the creators, I thought. I
thought he was one of the creators of one of
those AI platforms.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Man, if it's that serious, unplug it.

Speaker 6 (02:16):
They said AI's been doing its own thing. It's been
going online, breaking into people's bank accounts and finding passwords.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
But what is AI doing? We can't spend the money.
What are they doing?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
I don't know. All right, well.

Speaker 6 (02:30):
Maybe we'll be breaking all that down in front page news.
But get it off your chest. Call us up right now.
It's The Breakfast Club.

Speaker 9 (02:35):
Good morning.

Speaker 10 (02:35):
What do we start with?

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Anything but anything slow. Nothing slow.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
All right, we can do a 50. I ain't mad
at that. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Get your ass up. Good morning, everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news.
Start off with some quick sports. Last night in Wednesday
Night Football, the Seattle Seahawks beat the Patriots.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
13 to 10.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Did you see the game?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
I went to sleep at halftime, but I don't like it.
You know what I mean? But don't you like it? Listen,
some things I'm just very old school on. I don't
want football on a Wednesday night, okay? I like Sundays, Mondays.
Occasional Thursdays. Occasional Thursdays. You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (03:15):
I'm like, Wednesday night football? We got a Wednesday night
football game before a Sunday or Monday?

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, I didn't even watch it. Jesus Christ. I went
to sleep at halftime.

Speaker 6 (03:22):
Well, tonight, the 49ers take on the Rams at 8.35 p.m.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
And just side note, you know the legend Avery Johnson?

Speaker 6 (03:29):
Yeah. I ran into him yesterday. He was like, he's
a big fan. He listens to the show all the time.
He was in town for the U.S.

Speaker 7 (03:34):
Open.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
He just wanted to say hello and good morning. So
salute to the OG Avery Johnson. What's up, Mimi?

Speaker 11 (03:40):
Good morning, Envy, Char. How y'all doing this morning?

Speaker 7 (03:43):
Good.

Speaker 11 (03:44):
Good morning.

Speaker 8 (03:45):
So we start this hour at the Republican National Convention
in Dallas tonight. where President Trump made a new promise
to American voters, what he's calling a Trump dividend for
every adult U.S.

Speaker 11 (03:56):
Citizen.

Speaker 12 (03:57):
Let's listen.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
And here is my promise.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the
United States Senate, both of them, because of our economic,
tremendous economic success, like in history we've never had anything
like what's happening. I will issue a dividend to every
adult citizen in the United States of America for $ 5, 000.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
Right in time for the midterms. We back the STEMIs, huh?
He backed the line to y'all about STEMIs. Remember when
they did the Doge cuts, he said the same thing.
He said they were going to return a portion. of
the projected federal savings from Doge back to tax-paying households.
I think that was $ 5, 000, too. Y'all didn't get that
money either.

Speaker 8 (04:42):
Was that the $ 2, 000 tariff, too, that he promised that
never came as well?

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, but is this legally right? Basically saying if you
vote Republican, I got y'all, but if you vote Democrat?

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Man, that don't even matter.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
It's not going to happen. He just told y'all the
bullpen is lying right in time for the midterms.

Speaker 8 (04:57):
Yeah, so here's what you need to know. There's no
money that has been approved for this right now. This
is quote unquote campaign promise. Trump did not explain exactly
where that money would come from or how the government
would pay for it. And when you do the math,
there's roughly 270 million adults in the United States, 5,000 each.
That would be about $ 1.

Speaker 11 (05:16):
3 trillion.

Speaker 8 (05:17):
And the president can't simply just spend that money on
his own.

Speaker 11 (05:21):
Congress, of course, would have to approve that.

Speaker 8 (05:25):
And so Again, back to the promise he made last
year about a $ 2, 000 tariff. Those dividend checks never came.
Those were never sent. So we're going to take that
with a very, very small grain of salt.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
And, you know, people will forget what you did. They'll
forget what you said, but they'll never forget how you
made them feel. So what he's trying to tap into
is how he made people feel during COVID when those
stimulus checks went out.

Speaker 12 (05:47):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 8 (05:48):
And same with the midterms. Jimmy Kimmel is talking about
some pressure that he's feeling from the FCC. They're now
trying to affect who he puts on television. So Kimmel
says the FCC has threatened him, his show, ABC, its
local stations over what he calls normal decisions and programming
about political guests. Now, he is set to interview Texas

(06:10):
Senate candidate James Tallarico. But Kimmel says that interview will
not air on ABC. Instead, the entire thing will be
on YouTube. Let's listen to why.

Speaker 13 (06:19):
I've been interviewing Americans who are running for office with
no problem at all, just like Letterman did, Leno did, Arsenio,
et cetera, et cetera. I've interviewed a lot of political candidates,
from Hillary Clinton to Ted Cruz to Donald Trump himself.
I interviewed Donald Trump when he was running for president
in 2015, and at that time, when he was the
one sitting next to me, he seemed to have no

(06:40):
problem with the idea of talk show host interviewing candidates.
Now that he's president, his FCC... It's threatened me, threatened
our show, threatened our network, ABC, our affiliates, our local stations.
Based on simple, traditional editorial decisions, guest bookings, it would
seem they don't like. And so out of consideration for

(07:01):
our local stations, especially our ABC affiliates in Texas who
would have to deal with this nonsense, my interview tomorrow
with James Tallarico will not air on television tomorrow. It
will be posted on YouTube instead because in the America
we live in right now, that is the best that
we can do until November.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
Well, it's safe to call the Trump administration an authoritarian
regime now.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Like, it's absolutely official. Like, when they interfere with the
media to control public narratives and suppress, you know, interviews,
officially an authoritarian regime.

Speaker 14 (07:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (07:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (07:32):
And that interview would air tonight. That was his show
from yesterday. But ABC is already suing the FCC. The
FCC is making eight ABC owned stations go through license
renewals early. And ABC says it's being targeted over programming.
Of course, that President Trump and the FCC chairman don't

(07:54):
see as quote unquote normal television. They're calling it they're
going after them for discrimination for DEI. The FCC, of course,
they deny that. It says that they do early reviews
all the time, and this is just connected to discrimination
at Disney and at ABC.

Speaker 11 (08:11):
So, again, that interview will air on YouTube tonight.

Speaker 8 (08:14):
And do you guys remember when this happened with Stephen
Colbert earlier this year, back in February? The same exact thing,
pretty much, on CBS. And his interview aired on YouTube because.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
It could not air on TV. It only came on YouTube?
With Colbert?

Speaker 8 (08:28):
Uh-huh. Yeah, with James Tallarico. It happened, I think, back
in February earlier this month. And really quickly, a warning
this morning. If you are checking your voter registration online,
there's a website called votersafe.org, and it's not what it
appears to be.

Speaker 12 (08:45):
So vote safe.org.

Speaker 8 (08:47):
It's votesafe.org, and it's not what it seems to be.
It looks like it's a place to check your voter registration,
but it's actually ran by Elon Musk and his America Pact.
So what it is, you put your information in, but
it collects your full name, your birthday, your home email,
your home address, your email, cell phone number, IP address, location.

(09:07):
And it can track every link you click, every page
you look on, and your voter registration status in your district.

Speaker 11 (09:14):
But unlike the regular.

Speaker 8 (09:16):
Website, which is vote.gov, that's the official nonpartisan voter website,
Vote Safe asks you to hand over all your personal information.
Reputable voter registration does not do that. So before you
put any information into any website, they are just saying,
make sure that you check where it is coming from,
who's actually behind it.

Speaker 11 (09:37):
And if you are not sure.

Speaker 8 (09:39):
Go directly to your state or local election office or
their website to register to vote. So there seems to
be some sort of mischief going on with this.

Speaker 11 (09:51):
Again, that website is votesafe.org.

Speaker 8 (09:55):
They are warning this morning that that website is tracking
some of your movements. under Elon Musk and his America PAC.

Speaker 7 (10:02):
All right.

Speaker 15 (10:04):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (10:04):
All right. And coming up at 7, one of the
people who helped build one of the world's most powerful
AI just quit. You guys were just talking about this.
They are warning about what could happen next. We're going
to talk about it in the next hour.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
All right.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Everybody else, get it off your chest. Phone lines are
wide open.

Speaker 14 (10:20):
800-585-1051.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
It's The Breakfast Club.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Good morning. This is your time to get it off
your chest.

Speaker 16 (10:28):
800-585-1051.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello,
who's this?

Speaker 17 (10:34):
Hi, hello.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Hey, good morning. What's your name?

Speaker 18 (10:36):
My name is Jeanette, and I'm from Reading, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Hey, Jeanette from Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Get it off your chest.

Speaker 18 (10:41):
Okay, so I just want to say I love y'all.
I love DJ Andy, Lauren Rosa, Jess, and Charlotte Music.
I just want to say hi.

Speaker 7 (10:49):
We love you back.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
We love you more.

Speaker 18 (10:50):
So I have a question. I love the positivity that
you guys push, but I got to tell you, sometimes
I get a little disturbed with some of the negativity
about colorism. Because I know about the donkey of the day,
you know, you were talking about that word and how
we need to get that out of vocabulary, push positive,
you know.

Speaker 7 (11:10):
The N-word.

Speaker 18 (11:11):
But, yeah, I mean, the N-word, yeah. But my dad,
you know, he's DJ Envy's complexion. My mom is Carmel.
I'm Carmel. And you know how genetics roll in the
black community. My daughter is my dad's complexion. And, you know,
I know it's jokes and everything, but colorism is a
real thing. And at age seven, I'm already getting it
from her. And I just I feel like colorism is

(11:32):
a big thing in our community too. It's just as
bad as an N-word. You know, we all come in
different colors, like a crayon box browns all over. And
I used to think of the stories my dad used
to tell me when he grew up in Queens, Jamaica, Queens,
how he was not, he was black, you know, too
black for the white, for the white friends and not
black enough for his black friends. And now God gave

(11:54):
me a woman, a little girl who's his complexion and
she's already going through it in this day and age.
So sometimes, you know, I love y'all positivity, but that
colorism joke, it bothers me.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
What did they say about your daughter?

Speaker 18 (12:06):
Well, it didn't hit until this year in summer camp.
She came home talking about how they were doing paper dolls,
and some girl made a comment to her, and.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
What was the comment?

Speaker 18 (12:19):
Basically told her, oh, you can't be the paper bag doll,
and then you need to use a crayon to make
it white. And it's like... What does that have to
do with that? And my daughter comes home, and she's like,
I want to play paper dolls, but why do I
have to change your color with a crayon? And I'm
just like, oh, my God.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
How old is your daughter?

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Seven.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
I don't know if that's colorism as much as it
is an observation, but I get what you're saying, though.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Like, you know what I mean? Because kids are just
looking at it from the perspective of they want it
to be accurate.

Speaker 18 (12:45):
Well, I wish it was that case, but the thing is,
I guess, okay, so maybe it's me hearing about my
dad's situation, what he went through. I'm looking at it
that way. I guess observation is true, but.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
And.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
It's just a conversation you got to have with your kids,
and you got to teach your kids how to get
their jokes off, even though I don't think that young.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
person was joking when they told your daughter that.

Speaker 6 (13:08):
I will say this though, you know, from, yeah, I
was made fun of a lot, but my parents are
still in kind of the F you attitude.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
You've been made fun of now.

Speaker 6 (13:16):
Yeah, but my parents are still the F you attitude
where I'm proud of my skin color.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
I'm black. I'm light skin.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
I can't be anything else and I'm proud of it.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
And to have kids like my daughter Brooklyn, is probably
the darkest in my six kids, and she loves her
brown skin, and there's nothing about it.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
We encourage it.

Speaker 6 (13:35):
We love her. We tell her that her skin is beautiful,
and she loves it. She's proud of it. What else
is she supposed to do? Yeah, but like she said,
there are kids that make fun of different colors of skins,
and my sons have been called the N-word before. They
go to predominantly white schools, but My kids really, really
love their skin colors. And there are so many different shades.

(13:56):
Like I said, Brooklyn is the darkest.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Then Logan.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
Then it goes down to the lightest with London. But
they love their skin shades. They know that they're black regardless.
And they got the effort attitude. Like, I'm beautiful regardless.
And that's the same way my parents raised me.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
And they got the crayons. They got the colors of
the world. You never seen the Crayola colors of the world?
Crayons that got all of the different skin tones.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
So that's what I mean.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
Like, I'm not saying that, you know, kids don't experience colorism.
I just think in that situation with a seven-year-old, that
little other kid wanted your child just to be accurate.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
And not for nothing, Jeanette, my kids got them jokes, too.
Because they will fire back. They will fire back. And
I let them fire back. It is what it is.
If you make fun of them, let them fire back.

Speaker 18 (14:35):
Well, she's my only child. And I do have her
in a predominantly white school, a private school. But I
put her purposely in the Boys and Girls Club summer
camp so she could experience what I grew.

Speaker 8 (14:45):
Up with, you know?

Speaker 18 (14:46):
So I guess, I don't know. I have to balance it.
The Color World crayon is.

Speaker 13 (14:50):
A great idea, actually.

Speaker 18 (14:51):
I'm going to look into that.

Speaker 14 (14:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
I just, yeah, that's a great idea.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
It's called Crayola Colors of the World, and they have
all the different skin tones that, you know, we would experience.

Speaker 6 (15:03):
And also, you know, putting her in activities outside of
the school where the focus is on what the activity is,
that helped a lot. So, you know, my daughters are
in dance. And there's all types of shades. There's Asian, white, black, Indian. Like,
it doesn't matter. They just focus on dance.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
And they don't even see color. That's not true.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Because them black girls be dancing way better than them
white girls.

Speaker 5 (15:25):
And people out there say that. They be like, yo,
them black girls, boy, they really can boogie. My daughters
do get busy.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
But the kids, they focus on the dance and not
necessarily the colors. You see them white kids trying to
get tanned because they think it's going to make them
dance better.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
You can't escape it.

Speaker 5 (15:41):
There's no escaping your color or any of these conversations.

Speaker 16 (15:45):
That's true.

Speaker 7 (15:45):
And that's the thing.

Speaker 18 (15:46):
I think I think me having her is making me
nervous trying to figure out how to promote positivity. Because
at the end of the day, when she got tanned
during the summer, I said, you look beautiful tanned. You're
going to go back to sugar cookie mode. I make
jokes with it, too, with her. Because ever since that
girl made that comment, I'm thinking, how do I balance it?
But I can't make too many jokes.

Speaker 16 (16:07):
I'm going to start off with the Crayola Cram.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
You can make a lot of jokes, okay? I call
Envy a sugar cookie every winter. Because he does.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
But you know what's crazy?

Speaker 2 (16:15):
He could call me a sugar cookie. He could call
me bae, the color of pee. He could call me
all those things.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Not just pee, dirty urine. He could call me all
those things.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
But if I say, look, you little short black bitch,
I get in trouble.

Speaker 7 (16:26):
No, you don't.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
That's just not funny.

Speaker 19 (16:28):
Yes, it is.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
It's not descriptive. Short black bitch. When I say you
look like the color of dirty urine, you look like
the color of urine when somebody doesn't drink enough water.
That's just more descriptive.

Speaker 16 (16:38):
That hurts my feelings.

Speaker 15 (16:40):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Be more descriptive. I'm hurt by that. That hurts my feelings.
Can you stop?

Speaker 15 (16:43):
No.

Speaker 14 (16:43):
See?

Speaker 1 (16:44):
Thank you, Jeanette.

Speaker 20 (16:45):
All right.

Speaker 18 (16:46):
Take care, y'all.

