Stephen A. Smith Interview and More

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angela Ye, Good morning d V Choo. I mean the
god piece to the planet. Guess what day it is?

(01:04):
Guess what day it is? What's happening? Hey man, you
know another day on this god damn zoom. I'm over it.
Told you that, I'm keep telling you that until we
get back in that damn studio. I'm sick of it,

(01:25):
don't like it, No, it's whatever. Yeah, No, you're right,
absolutely right. I'm enjoy not being stuck in traffic, though
I will say that there's no reason to be late
for a Zoom. There's definitely no reason to be late
for his zoom unless you're just exhausted of the zoom
and you you're dragging your feet to get there and
you're just like, Okay, I'm here, and I finished watching

(01:47):
The Social Dilemma yesterday too. I'm sick of all of
these devices. All of these computers are ruining us. Do
you know that the only industries that call the people
who consume their products to users are the software technology
industry in the pharmaceuticalinutry. Yes, she watched The Social Dilemma

(02:10):
on Netflix. If you haven't, great, great, great, great, great documentary. Oh,
we're beyond addicts and we don't even know it. Not
only would beyond addicts, where we're addicts who they said,
we were probably the last generation that knows what life
will be like before we started living this illusion. And
they ask a fundamental question, how can you unplug from
the matrix and you don't even know that you're in

(02:31):
the matrix. It's like every every human nowadays has its
own set of facts because everything and forget my phone
at home. I used to come to work and forget
my phone at home all the time, and that would
be like, who am I gonna do? I have to
go home and get it because you just make it
through the day. Yep, we are that. Yeah, we are addicted.

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All right, Well, let's get the show crack and shout
to stephen A. Smith. Stephen A. Smith will be joining
us in a little bit, and we got front page news.
What we're talking about seek We'll talk about Michael Bloomberg.
He has raised more than sixty million dollars and we'll
tell you what that money is going toward, and it's provoting.
All right, we'll get into that next. Keeping locked us
to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is cj Envy

(03:16):
Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy We are to Breakfast Club.
Let's getting some front page news that last night in sports,
the Nuggets beat the Lake is one fourteen, one oh six.
Now I don't think that, don't think that series is
gonna be a pushover for the Lake because he's about
the way n Nuggets is tough. They definitely are tough.
We're starting easy. And just so you guys know, the

(03:39):
University of Notre Dame was for us to postpone their
football game against against Wake Forest after multiple student athletes
tested positive for COVID nineteen. And that's just an fyi,
all right. Michael Bloomberg has raised more than sixteen million dollars,
and that is to help convicted felons in Florida registered
to vote. The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition estimated that his

(03:59):
push has already paid off monetary obligations for thirty two
thousand felons. Just back in twenty eighteen, Florida past the
law reinstating voting rights for felons that dictated they could
register only if they pay off fines, fees, and restitution.
Sometimes that totaled more than one thousand dollars and they
had to pay those fines and restitutions oh to the
government before they could vote. I saw that a lot

(04:21):
of people were also raising money for this, like Michael Vican,
Desmond Mede. They worked with to restore people's voting rights
as well in Florida. The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, Yeah,
Why does he have to raise that money? I mean,
salute the Bloomberg was a great jestivor Why does he
have to raise the money? He an't got that in
his pocket and didn't Bloomberger. He was gonna send whatever
didn't bloombergday, He's gonna spend whatever to get TRUMPA. He

(04:44):
did say that, Yeah, why did he have to raise
the money? He should have that like just laying around somewhere.
I thought he donated some of his own money. That's
what I thought. That's what I do. Well, maybe it
is some of his own money. I don't know. Maybe
he as a fund that he uses for that. All right. Now,

(05:04):
imagine you're sitting on the porch at your own house
and officers come and hold you at gunpoint and put
handcuffs on you. Well, that happened in Wisconsin on June second.
A young black man, Kyante First, was arrested in his home.
Cops came, they pointed guns at him, and now police
are saying it was just a mistake. So, just to

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give you some background, the home belonged to Keyante's coach,
who was allowing him and another teammate to stay in
the house after his mother who previously lived in the
home had passed away, and apparently one of the neighbors
called nine one listen to this, okay, okay, and where
is it happening? That it's the Africana Mari's town which

