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June 23, 2020 91 mins

Today on the show we had two John's on the show, with one being Jon Stewart who spoke on political accountability, systemic racism, his movie irresitable and more. Also, we had John Legend call in who spoke on his new album, the verzuz battle with him and Alicia Keys, economic change and more. Also, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to a professor who made a student uncomfortable because of their name.

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this morning. Usually get the six six a little late. Wow, y'all,
y'all disrespect that you did that to Toronto. Man computer.
Oh now you're gonna blame it on the computer. That
wasn't no. You know you guys, you know what this

(01:20):
is about, drum Thank you. You know what this is about.
You about drum fan. I love Toronto. You're a Swiss
beach fan and pick your side. Picking side so disrespectful.
You know, the biggest drink for the six stop it.
That is true. That is true. That is true. That
is true. You do you do do a little too

(01:42):
much when it comes to mister aby Graham. That is
very true. Now you you told me the day you
told me Beyonce had no talent. I didn't say remember
that and all because of Drake. No, without doing that,
without doing this is that? No? No, you said Beyonce
fighting Drake style man like that definitely did. Man, it's
so fast. It was something to that effect. It was
not anything that I remember you said. You said something

(02:05):
like owls eat bees. Like, definitely said owls be eat Yeah,
I remember that owls beat bees. Yeah, I remember yours.
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wrong with you? Guys? Can you find your Instagram sucking?
Who to go have breakfast with? This morning? J DJ
D R A M. Want to be hot? To know

(02:28):
where you go for breakfast? That's where you go for
breakfast this morning? I have a I have a question
this morning. So this fireworks situation, right, is this happening everywhere?
Because fourth of July is coming up it was just Juneteenth.
I saw in New York they actually went to the
Mayor's house, to Gracie Mansion to protest, just because people

(02:48):
can't sleep at night because there's so many fireworks. Is
this something going on across the nation? Let me tell you,
it's getting so ridiculous here in New York. When I
was using fireworks, Yeah, when I was a kid, you
couldn't get fireworks. You had to drive to Pennsylvania or
Virginia to buy fireworks. Now they, like I said, they
sell it in the grocery store, they sell it in
the BJ's coscoal. You can get it, damn it anywhere,

(03:10):
and kids are going crazy with them. They shoot Roman candles.
I've never heard this many fireworks for so many nights
in a row, all night long. Expensive. No, I mean,
I grew up in I grew up in South Carolina,
so we always shot fireworks. But I have been here.
I've been reading a couple of stories with people complaining
about firework activity all throughout the night. I saw in

(03:33):
Oakland complain. Yeah, we've always always had California, but they
were they were illegal. You weren't supposed to have them.
But you know, a little body I was gun shot.
You heard in Brooklyn stopped. We always as a matter
of fact, somebody on my black growing up, he blew
his hand off from lighting fireworks on the roof. Yeah,

(03:55):
we used to get the m eighties from the bodaggas
or the jumping jacks or the Roman candles, or they
had the tank that would roll a little bit and
then explode. But yeah, you didn't hear too many people
that had them. All. We used to as a kid.
We should take the m ads and put them in
the telephone move and blow up the telephone move and
get like two dollars in quarters. That was fun, you know,
I mean, it was stupid stuff, but they banned it.

(04:16):
I used fireworks. The woman who used to molest me
when I was eight, I used fireworks to make cress stop.
It was a little snap of things that you throw
and they popped. That's not fire works. Yeah, you buy
them at the fireworks though, the little snaps. Of course,
that wasn't a damn fireworks. Then you didn't light it
with Don't tell me what my childhood was like. You

(04:37):
don't light them with a lighter. Their little fireworks you
throw they pops. Say fireworks though, where you buy the snaps?
Where where do you buy those snaps from? Now? Then
you could buy that like one of the little novelty
shops and dollar stores have them. Yeah, everybody has. I
never I've never seen him in the novelties to only

(04:58):
buy them into fireworks then, but I used when she
used to touch on me, I started throwing them at a.
I guess that's why she stopped. All right, Okay, that's
a little awkward. But now, um, today, Yes, John Legend
will be joining us, John Legend, John two Johns will
be joining Johns, John Stewart, and John Legend. That's right, John.

(05:23):
John Legend has an album out right now. John Stewart
has a movie coming out called Irresistible. I thoroughly enjoyed
the movie. Um, I saw, I got some terrible, terrible
reviews I read. I read those yesterday. Oh yeah, it
did I read those yesterday? We see. That's one of
the reason I don't like read reviews or listen to
other people's opinions before I watched something before I consume something,

(05:44):
because I watched it just on the script when they
sent it for us to watch. Because he was coming
to do the conversation and I thought it was greatly Yeah,
I enjoyed it. I wouldn't thought they got terrible reviews.
Horrible they killed it. Wow. All right, well, let's get
the show crack in front page news. What we're talking about, Well,
maybe you're gonna be ready for some baseball soon. It

(06:05):
didn't look like it was coming back, but now it
looks like Major League Baseball is really trying to start
July twenty fourth. All right, we'll get into that next.
Keeping lock this to Breakfast Club. Good morning, DJ Envy Angela, Yee, Charlomagne,
the guy we all the Breakfast Club. Let's get in
some front page news when we're starting with ye, well,
let's start. We're in Major League Baseball might be coming

(06:26):
back around July twenty fourth, and they're targeting a sixty
games season. But first any players to sign off on
a health and safety protocol and to pledge to arrive
at home stadiums by July first in order to prepare
for the season. So we'll see, it's been three months
of negotiations and it still hasn't been worked out. I
knew that immediately. Yesterday. I took my son fishing yesterday

(06:47):
and as we were going fishing. I looked on a
baseball field and they're playing a game. The little league
actually playing a game. So when I seen little league
playing and like, these are kids playing, I'm like, oh,
major League Baseball definite coming back. They allowing these kids
in these different states to play, They're gonna bring major
League Baseball back. That's not what it is. They've been
trying to negotiate. But it all has to do with
the finances of it also, so you know, they're trying

(07:10):
to pack in as many games as they can, and
there's a Yeah, that's what the real issue is. It's
not that they can't play. Oh, so they don't care
about the same COVID. They care just about the money. Well,
I'm sure they care about that also, but yeah, of
course they care about that. Also, they gotta care about COVID.
I'm sure that's the only reason that it's a delay

(07:31):
and they're having the kind of I guess shortness season
that they're having. I'm sure it's because of COVID. But
but but people are not gonna make the same noise
about the MLB as they did about the NBA. And
I don't find the MLB as a distraction and then
they say that about the NBA. The NBA can't come
back and they would be a distraction. And everything that's
going on right now, you don't have the same energy
from Major League Baseball. Maybe once they announced a real plan,

(07:53):
we'll see, but yeah, it doesn't look it doesn't look
that way. Now, let's talk about what's happening with Donald Trump.
He is focusing on restricting immigration into the United States.
So he as you know, they have extended DOCCA, and
he said over the weekend he intends to refile paperwork
to end DOCCA, that's the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program,

(08:15):
after the Supreme Court rejected his first attempt to do so. Now,
his reasoning for that is because he wants to make
sure that the economy can recover and that people who
are US citizens can actually get these jobs. And Amazon, Google, Twitter,
and other tech companies are speaking out against Donald Trump's
freeze on immigrant work visas. So the company said they

(08:36):
will the company said it will make American firms less
competitive and less diverse, as he has extended that freeze
on these work visas. So the tech industry does rely
very heavily on the visa program and other work visas
to recruit employees from outside of the United States, and
that's in particular for technical facing jobs. And so they're

(08:56):
saying it's now an unbelievably bad policy that will undermine
a merror because economic recovery and its competitiveness. If you
guys pay attention to this whole immigration situation. Now, this
NYPD shake Shack poisoning, whole scandal they said was not
what it was made out to be. If you guys

(09:17):
remember three cops went to shake Shack and they said
that they were poisoned, right, But now there's a full
picture of what really happened because they said it tasted
like bleach, so they threw it out. So it's saying
it's impossible for them to have known that it was
actually drinks that were made for police officers. Their drinks
were waiting for them when they arrived at shake Shack
because they actually placed an order using the mobile apps,
so you have no idea who's placing this order. They

(09:38):
purchased three shakes across two separate orders, and the workers
couldn't have known it was cops that were doing it
because it wasn't done in person. They couldn't have done
anything to the drinks after the officers arrived, because the
drinks were already packaged and waiting for pickup. So what
ends up happening is, you know, how they clean out
the machines, and so when they clean out the machines,
they have this thing called the residual milkstone remover. It's

(09:59):
a tip acidic solution that they used to combat build
up in dairy equipment. So maybe there might have been
a little bit with that. They tasted of that in
their drinks, but it wasn't what it was made out
to be, Like some officers were being poisoned and they
don't know why this whole thing was blown out of proportion.
So they lied because it couldn't have been bleaching if
they if they called ahead, and there's no way they
would have known that they were police officers that were

(10:20):
just like, it's just a random over each person just
ordering food. Correct. Yeah, And I don't think it was
the officers that lie because it did have a taste
to it, and that's probably what the taste came from.
But they said when they went back to work, I
guess for some reason, you know, they made a huge
deal out of it. Their higher ups and made it
a big deal. The Police Benevolent President Association president made

(10:42):
a show of visiting the hospital and said that the
police officers came under attack from a toxic substance that
was believed to be bleach. That whole story just ended
up spreading, and so I don't think it was the
actual police officers that made it a big deal. Well,
just to play white Devil's advocate, what if they frequent
this shake shock often and the workers their new their name.