Speaker 16 (16:47):
Love y'all.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Have a good day, Jeanette.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Peace.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Get it off your chest.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
800-585-1051.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's
The Breakfast Club.

Speaker 17 (16:53):
Good morning.

Speaker 16 (16:55):
Ray, Ray, Ray.

Speaker 19 (16:56):
Yo, Charlemagne, Envy, what up?

Speaker 21 (16:58):
Are we live?

Speaker 1 (16:59):
This is your time to get it off your chest.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club.

Speaker 20 (17:05):
We can get on the phone right now.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
He'll tell you what it is. Are we live?

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Hello, who's this?

Speaker 9 (17:10):
Yo, DJ Envy with Coach Davis.

Speaker 7 (17:12):
How's everything?

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Coach Davis, what's up, brother? Haven't heard from you in
a while.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
How's everything? Absolutely. Peace, peace, peace. Jess out today. What's up, brother?
How you feeling?

Speaker 7 (17:21):
Absolutely.

Speaker 14 (17:22):
Absolutely.

Speaker 9 (17:43):
I was coming in and I heard a song by
Nirvana that y'all play every morning.

Speaker 22 (17:49):
For 16 years.

Speaker 5 (17:53):
Because when we first started, we just wanted something that
would get the energy up. Our radio consultant, Slutard guy,
Dennis Clark. you know he was just like you know
when y'all start the show in the morning y'all should
start with something just upbeat and high energy and i
don't know smell i don't know why i don't know
why we chose smells like team spirit by nirvana but
i don't know that just felt like the record.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah it just felt it felt good it felt like
give it a pickup.

Speaker 22 (18:15):
Okay and lastly i was i was listening to this
orange fool last night man and um You know, they
got a saying, they got a saying, as long as
I owe you, you never go broke.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
I hate that saying. I almost punched a dude in his.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
Back in the day, when I used to work in Charleston,
Hot 98.9, I almost punched a guy in his nose.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
I can think of him right now when he told
me that. Boy, that had me so hot.

Speaker 9 (18:36):
I can imagine. You got a fool talking about another $ 5, 000.

Speaker 19 (18:39):
Come on, man. You owe at least.

Speaker 16 (18:43):
$ 4, 000.

Speaker 9 (18:44):
To bring the tariffs and the dose refunds, man.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
What's going on with it?

Speaker 7 (18:50):
You're so gullible, man.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
It's the stupidest thing in the world. As long as
I owe you, you'll never go broke. Tell the IRS that.

Speaker 7 (18:56):
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Y'all take it.

Speaker 9 (18:58):
Yo, y'all have a good day, man.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Y'all be good.

Speaker 7 (19:00):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
All right, man.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Hello, who's this?

Speaker 9 (19:03):
Hey, DJ Amy, Shia LaBeouf.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
What's happening, my guy?

Speaker 9 (19:06):
What's up, man? It's K-Spawn, Dallas, Texas, Charlotte, Maine, Cowboy Nation.

Speaker 7 (19:10):
Stand up.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
You already know we going to the Super Bowl this year, baby.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Y'all going to lose the first game, baby.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
This Sunday, y'all losing, baby.

Speaker 9 (19:18):
First off, free dirt, man. You know, free all my
boys at the feds. I mean, all them Texas boys.
Stand up, man. Y'all coming home soon. But I've been
listening to y'all for a little minute because I've been
locked up. So I really rock with y'all. But what
I want to grab my chest is these subcontractors, me
and my girl, trying to open up this beauty bar.

(19:39):
And they're trying to milk it out of cash and
then just want to do the burn minimum when it
comes to their work. You try to mess with your
people and support their business, but then they don't stand
on business, so where do they leave you at? You
feel me?

Speaker 7 (19:56):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
I get it.

Speaker 6 (19:58):
So where you find these contracts, you know, a lot
of times people go to like Home Depot, they get
a bunch of workers and then you buy the supplies
so that way you ain't got to worry about wasting money.
You just really paying for the labor and not for
the the actual supplies and stuff.

Speaker 9 (20:10):
Yeah, see, while I was locked up, my girl had
opened up her first beauty bar by herself, and she had...
I already got kind of tied into... We had a
good report, but this one subcontractor, but he was... He undocumented.
He don't really have his license. So we went to
this new building, and the owners had asked us to find...

(20:32):
They needed to find somebody with a license.

Speaker 22 (20:35):
Right.

Speaker 7 (20:35):
So.

Speaker 9 (20:36):
He brought somebody else in, and the dude he brought
in really been just BSing us the whole time. Sorry
about that. Now it's about time. It's time for us
to open up. We're trying to go and get it started, man.
Let me go and shout out my girl Instagram so
everybody can go follow her, man. Check her out, man.
We're really trying to do it big down here.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Go ahead, bro.

Speaker 9 (20:59):
The Instagram is Suzy Mac. I mean, underscore Susie Mack
underscore on Instagram and everything.

Speaker 7 (21:08):
All right.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
I hear her in the background until I say good morning.

Speaker 9 (21:12):
Quiet on the set, baby. He can hear you.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Hey, what you listening to us on, the radio or
watching TV?

Speaker 9 (21:18):
Man, I'm listening. I started off on the radio down there.
I was in Beaumont. I was in Beaumont USP, man.
Y'all helped me through that bid for real.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 9 (21:28):
I woke up early in the morning every day checking
out y'all. Don't forget a day for real, Charlemagne.

Speaker 7 (21:32):
You wild, boy.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
I appreciate you, my brother.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Well, thank you, brother. You be safe out there.

Speaker 9 (21:37):
Y'all too, man. Y'all stay up, man.

Speaker 7 (21:39):
Free dirt.

Speaker 23 (21:40):
All right, brother.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent,
you can hit us up.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
What's up, Lauren? Good morning.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
Good morning, guys.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
How you feeling?

Speaker 4 (21:49):
I am exhausted, but I am here, and God is good.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
You look tired. Are they freeing Dirk?

Speaker 22 (21:52):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (21:52):
I don't know if they are freeing Dirk, and Charlamagne,
not yet.

Speaker 7 (21:56):
What?

Speaker 2 (21:57):
You know how you be like, yeah, I'm feeling good.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
You don't ever be like, yeah, you look good. You
didn't You say that.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
You said you tired.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
The minute I be like, I'm tired.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
You said you tired.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Normally people be like, why you tired? What's going on?
You look tired.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
You said you exhausted.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
I said, yeah, you look tired. Okay, you're here.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Fashion week. What's wrong with you?

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yes, I was. I went to Samantha Bee and a
Judah Style show last night.

Speaker 22 (22:17):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
Style Speed's wife. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
First of all, I didn't know.

Speaker 21 (22:21):
I didn't know that she was a part of the show,
but Samantha Bee, she used to work on- Samantha Bee
the comedian?

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (22:26):
Samantha B is a designer. She's a black designer. She
was on Project Runway. So like years ago, Project Runway
All Stars was my first job. And me and her
were just on Instagram posting about being on Project Runway.
And we kind of linked from there. So we've been
friends throughout the years.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
You had a mad job, yo.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
I was the project. TMZ. Delta.

Speaker 21 (22:44):
I was accessories coordinator on Project Runway All-Stars the second season.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
So I was behind the scenes. Like, I was under
the line.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Oh, so you wasn't on the camera.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
No, I was below the line.

Speaker 21 (22:52):
I wasn't on the camera. But she was on camera, though.
She's one of the designers from one of the seasons
of Project Runway. She just made her return back to
Fashion Week, so I was there last night supporting them.
I saw Styles P. He is so excited.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
He listens to the show a lot. I love running
into people.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
He gets up early.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
He usually works out early in the morning.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
And he takes care of his business.

Speaker 21 (23:09):
He basically told me, keep fighting the good fight. He
knows Charlamagne is a lot, but, you know.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Salute to Styles P.

Speaker 21 (23:14):
No, he didn't say that, but he did say, we're
doing a good job up here.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
I'm doing a good job, so thank you, Styles P.

Speaker 7 (23:18):
All right.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
Needed that, because, you know, Charlamagne.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Charlamagne what? You just here.

Speaker 5 (23:22):
Charlamagne puts the battery in your back, okay?

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Stop it. I am the wind beneath your wings.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
To break it down.

Speaker 7 (23:30):
I am the wind beneath your wings.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
You don't even know. Now cars don't need that. It's like,
I don't need the battery. Like, give me something else. Like,
I need something more, you know?

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well, we got the latest coming up. What we talking about?

Speaker 21 (23:38):
We do got the latest coming up. Speaking of fashion,
Meg Thee Stallion covered in Style Magazine. Y'all know she's
returning with Act 3 new music, but she's bringing us
into her world. And she's talking a bit more about
what did or did not work out when it came
to Klay Thompson. So we're going to talk about when
you try to make something fit that doesn't work.

Speaker 7 (23:53):
All right. Whoa. All right.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
We'll get into that next. It's The Breakfast Club.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
Good morning.

Speaker 7 (23:59):
The latest with Lauren LaRosa.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
Because you particularly are bringing the energy to mainstream radio,
the black radio.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
That source is trusted. Did you hear that exclusive?

Speaker 21 (24:06):
Lauren, I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about
everything and everything.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
She be having the latest on things.

Speaker 20 (24:12):
You ask the questions that need to be answered.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
On The Breakfast Club.

Speaker 12 (24:16):
Little brown girls look at you and go, I want
to be like you.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
LL Cool B.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Talk to me, Lolo.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
Yo.

Speaker 21 (24:22):
That's my nickname, like, for real. My whole family calls
me that. All right, y'all. So, Meg Thee Stallion, she
covered InStyle magazine. She looks beautiful in the magazine. Meg
Thee Stallion is gearing up. To give us some new music.
She says her act three, she's going to be bringing
back Tina Snow. Y'all remember Tina Snow when Meg first
started rapping? That was the caricature that she played into.
And now Tina Snow is elevated. But she's going to

(24:43):
bring us the edge back, according to this article. But
Meg is talking about music, life... Personal life, you know,
we've seen a few things over these past months.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
So first, let's talk about that. I thought that this
was so cute.

Speaker 21 (24:55):
So the journalist that is interviewing her is, like, listening
to Meg's music and has broken down this interview into, like,
chapter one, chapter two, right? So they're talking about how
Meg Thee Stallion, she wants to be the Mariah Carey
of the summer. I thought that that was, like, such
a great, like, comparison for her. Because when you think
of summer, remember when Meg Thee Stallion started the hot
girl summer movement, right?

Speaker 8 (25:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (25:16):
How big it was, all the organizations that co-opted it.
You had Wendy's, you had all these corporate brands leaning in,
but the culture really leaned in, right?

Speaker 1 (25:22):
But I think that.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
Phrase was bigger than the song that they created. See,
the reason Mariah Carey dominates Christmas is because the song
is so fun.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
Yes, but, okay, so.

Speaker 21 (25:32):
She's talking more about the feeling. I get what you're saying, though.
So Meg Thee Stallion says, I want to be the
Mariah of the summer. I love Mariah Carey. Mariah is Christmas.
As soon as November starts, we just hear Mariah hit
that high note.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
Boom. Me, June 21st, as soon as summer starts, boom,
it's Megan. I'm not playing. I think it's like the feeling.

Speaker 21 (25:49):
Like, I remember when the hot girl movement was a thing,
and I feel like summertime, it was like, okay, you
want to be fun.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
You want to be outside. It's all about providing the soundtrack. See,
the thing about Mariah Carey, she provides... A soundtrack for Christmas.
It's that song.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Right. She needs a Hot Girl Summer anthem.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Yeah, I don't think Megan has provided that this summer
or even last summer.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
Well, Act 3 is coming. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (26:11):
She's gearing up for it.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
None of her songs came back like Mariah's songs that
gave you that feeling.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
That song with Nicki was actually called Hot Girl Summer.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yes, during that time. But she needs an actual Hot
Girl Summer anthem.

Speaker 7 (26:23):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
She's right about the feeling and the praise.

Speaker 7 (26:24):
The feeling, yeah.

Speaker 21 (26:25):
Well, I mean, look, so Savage remix that she did
with Beyonce, six times platinum.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
No, you're not listening to what we're saying. It's not
a feeling. She needs an actual song. Mariah got a
Christmas song.

Speaker 21 (26:35):
But Megan has Hot Girl Summer. So, yes, Mariah Carey
has a Christmas song. Hot Girl Summer, there's like a
soundtrack to it.

Speaker 8 (26:42):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
You go out frequently, right?

Speaker 7 (26:43):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
When is the last time you heard a Megan Thee
Stallion song?

Speaker 4 (26:46):
Not right now. What I'm saying is she can get there, though.

Speaker 21 (26:49):
Because when she did have, when the song with Nicki Minaj,
the Hot Girl Summer song, when WAP, when.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
Savage remix.

Speaker 24 (26:54):
Savage.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
When they were out, there was a tune of the summer. Correct.
She working on it.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
The Hot Girl Summer anthem this year was been that.

Speaker 7 (27:01):
It was.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
All I'm simply saying is when I hear her say
that about Mariah, I'm simply saying she needs a Hot
Girl Summer record to go with the summer.

Speaker 21 (27:09):
So you know how Mariah Carey, we think of All
I Want for Christmas and all these things, right?

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Does she need one song that is forever?

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Oh my God, Lauren.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
No, no, no.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
Can it be different? No, I'm asking you a question.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yes, she needs one song forever.

Speaker 13 (27:22):
Why?

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Why can't it be different? You can't compare yourself to
Mariah Carey and talk about the.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
The song that makes you feel that way that means
you need.

Speaker 6 (27:30):
A song when you hear that Mariah Carey song it's
Christmas time and you want to hear.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
It every Christmas there's certain.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Songs that you hear like barbecue songs you know back
that ass up Juvenile homecoming song you know it's swag
surfing or knock if you buck I agree let's move
on because I was trying when you want to line
dance right when you want to do the before I
let go it's Tamiya or you do before I let
go this particular song she doesn't have.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
That song and the fact that she compared herself to
Mariah and said that's what she wants that's automatically where
our mind goes she needed the song.

Speaker 21 (28:01):
Got you well they didn't go into like you know
just how she is as an independent artist and Des
is in the article as well who works with Roc
Nation and she talks about how Megan like has always
wanted control over her career she writes her music she's
making her own music she owns it we know remember
she did that deal she's an independent artist but she
talks about how she also comes out of pocket for

(28:21):
like basically all of her expenses because she doesn't take
advances at all Um, thought that that was fire, but
she gets on the breakup. So they, the interviewer asks
her like, you know, how you feeling? She says she
feels like, you know, clothes that just got put through
the washer and a dryer.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
Like she'd have been through the wringer.

Speaker 8 (28:35):
Right.

Speaker 21 (28:35):
So she says that they asked her about the breakup.
She says it was very rough. Uh, she says for
the first time, um, And she's trying to figure out
how to say it gently.

Speaker 12 (28:44):
She just says she.

Speaker 21 (28:45):
Realized that what's meant for you is always going to
work out. And if something is consistently and constantly making
you feel uncomfortable, just on edge all the time, you
probably are not supposed to be there. God will always
make you uncomfortable when something is not meant for you.
I think I just kept trying to make pieces fit
that didn't belong, trying to fit myself into someone else's life.
I was losing myself a little bit. I am now
in a space of finding me again. Uh, she then continues.