(05:47):
Swift friends police flop and a wife shirt on the
suspicious activity home, sitting on the sitting on the porch.
Now here is what Kyante first said when the cops came,
Police department, Come out with your hands up, Come out

(06:07):
with your hands up. Okay, you don't live here my
coach's house, Coach Rundo, Okay, you let me in Torres
State here you can call them Maxellent okay for right now,
just turn around the chanda is it Yante? Okay for
jans bending back for a second? First? Canna contain here though,
because you don't live here and the person that lived

(06:28):
your passed away. So okay, can you guys call coach. Yeah,
that's what we're gonna do. Well, you know, if police
stopped perceiving black people is guilty before they are proven innocent,
you wouldn't have those problems like some people. Some white
people already think the worst of the worst of black
people as soon as they hear black, they pull up
like that, all right, Why wouldn't the coach? Right? And

(06:51):
here are the chance of aging. This is the reason
why you're here. Someone called because they know because I'm
a black man, and it's that lady right. So even
though she weighed at mean, I wasn't because the person
that lived here, okay, right, and they're concerned that it
got broken into or something. So turm, I'm gonna take
them off for your quick We'll go grab your phone
and get on the phone with Mark. Okay, you didn't answer,

(07:13):
but but it sounds like another neighbor knows that you
guys are here. So it's a misunderstanding. So sorry for
the misunderstanding on our part. See that. Yeah, it absolutely.
After you traumatize a brother emotionally and mentally, all you
get is an apology. And I really for doing nothing

(07:35):
but being in the house that could have went so left. Absolutely,
And why why wouldn't a neighbor called the coach? If
you're the neighbor, don't you have the coaches number? You
can't pick up the phone and say, hey, man, are
you expecting guests? Is somebody staying in your house? And
then she described them black with white pants on. She
might not have had the coaches number because it's the
coaches mom that used to live there, So maybe she
didn't have the coaches number. I don't know. But if

(07:56):
they look, if they're sitting on the porch, do you
think that house is going to be king forever? No
one's ever gonna move in? And why does she notice
his sweatpants? Why does she describe the sweatpants? There must
have been great sweatpants. Scared the hell out of that woman.
She saw that and thought he was concealing a weapon
like this all you got right well? That his front
page news. Get him off your chests? Five ain't five?

(08:21):
One on five one? If you need to vet hit
us up now? Was the breakfast club? Good morning, the
breakfast club? Wake up, wake up, wake ya. This is
your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're
man or blas, we want to hear from you on
a breakfast block. Hello, who's this you? Ry? Hey? What's up? Trap?

(08:44):
Oh my god? Trap my day? Hey? How are you?
I'm doing good? What Charlotte megin that? What? ELPs? What's upends?
How are you living? I'm blessed Black and Holly Favor
how are you. I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Listen, man,
this one person I just really don't like. Can I

(09:04):
say out who it is? Sean Stone? Yo? Like please?
Oh my god, No, I would never ever do a
podcasting him. I think he's still be calling up their
steak positive. He's still be calling up there boring as hell,
like I would never do a podcast and I would

(09:24):
never work with him. Yea, I really don't like that man.
I think he's steak positive. Sean you are, I mean,
Trav you already have his soul? Bro, what more do
you want? Jesus Christ? No, yo, like this man to
be like randomly bringing me up. I have not mentioned
this man. I've just been like he died in two
thousand and nineteen and December two thousand and nineteen you
had and he is trump to bother. But that's all

(09:48):
that true. Y'all have very good. Gave me a message, guys,
Thank goodness, gracious? Hello, who's this? Hey? Peter? And blessings? Guys?
How you guys feeling me? Oh my god? Either either

(10:09):
this is the way God wants it? Are? We really
need more callers in the morning? Goodness gracious, because I'm
the number one, saying, man, don't say don't say ya.
I didn't want you to say it. I wanted to
see if he bought him up randomly. But go ahead, Sean, oh,
shout out to try two. But anyway, I just want
to say happy belated birthday to montell Uh. My birthday

(10:32):
just passed on the twentieth of September, and happy born day,
Happy belated thank you birthday. Yes, yes, And also I
want to shout out my mom and my dad because
their birthday was on September the thirteen and the fourteen,
and uh, shout out to you mom and dad, Angela
and Alex. And also I want to shout out my
son with the Zoom meeting. He's doing pretty, he's getting