(11:04):
That's a possibility. Yeah, but it was, but there wasn't
actually bleacher. It's probably the machine was just cleaned and
you know how you get those first drinks after they
cleaned the machine. That's true too, that's another possibility. Yeah,
that's what they're saying. Happen. M okay, all right, well
that is your front page news. All right, thank you,
miss ye. Now get it off your chest. Eight hundred

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breakfast club. Hello, who's this yo? This key in Georgia?
What's up? Broke? Get it off your chest A minium
blast black Holly favor that Charlomagne will say. I woke
up next know she didn't get get the hell out
of my bed. But I love my god. Well, you
don't have the same bed. It's not my daughter. She

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got her home bed, but she she she to bed
every morning. So you know, sign your talk about his wife.
Stop y'all know he wasn't talking about his wife. I
did when he said my queen, that's what he did.
And then he said his daughter right after that my daughter,
I didn't say it. My four yo does the same thing.

(12:29):
My four yod has been doing that for like six
seven months. Man. It is a struggle to make her
sleep in her own bed. Yeah, I gotta get up
out of them, not using she messing my money. But
I want to talk about I want to talk about y'all.
Interview yesterday with the Old Girl Man and King Angela
King y'all. She was baking, y'all, She was really baking, y'all.

(12:51):
Y'all didn't see prepare man, y'all got to bring it.
Hay off up. I bet you she's not gonna win today.
She might not. I wasn't. I was. I wasn't trying
to black. I wasn't. I wasn't trying to debate. I
wasn't trying. I wasn't trying to I wasn't trying to
debate her. I don't think. I just get very concerned
when people trying to roll back women's rights and a
woman's right to choose. I think that's concerning. It's concerning.

(13:14):
But she was coming with some she was coming with me.
I'm gonna be real, y'all listening back to the interview,
Yeah I did. I watched it. I watched it yesterday. Yeah,
she cooked, she could. She definitely cooked the room. I
enjoyed it. I th I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm not.
I mean, sometimes sometimes you just can't argue people. You
just gotta let people say this side. I mean it is,

(13:35):
why were you arguing like? I wasn't arguing though, I
wasn't arguing. I I think I think as a woman
is very concerning to me for people to put out
this false and narrative like if you're a pro choice,
that means you're walking around killing babies. I don't like that. Yeah,
it was a lot of different. I didn't. I didn't.
I didn't agree with that part. Yeah it was. And

(13:55):
I also don't agree that if your child is trans
that means you're encouraging to have sex or something like
it's crazy to me what she said with that, like
the whole the LGBT community, all those letters, the first
three letters are sexually on it, or say you know
what says or like those. I mean, let's just be real. Yeah,

(14:16):
but I think when the kids come to you and says, look,
i'm a i'm a boy or i'm a girl, doesn't
mean I want to have sex with whatever. It just
means this is what I identify as a gender as well. Wait, man,
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We got rumors on the way, yes, and we didn't
get to this story yesterday. But let's talk about Bubba Wallace.
He's the only black driver in NASCAR's Top series and
he found a noose in his team's garage. All right,

(18:26):
who wow? All right, we'll get to that next keeping
lock this to Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning.
Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We
are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's
talk Bubbo Wallace. This is the rumor report with Angela
year Breakfast Club. Well, Bubba Wallace, who was the only

(18:54):
black driver in NASCAR's Top series, did confirm that on
Sunday there was a new was found in his team's
garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway. And now they are investigating.
The news was found by a member of Bubba Wallace's team,
and it was just hours after somebody flew a Confederate
flag over the track to protest NASCAR banning the Confederate

(19:15):
flag at all events. So they're trying to figure out
who did this. Now NASCAR released a statement, we are
angry and outraised and cannot stay strongly enough how seriously
we take this heynous act. Yeah, that is totally fall.
I heard Jesse Smolette was trending yesterday because people will
believe and maybe he did it himself, but that's crazy.
You can't go to work without seeing that they banned

(19:36):
the flag. People still come out to Hija Jaha with
the flags and trying to put it on their cause.
It's just so disrespectful man. Positively, Yeah, they were trying
to do all these like truck drivers rolling past with
the Confederate flag. It was like a protest parade with
a lot of the people. They were people setting up
camp across the street, and they were also displaying the
Confederate flag. That's how much step flag means to them.

(19:58):
And there were some Trump flags alongside the Confederate flags
as well. All right. In addition to that, Bubba wile
this did Finnis fourteenth yesterday, drivers did rally behind him.
It was a very emotional scene. So listen to this.
It's been tough, it's been it's been hell. Earlier I
would say hell, it's just been hectic, you know, carrying
its weight and carrying his burden. I wouldn't really say

(20:19):
burden either. I'm proud to stand where I'm at and
carry a new face. Look at this first time right
here from Atlanta. The sport is changing. Sorry, I'm not
wearing my mask, but I wanted to show whoever it was,
You're not gonna take away my smile and I'm gonna
keep on going. The pre rate steal was probably one
of the hardest things I've ever had to witness in
my life. From all the supporters, from drivers, from crew members,

(20:42):
everybody here the badass fan base, thank you guys for
coming out here. Yeah, definitely positive eyes for that brother man.
He's going through a lot, and I'm glad that they're
rallying behind him. Yeah. Yeah, most people are so, and
I know that's a hurtful time and things to go through.
So you know, I'm glad that NASCAR is doing the
right thing though, at least right all right, little baby.
He's upset that Walmart has been selling fake gold chains

(21:06):
with his logo on it, four pockets full of jewelry,
and he's not happy at all. He called him out
on Twitter. He said, Walmart got me ffed up. Did
y'all see these bootleg chains? I did see him. I Mean,
the good thing about it is that's his logo, so
he could probably sue if it's you know, his and
his trademark. But remember we used to see that all
the time. I've never seen in a Walmart, but we
always used to see it in the mall where it
was cash money. I've seen the Rockefeller stuff. I've seen

(21:28):
Masterpiece ice cream trunk. There's been a lot of jewelry
in the mall though. Yeah, absolutely, we might have some
of those chains, right, No, that mean ninety nine, all right.
Carl Crawford is being sued for one million dollars by
the mother of the child who drowned at his home.
We told you about this drowning incident. It took place
last month. It was a small gathering and it was

(21:50):
a five year old boy and an adult woman who
died when the little boy fell into the pool. She
actually dove in to try to save the five year old,
and they both later died at a nearby hospital. Now,
the mom, leb on Hersey, is saying that Carl Crawford
is solely responsible for the incident. She says her five
year old son, who suffered from drowning, wasn't properly protected,

(22:10):
and that this pool had no fencing, no alarm system,
and so she's holding him responsible. She went to one
million dollars in her lawsuit against him. Yeah, you know,
the defensing only secures it if around the whole yard.
But if you're out in the barbecue, having a you know,
having a barbecue by the pool, a pool is usually open.
I do know in Florida, which I thought was dope,
they have these alarms that when you go outside to

(22:32):
the pool, the alarm goes off like crazy, which I'm
going to install in my house or my kids. Not
a swim But he has insurance. I'm sure it's insurance
to be able to take care of it. But you know,
it's a sad situation. It's definitely a sad situation. I
don't know how do you claim whose fault it was?
You know what I mean? Because when I'm out, I
guess if it's on your property, I don't know, but
it's in my kids my responsibility though, Like if I'm

(22:52):
out at a pool party, I'm watching my kids to
make sure my kids are safe. So I don't know
who's you know, responsibility legally, I don't know how this
works legally. I don't know if you know this happening
on your property, Just like if you slip and falling
someone's property or something happens to you, you can sue, right, Yeah,
that's if you slip and fall. But if my child,
you know, goes into the pool or jumps into the pool,

(23:12):
falls into the pool. Shit, As a parent, you keep
an eye on your kids to make sure you know
what they're at at any given moment. I'm just asking.
I honestly don't know, and I would love to know. Yeah,
I mean, I don't know. They might. She's saying that
it was unsafe because there was no way for if
you're at someone's house and a child could just fall
into the pool. I don't know, but I guess we'll
see what happens. All right, Well, I man de la yee.