(29:08):
She talks about, you know, people being faithful and or not.
Cause remember she claimed Clay Thompson was not. And she talks,
she says, she draws a line of disrespect. You will
not disrespect me and you will be thankful period. She
says that she learned a lot from that experience and
now she's working more on her, but she will not
be disrespected.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
So yeah, she puts it in the music.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
Oh, she 100%. I think she will put it in
the music for sure.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
And back to the music.

Speaker 6 (29:31):
For some reason, she puts out a lot of dope music,
but I don't feel like they connect like they should. Like,
even the last song she put out, I thought was
going to go.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
What song?

Speaker 1 (29:38):
My man, my man, my man.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
It did for the moment.

Speaker 6 (29:40):
I thought it was going to go because I was like, oh,
it's a song showing her love for her man. And
I thought it was going to go. But you women
didn't support it.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
I love that song. What are you talking about? I mean, what?

Speaker 1 (29:51):
I never heard you even say that, talk about that
record ever in my life. Yo, I never heard that.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
I put that song on pictures, on Instagram. Like, come on.
The girls, we was out here singing that song.

Speaker 7 (30:00):
No, we wasn't.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yes, we was.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Is this when you had a man?

Speaker 7 (30:03):
I had one.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
So when you got a man, that's when you started
posting it? I never heard you talk about it.

Speaker 21 (30:06):
It was out at the same time. What do you
want me to say, Charlamagne?

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Like, I just never heard the record. Like, I've never
heard you talk about the record. But I root for Megan.
Dropping the Clues bombs for Megan Thee Stallion. I root
for Megan.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
She's been through a lot.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
And all the times I've ran into her or spoke
to her, she's been a very pleasant person.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Cool-ass chick from Houston.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
Well, she has been through a lot, and they get
into that as well, too.

Speaker 21 (30:25):
Because, I mean, on the Klay Thompson situation, she just
talks about not wanting to ever be minimized by a man.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
But then they go into, you know, the fact.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
That— What about minimized by women who don't support her music?

Speaker 7 (30:33):
Shut up.

Speaker 21 (30:34):
Then they go into therapy. She talks about how she's
grown now, and she's done therapy. She says she's still
in therapy actively. She's been in a facility where she
did a bunch of different therapy. And this is something
that she pushed herself to get into because— You know,
she deals with a lot. And she says, I feel
like I used to think a lot with my emotional mind.
And now I can think logically and emotionally and figure

(30:55):
out how to react or not.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
The art of non-response.

Speaker 7 (30:58):
I love it.

Speaker 16 (30:59):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (31:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
So shout out to Megan Thee Stallion.

Speaker 6 (31:01):
I just wish people would focus on her music more
than everything else. Because I feel like with Megan, they
talk more about her relationships, talk about more about.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Everything outside of the music. and the music comes second, and.

Speaker 7 (31:11):
I hate that.

Speaker 5 (31:11):
But that's why it's actually good she's doing stuff like this,
because she gets it all out the way.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
So by the time her music drops, that's what people
will be focused on. Yeah, they'll focus on just the music.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
Yeah, and I mean, the article is a full article.

Speaker 21 (31:21):
They talk about everything, but I feel like, and y'all
could push back if y'all want, women, it's a bit
harder for you to just only focus on, like with Lotto,
she tried to just only focus on the music, but
people care about your personal life a lot when you're
a female artist.

Speaker 4 (31:35):
And if you're putting it out there.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
And you know what's crazy, though?

Speaker 5 (31:37):
Especially women that do, like, entertainment reports on shows like
they'll focus more on like the relationships and stuff as
opposed to the.

Speaker 21 (31:44):
Person you know what do we start with though we
started with Meg Thee Stallion as a business as a
structure as you know what I mean like as the
boss that she is you.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Know you could keep people focused on music if you
actually pointed people towards it but you care more about
I'm not talking about you Lauren I'm just saying.

Speaker 21 (31:58):
In general and then I argued Josh Dan about how
Hot Girl Summer was an anthem it was a vibe
you know you didn't know you know y'all should stay out.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Of women's business Lauren's not gonna support but we are
pull up a Megan song we got that my man
record in there my man my man my man my
man let.

Speaker 5 (32:13):
Me hear you sing it you can still play Hot
Girl Summer we still Summer's still on till.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
The 22nd play Hot Girl Summer man Summer's still till
the 22nd play Hot.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Girl Summer man y'all crazy why we crazy Summer not
over till the 22nd.

Speaker 21 (32:28):
I'm practicing what Megan Thee Stallion said, non-response. We got
to wrap up. But the next latest, we'll be back.
We're going to take it down to the South, and
we're going to talk a little bit about the waffles
that have people going crazy right now.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
We in the South now. Megan's from Houston. Play the record.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
I'm talking about the Carolinas.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
When we come back, we got front page news, so
don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 7 (32:43):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Megan Thee Stallion.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Y'all just threw on Hot Girl Summer. Y'all got to
twerk something.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Because Summer's not over till the 22nd, but this record
should have been a bigger moment. You got Nicki Minaj
and Ty Dolla $ ign.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
What do you mean? It was a big moment.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
It should have been a bigger moment. Like, this is
supposed to be a smash hit.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
I know we got front page news, and quote, unquote,
to numbers, it was a smash hit, right?

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Was it? Yeah.

Speaker 6 (33:08):
To culture, I just don't feel like it smacked like
some of these other ones did.

Speaker 21 (33:13):
Please tell me what is the let Mimi get to
her segment we'll talk about this later because y'all gotta
break this.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Down for me numbers wise it was a smash hit.

Speaker 21 (33:21):
But feeling wise maybe because y'all not women but like
we was outside Hot Girl Summer was a movement that's
why it transitioned into so much business the phrase was
a movement the song too Mimi take us somewhere political
please or something.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
It peaked at number 11 on the billboard charts by
the way I think it.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Did what, six times platinum or something like that?

Speaker 4 (33:43):
No, that was Savage Remix.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah, that was Beyonce. Now that was a moment. Savage
Remix with Beyonce? That was a moment.

Speaker 6 (33:51):
But anyway, let's get into some front page news. Sorry, Mimi,
I know you got a limited time. Let's start off
quick with sports.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
The Seahawks last night beat the Patriots.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
NFL is back. Football is back. The Seahawks beat the
Patriots 13-10.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
I am so glad football is back and now y'all
can stop acting like y'all love tennis. That's right.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Now, tonight, 49ers take on the Rams.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Now, what's up, Mimi?

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Talk to us.

Speaker 8 (34:13):
Good morning, guys. So we're going to start this hour
with a dire warning about where artificial intelligence could be
headed from one of the people who helped build it.
So AI researcher Jacob Coxson, he's quit Anthropic after spending
the last three years working with both OpenAI and Anthropic.

(34:33):
Those are two of the biggest AI companies in the world. Now,
he says neither of those companies is acting responsibly. He
says they're racing to build something called super intelligence, basically
AI that becomes smarter than humans and can keep making
itself smarter.

Speaker 11 (34:48):
And his concern is simple. If AI becomes more.

Speaker 8 (34:51):
Powerful than humans, he says there would be no way
to control it. He spoke to NBC Nightly News last night.
Let's listen to what he what.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
He had to say.

Speaker 14 (35:00):
Potentially one year away from now, the models start getting
very dangerous. One year away?

Speaker 7 (35:05):
One year.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
One year away.

Speaker 14 (35:06):
Some people think even six months. Like, it's plausible within
six months the models pose risk of taking over the world.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
The AIs.

Speaker 14 (35:13):
They're not panicking about current AIs, but we are discussing,
you know, what is the world going to look like
in two years? This is endgame.

Speaker 7 (35:20):
These are like.

Speaker 14 (35:21):
crucial high stakes decisions being made by people in in
a private company and you know people people are scared
because as they should be when they're talking about the
possibility of human extinction.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Unplug it then okay like we are clearly already at
the point of no return if they're telling us If
they're telling us, then it's probably too late. Yeah, and
I'm with you.

Speaker 6 (35:41):
It's getting to the point now where if the people
that are designing it, making it, saying that this thing
is doing its own thing, breaking into people's accounts and
hacking things.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Yeah, gotta unplug it.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
We've been being hacked forever, though.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Also, you know, I'm... That's by a human.

Speaker 6 (35:55):
This is by a computer that's just doing it... freelance
like there's no controlling it it's been over for.

Speaker 5 (36:01):
Also don't think that uh these things just came about
like i remember somebody telling me a very important person
telling me a long time ago anything that they've introduced
us now they knew about 30 years ago oh god
so so they already know how this is.

Speaker 8 (36:13):
Going he was also asked what losing control would actually
look like and this is what he had.

Speaker 14 (36:18):
To say They'll have conversations about, oh, do you think
this AI next year could produce a virus that kills
us all? Could it hack critical infrastructure? And this is
discussed soberly. And people are aware that it could happen.
We don't know how to control these things perfectly. It
is definitely on the cards.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
I just also want y'all to know I was born
in 1978, so I'm old enough to remember things like
the Y2K scare when experts would tell you that, you know,
there was going to be a bug that caused power
grids to fail and airplanes to fall from the sky
and banks to lose track of accounts.

Speaker 19 (36:48):
No, it's not.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
It's actually kind of the same thing.

Speaker 6 (36:50):
No, it's not because that was Y2K, but now it's
so far advanced, right? People are getting in cars that
there's no drivers and they're just hoping that the AI
gets them to the right place.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
That didn't happen to Washington. You're not listening to what
I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (37:02):
What I'm saying is there's always fear instilled in people
whenever new technology is introduced.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
I remember what everybody thought. They said when the clock.

Speaker 5 (37:11):
Struck midnight on January 1st, 2000, all the computer systems
were going to crash all.

Speaker 7 (37:16):
Over the world.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
Yeah, we thought the world was coming to end. My grandma,
we was in church. They was praying.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Nah, yeah, I get it.

Speaker 6 (37:22):
But this just seems a lot different because AI controls
so much.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Of our world and life. It does. There was a
public panic. I remember.

Speaker 5 (37:30):
The media reports had people running to go hoard food
and water and cash.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
And by the way, I'm not saying that this isn't
a real threat. I'm just saying I'm old enough to
have seen this before.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah, this one makes me a little one of the companies.

Speaker 11 (37:41):
He's not alone.

Speaker 8 (37:42):
There was another guy who kind of came out and
backed him up. So we will continue to watch this.
It's getting a lot, a lot, a lot of movement,
you know, all over the news right now because these
these warnings are coming out and people. are really kind of,
you know, paying more attention and leaning into it.

Speaker 11 (37:58):
But I hear you, Char. It is, you know, kind
of what was happening back.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
In the day.

Speaker 11 (38:02):
This concerns me a lot more, though.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
I hear you, too.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Because we rely on so much AI now than we
did before. Like, this concerns me a whole lot now.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
We relied on the Internet.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
Back then, too.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Not like this. We were on the way. Going into
the year 2000, we were on the way. Not like this.
This is, I mean, our whole life is AI.

Speaker 11 (38:17):
Pretty much my whole life.

Speaker 8 (38:19):
And the more you do is it's just becoming more AI,
you know, and everything. But before we go, the kids
are back in school and you know what comes next.

Speaker 11 (38:28):
It is picture day. So today is.

Speaker 8 (38:30):
Actually National School Picture Day and it falls on. The
second Thursday in September, it celebrates that yearly tradition where,
you know, you got dressed up, you sat in front
of the camera at school and you hope the picture
came out halfway decent because it was going to end
up in the yearbook.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Do you guys.

Speaker 8 (38:44):
Remember those days when you were at school taking your
school photo?

Speaker 7 (38:48):
Yes, I do.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
Who said no? Charlamagne, he's old. He predates the internet
and everything.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
I do, actually.

Speaker 6 (38:57):
Every year, Mom Dukes got you dressed up and it
was some stupid background. I showed you some of mine.

Speaker 21 (39:02):
Yeah, I sent a couple older ones when Mimi was
asking us for photos.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
And I was like, why did I do this to myself?

Speaker 8 (39:10):
So since we're celebrating, that's right, Lauren, I did a
little bit of digging.

Speaker 11 (39:13):
I found some old photos.

Speaker 8 (39:14):
And I think we're going to start with Envy because Envy,
you know, He had some really good photos. Envy's parents,
they dressed him up. Do we have those photos of
Envy from, I think it was like.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
Six years old? I didn't give it away. Envy!

Speaker 12 (39:31):
Look at you all tricky.

Speaker 25 (39:32):
Look at Envy.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Look at Logan, man. Logan's so much cooler than his daddy.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
He is.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
I think we have two more. We have another one
of Envy.

Speaker 8 (39:40):
How old were you there, Envy?

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Man, what race was he there? What age was that?

Speaker 7 (39:48):
I think I was seven there.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
I think I was seven.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
What age was he?

Speaker 11 (39:52):
What was his ethnicity?

Speaker 8 (39:53):
And then we have one of Charlemagne.

Speaker 11 (39:56):
Let's see your school photo.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
That looked like a mugshot. You've been greasing that face
for years.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Decades. Thin, starving face.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
Thin, starving face.

Speaker 11 (40:10):
But why was it black and white?

Speaker 1 (40:11):
I was born in 1978, man. That's from a Berkeley
High School yearbook. I don't even know what year that was.
You would have.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
Thought he wanted it in color so he could remember
his hairline. And I think we have one of you
two more.

Speaker 17 (40:27):
Yes!

Speaker 4 (40:31):
That was my senior, my high school senior graduation.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
No, that's the better one.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
I was going to say another one. I was like,
we ain't doing this.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
You look like a cancer patient and they had to
send in wigs. Mimi, where's yours?

Speaker 4 (40:54):
Whoa, I didn't even see you.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
What?

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Who is that?

Speaker 1 (40:57):
That's Tanisha Brown.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
That is Tanisha Brown. That is Tanisha Brown.

Speaker 8 (41:02):
I think I'm sending one from like first grade or kindergarten.

Speaker 11 (41:05):
Did we get that one, guys?

Speaker 4 (41:06):
You look just like your son. Or your son look
like you.

Speaker 12 (41:08):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 11 (41:09):
Thank you. Thank you. I'll take it.

Speaker 8 (41:11):
Now, if you guys are listening, I just want to
tell you, it'll be on our national picture day.

Speaker 6 (41:15):
I just want to tell people that you can actually
see it on our Instagram page.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
I'm sure people are driving right now. Like, I want
to see the pictures. You can see it on our
IG page. Wow.

Speaker 12 (41:24):
There she is. Kindergarten.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
That's definitely Tamisha.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
What year was that, Mimi?

Speaker 19 (41:28):
What?

Speaker 21 (41:29):
You look like those pictures in the beginning of the
BET movies when it'd be like, I guess you're wondering
how I got here.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Wow, looks like you're about to go do tennis.

Speaker 11 (41:39):
I probably was, though, with my mother. She played tennis.
All right, y'all.

Speaker 8 (41:42):
Well, that is your front page. Thank you for playing
a long National School Picture Day. Those were fun back
in the day. I enjoyed getting dressed up for photos.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Look at this one.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
That's a little gay. That's... Let me ask you a question.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
When did the.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
Rainbow become gay?

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Because I had rainbow and it was... That's before.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Like, when did rainbow become gay? Rainbow was funny.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
Not to predate the rainbow being a symbol.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
Stop the indoctrination of our kids oh my goodness all right.

Speaker 8 (42:14):
I tried to get envy to send that picture that looks.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Like that's the picture you're using you're trying to secure
parental consent for student gender identity or sex-based changes that's
what i just saw just now that was crazy all.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Right send me that man no i'm not sending you
that no way All right, when we come back, they
can meet me.