(10:55):
comfort temple with it. Man. When he first started, he
was all over the place. His attention shouldn't go all
over the place. And I want to shout out his
mom because right now she's staying home to help him
out with with school. And I want to think that
Black Queen for doing a good job man, because it's
not easy. It's not easy. And yeah, and Charlotte Magne, yes, sir,

(11:18):
remember I talked to you about the podcast, right if
I did ask the opportunity to name the podcast. The
podcast will be named Faith to Faith and the podcast
will be like, uh, be more Bible based, you know
what I mean, to talk about the where we are
from spiritually according to the Bible. You know what I mean.
I do have some faith based podcasts coming on the

(11:40):
Black Effect podcast network. I had some faith based podcasts
origularly scheduled to launch with the Black Black Effect, but
you know, we didn't get the negotiations done in time.
But I definitely have some faith based podcasts coming. Okay,
my mind is totally different because according to mind, it
tells you that spiritually, before we lived here on this earth,
we lived in heaven. You know what I mean. But

(12:00):
I don't want to take up too much time. But
Sean may do me a favorite. When whenever you're saying,
uh anything about gods, just don't put damn and God together.
It's not it's not a good look. All right, brother, Well,
you know I get what you're saying. But when I
heard Trav body you in that freestyle last year, man,
I had to say, God, damn, it's just not a

(12:21):
it's not a spiritually about Trav called this morning for
you and knows about the podcast. But I mean, I'm
sure you're here about it, lady. You have a good morning. Though.
I think TV have a crush on me. Man, So
shout out to Trav Man. I don't go that way,
but I'm cool with Trav Man. I don't got a
problem with your blame my family and I still love them. Man.
All right, all right, well that's the he said. But

(12:43):
whenever a man, whenever a man says I don't go
that way, but shout out to him, that means he's
willing to go that way. That's right. Eight und five
eight five one on five one and get it off
your chances to Breakfast club. Good morning the Breakfast Club.
Did your time to get it off your chest? Whether
you're man or blessed Hofy beould have the same innut

(13:04):
we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Allow,
who's this? Hey? What's going on? This is what's going on?
What's happening? Man? And I got to talk to you
about that story you just had on there about the
tops being called the guy sir, Yes, Well, let me
ask you a question. How was it suppot the cops

(13:26):
supposed to go into that situation. I mean, they sounded
like they were professional. The guy was willing to um,
you know, accommodate them. He allowed them to do their job.
He wasn't confrontational. And you know, if he was saying
how that could have gotten so bad and somebody could
have gotten shot. But I mean everybody, they didn't have

(13:47):
to put They didn't have to put him in handcuffs.
They could have checked out his story first. He told
them like, hey, could you call coach such and such.
This is his house where the guests here. They could
have called the coach and verified the story. They would
have definitely did that for a white woman. It would
have definitely did that for a white man. How do
you know definitely? You know you guys always speaking. They

(14:07):
because we heard a story yesterday of a woman who
took off on a high speed chase from the police
after telling them she's not going to jail. When she
said when they when they said, hey, we'll put your
hand behind your back, we're gonna arrest you, she said
nope and sped off. Nothing happened to her when they
finally caught her a row blocks later. Well, I do
want to just note one thing from what you said
from how I reported the story, when I said things

(14:29):
could have gone left, that was more on behalf of
the woman calling the cops on people just because she
saw two black men in a house that was sitting
on the porch. They weren't. She didn't see them breaking
in a window, she saw them sitting outside. They'd clearly
been living there for a few days. She waved at them,
so she could have just engaged. I'm so I was
referring to her calling the cops for that purpose. Again,

(14:53):
it just always changed, like it comes down to this
definitive if it was a black man versus it was
a white man. And I just think that, you know,
you had to go to like Wisconsin or something to
find that story. So I mean, I'm sure if I
scour with the uh, you know, newspapers days, I would faring,
you know, stories to the contrary. So all I'm saying

(15:14):
is that it's not as exfinitive. It's not because the
cops were white and because the guy was blasted. Sometimes
cops are a little more fortunates, Sometimes cops are a
little more aggressive. It's it's a people problem, not a
little problems, you know. Right now, I'm thinking more about
how they thought that. Imagine you were in your house,

(15:34):
just mandy, your business, where you're supposed to be, and
the cops come in and draw guns on you and
handcuff you. Just imagine how traumatic something like that is
and how that would make you feel no doubt about it.
I agree, that's what I think about it. Question. But
you have to understand the cops are going into this situation, okay,
expecting the worst, hoping for the best. They'll go into

(15:55):
a house where they're old. The person that is there
is not the owner. The first of all, it didn't
have to put him in handcuffs, sir, and you know
that I have a nice thank you, thank you for
your color. Because we can't tell about this. I mean,
I don't know and I want to say, I don't
know what the protocol is. And the cops did seem
polite the way they was making and it wasn't the lady.