(23:33):
That's your rumor report. All right, thank you, miss ye.
Now when we come back front page news, what we're
talking about, Yes, we we're talking about Dak Prescott and
his deal that he just signed with the Cowboys. All right,
we'll get into that next. Keeping lock this to Breakfast Cloud,
Go morning, vj Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy, we
all the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page
news where we're starting you well, Dak Prescott has officially

(23:57):
signed his thirty well received his alty one point four
million exclusive franchise ten there from the Dallas Cowboys. They
have until July fifteenth to work out a long term deal,
otherwise one cannot be done until after this season. So
the good news is, I guess he'll be back for
this season and he does want to stay. Is he
worth the money having? I mean, I don't know what

(24:20):
his deal is. I think I saw something yesterday that
he signed a thirty one point five million dollar franchise
tag for the Cowboys, But I don't know how long
it is. I don't know if that's where. I don't
know what that is. It's not a long term. Yeah,
it's not a long term deal. So they're saying that
he will be one of the highest paid players in
the NFL, and then they said next season that could
increase by a mandatory twenty percent to thirty seven point

(24:43):
seven million with a flat or lower cap in twenty
twenty one. So they do want to do a long
term deal before July fifteenth, But if they wait till
after that, then you can't do it till after the season. Okay, Okay,
got it? I hope we gets all the money that
he's worth. Runnun all right. Rhode Island. Now, I didn't

(25:05):
know about this, but they saying Rhode Island might change
its official state name because of slavery connotations. I didn't know.
Rhode Island's full name is the State of Rhode Island
and Providence Plantations. So right now they're going to change
the name to just Rhode Island instead of all that.
I never heard anybody call it that, but makes sense, right,
all right now. Eight corrections officers at the Ramsay County,

(25:27):
Minnesota jail where Derek Chauvin is being held in Minneapolis
said they were briefly barred from the floor where he
was being held the day that he was booked into
the jail because they're black, according to the discrimination charges
that have been filed with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.
So they said when Chavin was charged with murder in
the death of George Floyd, they were told to report

(25:48):
to the third floor of the jail. They said that
the facilities employees of color were all on that floor.
They had all been segregated from the fifth floor, which
is where Chavin was to be held. So they said
they believed that those action towards discriminatory because they openly
singled out and segregated officers of color because of their
skin color. Now, according to the jail official, what he's

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saying is that he said, recognizing that the murder of
George Floyd was likely to create particularly acute racialized trauma,
I felt I had an immediate duty to protect and
support employees who may have been traumatized and may have
heightened ongoing trauma by having to deal with Shavin. Out
of care and concern and without the comfort of time,
I made the decision to limit exposure to employees of
color to a murder suspect who could potentially aggravate those feelings.

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He said. He reversed that decision within the hour, And
it doesn't ever happen the other way around them. Right
when they arrest somebody who's black, they're not like, Okay,
we're not going to have any white officers. I've never
heard of that before with them, So I don't see
why it should happen the other way, And why shouldn't
they be able to do their job as police officers
and handle the situation just because of the color of

(26:55):
their skin. Absolutely yeah. If you know, if you're not
gonna worry about potential prejud it's our potential bias when
it comes to you know, people that you arrested are
black and white officers, and the same energy should be
applied for the black officers as well. Okay, well, right
now those officers are seeking compensation. Yeah, the black officers
have some prejudice and some bias towards the white cop

(27:16):
Derek shoving. They should okay, they should feel that way.
Y'all don't have no reason to be prejudice and biased
towards us other than the color of our skin. All right,
well I am Angela. Yeah, and that is your front
page news. All right, thank you. I want to I
want to salute Kentucky too. Man. They got primary elections today,
Senate primary elections. We all know that less than a

(27:37):
few less than uh, they have less than two hundred
polling places to vote because Mitch McConnell, the state senator,
has repeatedly refused to vote on bills to improve access
to the ballot. So, you know, everyone exercising their right
to vote, be patient today. Thug it out, Andy and all,
and always remember if voting didn't matter, then you know,
why do they why do they go so hard to
make it difficult for us to vote? Do it? Thug

(28:00):
it out and stuck it out in Kentucky today, even
though they cut the polling places from thirty seven hundred
to two hundred and one polling place for the state's
two biggest cities, Louisville and Lexington. Thug it out. Yeah,
that line gonna be long, but like you said, thug
it out. Man. Please, if you can't bring extra water,
please stug it out. All right? When we come back,
comedian John Stewart will be joining us. Of course. He
has a new movie coming out called Irresistible, and we'll

(28:23):
talk to him about that very good film. And I'm
glad I watched it before I saw the reviews for
it because I enjoyed it. Okay, all right, well, we'll
kick it with him when we come back to the movies.
To Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club forty. Everybody
is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are
the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the

(28:44):
line right now on the zoom we have John Stewart. Welcome. Yeah, Hey,
what's up, guys? Thanks going. What's happening? Hey, thank you
for coming. First of all, I want to I really
enjoyed Irresistible, man, really enjoyed. Thank you. Now breakdown what
Irresistible is about. How it's about a young boy who's

(29:05):
left alone over Christmas by his family. Thank you, John.
That would It's a movie about the current political system
and the gravitational pull that it exerts, and how far

(29:25):
away it's drifted from the problems and the facts on
the ground of the real people that it's purporting to serve.
And hopefully it's funny and uh and people have a
good time watching, you know, right out of the gate.
Not to give too much away, but you know, these
political strategists, they admit their lying to us, yet the
American public still listens. Why. I think ultimately what they've

(29:49):
learned is noise is an effective strategy to blunt any
change of the status quo. And one of the best
kind of noisemakers is to flood the zone with non
fact and lies and spin to make it much more
difficult for people to be able to discern what's real

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and what's not. Because here's the other thing. We're busy
and they count on that it's sort of like you
ever look at your credit card statement and they send
you that pamphlet that explains to you, like the rules.
You cannot figure out what it is they're trying to
tell you about your credit card rate, And it's done
on purpose. They don't want you to know the ins

(30:34):
and outs. They don't because that means you'll hold them accountable.
You know, there's a scene in the movie when I'm
not gonna give it away, but Colonel Jack is basically
saying that money is the problem in regards the politics.
How can that system that will be dismantled? So I
think that's what we've tried. You know, there was McCain,
Fondal and campaign campaign finance reforms. But I think it's

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always nibbling at maybe the edge of it, you know,
because when you have money in a system, I think
we all know that system is going to protect itself.
Systems don't generally dismantle their own profit. So what happens
is elections now become permanent, and so you've got billions
and billions of dollars flowing into this thing, and everybody

(31:18):
in that system is getting a case. But there out
the other day, Joe Biden raised eighty million dollars. I
think Trump raised seventy eight million dollars in a month.
And that's not even the half of the kind of
money that's flowing through this thing. And by the way,
that's the least of the money. The real money is
the dark money that's flowing in from corporations and billionaires

(31:39):
to influence that system. Also, in the movie, you show
how Democrats don't know how to talk the regular everyday people.
Why can't Democrats get their messaging right? So the Publican
Party has an advantage in that they're more homogeneous. They're
just talking to one group. The Democrat Democratic Party is
really a coalition of interest. And you'll see no matter

(32:01):
where you go, you've got people. You've got DOCTA standing
next to BLM, standing next to Free Palestine, standing next
to Behalf, standing next to five guys going legalized park
like it's a mishmash. And so there is no real
singular common language for the Democratic Party to speak to

(32:21):
each other, and certainly not to reach across and speak
to you know, a Republican party that's become really entrenched
in that identity. Yeah, Republicans will go for their candidate
no matter what, whether they agree with them disagree with them.
And I feel like with Democrats, we do such a
great job of being really divided amongst each other that
we kind of like tear each other down so much

(32:44):
that by the time it's time for an election. And
we've seen that happen obviously with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
With the Republicans, whoever their candidate is, it doesn't matter
they are behind them, Nie, they'll switch what they think
depending on what they're leading or tells them. There's no
there's no principle behind it anymore. If you look at

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the criticisms that were leveled at Barack Obama by the
Republicans for eight years, well, Donald Trump by almost every metric,
has performed worse according to their own criticism. So what
they do is they change the metric. So what they
told you they believed in eight years ago, they've shown

(33:25):
you they don't believe in now. Well, what do you
anticipate happening in November? Man? I you know, I would
say the focus for the left should simply be protecting
the vote we can. You're gonna see four voting boots

(33:48):
for eight hundred thousand people like protect the ability to vote.
They couldn't. They couldn't do that in twenty sixteen, though,
Like they can't get an election security bill path because
Mitch McConnell, we know its voted suppression. Not to mention
voter depression just because people aren't enthused by Joe Biden.
It's like it's gonna be bad. The hardest thing for

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someone like in your position to do is maintain your
optimism and enthusiasm because they're trying to wear you down.
You guys are are drivers of enthusiasm and interest. Keep
deconstructing the nonsense. What the problem I have? Sometimes with Democrats,

(34:31):
they'll say, we need the largest voter turnout in US
history to win this November, but we can't tell people
all the things they are up against because they may
not come out in November. And in the movie, Colonel
Jack has a lie where he says, you can't win
a battle if you're not honest about what you're up against.
If DEM's told the American people the truth, we may
be energized to come out in November. Let people know,
yes there's Russian interference, Yes there's voted suppression, Yes there's

(34:54):
voted depression people are they're gonna try to steale this
election from you, but we need y'all to come out
in droves in order to beat that. Tell the truth
completely agree. And part of what I was trying to
show in the movie is that again there's rot in
the infrastructure of those systems. You'll see here's what's gonna happen.
You're gonna see Joe Biden have to go out and
talk to YouTube influencers, and he's gonna do it without

(35:16):
wearing a tie because you know, young people, if you're
wearing a tie, they don't know you know, you already
kicks up. It's the one thing what I really you know,
for Joe Biden, what Biden wasn't my guy? Perfectly honest?
How much more in the Biden Warren Camper, h Sanders
Warren Camper. But he's my guy now because I do

(35:38):
think it's not just about anybody but Trump in this moment,
we are a nation in anguish and anger and fear.
And here's my hope about Biden. This is a man
who knows loss. He has suffered, his wife, a young child, son.