Speaker 7 (42:35):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Zuri Hall will be joining us.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
We're going to talk to her next. It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning. Good morning, everybody.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
The Breakfast Club.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Laura Rose is here as well.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
We got a special guest in the building.

Speaker 22 (42:48):
Mm-hmm. She's back, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Zuri Hall.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Welcome. Thank you. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Good morning, pretty lady. I feel good.

Speaker 4 (42:55):
Thank you so much. Right back at you, gorgeous.

Speaker 12 (42:57):
It's been good.

Speaker 22 (42:58):
I got in.

Speaker 15 (42:58):
I was at the U.S. Open a few days ago,
which is really fun. Been doing some press, talking pop culture, Hollywood.
Emmys are around the corner.

Speaker 12 (43:05):
It feels good to be in New York.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
I'm spending more time out here lately.

Speaker 6 (43:08):
Since you mentioned the US Open, I just wanted to
ask you, how do you feel about the creators going
crazy in the US Open?

Speaker 2 (43:13):
And the refs having to say, please sit down, please
turn off your cameras.

Speaker 12 (43:16):
The weed, stop the flash, the weed, all the things.

Speaker 7 (43:19):
The weed?

Speaker 12 (43:20):
I mean, the weed can be anybody, though. Technically, it's
probably not just the influencers.

Speaker 21 (43:24):
You don't feel like the super, super tennis people went
and smoked at the US Open?

Speaker 15 (43:27):
I would assume that anybody, obviously, if they have a.

Speaker 21 (43:32):
Little smoke break.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
The tennis watchers, they're like, they drunk, but they like
in it.

Speaker 11 (43:39):
It's the honey juices.

Speaker 15 (43:40):
It's just the honey juices and the vibes. I think
there is a conversation that needs to be had. But
like the flash photography, et cetera, it's all a part
of the fact that the U.S. opened at this point.
It really is like a sports take on fashion week.
Like you've got Anna Wintour in the box. You know,
you've got A-list celebrities rubbing shoulders. It's turned into this

(44:00):
like pop culture phenomenon. So I think that comes with
the territory. You want influencers there because they're moving the
needle in a different way. They're getting new eyeballs on
the sport, which I think is great. But you also
do have to respect the sport. Like, it's an incredibly
impressive one. There is a certain rule or a set
of etiquette rules in the world of tennis. And you
can't show up in somebody's house and then do what
you want to do.

Speaker 12 (44:20):
They don't think we?

Speaker 4 (44:22):
The tennis players. I mean, I don't think they can, right? Yeah,
they get tested. Like, they can do it in any
other sport.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
Do you remember the Zuri who was sending, like, cold
emails trying to get tested? Somebody to give her an opportunity.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
Who told you about this?

Speaker 12 (44:36):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 15 (44:37):
I sometimes go back to those old emails and read
them just to look at all of the rejection and
remind myself.

Speaker 12 (44:43):
How far I've come.

Speaker 15 (44:44):
You know, because even now I get no's all the time.
But I remember when it was only no's. And then
I remind myself one yes.

Speaker 12 (44:51):
And then I look back at like that first 2011
email where it was like, actually, you can come in
and meet with us for 20 minutes. And then that
moves the needle.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
It takes me to the next thing, to the next thing.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
How did those nose shape how you are now?

Speaker 20 (45:05):
Oh, I got you.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
How did the nose shape how you are now? You know,
because you didn't get a bunch of nose, like infinite nose.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
And it tear you away from what you want to do.

Speaker 17 (45:14):
Totally.

Speaker 4 (45:14):
You know, or the other way it can make you
go harder. How in that moment?

Speaker 15 (45:18):
I think because like with my father, like I think
we might have talked about this a little bit, but
he always raised me with, I say a healthy level
of delusion.

Speaker 8 (45:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (45:26):
Where, like, anything is possible, you know? I told her
this yesterday.

Speaker 8 (45:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (45:30):
Wait, in what way?

Speaker 1 (45:31):
He told me I was delusional.

Speaker 12 (45:33):
But that's good.

Speaker 4 (45:34):
You got to be. But I just.

Speaker 21 (45:35):
Didn't know, you know, anything coming from him that could
be slightly positive. You're just like, what's the catch?

Speaker 12 (45:40):
Why are we saying it?

Speaker 4 (45:41):
Tell me more.

Speaker 12 (45:42):
Where is this coming from?

Speaker 4 (45:43):
I think that you do need that.

Speaker 21 (45:44):
Because you posted a video talking about building your life
as a ladder.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
And why people shouldn't do that.

Speaker 12 (45:50):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 21 (45:51):
And what she's talking about is like you get on
one step of that ladder and something don't work out.
You still got to be delusional enough to know that
like I can get to the top of the ladder
because this random other person did it.

Speaker 12 (45:59):
Exactly. That's exactly it.

Speaker 15 (46:01):
Like I think that delusion is when I hear a
no or especially back in the early days, it was
just not yet or not this way, not this door.
And so I never took it personally. It was like, oh,
you don't know me enough yet to know that I'm
going to crush this. Oh, you don't understand how I
work or how I move. So that has nothing to
do with me. That has to do with the fact
that you don't know. You don't know what you're passing on.

(46:23):
You don't know what you're missing out on. So I'll
go get it somewhere else. And then eventually you'll see
what you.

Speaker 4 (46:28):
Missed out on.

Speaker 5 (46:28):
What did Zuri that was trying to get on have
that successful Zuri sometimes.

Speaker 7 (46:34):
Has to fight to keep?

Speaker 12 (46:35):
Whoa, say that one more time.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
What did the Zuri that was trying to get on
have that successful Zuri sometimes.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Has to fight?

Speaker 12 (46:45):
Oh, that's good, Char.

Speaker 15 (46:47):
She sometimes, she had to fight to keep, and now
I think I'm doing a pretty good job of it.

Speaker 12 (46:52):
Remembering this isn't it.

Speaker 15 (46:53):
This isn't the end-all be-all like, you know as much
as I love my career and for a long time
to Lawrence Point I built it like a ladder. I've
talked about that This isn't the most important thing in
my life and that's saying a lot because it's one
of the most important things in my life But being
from Ohio growing up in Toledo Thank God. My parents
are still here and they're so present and active in
my life. I've got a niece I've got a nephew.

(47:15):
There's just so much more that matters and And for
a long time, scrappy Zuri, who.

Speaker 12 (47:19):
Was just trying to get it, super ambitious. And it
was only work.

Speaker 15 (47:23):
Like, I missed out on so many things. Like, I
missed one of my, at the time, she was a
good friend. Now one of my best friends' weddings. Like,
and I always, that still breaks my heart to think about.
But it was at a time in my life where
I was afraid to ask for a vacation day.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
I was afraid.

Speaker 12 (47:36):
To be like, hey, this important thing in my life
is happening. I need to be there.

Speaker 15 (47:40):
And quite frankly, I don't know if I even understood
how important those things were at that time.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
Right.

Speaker 12 (47:46):
And that's just not the case anymore.

Speaker 15 (47:48):
So I would say like the Zuri who was like
this or nothing else, like. sometimes I have to remember that,
I think.

Speaker 12 (47:57):
I kind of just went a little bit all over
the place.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Get Zuri some more liquor. I want to hear Zuri talk.

Speaker 19 (48:01):
No!

Speaker 4 (48:02):
I was just waiting. You don't have the first one?

Speaker 7 (48:06):
Okay, wait.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
So that's no way. Oh, you took it already.

Speaker 19 (48:09):
I'm late?

Speaker 7 (48:09):
She is.

Speaker 15 (48:10):
Hold on.

Speaker 4 (48:10):
I'm going to pour it. She was here last time.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
She was like in and out. We get to talk
to Zuri today.

Speaker 12 (48:15):
All right, let's do it.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
Are you doing things for Fashion Week?

Speaker 8 (48:19):
I am not.

Speaker 12 (48:19):
I'm getting out of here. Thank you so much, love.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
You're welcome.

Speaker 12 (48:21):
I fly out later today, back to L.A.

Speaker 15 (48:24):
Normally, I would be covering the Emmys on Monday, but
I'm getting surgery, and I actually feel very strongly about
talking about this.

Speaker 12 (48:30):
I'm getting a fibroid removed.

Speaker 15 (48:32):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 4 (48:32):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 15 (48:34):
And the reason that I have to do it then
is this is the only time they could squeeze me
in in the next couple of months, and I want
to get it done before award season really kicks off
with the Globes in January, so I have time to recover.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
Is this your first time dealing with the fibroid?

Speaker 1 (48:46):
How long is recovery time?

Speaker 15 (48:48):
I'm trying to get on a flight to Ohio to
finish my recovery three days after. We're going to see
if that's overly ambitious. I hope my surgeon's not listening.
I think they told me a week, a week before
I should get on a plane. But I think it'll
be like a week or so of just like.

Speaker 12 (49:02):
Rest, et cetera.

Speaker 15 (49:03):
But I have friends who have done it and they've
had multiple fibroids removed and they were out. Like it
was one of my friends is going through right now.
As you said, it's been pretty brutal. I haven't traditionally
had them, but I did egg freezing. And so I
did four rounds and a lot of estrogen, a lot
of hormones. And I do kind of wonder if that's where.

Speaker 12 (49:20):
It came from.

Speaker 4 (49:21):
But thank God.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Was it painful? Did they feel it from the pain?

Speaker 12 (49:23):
No, I have no pain.

Speaker 15 (49:25):
I just, yeah, when I started the egg freezing journey,
I just got really serious about my health period. So
reproductive health, fertility preservation. And so, you know, you're doing
these ultrasounds. And during one of the ultrasounds, probably my
third or fourth round, for the first time, they were like,
you know, you have a fibroid, right?

Speaker 1 (49:41):
And I was like, what?

Speaker 12 (49:42):
No, I've never had one of those. Like, what does
that mean? And they were like, they're super common, really normal,
especially in Black women. They affect us disproportionately.

Speaker 15 (49:50):
Um and 80 percent like yeah up to 80 percent
of black women exactly up to 80 percent by the
age of 50 i'm going to deal with at least
one fibroid in their life um and so it was
new for me but they said nothing to worry about
whatever but i do want to have kids and i'm
excited to you know hopefully carry as many naturally as
i can and where it's located.

Speaker 12 (50:09):
They're like yeah you need to just get Get that
out of there because it's giving.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
How does that impact your reproductive journey? Or does it?
I don't know.

Speaker 15 (50:15):
Fibro removal, it's... For some women, unfortunately, it seriously impacts
your reproductive journey to the point some women can't carry.
Some women have hysterectomies where there's a complete removal because
of the fibroids.

Speaker 12 (50:30):
Scarring is a risk also. And then when you have
these fibroids, depending on where they're located in your uterus.

Speaker 15 (50:37):
it can harm or I guess you would say deter implantation, right?
So for a fetus, and now I've gone from U.S.
Open expert to OBGYN. This is not medical advice.

Speaker 12 (50:47):
For the record. I feel like I need to say that.

Speaker 15 (50:48):
It's your personal experience. Yeah, it's just my personal experience.
But it can definitely deter implantation.

Speaker 12 (50:54):
And that's what you need to take a healthy baby
nine months to term.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
You know, Zuri, once.

Speaker 5 (50:59):
I heard you say you didn't believe in backup plans.
Do you still believe that?

Speaker 15 (51:03):
I guess I have to say no, I don't believe
it because even egg freezing is technically, I would categorize
it as a backup.

Speaker 12 (51:10):
Plan, right?

Speaker 15 (51:11):
Because the goal up until a certain age, at least
for me, was to get pregnant naturally and egg freezing
was a backup plan.

Speaker 12 (51:18):
I think career-wise, professionally, yes, I still believe that. Like,
it's all in. It's all or nothing. Like, this is
what I'm doing.

Speaker 15 (51:24):
And in the downtime when I'm not doing it, it's
just trying to figure out how to get back to
wherever I'm trying to go. But personally, yeah, I believe
in backup plans when it comes to this fertility.

Speaker 4 (51:34):
You know what's so crazy?

Speaker 21 (51:36):
Before you asked that, I was going to ask you,
at what point did you stop kind of believing in
the backup plan for your personal life because you said
you froze your eggs?

Speaker 4 (51:43):
Because it's been something that, like, I think a lot
of career, you were so focused on career.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (51:47):
And you have to think about, okay, at what time
does my real life kick in?

Speaker 15 (51:52):
Right.

Speaker 21 (51:52):
And how is that going to work out for me?
But it seems like you've made the switch where you're like, no,
I'm prioritizing my real life.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Exactly.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
When did that switch for you?

Speaker 12 (51:58):
That's exactly it.

Speaker 4 (51:59):
Like what happened? I love that question.

Speaker 12 (52:01):
I think I.

Speaker 15 (52:02):
Got to this point in my life where, you know,
I talk about this ladder theory and how we should
be building like pillars, right?

Speaker 12 (52:07):
Instead.

Speaker 15 (52:07):
So you have this house. The foundation for me is
my faith.

Speaker 12 (52:10):
Because sometimes. All the pillars come crashing down at once.
And it's like, OK, then what? But at least you
still have this firm foundation.

Speaker 15 (52:16):
I got to this point where I had nothing to
show for my life outside of my professional accomplishments. So
when the career stuff imploded or I got hit with
a plot twist or whatever it was, I had nothing
to show. Like I had, you know, and so much
of my identity was wrapped up in what I was
achieving or accomplishing. And I was like, this is a
crappy way to live. And also, even sometimes at my

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highest moments, I'm talking Oscars, Grammys, Golden Globes, co-hosting Fashion
Police with Joan Rivers, all these different things.

Speaker 12 (52:48):
I still have moments of misery. Like, internally, I felt
a void.

Speaker 15 (52:53):
I felt a lack of fulfillment because I was always
chasing the next high.

Speaker 17 (52:58):
Right.

Speaker 12 (52:58):
It was incredible when I was on set. It was
incredible when that show premiered.

Speaker 15 (53:02):
But the in-between, there was nothing because I hadn't built
up anything else. And I was like, I just don't
want to live this way because it's giving too much
control to the people in positions of power in this
landscape that I'm choosing to participate in.

Speaker 12 (53:16):
So I got to figure out how to build up
these other pillars.

Speaker 15 (53:19):
And I also realized, you know, at the end of
the day, it's the folks in Ohio, it's my family,
it's my friends, it's my loved ones who are going
to be here throughout this entire journey. Like half the
people that I worked with at any given moment, would
they be at my wedding?

Speaker 4 (53:32):
Would they be at my funeral?

Speaker 12 (53:33):
You don't have to go dark. And the answer is
probably not.

Speaker 15 (53:36):
And so why would I give that much energy to
these people? God bless them, but give them more than
I'm giving the people who are rocking with me high
or low.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
Good or bad.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (53:46):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (53:47):
What do you think you need for accomplishments?

Speaker 21 (53:49):
Like now that you're in this space where you can
really remove yourself from your accomplishments, where do you think
your need for accomplishing comes from? Is it you really
want to accomplish or is it a fulfillment of something
else that you were trying to figure out?

Speaker 12 (54:00):
I think it's both.

Speaker 15 (54:02):
Yeah, I think I sometimes joke it's a trauma response,
but low-key it kind of is a bit of a
trauma response.

Speaker 12 (54:08):
I am wildly ambitious.

Speaker 15 (54:09):
I've been that way since I was young, since before
I had ideas about what success did or didn't mean.
But yeah, I think when you're shy like I was
growing up, and you don't feel seen in certain spaces,
accomplishment was a way to be seen.

Speaker 12 (54:25):
It was a way for people to pay attention to me. Like,
I'm not.

Speaker 15 (54:28):
Brave enough or outgoing enough at this time to go
up and talk to you and just be precocious, you know,
off record.

Speaker 12 (54:35):
But when you put a mic in.

Speaker 15 (54:36):
Front of me or it's a stage play and it's
action or it's go or the curtain opens, It forced
me to take up space in a way that I
knew I was capable of, but not wired to just
do day in and day out. And so that kind
of fed me in, I think, a really genuine way.

Speaker 12 (54:55):
But as I started to excel and achieve, probably.

Speaker 15 (54:58):
Somewhere along the way, early on, I got wrapped up
in this idea of, oh, this is the only thing
that makes me worthy.

Speaker 12 (55:06):
Of attention or your presence or something.

Speaker 15 (55:09):
Your friendship or your romantic interests, you know, like so
much of the story I told myself for a long
time was this is why.

Speaker 4 (55:19):
Anyone engages with me.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
No, not even deserve.

Speaker 12 (55:23):
If I didn't have this. I wouldn't get this. You
wouldn't engage.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 12 (55:28):
It wasn't from a place of like entitlement or arrogance.

Speaker 15 (55:30):
It was a place of insecurity of like, I got
to do all this to get the attention feel superficial.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
I mean, you made me think about a bunch of stuff,
but like Access Hollywood, right?

Speaker 5 (55:41):
When something you've attached part of your identity to ends, right?
How do you separate this show is over from what
does this say about me?

Speaker 15 (55:49):
I think because I've already detached from like who I
am being like what I do.

Speaker 12 (55:55):
It's the end of an era.

Speaker 15 (55:57):
Like I have appreciated it. It's been 11-ish years, 12
years at E! News and Access Hollywood.

Speaker 12 (56:04):
All good things come to an end.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
It's bittersweet.

Speaker 12 (56:07):
The show's been on air for 30 years.

Speaker 15 (56:09):
But like I'm excited for what's to come.

Speaker 12 (56:11):
Our last show is this week, actually. It's this Thursday.
We'll film it. And it's kind of wild to like
look at Friday and be like, well, what's, what? I'm
going to just do what I want to do. I'm
going to just live my life. But I'm so excited
about that. I'm so excited to just look at the unknown.
And don't get me wrong.

Speaker 15 (56:27):
The team is working. The contracts are being negotiated. Stones
are in the fire. But I'm excited to look at
this blank page. for the end of 2026 and keep
it blank on purpose. I just want to be and
let God surprise me and like see what existing.

Speaker 12 (56:43):
Calls in and yeah.

Speaker 5 (56:45):
Is there any grief attached to Access Hollywood ending that
surprised you a little bit?

Speaker 2 (56:50):
Not really.

Speaker 12 (56:50):
I shed a few tears this past Friday.

Speaker 15 (56:53):
Like right before I got on the plane to come
to New York, I filmed my last show up at
the Globe, up at Universal Studios. And sometimes when you're
doing something every day, you forget everything. like how special
it is, you know, and like little Z in Toledo,
seven years old, like Universal Studios. These are, they make
the biggest films and shows that I've, right. And I'm
just there every day hosting the show. Like, all right guys,

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that's it from Universal Studios Hollywood.

Speaker 12 (57:17):
Until next time.

Speaker 4 (57:18):
The world is seeing your face.

Speaker 15 (57:19):
Yeah. And then to say it for the last time
and know like that's it. So as soon as we wrapped,
I did finally let myself feel it. And yeah, it's bittersweet,
but I do feel like it's time. I'm excited for
what is to come because also you get comfortable.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
Like if you do.

Speaker 15 (57:35):
Something long enough and you can kind of do it
without thinking too hard about it and you love it.
Like I genuinely loved it. You'll stay there.

Speaker 12 (57:43):
And I think it feels like God is just divinely
clearing the table. Like one full sweep.

Speaker 21 (57:48):
You mentioned, I don't know if you said God or
your spirituality, something. I was like, oh, it's the God
piece of it. You've gotten to a point where you're
just letting God do what he do.

Speaker 12 (57:56):
Letting him do what he does. That's exactly it. Because
he's never let me down.

Speaker 15 (58:01):
And there's so many things that I've wanted that I
didn't get and I was mad. And then I saw
the why later, right? I just trust his process.

Speaker 12 (58:10):
You've always been like that, though. You think so?

Speaker 15 (58:13):
I think I used to be way more stubborn about, like,
I used to beat a door down. Like, I used
to stick around longer than the circumstances justified.

Speaker 12 (58:24):
It was like, no, I want to make this work.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
MTV, you is out.

Speaker 4 (58:29):
You love to bring this up.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Girl, and that's right.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
20 years ago, too.

Speaker 12 (58:35):
Girl, here's the first thing smoking.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Right.

Speaker 16 (58:38):
Cheers.

Speaker 19 (58:39):
Cheers.

Speaker 12 (58:39):
You was working with him?

Speaker 4 (58:41):
First thing smoking. I know that's what it is. You
hear me?

Speaker 12 (58:43):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
First of all, best thing ever happened to you. Knock
it off.

Speaker 4 (58:47):
I might choke on this tequila.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
All right.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
And I dare your boy here to say you're the
best thing that happened to me.

Speaker 7 (58:51):
One of.

Speaker 4 (58:52):
Okay, one of.

Speaker 16 (58:52):
One of.

Speaker 15 (58:56):
Like, I've told you that before, though, not to get
all emo and woo woo. But like, back when I
was at MTV, and I was in New York like that,
you were a very important person in my life.

Speaker 12 (59:09):
And it was amazing. very complicated time for me.

Speaker 15 (59:12):
And I was dealing with like insecurity and you spoke
so much life to me. And I remember when you
were even like. I see you on the Today Show.
Before I was even like speaking those things out loud.

Speaker 12 (59:21):
And I was like, yeah, well, I don't know. We'll see.
We'll see. I was just on the Today Show yesterday.

Speaker 15 (59:26):
Chanel and I go out there often to do press
and promote, et cetera.

Speaker 12 (59:30):
And I was just like, who is this guy? Just like.

Speaker 15 (59:33):
Speaking life into me and like seeing not more for myself.

Speaker 12 (59:37):
I saw a lot for myself, but just like, he
was so bold and what he would declare over my future.

Speaker 4 (59:43):
He began downloads from God.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
What'd you say?

Speaker 4 (59:44):
He began downloads. He downloads.

Speaker 12 (59:46):
Absolutely. Absolutely.

Speaker 21 (59:47):
What did, when you, when you, before you knew her,
what did, what came over your spirit where you were like,
she needs that and let me because that's another thing
too it's like you be needing it but did you.

Speaker 12 (59:57):
Know I needed it or were you just being you.

Speaker 5 (59:59):
God just told me to tell you these things literally
I would just see her and I saw the light
and God would tell me to tell.

Speaker 15 (01:00:04):
Her you saw the light so much like I can't
even say how much it was a really I was
struggling a lot with like who am I because again
my identity was so wrapped up in my career at
the time and And it wasn't doing what I wanted
it to do. And then here comes this dude who's
like crushing it, right? He's like top of his game, incredible.
Everyone knows him, loves him. He's so impressive.

Speaker 12 (01:00:22):
And he's like looking at little of me. Most people
love him. A select few love him.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
My first talk show, Zuri, was my co-host.

Speaker 12 (01:00:30):
Yeah, Uncommon Sense.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
The pilot for Uncommon Sense.

Speaker 12 (01:00:32):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 5 (01:00:33):
She did the pilot, the first episode, and then she
left us to go to.

Speaker 4 (01:00:38):
You know what.

Speaker 12 (01:00:39):
I did stick around for? I got, remember when Drake
sent you those bottles?

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
That's your day.

Speaker 12 (01:00:44):
You gave us all.

Speaker 15 (01:00:44):
The champagne bottles, and I took the Metro home to Harlem,
and I was on the train with my champagne bottle,
and it was just giving.

Speaker 12 (01:00:50):
High, low, high, low, because they were like, how she got,
was it Ace's face?

Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
But she on the train, whatever it was. I was
about to die, man. You got down.

Speaker 12 (01:00:57):
Whatever, yeah, maybe it was down.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
He gave you the bottles you gave him away?

Speaker 14 (01:00:58):
I did.

Speaker 8 (01:00:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
He gave Gloria a bottle.

Speaker 12 (01:01:01):
I was very angry.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
But she was leaving.

Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Did you keep the bottles? Gloria, did you keep the bottles?

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
She was leaving.

Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
She was going to rain.

Speaker 16 (01:01:06):
No, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:01:06):
Where I popped at. You don't have the bottles with you.

Speaker 15 (01:01:10):
Congratulations I got pictures but I drank that you drank that.

Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
One sad when she left.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
You keep bringing it up well Zuri is a phenomenal
talent you know like for somebody like me I need
somebody to balance you know what I mean that's why
I love working with Envy all these years nice and
even y'all now but back then yes Zuri was the
one did you have a.

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
Shot No, it's Zuri. Zuri need to come back up here.
Like every day. Or once a week. On camera.

Speaker 12 (01:01:39):
Yes, because Leonard is like.

Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
No, no, no.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
Is it hard to date in your role because you're
such a boss and you're so strong, you're so powerful?

Speaker 12 (01:01:49):
It can be hard to date. I think traditionally I
have intimidated men more than they care to admit in
the moment.

Speaker 15 (01:01:56):
But I will also say, as I focus on what
I can control, which is me, I think it takes
a lot of masculine energy to navigate worlds like this.
And I say this with love, respect, appreciation and acceptance
of masculine and feminine energies like it's all necessary. And
so I think for a long time, because my identity
was so caught up in the work stuff.

Speaker 12 (01:02:16):
I thought.

Speaker 15 (01:02:17):
The same qualities, traits, and energy that got me the
job were going to be impressive in relationship.

Speaker 12 (01:02:25):
Like, oh, look how little I need you. Look how I.

Speaker 4 (01:02:29):
Can do bad out by myself.

Speaker 15 (01:02:31):
Like, I thought it was, oh, look, I'm choosing to
be with you.

Speaker 12 (01:02:34):
I don't need to be with you.

Speaker 15 (01:02:36):
I realized over time that for a lot of men,
it was a turnoff.

Speaker 12 (01:02:41):
Sometimes it was from a place of insecurity.

Speaker 15 (01:02:43):
I have dated some very successful insecure men, situationships only.
I think healthfully masculine man takes pride in being needed
to a certain extent. It takes pride in being able
to show up for you and provide.

Speaker 12 (01:02:58):
And I'm not just talking financially.

Speaker 15 (01:02:59):
I'm especially not talking financially because I didn't need that,
but emotionally providing and like, I want to be needed
by you, right?

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
I hate that, but I understand.

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
Why do you hate it? What do you hate?

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
To me, it feels like almost a dimming of light.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
You are who you are, regardless, right? You are who
you are.

Speaker 7 (01:03:16):
You're powerful.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
You're strong.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
And if men are insecure and don't understand that, that
would be their loss.

Speaker 12 (01:03:22):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
I shouldn't have to say... I have to get in
my feminine era to go.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
Hey, f * * * that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Like, y'all need to go the f * * * up.

Speaker 4 (01:03:29):
But sometimes, okay.

Speaker 21 (01:03:31):
Sometimes it takes the right gentleman to bring that soft era.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Perfect example.

Speaker 8 (01:03:35):
Chris.

Speaker 24 (01:03:35):
Hello.

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
Right, exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
No insecurity.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
No insecurity.

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
You don't care. Like, nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Does not give a f * * * that you're
Jess Hilarious, the comedian. He loves Jess Hilarious, who you
are as a person.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
Exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:03:46):
And I couldn't get away with half the s * * *.

Speaker 15 (01:03:48):
That I would do with other people with.

Speaker 4 (01:03:51):
With him.

Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
Listen, my last question is, if everything you've accomplished so
far was actually just preparation, not the destination, right?

Speaker 7 (01:03:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
What do you think you've been preparing for?

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
Oh my God.

Speaker 18 (01:04:02):
Wow.

Speaker 12 (01:04:03):
That is an incredible question. I need to sit with
that one. I don't need, I can't even, I.

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
Don't want to pull an answer.

Speaker 13 (01:04:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 15 (01:04:13):
I think it's preparing me for, I realize I'm at
a point in my life, like I've been talking to
a lot of women younger than I am, right?

Speaker 12 (01:04:19):
About a decade or so younger. And, I am realizing
the lessons I've been learning, the things that I'm still learning,
some of the things that I'm angry about, disappointed about,
I'm like, oh, it's not for me yet.

Speaker 15 (01:04:30):
Like, I'll apply this lesson in my life eventually or
in my future relationship. But when I'm pouring into them
or I'm telling them what I'm learning or what I'm
going through and they're saying, thank you for sharing that.

Speaker 12 (01:04:40):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 15 (01:04:41):
Like, I appreciate your transparency, your vulnerability. Only in the
last couple of weeks. I'm like, oh, that's what this
is for. And so there is a selflessness there. that
I am being taught. Like, I think that's how God
is working on me right now. I've always tried to
be a giver and I loved in certain ways, but
I've never thought that my pain, my experiences, my disappointments

(01:05:03):
could be for someone else.

Speaker 12 (01:05:06):
Like maybe I did go through that. Not for me.

Speaker 15 (01:05:08):
Maybe that was because I need to speak life into
another woman and it's going to move the needle there
in a significant way. And that will eventually plant seeds
that whatever. And so I, Over time, I'll look and see, oh,
that actually moved the needle and changed someone's life or
lives for the better.

Speaker 12 (01:05:24):
I never thought about it like that.

Speaker 15 (01:05:26):
I never thought that my pain could be for someone
else's gain. And so I think maybe that is it.
If there's like a lesson that I'm supposed to be learning,
if there's a why that I'm not aware of, it's like.
I'm going through this stuff, not for me, so that
at the finish line, I can be like, I conquered.

Speaker 12 (01:05:44):
I won. I got the gold medal. Maybe I'm just
going through it to help somebody else get a gold medal.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
Zuri, you need to come back up a little more.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
This is fun.

Speaker 20 (01:05:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 15 (01:05:54):
Zuri Hall, thank you for joining us.

Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
Tell them how to follow you and stuff, Zuri.

Speaker 15 (01:05:58):
Follow me on Instagram, Zuri Hall.

Speaker 12 (01:06:00):
What else? I've got a sub stack, zurihall.substack.com.

Speaker 15 (01:06:03):
I've been writing a lot about what I'm doing.

Speaker 12 (01:06:06):
Navigating right now, personal reflections, essays, et cetera. So, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
I can't wait to see what you do next, Laura,
because I know it's going to be amazing.

Speaker 7 (01:06:13):
That's right.

Speaker 12 (01:06:13):
Thank you, Char.

Speaker 25 (01:06:14):
Happy to meet you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
Thank you, Jess.

Speaker 18 (01:06:16):
Thank you, Lauren.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

Speaker 7 (01:06:22):
What you want to know. The latest with Lauren La Rosa.

Speaker 4 (01:06:24):
Because you particularly are bringing the energy to mainstream radio,
the black radio.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
That source is trusted.

Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
Did you hear that exclusive?

Speaker 21 (01:06:30):
Lauren, I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about
everything and everything.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
She be having the latest on things.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
You ask the questions that need to be answered.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
On The Breakfast Club.

Speaker 12 (01:06:39):
If little brown girls look at you and go, I want.

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
To be like you. LL Cool B.

Speaker 7 (01:06:42):
Talk to me.