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My hope is that loss has humbled him to the
idea of what it feels like to be an anguished people.
I feel like we need a leader in this moment
of humility who is looking to understand their own ignorance

(36:23):
and blind spots and do better and be humble enough
to know what they don't know, and to be humbled
enough by grief to know the pain that people carry
with them every day. All right, we got more with
John Stewart when we come back, don't move. It's the
Breakfast Club. Commoney Morning, everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne,

(36:47):
the guy we all the Breakfast Club was still kicking
in with John Stewart. Charlomagne's autold Rolling Stone Magazine. That
you believe the issue with situations like George Floyd's death
is that we're addressing the wrong problem. Is that what
you mean is that we should be addressing whites of
emacy and systemic racism. That what you meant we should
be addressing equity? Okay. In the Great Depression, we formed

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the Federal Housing Administration, and it specifically wrote into federal
guidelines for housing that black people couldn't get loans to
buy their houses. The wealth of this country has been
built on equity, and then there was redlining, and then
there were zoning changes. This is not happenstand, and you
can't build a ghetto and then suddenly decide, Okay, that's

(37:30):
not here anymore, but we are going to police the
edge of it, and we're never going to tear it
down because when you quarantine people, you cut off the
economic tributaries that exist to feed that area. What you
have to do to face this, and maybe this plays
into what reparations could be, which is call it project equity,

(37:51):
a martial plan to build black ownership, because you can't
negotiate equality from a subserve in position. So our generational
challenge is to help build black equities. I just want
to hear from from you guys what you think are
the remedies beyond police and things like God No, the

(38:14):
only way America can atone for its original sin, which
is slavery, is through legislation and most importantly, reparations. So
I totally agree with you. There has to be some
type of economic equity package that is, you know, presented
to the black community like it's really it's really just
that simple. Yeah. I think education is really important in
making sure if our kids that they have something to
do when they're not in school, but making sure that

(38:36):
it's equal. Like just some people don't want to send
their kids to school in certain districts and the school
system is not good there. They don't have the right books,
the right tools, the right teachers. Even we have to
make sure that we fix up neighborhoods that people living
in that they have access to things that people in
other neighborhoods have access to. If there is a domestic
dispute that I agree that police shouldn't be called into

(38:57):
a situation like that. I do think that something that
a mediator or someone that is specialized to deal with
something like that, And I know we've said that also
about people who suffer from mental health issues, addiction issues,
things like that. I think certain cases, we don't need
somebody with a gun to show up that may not
necessarily know how to de escalate or handle that situation.
So I think there's a lot of things that are necessary,

(39:19):
and there's a lot of things that we need in
order for us to start achieving some of that some
of that equity. Like you said, think what she said
is the most important is knowledge, right, you look at
for myself. I'm the first person in my family to
graduate from college, the first person in my family to
be an entrepreneur. Not because my parents didn't is because
they didn't know how to. You know, we're trying to

(39:41):
get equality, and most white people have equity. You know,
we're just trying to figure out how to get equity.
You know, we still have to face the fact that
the banks won't lend us money. We still have to
face the fact that, you know, they push us out
our communities, buy our communities, then put our communities back together,
and then charge us three times the rent. John America
still have to give us what they oh, call you
white friends and tell them that reparations is all to

(40:03):
the black community. And how would you like to see
that Who do we make the check out to, first
of all? And how would you like to see that done?
Because that's really so here's part of the issue. Right,
We're still in a position that you've got to sell
that to the white community. So you've got two problems.
Run the large portion of white people who think black

(40:24):
people are responsible for that that it's that that poverty
and crime is of poor virtue and culture. By the way,
wouldn't talk about white poverty that way. If you listen
to them talk about the rust belt poverty, the factory workers, well,
those they're victims of circumstance. Black people come on suck
it up. So that's one perception that has to be changed.

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The second is resource guarding. So another large portion might think, well,
my life's not that easy, and why do I always
have to give up my resources to go to people
when I didn't do anything wrong? So how do we
bridge that gap? And I think the answer is, Look,
we're stuck in this trickle down theory of economics where

(41:12):
one point five car tax go to people at the top,
and we've tried it since the eighties and it doesn't work.
The job generationally for us is a marshal plan at
that scale of building infrastructure, of creating you will change
welfare and fluss by bringing money back to the dignity

(41:35):
of work, taking it away from the investor class. The
pendulum is swung to fall, and I think that black
people have to be in charge of their rebuilding effort.
It can't be the white people in the government step
out and say, okay, we're going to give you an
opportunity zone. This isn't about an opportunity zone. This is
about black people building equity for themselves and for each

(41:55):
other and being funded by an infrastructure in investment. And
you could take hundreds of billions of dollars in funding
and technical support and turn around, you know, one hundred
of the country's most disadvantaged communities like you can focus on,
you know, disparities in early childhood schools, higher education, skills
and training, employment, health and environmental conditions that you could

(42:17):
literally turn the hood around tomorrow and ownership. And then
what I would say is to make sure that in
those infrastructure investments that middle class white people are also
reassured that these replarations aren't being taken from you, that
it's an investment in rising up and creating a much

(42:40):
stronger middle class throughout the country. But also making sure
that they're reassured that resources will also be available for them.
It seems so crazy when there's problems, right and they say, okay,
well we're going to cut a tree in dollar check
to bring the economy back. And then we look at
all our communities and said, you could have cut these
checks file communities years ago if it was that easy

(43:03):
to make the money that's right, and that's what three trillion,
four trillion dollars in this pandemic and we don't even
know where it went right the exactly. You know what
else you can do? You can you can you can
increase access to capital um both debt and equity by
supporting black owned banks, you know, because those black owned
banks are going to make sure that, you know, people
get your money for entrepreneurs, are school owners, education, your homeownersaire,

(43:29):
all that. And I definitely feel like the marijuana business
has to come back into the communities since so many
people were sent to jail for marijuana convictions and lost
so much. I think all the money they're they're making
for marijuana and they're going to make a percentage of
that has to go towards these programs as well. And
that's another great point answer because look, man, I truly
believe in power black I'd be in jail because when

(43:52):
I was growing up, I pulled, but it would do
I was given a past. It was drugs and alcohol
and Shenanigan's vandalism. If you're trying to tell me that
black kids in this country do more drugs and white kids, no,
but white kids don't go to jail for it, right,
because it's just the part of being a kid. Right,

(44:14):
So we've criminalized being a teenager. So let's say we
did do something like that. Play it out. Who runs it?
Somebody like Obama, somebody like like you need a point
person of Robert Smith, Ye, Robert Smith riches African American
in America. Why not start making this a concrete proposition

(44:36):
and start putting names and numbers and things to it
and realize that in a way that we haven't been
able to do before. All right, we got more with
John Stewart when we come back, don't move? Is the
breakfast Club good morning ej Envy Angela Yee. Chalomagne, the
guy we all the breakfast Club was still kicking in

(44:57):
with John Stewart. Chalomagne. You know that's an interesting as
you say that, because I mean, you've got legislation passed
and you got people paid with eleven billful of first
respond is how difficult was the incredibly difficult and the
strangest thing was it was most difficult to convince those
that supposedly represent patriotism in this country the most. It

(45:20):
was Republican leaders who never fail on nine to eleven
to tweet out, don't forget our heroes. But when you
go to their office and go and man, I'm here
with the heroes and three of them have staged four
cancer and this guy's on an oxygen machine. So what
about that? That's the New York problem. Well, you can't

(45:40):
really prove that it came from that. So the government
is set up to deny, to continue the status quo
so that the money flows to the people that they
believe helped entrench them in their positions. And that's where
it has to change. What it's going to take is

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tremendous will, but almost more importantly, tremendous stamina. It also
takes you white men like you, who have privilege and
power to admit that white supremacy exists, to admit that
systemic racism exists. I do feel like what's hard about
that for people is you get defensis. Nobody likes to
be called on their especially when they feel like it's

(46:23):
not really there. Look when I started on The Daily Show,
right pretty much an all white staff, mostly male, and
people would call me out on various about it, and
I would get defensive until I had to stop and
think about it. You know, there was an article written
there weren't enough women writers, and I was sexist, and
I was like sexist. I was raised by a single mother.
My mother wore a T shirt that says a woman

(46:45):
needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, and
I'm a man. I drew up in the house where
I knew I wasn't and I've never gone back into
the writer's room and saying, you believe they Kevin Steve
like Bob. Now, we had had a policy that all

(47:06):
submissions there'd be no names on it, right, because we
thought that's the way to not be sexist or racist things.
But we still kept just hiring white dudes. And what
we realized is the river that we were getting the
material from, the tributary was also polluted by the same inertia.

(47:26):
And you had to say to them, send me women,
send me black people, And all of a sudden women
got funny. But they've been funny all along. We had
a writer of color. He and I got an argument.
I did a bit about Herman Kinge where I adopted
Herman Kane's accent, right, and to me is just his accent,

(47:48):
but to that writer is a racist bit. And he
called me out in a meeting with everybody around, and
I got defensive and got mad, and it took me
a long time to realize that the real issue was
that we hired a person who is black and that
because then they felt like they're carrying the weight of representation.

(48:13):
So they suddenly feel like I've got to be the
speaker of a rick and that puts a pressure on them.
That so we think we're doing the right thing, but
we're not doing it in the right way. And those
were hard lessons for me, and they were humbling lessons.
Here's another one, socioeconomic. The television business, the radio business.