Speaker 21 (01:06:44):
Yeah, so the baby, we talked a bit about his
no-knife chicken and waffles opening up in Charlotte. And it's
been making the rounds of conversations with people upset about
the prices. He sat down for an interview with Positively
Charlotte with Alicia Quarles and talked about all of the upset.

Speaker 4 (01:06:59):
Let's take a listen.

Speaker 12 (01:07:01):
Some people said $ 45 for a waffle.

Speaker 4 (01:07:03):
Baby, what are we doing?

Speaker 12 (01:07:05):
What do you say to people that are like, this
is real expensive?

Speaker 10 (01:07:07):
I say they should have went to Waffle House. Waffle
House has something for you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 10 (01:07:11):
But if you want an elevated dining experience, if you
want a waffle, Waffle House, I'm sorry. Don't let this
come off as shade to you. This isn't just flour
and water. Our sweet potato waffle is infused with real
sweet potatoes. Our blueberry lemon waffle is really infused with
real lemons. Even the soul food cornbread waffle. That's the
$ 45 waffle that you make.

Speaker 4 (01:07:28):
Okay, tell us what makes this thing $ 45.

Speaker 10 (01:07:30):
This is no flour and water with this. This is
real homemade cornbread. This is not Jiffy Mix. This is
real homemade southern recipes. So this is cornbread, right?

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
It's topped.

Speaker 10 (01:07:39):
With collard greens with turkey leg meat, macaroni and cheese, and.

Speaker 1 (01:07:43):
Sweet potato souffle.

Speaker 10 (01:07:44):
We also included four pieces of fried chicken.

Speaker 7 (01:07:47):
This is really a $ 100 waffle.

Speaker 5 (01:07:49):
Hey, man, I don't care what y'all talking about. I'm
sold already. I'm going to be in Charlotte in a
couple of weeks. I done looked at that goddamn no-knife
menu a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
I want that banana pudding waffle or that sweet potato waffle.

Speaker 6 (01:08:01):
I'm going to try a little bit of everything. I
go there in a couple of weeks, too. But if
you look at some of the places that people frequently eat.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
Like Cheesecake Factory.

Speaker 6 (01:08:08):
Cheesecake Factory has $ 40. entrees that has nothing compared to
what that is if you go to a pasta place
like you're gonna pay 40 30 40 dollars for pasta
and that has nearly the amount of stuff that that
he gave you with the at.

Speaker 5 (01:08:23):
Some point we have to admit that we as black
people are very hard on each other for no goddamn
reason because i ain't never heard y'all complain about carbone
prices no i ain't never heard y'all complain about the
weight of carbone but because the baby has his own
restaurant in charlotte now all of a sudden all.

Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
Of y'all food critics and all of y'all worried about
the prices knock it.

Speaker 6 (01:08:38):
Off Well, see, somebody can even say the, you know,
carbon is the experience. You're paying for that.

Speaker 8 (01:08:42):
But.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
No Knife look like an experience? But if you go to, like,
the places that people frequent, like, I'm talking, like, Cheesecake
Factory and.

Speaker 4 (01:08:50):
New In-N-Out.

Speaker 17 (01:08:51):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
No experience. $ 40, $ 50 for things? Nah, hell no. I
will be at No Knife in a couple weeks, goddammit.

Speaker 4 (01:08:57):
Well, let us know how the food is, okay? We
got all these food critics.

Speaker 14 (01:08:59):
Please.

Speaker 4 (01:08:59):
send me some audio food.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
And I'm getting a whole bunch of things.

Speaker 6 (01:09:02):
I'm not like Charlamagne. I'm not getting one dish. I'm
going to get like six, seven. And it's going to
be a bunch of us and we're going to try.
Everybody's going to try a little bit of everything.

Speaker 21 (01:09:07):
Charlotte got to worry about his digestion system. Look, he
take like 10 pills right now. He need to eat
and relax.

Speaker 7 (01:09:12):
Well, I'm going.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
I'll be in Charlotte in a couple weeks. Me too.

Speaker 21 (01:09:15):
Well, speaking of things that people get critical of or not,
people are excited about this one.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married is out now.
Why Did I Get Married.

Speaker 21 (01:09:25):
Again is out now on Netflix. I started watching some
of it yesterday. I know that they had the premiere event,
which a lot of outlets were at, talking about the movie. Now,
one of the things that people are, of course, pointing
to is the fact that Janet Jackson was not in
the movie. Tyler Perry talked about her absence with Hollywood
Unlocked during the premiere event for Why Did I Get

(01:09:45):
Married Again?

Speaker 4 (01:09:46):
Let's take a listen.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
But we didn't see Janet in this one.

Speaker 7 (01:09:49):
Could you give fans an update on what we see,
like a cameo of Janet or a little update on that?

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
Well, Janet, at the time, she was doing a residency
in Vegas, so we couldn't work out the time. But
who knows what'll happen in the future? Yeah. I want
Patricia's character in prison. Okay, Patricia's character caused Gavin to
die after he got hit by that truck after they
had that argument, and then she walked off with the rock.

Speaker 5 (01:10:12):
That's the last thing I remember. If she's in a movie,
I want it to start with her in prison.

Speaker 16 (01:10:17):
Not her.

Speaker 21 (01:10:18):
I mean, what kind of prison? Prison. But mentally, they
were all dealing with a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:10:24):
It's not like she pushed them.

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
Let people watch it.

Speaker 15 (01:10:25):
Yes, she did.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
Let people watch it. It's out now, right?

Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
It is out now.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 21 (01:10:29):
But I do want to get to this because people
are having a conversation online who have been watching it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:33):
Comparing Taraji's character. Taraji's now in the movie.

Speaker 21 (01:10:37):
She plays a character named Rosalyn, who's like a friend
that was just always absent, but now she's here. And
people are like, this doesn't take the place of Janet
Jackson's character. So Taraji addressed that conversation. Let's take a
listen to Taraji on her character and praising Janet Jackson.

Speaker 26 (01:10:50):
I'm the new kid on the block. This is an
established story. These characters are beloved. And here comes this
new girl.

Speaker 18 (01:10:57):
What's she here for?

Speaker 26 (01:10:59):
One thing I didn't want people to misconstrue is that
I was replacing Janet. No one can replace Janet Jackson
in anything, okay? Let's just clear that up. Tyler did
an amazing job with.

Speaker 18 (01:11:10):
How he put my character.

Speaker 1 (01:11:13):
Into the story.

Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
It made it real. It made it seem like, oh,
she was just off living her life.

Speaker 26 (01:11:18):
And there's always that one friend that didn't make the vacation.

Speaker 12 (01:11:22):
Oh, you weren't at that.

Speaker 16 (01:11:23):
But there's always friends.

Speaker 12 (01:11:24):
I'm sure they run even deeper than that. There's always,
you know, girls that are women.

Speaker 26 (01:11:28):
Maybe in installment four, we'll get to more about where
the hell Rosalyn came from.

Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
I can't wait to watch.

Speaker 14 (01:11:34):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
I want Patricia to be in prison and installed me
for it. I don't think y'all remember what happened. Patricia
went to that man.

Speaker 5 (01:11:40):
She went to Gavin's office and was raising hell over
some book royalties or something. And so he left because
he was like, why are we embarrassing each other like this?

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
So he was all distraught. Then he got in that
car and got hit by that damn truck.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
Patricia need to be in prison. Watch this weekend, guys.
If not in prison, she need to be in somebody's
mental institution because she went crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
Mental institution.

Speaker 21 (01:11:59):
She was mentally hiding a lot until she was going
through a lot. But you think that he deserved royalties
from the book?

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (01:12:05):
I'm asking you.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (01:12:07):
Yes, hell yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:08):
You right about me. Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:12:10):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 21 (01:12:11):
I just hope we get some closure to that story
in general. We talked to Michael Jaiwad about it when
he was here, too, and he kind of couldn't answer
if that was going to happen or not.

Speaker 4 (01:12:18):
But look, I'm going to finish the movie today.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
Watch it today.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
Watch it this weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:12:21):
Watch it today, y'all, so we can talk about it tomorrow.
But that was the latest for the hour.

Speaker 21 (01:12:24):
And when we come back, we're going to get into
some conversations because Jalen Brown sat down with Mahersha Ali
and they were talking about just the freedom to impact people.

Speaker 4 (01:12:34):
It's a great conversation. We'll get into it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
All right.

Speaker 6 (01:12:36):
Now, Jess is out today, so You know, usually we
do Just Fix My Mess, but today.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Is Ask C & E.

Speaker 6 (01:12:41):
So if you're having questions, relationship questions, you're having issues,
whatever it may be, you can get on the phone
lines right now, 800-585-1051. Now, Charlamagne, who are you giving
your donkey to?

Speaker 5 (01:12:50):
Man, I need all you pickleball lovers to gather around
the radio because there's a couple, Andrew Dick and Feather Roberts.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
What's the name? Of Oklahoma. What's the name? Andrew Dick
and Feather Roberts.

Speaker 19 (01:13:00):
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:13:00):
They need to come to the front of the congregation.
They've taken their love of pickleball way too far.

Speaker 7 (01:13:04):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
We'll get to that next.

Speaker 7 (01:13:05):
Don't move.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
It's the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 7 (01:13:06):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
It's time for donkey of the day.

Speaker 5 (01:13:10):
There's a bunch of donkeys out here.

Speaker 4 (01:13:15):
It really caught me off guard.

Speaker 1 (01:13:16):
We live a life where we bite our tongue based
off who we may offend. We never would say anything.
You are a donkey.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
That is why Charlemagne is here.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
Some donkey todays just saw themselves. On The Breakfast Club. Okay, Chalamet,
who you giving donkey of the day to today?

Speaker 5 (01:13:34):
Well, donkey of the day for Thursday, September 10th goes
to Andrew Dick and Feather Roberts of Oklahoma. Now, these
two individuals were arrested after police said they left three
of their kids, eight years old, five years old, and
one years old, home alone so they could go play pickleball.
I can't make this kind of stuff up. Let's go
to Oklahoma on 6 News for the report, please.

Speaker 15 (01:13:55):
Two Glenpool parents are facing child neglect charges after police
found three young children home alone while the parents were
off playing pickleball.

Speaker 25 (01:14:02):
Police arrested Andrew Dick and Feather Roberts Saturday after officers
responded to a 911 hang-up call and found an 8-year-old, 5-year-old,
and 1-year-old without adult supervision.

Speaker 23 (01:14:13):
The parents were 20 minutes away in Bixby at a
sports complex. They told officers the children had access to
an iPad to call for help if needed. Both face
three counts of child neglect. The children were not hurt,
and police say DHS has been notified.

Speaker 7 (01:14:30):
Listen, Featherdick.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
What ages were the kids again?

Speaker 8 (01:14:31):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
What ages were the kids again?

Speaker 5 (01:14:32):
Eight, five, and one. Okay, eight, five, and one. Listen,
to the Featherdick couple, all right? I want to play
a game against what race it is, but I don't
think it's necessary, because this might be the whitest child
neglect story I've ever heard.

Speaker 7 (01:14:44):
In my life.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
Okay, I know, I know, leaving your kids home alone
is not just a white thing. Even though there's a
whole hit movie franchise about it starring white people. Okay,
but negligent parents do come in every race, religion, and
tax bracket. But we know what makes this story white.
And that's pickleball.

Speaker 5 (01:15:01):
OK, Caucasian pickleball.

Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
Court commitment is real.

Speaker 4 (01:15:06):
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:15:06):
This is privileged paddle parenting. And what pisses me off
about this story is they absolutely knew better. Because when
you read more into the story, they also have a
fourth child who's an infant.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
And police say they got a babysitter for the baby.
So they know how this works.

Speaker 5 (01:15:21):
OK, they secured child care for the baby, but left
the other three to the mercy of Disney Plus or
maybe Fox. YouTube, okay? Peppa Pig on YouTube. That keeps
the kids in one spot for some hours. But I
do want to say, though, my how times have changed, okay?
Were our parents committing a crime when they was leaving
us to fend for ourselves when we was kids? I

(01:15:42):
was for sure getting off the bus at 8 and
going to my grandma's house and being there alone until
an adult came. Y'all ain't never did that when y'all
was young? Or y'all don't want to put y'all parents
in an incriminating situation?

Speaker 4 (01:15:55):
My mama said don't answer that door don't answer the
phone that's all.

Speaker 1 (01:15:58):
I'm saying i grew up in an era where nothing
happened was a parenting strategy okay all right thank you
god for covering us when our parents was leaving us
home alone okay in the case of andrew dick and
feather roberts police alleged this wasn't the first.

Speaker 5 (01:16:11):
Time the children have been left alone you think OK,
that's how bad decisions get comfortable.

Speaker 7 (01:16:17):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
You do something once, get away with it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:19):
And the next time it doesn't feel quite as reckless.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
OK, ain't nothing going to happen to these kids. They'll
be fine. We're only 20 minutes away.

Speaker 5 (01:16:27):
I'm telling you, nothing is going to happen is a
parenting strategy for some people.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
And it's all good until today. It's not OK.

Speaker 5 (01:16:35):
And the way my parental paranoia is set up and
if you don't know what parental paranoia is, It's the
anxiety that we experience as parents.

Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
OK, the way mine is set up, I could never.

Speaker 7 (01:16:45):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 5 (01:16:46):
Parents deserve lives. OK, parents deserve to go out. They
deserve to have hobbies. They deserve to have date nights.
Go play pickleball until your little suburban heart is content.
We deserve that. But get a damn babysitter.

Speaker 8 (01:16:59):
OK.

Speaker 7 (01:17:00):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
Having kids means sometimes your plans get canceled because you
don't have a babysitter. You don't got nobody to watch
the kids. That's parenting. OK, sometimes you don't get the dink.
And if you don't know what dink is, it's a
soft shot and pickleball. OK, and sometimes when you can't
find a babysitter, you have to put the paddle down
and stay your ass at home. OK, if you don't,

(01:17:21):
you will find yourself in a pickle. Like these parents.
Please give the Feather Dick couple, Andrew Dick and Feather Roberts,
the sweet sounds of the Hamiltons.

Speaker 2 (01:17:29):
See, that's the Feather Dicks on the screen.

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
So stupid.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
You didn't see them? No, I missed them. I'll put
that picture back up. See, that's the feather. I'm sorry
for those watching on the radio, but for those looking
at home on Netflix.

Speaker 21 (01:17:57):
Those watching on the radio, they are very much Caucasian,
as you would think.

Speaker 10 (01:18:01):
Yes, they are.

Speaker 4 (01:18:01):
But we play pickleball, too.

Speaker 7 (01:18:03):
Oh, for real?

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
Who's we?

Speaker 4 (01:18:05):
Black people play pickleball.

Speaker 14 (01:18:06):
I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:18:07):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
No, black people play.

Speaker 15 (01:18:09):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
Not as often, not as much as white people, but
they do.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
You never tried?

Speaker 4 (01:18:16):
I've played pickleball. That's how I know the black people
play it. I mean, I'm black.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
Sometimes.

Speaker 7 (01:18:21):
Wow.

Speaker 26 (01:18:21):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
Thank you for that donkey today. Now, Jess is out.

Speaker 6 (01:18:24):
Usually it's just fix my mess, but if you have
relationship issues or problems, you can ask C and E.

Speaker 7 (01:18:29):
All right?

Speaker 8 (01:18:29):
800-585-1051.

Speaker 6 (01:18:30):
If you're going through some problems with your girl or
your man, call us up right now.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
We'll help you out with all your problems.

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
What's up, honey? You got some problems?

Speaker 7 (01:18:39):
We can help you.

Speaker 5 (01:18:39):
I just want the record to show that they have
pickleball demographics. I just want you to know that. And
according to recent according to recent pickleball demographics in 2026
data the racial breakdown of players generally looks like this
white individuals account for roughly 69 to 80 percent yes
player base in the united states and then hispanic latinos
12 percent asians nine percent oh wow okay black african-americans

(01:19:03):
make up about six.

Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
Percent All right.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Maybe a sprinkle, like very few. It's like three of us.

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
Three of us.

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:19:10):
All right. Call us up right now. Ask C & E.
It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
Ask Charlamagne and DJ Envy anything.

Speaker 19 (01:19:17):
Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
It's time to ask C & E. Morning, everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious.

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
Charlamagne the guy.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
We are The Breakfast Club. Jess is out.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
So ask C & E. We have Hannah on the line.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
Hannah, what's up?

Speaker 18 (01:19:32):
Hey, guys.

Speaker 20 (01:19:33):
How are you? Good.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
What's your question for C & E?

Speaker 20 (01:19:36):
So my question, so I'm dating someone, and we've been
seeing each.

Speaker 19 (01:19:40):
Other for like the last year and a half.

Speaker 7 (01:19:42):
Okay.

Speaker 19 (01:19:43):
We both participate in the ganja, and we live a
little bit away from each other, like an hour.

Speaker 14 (01:19:51):
And a half.

Speaker 1 (01:19:52):
Okay. I just want you to know you sound like
an undercover cop. Ganja. Ganja. Do you have any ganja?
Does anybody have any ganja?

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
You could have said marijuana, weed, cannabis, but go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:20:05):
We rocking with you.

Speaker 20 (01:20:05):
That's crazy. So long story short, he basically told me, like,
stop getting it from me.

Speaker 16 (01:20:15):
And to just get it from him.

Speaker 20 (01:20:17):
But he lives an hour away, so it's like he
has to go out of his way to bring it
to me if I want it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:24):
So he's a drug dealer?

Speaker 3 (01:20:25):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
What are you calling from, first of all? North Carolina.

Speaker 8 (01:20:30):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:20:31):
Good old North Carolina.

Speaker 19 (01:20:34):
But basically, like, we've just been having a lot of
issues with, like, me getting it from other people. And
she's not really feeling it.

Speaker 20 (01:20:42):
And I'm just like, well, I don't know what to
tell you, sir.

Speaker 16 (01:20:45):
Like....

Speaker 6 (01:20:48):
I really can't believe you called up here and the
problem that you're having is your man does not want
you to buy weed from your area. He wants you
to buy it from you. It seems like he's a
drug dealer trying to make some money off of you.

Speaker 1 (01:20:59):
He should be giving you weed for free.

Speaker 4 (01:21:00):
I don't understand. He's got a good job.

Speaker 12 (01:21:04):
It's not about the money.

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
What are you looking for? What's the advice you're looking for, ma'am?

Speaker 20 (01:21:08):
Whether I should really stop taking.

Speaker 19 (01:21:11):
It from other places and his request or if I
could just do my thing.

Speaker 5 (01:21:17):
It depends how much weed he's giving you, because if
he's giving you enough weed to where, you know, it
can last you a couple of weeks or a week
or so, and you don't have to go to other places.
I don't see why you complaining about getting free weed
in this economy.

Speaker 2 (01:21:30):
Yeah, and I would say this.

Speaker 6 (01:21:31):
I don't know how much you smoke, but if you're
giving him that, you know, punani, whatever you want to
call it, that box, if it's good, he should be
giving you weed for free. Like, when he sees you
every week, he should be, thank you so much. Here's
some smoke for free.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
Is that the advice you would give to your daughter?

Speaker 2 (01:21:46):
Oh, no.

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
Shut the hell up. My daughter would come to dance.
What the hell is he talking about?

Speaker 16 (01:21:49):
That's her man, though.

Speaker 1 (01:21:49):
What the hell did he just say to you?

Speaker 4 (01:21:51):
But that is her man.

Speaker 19 (01:21:51):
I would never date someone that's going.

Speaker 12 (01:21:53):
To make me pay for it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
Exactly. That's her man.

Speaker 4 (01:21:57):
All I'm simply saying is if he's.

Speaker 20 (01:21:59):
Not available and I want to, and I don't have any,
then I will hit up someone that I made it
previously with too.

Speaker 5 (01:22:08):
I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but this
is kind of like binge watching a show without him though.
Like if y'all start a show together, you know what
I'm saying? Y'all supposed to keep watching that show together,
but I don't, I don't see the problem with you
going to get weed from somebody else.

Speaker 1 (01:22:19):
If you can't get it from him in that moment.

Speaker 21 (01:22:21):
It's because the weed man be taking stuff down. Like,
The weed man, that means she's in constant communication with them.
They pulling up to the crib. Y'all never heard about
how the weed man.

Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
Oh, he thinks he's flirting with the weed man. He
getting jealous.

Speaker 4 (01:22:31):
It's just the weed man. I'm trying to tell y'all.

Speaker 20 (01:22:34):
My ex is trying to be as horrible.

Speaker 4 (01:22:36):
That's how I ended up with a baby. It's not
like that.

Speaker 20 (01:22:38):
I'm a Capricorn. I'm very business oriented. Let's get this done.
Let me get my stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:22:45):
I'm going to tell you what's sad about this story.
It sounds crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:22:48):
Your man, your man looks at you the way Envy
looked at you. He think you just willing to be
giving that box up for weed.

Speaker 1 (01:22:54):
So he think you sleeping with the weed man.

Speaker 21 (01:22:56):
Because the weed man pull up and smoke you up
and now you lit and now y'all.

Speaker 4 (01:22:59):
Start doing things y'all not supposed to do.

Speaker 7 (01:23:01):
That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:23:01):
That's like college days. If somebody, I'm digging it.

Speaker 6 (01:23:04):
If somebody I'm dating and I'm serious with and I'm
knocking off and she smokes weed, right?

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
Wouldn't you supply, hey, babe, I got you.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
Don't even worry about it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
What you need this week? Hey, I got you. Wouldn't
you do that to somebody that you love?

Speaker 5 (01:23:15):
Sure, but what she's saying is when she don't have it,
when she's out, she wants to go get it from
the weed man.

Speaker 1 (01:23:20):
But this don't have nothing to do with weed. Your
boyfriend's just jealous and he's insecure.

Speaker 16 (01:23:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:23:24):
That's all it is.

Speaker 16 (01:23:25):
It's just issues.

Speaker 20 (01:23:26):
And I'm just trying to figure out if it's something
I should, like, try to work on with him because
I really do care about him. I really do love him.

Speaker 7 (01:23:34):
Yes.

Speaker 20 (01:23:35):
Um, but it's like, it's such a small thing.

Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
How does he, how does he feel about DoorDash delivery guys?

Speaker 16 (01:23:44):
Oh my God, Chalmaine.

Speaker 18 (01:23:45):
Oh my God, you're hilarious.

Speaker 20 (01:23:48):
I'm like, what day do you think I.

Speaker 19 (01:23:51):
Go to the store or go to Pizza Hut and get.

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
A pizza and it's a nigga?

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
What's the difference?

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
But those are random people.

Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
Your weed guy is somebody that you see consistently. So
it's different. You don't see the same DoorDash guy every week.

Speaker 4 (01:24:03):
Has your weed man crossed the line before or something?

Speaker 19 (01:24:06):
No, never.

Speaker 20 (01:24:07):
And most of the time, when I've Dude, get something
from him.

Speaker 16 (01:24:12):
I'm not, I don't even see him.

Speaker 4 (01:24:15):
And your boo is a weed man too you said yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:24:18):
But again he's like an hour away he might be
projecting a little bit he know what the pulling up
and smoking.

Speaker 5 (01:24:23):
Her out do well no I think that y'all just
need well first of all they not smoking together she
just buying I just think that y'all need to have
a conversation you and your boyfriend just need to have
a conversation about trust like that's it like you know
have a conversation about trust and you know just try
to create a calm environment speak honest about how y'all
feel and you tell him how you feel like you
just gotta reassure him that's all Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:24:46):
You're absolutely right.

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
And be careful.

Speaker 16 (01:24:48):
And we don't see how it works out.

Speaker 6 (01:24:51):
And be careful because recreation and medical marijuana remain illegal
across most of North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (01:24:56):
So you be careful out there.

Speaker 19 (01:24:57):
Yeah, I don't live here.

Speaker 7 (01:24:59):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:24:59):
Just making sure. You just visiting?

Speaker 7 (01:25:01):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
Not you just visiting.

Speaker 5 (01:25:05):
I was going to ask her how close she is
to Charlotte. I need to know more about this goddamn
peach cobbler waffle.

Speaker 1 (01:25:11):
I'm going to tell.

Speaker 5 (01:25:12):
You, that banana pudding and that peach cobbler waffle and
that sweet potato waffle look incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:25:17):
Ask C & E.

Speaker 8 (01:25:17):
800-585-1051.

Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
It's the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 1 (01:25:19):
Good morning. It's that time again. Ask Charlamagne and DJ
Envy anything. Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up.
It's time to ask C & E. Morning, everybody.

Speaker 6 (01:25:31):
The Breakfast Club. Lorna Rose is here as well. Now,
Jess Fixed My Mess. Jess is out today, so is
Asi and E. We have Jay on the line.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
Jay, good morning.

Speaker 16 (01:25:43):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
Hey, Jay, what's your question?

Speaker 16 (01:25:45):
So I went on this vacation with my best friend
and my family, and I was in a six-month relationship
and it was going great, but then me and my
best friend messed around on the cruise and it got, like,
really messy and stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:25:59):
Why was it messy?

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
Your period was on?

Speaker 18 (01:26:02):
No, it was not.

Speaker 1 (01:26:04):
Yeah. What do you mean messy?

Speaker 4 (01:26:06):
The best friend messed around with her boo.

Speaker 1 (01:26:08):
Oh, you mean like figuratively messy, not literally. Oh, okay.

Speaker 16 (01:26:11):
Got you, got you, got you. Me and my best
friend hooked up, basically.

Speaker 1 (01:26:15):
Is the man a woman?

Speaker 16 (01:26:16):
She's a girl.

Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
Okay, that seven-speed dildo will do it every time.

Speaker 7 (01:26:20):
Shut up.

Speaker 16 (01:26:21):
I don't even need that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:24):
So you went back and told your man or you
went back and told your girl?

Speaker 16 (01:26:27):
I went back and told my girl, like, I confessed. Like,
I felt really, really bad and guilty about it. But
then I still had feelings for my best friend. So
I went back and forth. Like, I left the house
with my girl to give myself time to figure out
what was going on. And now I feel like it's
not going to work with my best friend. But I
feel like her feelings are, like, more than mine.

Speaker 6 (01:26:47):
Yeah, because that's going to be awkward because that was
your best friend for so long. Now you can't be
around her because she's looking at you differently. She's staring
at your ass when you walk by, so you feel
a way.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
You a stud?

Speaker 16 (01:26:57):
Yes, I mean, a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:26:58):
Oh, yeah, so you got a fatty then. Them stars
be having them fatties in them size 44 jeans, man.

Speaker 16 (01:27:04):
Always on the s * * *, bro.

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
You stupid. Is your girl willing to forgive you?

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
Yes, she is.

Speaker 16 (01:27:11):
She's very understanding. Like, me and my best friend been
friends since kindergarten, like 18 years.

Speaker 6 (01:27:16):
And if she does forgive you, I'm sure she's going
to be like, I don't want you hanging around your
best friend anymore just in case this happens again.

Speaker 1 (01:27:22):
You get too much liquor and.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
Then all of a sudden dildo sliding.

Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
At least f * *.

Speaker 16 (01:27:26):
* right now. Like, not soon after, you know, I
don't know. I guess how to tell her that, you know,
it's not working, but, like, I love you, just not
like that.

Speaker 1 (01:27:37):
You also grown. How old are you?

Speaker 25 (01:27:39):
23.

Speaker 1 (01:27:39):
Man, he's still a baby. I mean, I don't know.
Why can't y'all just be happy together, all three of y'all?

Speaker 16 (01:27:46):
I'll try to do that, but they not down for that.

Speaker 5 (01:27:49):
Oh, got you, got you, got you, got you, got you. Well,
you're going to have to break one of them off, man.
You got to tell one of them, see you later.

Speaker 6 (01:27:56):
Yeah, if you're in a committed relationship, you got to
do what's right. You got to decide where you want
to go, which way you want to eat, and stay
in that direction.

Speaker 16 (01:28:03):
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 25 (01:28:04):
I got y'all.

Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
Don't, you got to leave.

Speaker 16 (01:28:06):
Maybe I'm just a little immature.

Speaker 1 (01:28:07):
That's right. You got to leave it with a little
pardon gift.

Speaker 5 (01:28:10):
There's a realistic seven-speed vibrating thrusting dildo with 10 vibrations
and licking modes.

Speaker 1 (01:28:16):
It's $ 200, though, but it's free delivery.

Speaker 16 (01:28:18):
You should look that up.

Speaker 1 (01:28:20):
Yeah. It's free delivery.

Speaker 5 (01:28:24):
10 vibrations and licking modes, and it's free delivery until
the 18th. So, you know, you have to leave with
a pardon gift.

Speaker 20 (01:28:29):
That's literally crazy.

Speaker 16 (01:28:30):
Well, I appreciate you. I'll look into that.

Speaker 7 (01:28:32):
Yes, ma'am. All right.

Speaker 20 (01:28:33):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:28:34):
We're here to help.

Speaker 2 (01:28:34):
We're going to put you on hold so he can
give you the link.

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
No, it's on Amazon. I already gave.

Speaker 9 (01:28:38):
It to him.

Speaker 20 (01:28:38):
No, no, no.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
I'm good.

Speaker 8 (01:28:39):
I'm good.

Speaker 19 (01:28:39):
I'm good on that.

Speaker 7 (01:28:40):
All right. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:28:41):
This one is crazy because it got like, it's like
a hookah. You can take the tip off.

Speaker 4 (01:28:44):
Now it's like a hookah.

Speaker 14 (01:28:45):
I'm serious.

Speaker 1 (01:28:46):
It got different. I'm not even joking. This is crazy.
There's only 10 left in stock.

Speaker 2 (01:28:51):
This guy's really looking it up.

Speaker 7 (01:28:52):
Hello.

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
Who's this?

Speaker 20 (01:28:53):
Hey, this is Morgan from Georgia.

Speaker 1 (01:28:55):
What's up, Morgan?

Speaker 12 (01:28:56):
Peace, Morgan.

Speaker 1 (01:28:57):
Talk to us.

Speaker 20 (01:28:58):
Yeah, so not necessarily relationship advice, but I do want
some advice regarding my child's father. He has not been
a part of my child's life. He is six years old,
and my child's father is currently.

Speaker 16 (01:29:09):
Sitting in prison.

Speaker 20 (01:29:10):
He doesn't get Till next November.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
Your phone is coming up, man.

Speaker 6 (01:29:13):
Do you have us on Bluetooth for speaker by any chance?

Speaker 16 (01:29:15):
Can you hear me better now?

Speaker 7 (01:29:16):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
Yeah, I think I got the gist of it.

Speaker 5 (01:29:18):
Your child's father is a deadbeat who's in prison.

Speaker 1 (01:29:20):
Correct, for seven years. And her son is seven years old.

Speaker 20 (01:29:23):
Yes, and my son, of course, he's smart enough to
know what a nuclear family is. So I'm trying to
figure out how do I bring this up to him
of the situation with his father.