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It's run by people from Westchester and Long Island, right,
because the internships weren't paid, so interns would come in.
And if you're going to hire somebody, where are you
going to hire them from the people you've met already?
The intern The only people who could do internships had
parents that were rich enough that could allow those kids
to take a little time off of college, live in

(48:55):
New York City and do that job. So the whole
thing is needed with inertia. And I don't consider myself malevolent,
but my ignorance of that dynamic had real consequences. But
she was willing to learn, though I honestly think that
most people are willing to learn. It's getting over the

(49:18):
defensiveness to realize you're not being called racist or like
or maybe you are or not giving so much of
a ship that somebody might call you that, and be
willing to say, like, we all have blind spots, and
we still have blind spots. I know I do. But
for us to dismantle the entrenched tributaries that continue to

(49:42):
contribute to any quality of outcome of equity, it takes effort. Yeah,
it's all got to be intentional. Men got to be
intentional when it comes to women. White people got to
be intentional when it comes to black people's great people
got to be intentional when it comes to gay people.
We got to be intentional about it. I think that's
the perfect encapsulation of it. I got a couple more

(50:02):
questions about the Daily Show. You. I saw what you said.
You regret the Daily Show's involvement in the evasporation, expectation, inviseration,
I'm sorry, inviseration. Sometimes we'd have someone on, like like
Jim Cramer or something like that. It's what they would
call good television, so that blows up on the on
the internet or whatever. I don't regret that moment, but

(50:26):
what I regret is sometimes you get in the mindset
of creating those moments, those moments that weren't authentic. Yeah,
it's like you're it's like you're your people pleasing too much.
Like instead of going in there and doing what's natural,
you want to do what you just saw work. So
you want to do that again. Yeah, that happens. It
happens to Radio two. And then the second thing I

(50:46):
think that's important to do, and this is the hardest one,
is to give yourself. Right. For giving yourself is the
key to getting over your own defensiveness and imperfections, like
I had to learn and to forgive myself for being
wrong in situations and that hurting people and not wanting them.

(51:07):
But we have to be able to start having the
honest conversations because it's like everything else. You don't fix
something if you don't get to what's really the cancer
at the bottom of it. For a period of time,
people that you were going to come back. Are you
enjoying this behind the scenes more though? Law? You know,
look at this face. This face was young man. I'm

(51:28):
aging like a guacamole president President of America. I feel
like I took that conversation as far as I could
take it for my own thing, and that show deserved
and that audience deserved somebody who was going to bring
a different perspective and an enthusiasm and an insight that

(51:51):
I can't bring. And I think we've seen that play out.
You know, to me, diversity is still technology, you know
what I mean. It's like an old person when they
get a smartphone. It's new and I can work it,
but it's not my kids when they get on the phone.
It just is Trevor in this moment, just is yeah,

(52:12):
and I still have to work. And I don't say
that in the way of like white guilt. I don't
mean it like that. I mean I didn't see the
whole field, and by not seeing the whole field well enough,
I wasn't able to make the kinds of changes that
I should have made at the speed and depths I
should have made them. Wow, we're always not going to

(52:33):
get it right, you know. And that's what therapy is for.
That's exactly what it's for. Appreciate it. You have to
tell us why the title is irresistible. Why is that
relevant to the plot of the film, Because sometimes you
can trap somebody with date, with lure that you know
would be irresistible to them, that when you see how

(52:58):
somebody views the world through that prism of conflict and
left versus right and rural versus city, you can lay
out something for them date that you know they're gonna take.
We would take debate every time. Holy don't just hit me.
Did that goddamn pastry represent that in the movie? Boom, Okay,

(53:23):
got you, got you, got you, got you, got you,
got you, got you. I'm getting fat, got you, got you,
got you got you And even when he now, I'm
not gonna give it away. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Brilliant movie,
John Stewart, brilliant movie. Man. Thank you for calling in
and checking in and you know, stay up with us sometimes,
you know. Absolutely, guys, thank you so much for the conversation.

(53:44):
I really appreciate it. Appreciate it. All right, it's John Stewart.
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. I think everybody is
ch Envy Angela, Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the
Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Eminem
about report. This is the rumor report Angela Ye fun

(54:08):
the Breakfast Club. Yes, so an old version of a
song Conway the Machines Bang from twenty nineteen has leaked
out and it has Eminem's original feature and he's going
in on Revolt and Joe Button. He jes had out
Puffy Combs. Listen to this. Shut the puffy calls, but
fu revote. Y'all are like a funk up remote. Now

(54:30):
I get it while buttons broke because you press them.
But he don't do nothing, No, especially when it comes
to Punch's throwing smoke. So the brunning roll. Take another
boss that is clipping in al because all you're gonna
get is an al smoke coming approach. So we don't
got nothing in common, not even though he's got cold
and he's an issue with it comes to blows. We
used to teach each other's journal. Let's kick to the stuff.
He knows. It's like always learning me goes all right, Well,

(54:52):
there's no secret that Eminem is not a big fan
of Joe Button. Yeah, well, I revolte catches Tree. I
think because state of the Coaches. I'm revolte see state,
say stated the coaching say a black owned the whole
TV network just because you're mad at what personality. It's
a bad time people saying. People don't say F Power
one oh five or after breakfast Club, they might say

(55:12):
F Charlemagne. They do say after breakfast club. Yeah, they do,
because you'll be doing y'all y'all be y'all be owning
y'all own smoke. Though y'all y'all gone y'all own smokes.
Sometimes they're saying bad things that we had nothing, Like
if I'm not even here for a day, they'll be like,
F the Breakfast Club. I'm like, I wasn't even there.
I'll take it. Yeah, I mean it is what it

(55:32):
is that he gave it to the whole network because
he doesn't like Joe Button Ma. I mean that means
Effre me ma after Breakfast Club and K Williams F
no Orion drink Champs. Did he so F vote is
the staff record label and mother Effre crew And you
gotta think, yeah, wash a little button, GETU the skin
like that so much? Though, um, I guess probably because

(55:54):
the record he was signed. Yeah, it's old, but I
think it's you know, because of what Joe Button said
about him, and he probably feels like I thought it
was cool. I you know, he was signed to the label,
and he probably feels like he was betrayed. All right,
Little Yadi crashed his Ferrari on a freeway in Atlanta
after hydroplaning. How scary is that? So they said it.

(56:15):
Fortunately he was able to walk away with just minor
injuries to his arm and that's it. So that's the
most important thing. We're not sure what's gonna happen with
that Ferrari, but they're saying it's totaled. Yeah, it's totals eight.
Spider ferraris about I would say, knew about three hundred
and thirty thousand dollars. But he has his life. That's
the only thing that matters. He has his life. He

(56:36):
walked away alive, thank god. That's right, all right, all right.
Jimmy Kimmel has announced that he is going on vacation,
and that is after a lot of controversies has been happening,
like this blackface sketch that resurfaced where he's playing kar
Malone on comedy centrals. The Man's Show. Listen to this
sometime a night call old look up in sky and

(56:57):
say what the hell going on up there? UFO Live
on other planet, folding hole like et Kamalo Rido TV
about white people getting deducted by alien sticking all kind
of hell up big and that's a damn thing. Now.
In addition to that, they've been circulating this clip of
an interview that he did back in two thousand and
nine with Megan Fox, where she was recalling an experience

(57:20):
with director Michael Bay from when she was a teenager
and she was working as an extra on Bad Boys Too.
She said, she was only fifteen years old, and here's
what happened. I had just turned fifteen, and I was
an extra and Bad Boys Too, really and yeah, they
were shooting this club scene and they brought me in
and I was wearing a stars and striped bikini and

(57:41):
a red cowboy hat and like six and sheels and
he approved it and they said, you know, Michael, she's fifteen,
so you can't sit her at the bar and she
can't have a drink in her hand. So his solution
to that was to then have me dancing underneath the waterfall,
getting soaking wet. That's sort of a microcosm of how
Bay's mind work. Yeah, well, yeah, well that's really a

(58:01):
microcosm of how all our minds works. But some of
us have the decency to repress those facts and pretend
that they don't exist. Yeah, Jimmy, that shouldn't have been
a week. That should have been some men's thoughts. But
if you felt that way, you know, he said it
honest dead wrong, But honest, we really need to have
a broader discussion about all of this, because everybody has

(58:24):
the right to be offended. Everybody had the right to
be upset. But I have an issue with retroactive outrage,
retroactive punishments for things that were already public, because if
it was public, that means it was appropriate at the time.
The context of time matters, because the eighties and nineties
and early two thousands was a wild ass, feel fory
ass time. If you sit at home and watch some
of those old movies, TV shows, listen to old music,

(58:47):
you will absolutely say, how the hell did we get
away with some of this stuff? And if you didn't
grow up in that era, and when you look back
and taking some of that content, yeah, you're probably gonna
be a Paul. I'm sure you will. Be, but it
was a different from a world back then. When I say,
we are in a whole new world from where we
were as far as censorship and pushing things to the edge,
we are in a whole new world. I think people want.

(59:09):
Tommy came out to address it, though, like Jimmy Fallon
addressed his black face sketch that he did of Chris
Rock and said he made a terrible decision and he
was sorry for making that offensive decision at the time,
and he said, thank you all of you for holding
me accountable. So the only problem a problem with that
is is you know, these people are what were hurt
by it, and even though that that they were hurt

(59:31):
by it back then, maybe they didn't get the apology
that they wanted back then. So now that it comes
back out now, they could be getting the apology that
they need it back then, you know what I mean,
It's okay to acknowledge and behavior. Yo. Some of these
people probably weren't even born back then. And if you're
gonna I also think if they're gonna do those retroactive punishments,
you gotta punish everyone involved, not just the individual. You

(59:52):
gotta punish the producers, the writers, the standards and practices,
anybody that green lit those things. But I don't think
it should be punishments. It should be a conversation about conversation, right,
how coaches shifted and yes, you're right, he should acknowledge
that that was wrong, right, and how that shouldn't continue
moving forward. But we need to have a conversation about
context and how culture shifted, because boy, when they start

(01:00:15):
digging into the eighties, nineties and early two thousands, it's
going to be a lot of apologies. Well, I don't
think Jimmy Kimmel's not being punished. He's taking a break
from the show. And here's what he had to say
about taking a break. Tonight is my last new show
for the summer. I'm taking the summer off to spend
even more time with my family. I've been doing this
job for almost eighteen years. I've done three thousand, one

(01:00:37):
hundred thirty shows, and there's nothing wrong. My family is healthy,
I'm healthy. I just need a couple of months off, right.
So he's decided to take a break just to be
with family. He said he needs a couple of months off,
and all these things have been surfacing, So that's what
it is. I mean, it's not like he's got punished
or lost his job, right, Yeah, I still think it
needs to be a broader conversation, not just with Kimmel,

(01:00:59):
but just the whole context of the eighties, nineties, in
early two thousands, it was a totally different world because
you see what happened to Jimmy Fowling, You see what
happened to Howard Stern. You see what happens you know, well,
we haven't seen it happen in hip hop yet as
far as like the content of that music. But I mean,
if you think about the movies, the TV shows, like,
it's just we should have a context about how culture

(01:01:19):
is shifted. But you know what the thing is when
it does affect people like Megan Fox was trending yesterday, right,
and if you know the full story of what happened
to her, she basically kind of got black ball from
the business because Michael Bay was saying that she's terrible
to work with. He calls her an unfriendly bitch, he
said she's a porn star. He called Hi Miss hour
Pads dumb as a rock, and he said when facing

(01:01:39):
the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer tress
and posing like a porn star, and yes, we've had
the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set,
and yes it's very cringeable. So maybe being a porn
star in the future might be a good career option.
But makeup be where she has a paragraph tattooed to
her backside, probably due to her rotten childhood. Easily another
forty five minutes in the chair. So that was a

(01:01:59):
letter that Michael Bay actually wrote, an open letter. And
so I think when things like that can affect people's
career later on in the future. Because Megan Fox is
traumatized by certain things that happened to her, and she
even said it on her own social media post, you
know that there are people that she feels like need
to be held accountable. Yeah, I don't know what I'm
talking about content, but anyway, I'm Angela Yee and that

(01:02:22):
is your rumor report. It was a public letter that
he wrote about Megan I'm talking. I'm just yeah, but
I'm just talking about content, and I wasn't talking about
Megan Fox. I'm talking about the content that people put out.
All right, Well, who are you giving your donkey too? Bro?
Four after the hour, we need to have a conversation
about you know, this disease on this planet that has
just caused nothing but havoc on this planet since day one,

(01:02:45):
and that is old white Man. We'll discuss four after
the hour. All right, we'll get into that next keeping
lock this to breakfast club. Good morning, Donkey, Donkey Today

(01:03:12):
for Tuesday, June twenty third goes to a Laney College
professor in Oakland named Matthew Hubbard. Matthew, I don't know you,
but you made this weird. Okay, you made this awkward.
I would think that when you are a teacher, professor,
your job is to make kids comfortable. I don't care
if it's college or grade school. Kids have insecurities. Everyone
is trying to do their best, and you should encourage that, okay.

(01:03:34):
But instead you are the adult who wants to make
things awkward okay for kids and magnify whatever in the
issues these young adults may have. Now, Laney College has
put Matthew Hubbard on leave because he asked the kid
to change their name. In fact, he told the student
anglicize their name. That means to make your name English.

(01:03:56):
And the reason Matthew told this student to change their
name is because Matthew said it sounded like an insult
in English. In fact, on the second day of class,
Matthew sent an email to the student asking her verbatim
to anglicize her name because it sounds like an insult
in English. Oh the call Cassidy what. A student told

(01:04:17):
CNA she was shocked and felt disrespected by the email,
as she should have been, and that the professor had
never seen her before or asked her how to pronounce
her name. The student replied back and told Matthew his
requests felt discriminatory and warned him she would file a
complaint if he did not refer to her by her
birth name. He responded by saying her name an English

(01:04:38):
sounds like an insult, and then Matthew replied, if I
lived in Vietnam and my name in your language sounded
like Eda Dick Gregory, I would change it to avoid embarrassment.
He also then repeated his request for her to change
her name in his reply. Now Laney College President to
mel Gilkerson said in a statement on Thursday that the
college was aware of the allegations of racists and zena

(01:05:00):
big messages from a faculty member at our college with
a student about the pronunciation of their name. We take
these allegations seriously and immediately placed the faculty member on
administrative leave pending an investigation. Matthew Hubbard told The New
York Times, the first email was a mistake, and I
made it thinking about another student willing to anglicize. But

(01:05:22):
it is a big difference with someone doing it voluntarily
and asking and asking someone to do it. The second
email is very offensive, and if I had waited eight hours,
I would have written something very different. This is exactly
why historically we call old white men the devil. Okay,
this is why nobody likes old white men. Okay, Guys
like this give every old white man a bad name.
This is a classic case of whiteness. Okay, old white

(01:05:45):
men can't help but to be racist, because when you
are old white male, you have always benefited from the
power that comes with privilege. Okay, the patriarchy is in
your blood. Okay, it's in your blood to get a
marginal lines person to change their name, because, Matthew, your
ancestors with slave masters, and a slave name is the

(01:06:05):
person to name given by others to an enslaved person.
Our name inherited from enslaved ancestors, so you just couldn't
help yourself. You wanted this young woman to change her
name because you thought it sounded like an insult. Who
the hell are you, white man? Okay, go trim your
earheads and leave people to hell alone. Now I know
you're wondering, what is this young woman's name? Okay? What

(01:06:28):
what about this young woman's name? Did this old white
man find so insulting? I would like to know myself,
So let's go to ABC seven for the report police
the Asian American Lady College freshman who was told by
her professor via email to change her name to sound
more anglicized. Math professor Matthew Hubbard says in emails to
the student footboy Dan Winn, that her name sounded like

(01:06:51):
the F word and asked her to change it now.
When she declined, citing discrimination, he refused to use her
given name. Hubbert declined multiple requests for an interview, but
tweeted an apology to Win, whose family confirms he sent
an email to her as well. Hubbert has been placed
on an administrative leave and Laney College is investigating. I

(01:07:11):
don't hear it. What's insulting about her name. Drum isolate
her name from me. I need to know what I'm
missing because I don't hear it. Play fuckboy dn win No.
I just I don't get it. Played played again, fuck
boy dn win Nope. Matthew Hubbart is just being a
racist xenophoe who needs to mind his business and ignore
what his ancestors they're telling him to do. Put her

(01:07:32):
name in HD so I can hear it. Maybe I'm
missing something because I don't hear it. Fuckboy dn win No,
I don't get it, but I do know that this
student released a great statement. She says she felt empowered
not to change her name at his insistence. She says
she decided to fully embrace it and let everyone know
that they should be proud of their name. She is

(01:07:52):
a proud fuck boy Okay, and I salute her all right,
she says, through this incident, she has been able to
raise awareness. So what's happening and it's helped others be
proud of their culture Okay and identity drop one of
clues bombs for food boys everywhere? Damn it. Okay. He's
also still waiting on a sincere and professional apology from

(01:08:15):
mister Hubbard, Well, one thing you will learn in life,
foot boy, is that the white man never gives those Okay,
we're still waiting on them. My bad about slavery, so
get in line. In the meantime, please let Kathy Griffin
give Matthew Hubbard the credit he deserves for being stupid.
Please give this giant Jarro male the biggest Hea Hall.

(01:08:37):
White people are crazy, O God. All right, well, thank
you for that donkey of the day. Now up next,
John Legend will be joining us. We'll kick it with
John Legend when we come back. Don't move. It's the
Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Pj Envy Angela yee,

(01:08:58):
Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got
a special guest on the line right now. Just had
a great Father's day, I should say, in Father's Day Sunday,
John Legend. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning, good morning, Well,
how was your How was your father's day? How was that?
Father's Day? Was good? Christie surprised me. She had a

(01:09:18):
catered dinner in the backyard just for me, and she
cheated me like a king. It was nice. What is
it like to release an album? In this time in
these days. Well it's different. You know. We used to
being out like we used to going out the Loute promotion,
so everything is different, but we're making it work. Can
you put out music that doesn't that isn't a soundtrack

(01:09:41):
for what's going on right now? Though? Yeah, you know
I thought about that because I was writing it before
all this stuff happened. I wrote it mostly in twenty nineteen.
I wrote a few joints, like in January and February
of this year, and then I was done writing, and
I felt like I had a dope album by you know,
beginning of March, and and soon as March comes around,

(01:10:01):
everybody's on lockdown and the whole world change. So the
question is do you scrap all of that and try
to make something that's right in this moment, or do
you get people what you've made, you know, which is
what I made. It was an album that's more loving
and joyful and hopeful. I think it was great marketing
to actually do the verses on the same day that
the album came out. It makes perfect sense because yeah,

(01:10:25):
I mean, it's been clear that every every versus has
been good for the artists, you know, just to. You know,
a lot of the artists, you know, haven't been making
a lot of new music, so it brought them back
to people's attention. And Alicia, we're kind of different because
we're still making music these days and still making releases
and all this stuff. But most of my verses I spent,