Speaker 6 (01:29:36):
Your phone's cutting in and out. How long is the
baby father in jail for? How long does he have?

Speaker 20 (01:29:42):
Can I ask.

Speaker 1 (01:29:51):
You a question?

Speaker 5 (01:29:51):
How can a man be a deadbeat if he's in prison?
He's not getting the opportunity to be there for his child.

Speaker 6 (01:29:56):
I guess he could call on birthdays, Christmas.

Speaker 20 (01:29:59):
This is probably like his best kid since I've noticed.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
I can't really hear it. It sounds like he said
he was out.

Speaker 21 (01:30:04):
He said he's been out a few times. This is
like something big since she's known him.

Speaker 20 (01:30:08):
Yeah, this is probably his second time.

Speaker 8 (01:30:10):
No.

Speaker 20 (01:30:10):
So he's had chances to fight, but he hasn't been.

Speaker 5 (01:30:15):
Well, you said it's been two times. Three strikes, you're out. Okay,
so if you give him another opportunity to be in
his child's life and he fumbles this time, you got
to keep him moving.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
But the question is, should she tell her son that
the baby father's in jail, in prison?

Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
That's what she's asking.

Speaker 4 (01:30:28):
Most of the time, they'd be like, he went to school.

Speaker 1 (01:30:30):
Yeah, he coming home in November. Does it matter?

Speaker 20 (01:30:33):
Well he's so smart and I don't want to do
the disservice of lying to him or should I just.

Speaker 5 (01:30:41):
I don't think I would lie I.

Speaker 2 (01:30:44):
Would tell him the truth even if it's the harsh
truth I would tell him the truth and you know
hopefully say that daddy made some mistakes and he's coming
home to fix that but I would tell him the
truth I would never want to tell him he's at
camp or he's in the military or he's doing something
and then he comes home and finds out something different
and then that'll hurt y'all trust so I would tell
him the truth Okay, so y'all.

Speaker 20 (01:31:04):
Feel like this is a good time to let them
know what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
Yeah, and I think seven years old, I think seven
years old kids are smart.

Speaker 1 (01:31:10):
They understand. They know right and wrong, and they know consequences.

Speaker 2 (01:31:13):
So I would definitely have that conversation.

Speaker 7 (01:31:16):
I would.

Speaker 1 (01:31:17):
Okay.

Speaker 20 (01:31:17):
I feel y'all, I just, I'm very patient about giving
him enough time.

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
Your phone's cutting in now, Morgan. Hopefully you heard us.

Speaker 1 (01:31:23):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
Ask C & E, 800-585-1051. We got the latest with
Lauren coming up.

Speaker 21 (01:31:29):
We do have the latest with Lauren coming up. We're
going to be talking about some great things.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
She lying. I mean, she don't even have her story.
She's not ready. We do have it ready, but I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:31:38):
She's so busy on no knife chicken and waffles menu
like I am looking at these waffles.

Speaker 1 (01:31:42):
That's her freaking problem.

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
That's actually not what I'm doing. I was actually on
the Susan G.

Speaker 4 (01:31:46):
Coleman website.

Speaker 21 (01:31:47):
I'm about to post my pictures in this t-shirt so
that people can start giving.

Speaker 2 (01:31:51):
Anyway, t-shells, when you pick me up, let's go straight
to no knife.

Speaker 1 (01:31:55):
Straight there. And I want everything on that damn menu.
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:31:58):
Latest with Lauren, up next is The Breakfast Club.

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
Good morning. Good morning, everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
We are The Breakfast Club.

Speaker 1 (01:32:02):
Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a
straight face.

Speaker 7 (01:32:05):
Tell her!

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
Tell her!

Speaker 15 (01:32:06):
Ladies!

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
She gets them from somebody that knows somebody. She gets
the details.

Speaker 4 (01:32:10):
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.

Speaker 5 (01:32:13):
She be having the latest on you.

Speaker 7 (01:32:16):
The latest with Lauren LaRosa.

Speaker 1 (01:32:18):
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
have a little bit of everything. What was the latest?

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On The Breakfast Club. Top Dog Law.

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LL Cool Bay, Top Dog Law, waiting on a stemmy.

Speaker 4 (01:32:30):
All righty.

Speaker 8 (01:32:30):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:32:30):
All right, y'all.

Speaker 21 (01:32:32):
So the South Park creators are apologizing for the delay
of the musical comedy movie Whitney Springs. Now, you guys
will remember this movie because it went viral some time
ago when an outlet, I wouldn't say leaked, but reported,
the Ankler reported that this movie would be made with
Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free.

Speaker 4 (01:32:50):
And the movie would be about this guy who is a.
This guy who... Hold on. Sorry, I'm going to confuse
myself with my notes.

Speaker 1 (01:32:59):
A museum?

Speaker 17 (01:33:01):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:33:02):
Oh, yes. OK, so this guy who is fighting back
against slavery.

Speaker 8 (01:33:06):
Right.

Speaker 21 (01:33:07):
So the logline is, if I was a black man
that's working as a slavery actor at a living history museum,
he discovers that his white girlfriend's family used to own
some of his ancestors. Now, in the beginning of this,
it was reported that it would be like a variation story.
It was going to be music. It was going to
be comedy. And people were like, what the heck? Because
Kendrick Lamar was involved. So they're trying to figure out

(01:33:27):
how he's involved or whatever. Then it just like went away.

Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
The premise sounds incredible.

Speaker 4 (01:33:30):
It does, but.

Speaker 1 (01:33:31):
The movie was actually supposed to be released already.

Speaker 4 (01:33:33):
Yeah, well, okay, but it just went away. Nothing happened.
So they now are.

Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
No, they pushed it back.

Speaker 21 (01:33:37):
So they're apologizing for the delay in pushing it back
because people are like, where is it we wanted?

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
The latest with Charlamagne.

Speaker 4 (01:33:42):
Exactly. We take full... Shut up.

Speaker 21 (01:33:45):
We take full responsibility for the scheduled delay of this movie.
They say, we apologize to our partners at PG Lang, Paramount.
We appreciate the patience. And they say that South Park
and life's circumstances have gotten in the way, but they still.

Speaker 4 (01:33:57):
Believe in the project.

Speaker 1 (01:33:57):
I hope it's not political.

Speaker 4 (01:34:00):
It's always political when you involve race in something.

Speaker 5 (01:34:03):
Well, I just hope that, you know, the new ownership
of Paramount, which is the Ellison family, I just hope
that they're not pushing this back because for political reasons.

Speaker 21 (01:34:13):
It's always political when you involve race in something. I
wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 1 (01:34:18):
It's not like the creators of South Park.

Speaker 5 (01:34:20):
Creators of South Park, they play with race and, you know, Trump,
sex and gender and Trump all the time.

Speaker 8 (01:34:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:34:25):
Maybe.

Speaker 4 (01:34:25):
But if it was, we wouldn't.

Speaker 12 (01:34:27):
I don't I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:34:27):
Well, I was gonna say, I don't know if they
would tell us that.

Speaker 1 (01:34:30):
But that is interesting. They have pissed Donald Trump off.

Speaker 21 (01:34:32):
They recently when they aired the new season, they did
a whole Trump thing.

Speaker 1 (01:34:36):
You know, it could be a combination of all those things.

Speaker 17 (01:34:39):
Maybe.

Speaker 21 (01:34:40):
But would they talk about it? Would they put that
in South Park? Would they tell us through South Park?
Because they do those things. Well, South Park is very
coded with the messaging.

Speaker 22 (01:34:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:34:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 21 (01:34:49):
But we'll, I guess, keep watching to see what happens here.

Speaker 4 (01:34:52):
If it even comes.

Speaker 21 (01:34:52):
Hopefully it will, though. Now, shifting gears a bit. Speaking
of race and conversation. So, Jalen Brown and Mahershala Ali
sat down for a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter. Mahershala
Ali is interviewing Jalen Brown today. And they get into
a few different conversations. So Jalen Brown, we talked a
bit about him talking about, you know, just as a athlete,
being able to give back to community.

Speaker 2 (01:35:12):
Jalen Brown used to play for the Celtics, now plays
for the 76ers.

Speaker 15 (01:35:16):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:35:17):
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought people would just know.

Speaker 7 (01:35:19):
Okay.

Speaker 21 (01:35:20):
But yeah, so we talked a bit about him giving
back and as a black athlete, how it is important
to him and some of the pushback he receives or
he's saying he receives.

Speaker 8 (01:35:26):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:35:27):
So in this interview, he's talking about being more than
an athlete. Let's take a listen.

Speaker 24 (01:35:31):
The necessity, especially as black men, developing attributes in yourself
that are beyond any given sport, considering the finite nature
of sports especially. Can you speak to that?

Speaker 7 (01:35:43):
I would say this.

Speaker 17 (01:35:44):
It might be a little controversial, but I think it's
rooted in fear. Even within our own community, there's a pushback,
almost like a hesitancy. Because it's rooted in trauma of experiences,
even from post-traumatic slave effects. Like at one point to
do anything outside of being a slave was problematic.

Speaker 1 (01:36:05):
Reading, writing, anything else.

Speaker 17 (01:36:07):
It's similar aspects when you think of like an athlete
doing anything out of what you're just supposed to be doing.

Speaker 16 (01:36:13):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:36:13):
You're supposed to just be entertaining me.

Speaker 17 (01:36:15):
You know, I think that abilities that we're given, talents
are important. God given, I don't have a choice. I
was given this and I have a responsibility to see
it out. My responsibility is not to entertain you. Our
responsibility is to be influential. The fear is projected onto
us in order to make ourselves smaller, to make ourselves
more digestible for the.

Speaker 24 (01:36:37):
People who are uncomfortable around you, who.

Speaker 1 (01:36:39):
Only want you to be the slave.

Speaker 5 (01:36:42):
Respect, you know, because he's right. You know, if you
think about like where I'm from in South Carolina, like
they passed. some of the first official anti-literacy laws, and
they made it illegal to teach an enslaved person to
write or read.

Speaker 21 (01:36:56):
Do you feel like the part where he was talking
about how, like, sometimes that even comes from within your
own community? Like, have y'all felt that? I feel like,
I mean, maybe it's about who you're putting yourself around,
because I feel like within my community and the people
that I call my tribe, they're always encouraging me to, like, yo,
you're not doing enough because you have platforms.

Speaker 1 (01:37:11):
You got to be around the builders.

Speaker 5 (01:37:13):
But then, you know, another thing, thing that he's talking
about in response to trauma you can think about the
times that we have built our own like the black
wall streets of the world and then you know the
colonizers come and destroy that so yeah i respect what
jaylen brown is saying but the reality is you just
got to keep showing improvement through actions and deeds and
you got to keep building yes.

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
And salute to jaylen brown because he does that like
he's heavy in the community with his youth foundation uh
what he what he does what foundation youth juice i
thought it was.

Speaker 4 (01:37:38):
Called Oh, I don't know the name of it, but
I know he works a lot with the youth.

Speaker 1 (01:37:42):
I thought you said youth.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
I think it's called the JUICE. It's 7-U-I-C-E Foundation.

Speaker 8 (01:37:46):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:37:46):
Yeah, so I know he does a lot with empowerment,
young kids and financial literacy and generational wealth. And he
donates a lot of his own money and time.

Speaker 5 (01:37:56):
Listen, like I said, you just got to keep showing
improvement through actions and deeds. There's a lot of words
and a lot of lip service that happens, but you
just got to keep building. And don't worry about those
who want to destroy it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:08):
Build it anyway.

Speaker 21 (01:38:08):
Sometimes it gets destroyed. There are things that he's trying
to do that they've actually... But he keeps going.

Speaker 1 (01:38:12):
You got to keep building. You got to keep going.

Speaker 7 (01:38:14):
That's right.

Speaker 15 (01:38:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:38:14):
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Oh, very Eve.

Speaker 12 (01:38:36):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:38:37):
Just let me.

Speaker 1 (01:38:38):
All right. There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:38:40):
It's the People's Choice Mixers up next. It's the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 1 (01:38:42):
Good morning. Morning, everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:38:43):
It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious.

Speaker 1 (01:38:46):
Charlamagne Tha Guy.

Speaker 2 (01:38:47):
We are the Breakfast Club. Now, salute to Zuri Hall
for joining us this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:38:50):
Salute to the good sister Zuri Hall, man.

Speaker 5 (01:38:51):
Make sure you check out her show that's going to
be on YouTube called Not About Sports.

Speaker 16 (01:38:56):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:38:57):
Okay, and I think she's, uh, this is her last,
is it? This week.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
It's her last taping of.

Speaker 1 (01:39:01):
Last taping of Access Hollywood. That's right.

Speaker 16 (01:39:03):
Um.

Speaker 5 (01:39:04):
I don't know when American Ninja Warrior come back, but yeah,
salute to my girl Zuri Hall, man.

Speaker 13 (01:39:08):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:39:08):
I support Zuri in anything she does.

Speaker 7 (01:39:11):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:39:12):
Now, salute to Jess. She was off today.

Speaker 2 (01:39:14):
She'll be back tomorrow. She's in Baltimore. She has about,
I think, like seven or eight shows in Baltimore this weekend.
So you can see her definitely out in Baltimore.

Speaker 7 (01:39:22):
Charlamagne?

Speaker 5 (01:39:23):
Well, listen, I want to tell y'all to make sure
you go and RSVP for my sixth annual Mental Wealth
Expo show. We're doing it again this year in Newark,
New Jersey at the Joelle and Diane Bloom Wellness and
Event Center. It is a free event. I bring in
some of the best mental health professionals that society has
to offer. Okay, Dr. Jay Barnett, Elliot Connie, Dr. Rita Walker,

(01:39:45):
my guy Kierre Gaines. Salute to Kierre, too.

Speaker 1 (01:39:46):
Yo, he's been everywhere.

Speaker 5 (01:39:48):
Kierre's book is an instant New York Times bestseller, man.
Kierre's book hit the New York Times bestsellers list.

Speaker 14 (01:39:54):
Really?

Speaker 26 (01:39:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:39:55):
What you mean, really?

Speaker 4 (01:39:56):
No, how does the instant thing happen? I didn't know
that that, like, how does that work?

Speaker 5 (01:39:58):
It means that you put it out last week and
it hit the New York Times seller's list this week.
It's called It All Starts When You Do How to
Do the Real Work of Self-Healing. So he'll be, I'm sure,
selling books at the Mental Wealth Expo on October 10th, man,
which is World Mental Health Day.

Speaker 1 (01:40:13):
So we will see you there. It is a free event.

Speaker 5 (01:40:16):
All you got to do is go to mentalwealthexpo.com, the RSVP,
and we'll see you in Newark, New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (01:40:22):
On 1010. All right? Now, is it a positive note? Yeah,
positive note.

Speaker 5 (01:40:26):
Oh, the positive note is simply this, man. One of
the strongest signs of intelligence is the ability to consider
another person's perspective without becoming defensive.

Speaker 7 (01:40:34):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:40:35):
Curiosity reveals a sharp mind. It shows who is committed
to understanding rather than winning.

Speaker 1 (01:40:40):
Have a great day. Breakfast Club, bitches!

Speaker 4 (01:40:42):
You all finished or you all done?

Speaker 7 (01:40:44):
Woke up.

Speaker 4 (01:40:44):
Woke up.

Speaker 7 (01:40:45):
Wake you up.

Speaker 1 (01:40:46):
Wake you up.

Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
Wake that ass up.

Speaker 1 (01:40:47):
Program your alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartRadio.

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