(01:10:47):
you know, educating people on what I had done in
the past, you know, many years ago. Some of the
stuff I played was from nineteen ninety nine, two thousand
and three, you know, just letting people know that I
was behind the scenes doing my thing. Even before you
first heard Get Lifted. Yeah, I didn't know that you
was on Everything Is Everything? Yeah, that was the first
record I ever played on. How Lauren find Who? How

(01:11:11):
did that come about? So there was a girl named
Tera Michelle. I was directing this church choir while I
was in college, so part of the way I paid
for like my experienses in schools, I was the director
of music at this church and one of the choir
members was a girl who had gone to school with
Lauren Hill. And she was like, I'm about to go

(01:11:31):
to the studio. She's working on her solo album. Do
you want to come to the studio with me, and
so I was this studio with her and just chilling
literally not trying to get in the way, you know.
She was like, John, won't you played a couple of
songs for her because I want her to hear you
know what you can do. And so I played one

(01:11:53):
of my own songs, a song called too Late, and
then I played a Stevie Wonders song and then she's
like one of Lauren was like, why don't you play
on this record we're working on now? So I played
piano on the record and that was the first major
recording and a partum. Wow did you do it for free?
I got five hundred dollars and my name is in
the credit on a classic album exactly, I was. I

(01:12:18):
was very happy with that. That's all I needed. Now,
let's talk about the versus bat a little bit, because
obviously you and Alicia Keys have worked together. You guys
are friends. So how did y'all even decide? Because I
know you both had been talking about it for quite
some time and we kind of had a feeling it
was going to happen. So what solidified that? Well, I
was doing radio for my new music, and I think

(01:12:41):
I was talking to Nick Cannon and he was like, well,
who would you who would you do a versus me?
And I was like, I feel like the one that
would make the most sense will be Alicia Keys And
I said, in fact, I think we should play it live.
You know. I was like, you know, do some of
the songs on the piano, piano to piano. UM. Swizz

(01:13:03):
and Alicia saw it, and and uh, Swizz hit me up.
He called me and then we talked about it, and
and that was it. I was like, my bad for
calling your wife out in public, but you know it
would be good, so let's let's good. And uh, everybody
was into it. And we knew from the beginning that

(01:13:24):
it was all love because we really respect each other,
and uh, we just wanted it to be a celebration.
What did y'all say about What did you say about
Teddy Raley's Wifeire you said something because Teddy Raley was
like John Legend is old jokes? What did you say
about Teddy Wholey's wildfire? Y'all gotta leave Teddy Raley alone? Man,
I just I just when I had a technical moment

(01:13:44):
because of the track wasn't playing properly. I don't want
to do a Teddy Raley here, all of just playing
with him. You know, I love Teddy and uh he
had had We had a rough time getting it together
sometimes for the for the Bird's Battle, but I think
Swizz and everybody have worked it out so everybody, you know,
everybody's technical aspect of a little more on point now

(01:14:06):
and they had a set up so there were no
major problems. I know it was all love, but who one?
Who do you think one? Because I'm not gonna lie.
I picked Alicia to watch you. I picked the Leisia
not because you're not super talented, John, but just Alicia
got a lot of records. Alicia has a lot of records.
I think she has more solo hits than I have.
But I think what I was able to show people

(01:14:29):
was I was doing records that they didn't even know
I was a part of. And I think that's what
the cool thing about Versus is is you could show
people behind the scenes work you did as well. And
so I think, you know, people are gonna judge what
they were to judge, and so you let the people decide.
But I thought it was fairly even, and I loved
our collaborations. I just thought it was a good night

(01:14:50):
for music. It was it was dope looking back out there.
Some songs you're like, man, I missed this one, or
I should have played this one. Also not really, Honestly,
I felt like I played the right song. There's like
one or two that were on the bubble for me
that I could have played one or the other, but
I didn't feel like it would have made a big difference.
I feel like the I picked the right joint. Listen, John,
let's talk about the new album You Got Bigger Love.

(01:15:11):
What does that phrase mean to you? It's uh, well,
the album is joyful. It is full of love and
songs about you know, um, resilience and hope and just
making it work through all the challenges. I was gonna
ask you with Chrissy, I see y'all play a lot.
Does it ever go too far? Black Baby? You're going
too far. You called me, you call me that name,
and enough is enough. You can't be calling me names

(01:15:32):
like that. She calls you, she calls she calls you
a bitch a lot, John, Gee, she does not call
me a bit a lot. Talking about when when she
was when she was mad about the song lyric as
she she said bitch to me and come on now,
you can't say it to her though, Let's be clear,

(01:15:53):
it's a whole another story. But that that is not
a that is not a normal part of our conversation,
not even in the bedroom. If y'all getting spicy, No, no, never,
like she's never like, yeah, bitch. I was gonna talk
about the album. I was gonna say, I like how

(01:16:15):
you started it off with a nice little throwback to
duop sounds. I thought that was really sweet, So, well,
what made you decide to do that? Well, that's all
Oakfelder produced, And when we talked about he was like,
we should do a song where duop meets trap, and
so we got some a oas. We got the duop
vocals that I Only have Eyes for You sample in first.

(01:16:37):
It's just a perfect track to open up the album.
It's fresh, it feels good, it's sexy, and it's a
beautiful beginning to the album. All right, we got more
with John Legend when we come back, Don't Move. It's
to Breakfast Club. Good Morning Morning, everybody is DJ Envy,
Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we all the Breakfast Club
was still kicking with John legend Charlomagne. You know, in

(01:16:59):
early June, John you said your friendship with Kanye West
has evolved? What what? What? What? What does that mean? Well,
I was just saying we're in a different place now
because I'm not I had a five album deal with
Good Music and that deals. Uh, so we don't have
a direct business relationship anymore. And then, um, he's up

(01:17:20):
in my only most of the time and we're still cool,
but we just don't see each other that much for
work or you know, we're not living in the same place. Yeah.
They was trying to make it about your politics being
so different. Yeah, and our politics have been different for
a while now, and that that is what it is.
As you can tell from my boys. I'm not shy about,
you know, being proud of the work we did together,

(01:17:42):
because we did some great work together. Absolutely, you think
you could become friends with somebody now who's a Trump supporter,
Like if you think you would be like real cool
with somebody who's a huge Trump supporter, Um, I mean
a new friend. It'd be different to make a new
friend that somebody like me and Kanye got so much history.
It's like you don't just get rid of a friendship
because of but start anew and I don't know have

(01:18:06):
y'all ever gotten not from the secret service? Y'all be
going hard on Twitter sometimes, Well, y'all used to We
never threatened his life. We never said anything about his
you know, anything about his life. We just just just
uh demeans his character because he has no no character. Yeah,
now your wife has definitely called the president of bitch.

(01:18:26):
Oh yeah, bitch. When you when your when your five
album deal was up, I'm sure they made a play
to resign you, right. No, you know, when you're signed
to produce your production company at that point in your career,
you're like, you're just like you're in a different power

(01:18:49):
position at that point in your career. And partly due
to the fact that Kanye helped blow me up, I
was in a position where I didn't have to sign
to anybody's production company. I could just do my own deal. Um,
So you know, there was never any doubts that I
would just sign my own deal after that five albums
was up. But like I said, I wouldn't be where
I am without doing that deal with Kanye. So I'm

(01:19:11):
having no regrets. What do you what is your thoughts
on the word urban now that they're not going to
use that at the Grammys anymore. You know, I just
felt like urban was it was like talking around what
you were trying to say. I didn't think it was
racist or anything. I just always thought it was like
kind of saying what you were trying to say, but
not really saying it. Using urban as a as a
replacement for flat just always felt imprecise to me. So

(01:19:34):
I feel like, just call it what it is. If
it's black music, you call and it, just call it
black music. If it's R and B or a soul
or reggae or any other our music that we made
hip hop, call it what it is. It's this love
of blackness that we're seeing from these corporations and music industry.
Do you think it's gonna last? You think it's just
a trend? Well, I think some of it it's just

(01:19:56):
a trend um. I think everybody's feeling the pressure right
now because people are protesting, people are seeing you know,
horrific videos, are people getting suffocated in the streets and
all that. So there is clear outrage and there's clear
there's a clear moment where people are really paying attention

(01:20:17):
to black lives I feel like some of these companies
will do these little statements and do these little Instagram
posts or whatever, and then go about their regular business.
But hopefully some of them will actually change. And to me,
change looks like actually hiring black people and other people
of color having their voices heard in the executives week.

(01:20:39):
We need to see like actual inclusion inside the places
where the decisions are being made, where the budgets are
being determined and the money is being spent, not in
an Instagram post. So how do we make that happen? Though?
Because you know, I believe hope is not a strategy.
You believe hope is a strategy. Hope is the fuel,
I think, part of the fuel you use to get

(01:21:01):
the work done, because hope means you believe that if
I keep working at something, we'll get it done. And
so I think we still have to keep pressuring these companies,
the governments, all of them, to do the right thing.
And that requires tenacity, it requires vigilance, it requires transparency, data,
all these things. Hope it's part of it. If you

(01:21:23):
look at what the activists, you know, people that started
Black Lives Matter, and you know other organizations have been doing.
They've been actually working on this stuff, you know, when
nobody's really paying attention, and so they were ready for
this moment. And so that means we have to stay vigilant.
We have to continue to organize and be activists and

(01:21:44):
speak up. And it's not a big moment like this.
We've seen you guys give a couple of hundred thousand
to the protests that were locked up to make sure
that their lawyers and bail were taken care of. Yeah,
we gave a bail fund. We also gave to the
Movement for Black Lives and then I always give to
other organizations that are supporting ending mass criminalization, massive carceration,

(01:22:07):
and that's an ongoing thing for us and for me particularly.
Have you ever had any rats with the police yourself? Personally,
I have had running. We've nothing termed violent, but like
when I was in college, they would just stop me
for no reason. It's just having to prove that we're
not a criminal. It gets frustrating sometimes and you can

(01:22:27):
understand why sometimes brothers will resist because it's like it's
ongoing indignity of having to prove that you should in
the places where you exist, and that You're not a threat,
and I've definitely had to deal with it myself. Y'all
go ask how this quarantine slowed things down at your TV,
your TV and film production company. You got a very
successful production company. I don't know, people know, Yeah, get lifted. Um.

(01:22:52):
We've been putting out some great stuff. We were co
produced on the Specialist Night. We produced a documentary that
series that was on HBO called Atlanta's Missing and Murdered
about the Atlanta child murders. And we have some great
stuff that we're working on. We have We were going
to start Rhythm and Flow a little earlier this year,

(01:23:13):
but we've had to push that back a little bit
because we have season two of Rhythm and Flow coming
soon as soon as we can get all the production happening.
So you know, some things were delayed, but we're still
moving and we're still excited about what we have going.
Of course, Sherman's Showcase was our comedy music show that
we did a Black History months in June special that

(01:23:35):
aired on Friday as well, and then we just got
announced that we got picked up for season two for that,
so we're excited about that. So we got a lot
of things happening, and I'm excited to all the work.
What happened to the Black Wall screen project with Tika Something,
because now I see like it's like three Black Wall
screed documentaries coming out. What happened with that exactly? We
were just talking about that with Hulu because we had

(01:23:58):
originally planned to do it with Hulu and then it
didn't get picked up, and we literally just wrote the
email to our exact same who were like, yo, y'all
got to pick us up. This is very relevant right
now and it needs to be told, and so we're
gonna try to resuscitate that. Did Hulu reply? We got
a nice reply. We got nice when I emailed somebody,

(01:24:19):
they reply yeah, okay, okay, okay, they want to work
all right, Well, thank you John Legend for checking in.
We appreciate you. Your albums out right now, Big a Love, Yes, Yes,
thank you for joining us, brother, thank you all right here,
it's the Breakfast Club. It's John Legend, the Breakfast Club.

(01:24:43):
She's filling the team. This is the rumor report with
Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, NBC Universal is
removing four episodes of thirty Rock from streaming services and
syndication because characters had black face. Now they remove these
at the request of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, who
are the show's co creators. Tina Fey released a statement,

(01:25:06):
as we strive to do the work and do better
in regards to race in America, we believe that these
episodes featuring actors in a race changing makeup are best
taken out of circulation. I understand now that intent is
not a free pass for white people to use these images.
I apologize for pain they have caused. Going forward, no
comedy loving kidneys to stumble on these tropes and be
stung by their ugliness. I think NBC Universal for honoring

(01:25:28):
this request. And there you have it. And we've already
told you about Gone with the Wind being removed from
HBO Max, and they're going to return that to the
streaming services with a disclaimer about historical context as well.
All right, Blake Griffin has recalled experiencing racism in a
high school and you kind of look back and be like, oh,
that was pretty racist. This was an episode of arm

(01:25:49):
Chair Expert with Dak Shepherd as the host. And listen
to this. So my parents did a really, really, really
good job of just rising above it. And so there's
situations that my brother and back now and we're like,
oh wow, that was like that was racist, you know
what I mean? Like where because my parents didn't give
it the power, it didn't affect us either, which I

(01:26:10):
didn't realize what was happening at the time. But remember
girls in like high school saying, oh, I like you,
I like you thaying and they're like, I like you too,
but like I can't, I can never date you. I'm like,
you're like why, Like my dad will let me. He's right,
I'm sure everybody has had those experiences. Hell, it's been
If you read uh Bobby Brown's book, Janet Jackson wouldn't
bring Bobby Brown home because she said Joe wouldn't want
her to bring a black man home. What happens, Yeah,

(01:26:33):
Blake Griffin. His mother's white, his father is black. And
this was while growing up in Oklahoma. So I have mercy,
all right. Fortnite has has removed cop cars from their
game amid police protests. So the Shooter Survivra video game
has removed those cars, and they were you know. Fortnite
obviously is a super popular game. Even I played Fortnite

(01:26:55):
at some point. Now players never used the police vehicles.
They were just for decoration. So this just remove those
from the game period. What why? That's getting kind of crazy,
getting kind of ridiculous, like like what's next. You're gonna
cancel Paul Patrol? No, they better not. They definitely gonna
cancel Paul Patrol. They better not. If they know what

(01:27:15):
I know, they better not. It's only a matter of time.
Well let's do us. Told the Wall Street Journal, I
wouldn't say it's a political statement. I think it's just
as being sensitive about the issues many people in our
audience are dealing with. You need some sort of law enforcement. Though,
you need some sort of law enforcement. You just can't
have uh no police officers. It'll be anarchy in these streets.

(01:27:37):
Like if somebody breaking into your house right now, who
are you gonna call ghostbusters? No, you're gonna call a
goddamn police. Okay, So so you need some type of
law and order. You just need you just need a
better form of law and order. The police need a reform.
And I hate people that say, no, it ain't cooling.
Who are you gonna call him? Who you're gonna call somebody?
Breaking Houn. Call stop, it's a damn lie, stop all right.

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Singer Marie says that he recalls being stopped by Miami police,
and he said he was held at gunpoint until a
female officer recognized him. Now, he said, three months ago,
he was driving in Miami with a friend who has
a license to carry a can seal gun, and his
friend got into an argument with another man. He said,
my friend pulled out a gun and so did the
other guy, so I got out to defuse the situation.

(01:28:20):
He said he managed to calm everyone down. The other
guy with the gun eventually left. He said, my boy
got in his car, he put his gun in the armrest,
and then he went to his building to use the
bathroom and left the gun. But Mario said he didn't
realize somebody had called the police. They had witnessed the
altercation called the police. He said, two cops came up
to the car with their guns drawn, shouting. He said,
I forgot about the gun that was in the arm wrest,

(01:28:41):
and when they asked me if there were any guns
in the car, said no, there's no guns in the car.
The officers then told him not to move and he
put his hands up and the cops said, there's a
gun right there. Why did you lie to me? And
he was trying to explain. But then that's when the
woman who was a cop appeared and said, wait, aren't
to Mario and he was like yeah, and he told them,
don't shoot. And so he said he did experience racism,

(01:29:02):
but he says, I've also experienced privilege as an artist.
As an artist, I would say we do have privilege,
whether it's sports, entertainment. We see power in all these
different spaces. But with that also comes privilege. Oh yeah,
he's right. Yeah. Dave Chappelle talked about it getting pulled
over and the cop was like, oh, you're Dave Chappelle.
Will know who you are. That's the fact, all right.

(01:29:23):
Nicki Minaj has congratulated the barbs because Trolls is number
one on Billboard's Hot one hundred Songs chart this week.
Here's what you had to say. Y'all did this with
no playlist thing and no radio so for us to
do that debuting, that's insane. So I love you guys
so much. We just did the highest pure sales of

(01:29:45):
the year. So yeah. The one thing she does want
to get off her chest though, is things that have
been going on in this industry for just way too
long as well. Yeah, like them, love them going number
one with no radio play and no real support. That's
that's big congratulations to them. All right. Well I'm Angela ye,
and that is your room of report. All right, thank you,
miss Eye. Now we'll see you guys in a little bit.

(01:30:06):
Shout to revote everybody else to People's Choice mixes up
next eight hundred five eight five one on five one,
pull us up with your request. It's Memphis Bleak's birthday too,
so I'm gonna get some Bleak on in the mix site.
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning putting. Everybody is DJ
Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Now we got a shout to the John's for joining

(01:30:27):
us this morning, John Legend and John Stewart. Yes, salute
to John Stewart and John Legend. Irresistible. I enjoyed it.
I saw some bad reviews for it, but I thoroughly
enjoyed the movie. I think that it's a good way
to make people understand where we're at an American politics
in a very entertaining way. So if I think it
comes out this weekend, so check it out if you

(01:30:48):
if you get a chance to. All right, all right,
all right, when we come back. We got the positive notes,
so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning.
Everybody is d D j Envy and Jela Yee, Charlomagne
the guy. We are the breakfast Club. Now, um, you
guys be safe out there, supposed to be a beautiful day.

(01:31:09):
I ain't gon front. I ain't seeing nobody's social distance. Bro,
I ain't seeing nobody doing what they're supposed to be doing.
People are out about I don't know some days over.
First of all, it's summertime. You know, the weather is nice.
People want to be out. They've been cooped up for
the past three months. It's gonna be very hard to
give people the social distance in the summertime, very hard.
But yeah, people are out. You wear your mask. I've

(01:31:31):
seen people playing baseball yesterday. They were playing basketball in
the parks. I'm like, man, it's a rapp Let's make
sure you wear your mask. That's all. You got A
positive note, yes, man. The positive note is simply this.
I trust the process of life. There's a rhythm and
flow to life, and I am part of it. Life
supports me and brings to me only good and positive experiences.
I trust the process of life to live to bring

(01:31:53):
me my highest good Breakfast club, you know, I finish
for y'all.

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