(16:15):
It's just call the police on some individuals that she
didn't know what didn't see, which I understand too. Lady
looks in the house. I don't know who they are,
but just the way that it was descript that they
would describe they weren't doing anything. And like you said,
they could have called the people at the old house. Hey,
there's some people here. You just don't call the people
because you see black people that you know about. How
about when you finally get to the house, just and

(16:35):
once the black person gives you a story, how about
following up on that story? Right, you don't have to
put him in handcuffs, all right, get it off your chest.
Eight hundred five eight five one on five one. We
got roomors on the way. Yes, and where do we start. Well,
let's talk about a person who is voting for the
first time in this election, and he didn't even know
he could vote. So we'll explain that. All right, we'll

(16:58):
get into that next. Keep a lock to Breakfast Club.
Go morning the Breakfast Club. Listen, it's just oh Reports,
it's the Rumal Report with Breakfast Club. Well, Mike Tyson
is fifty four years old and he's never voted before,
and he's going to be voting for the first time

(17:20):
this year. He tweeted out, this will be my first
time voting. I never thought I could because of my
felony record. I'm proud to finally vote, and then he
put up a link to register to vote, and he
hashtag National Voter Registration Day because he was convicted and
sentenced to six years in prison, and that was back
in nineteen ninety two for rape in two counts of
deviant sexual conduct, and that stripped him of his right

(17:42):
to vote. Now, a lot of state laws about the
US rule felons ineligible to vote, and about six million Americans,
which is two point five percent of the nation's voting
age population, couldn't vote in the twenty sixteen election because
of felony records. But right now there's been a movement
toward restoring convicted felons their right to vote on a
state by state basis. So in Nevada they signed a

(18:03):
law to restore voting rights to all persons convicted of
felony upon release from prison in twenty nineteen. All right now,
Snoop Dogg in the meantime, has teamed up with Rock
the Vote and One Vote Closer as a social initiative,
and this is the first election he's voting in. He said,
how the system is set up. I honestly didn't know
that I was allowed to vote based on my past history.
My record has been expunged, so I'm gonna be out

(18:25):
here at this election. I have to get involved. As
I'm looking around at what's happening in the world right now,
I know that we need to make an immediate change
and we can't take back Ido, which is why along
with one by partner would rock the vote and one
vote closer. And he said he's going to be using
his influence to let people know the only option is
to get out and vote. I saluted old brothers man
drop on a clue box for Snoop dogg in Mike Tyson.

(18:48):
If they found a reason to vote. I'm happy that
they're voting all right now. Ray J is talking about
filing for divorce, and you know he filed for divorce
and Princess Love found out about it the same time
we did online. And here's what he had to say
when he was on the rail yesterday. Did you tell her? No?
I didn't. When you're in your own relationship, sometimes you know,

(19:09):
sometimes you do things spontaneously, Sometimes you move too fast.
Sometimes you make mistakes, you know what I mean. And
so I'm not saying that that's what I did or
I made a mistake, but I don't know if I
did make a mistake. I don't know, you know what
I mean? You know I have every right to just
not know, you know, and still just try to figure
it out now. Genie May then pressed him about whether

(19:30):
or not he wants to be married, not just be
with his family, but be married. It seems like you
want to get back together. Do you want to get
back together with Princess? I mean, I just I want
to be with my family, yes, but I want to know.
Do you want to be married the kids? Yes, but
you have to have a happy family from a happy, stable,
loyal marriage. And do you want a happy, stable, loyal

(19:52):
marriage that's a happy family party. Yes. As far as counseling,
it sounds like the couple does definitely need it. And
here's what ray J had to say about that. I
don't know. I just felt like the counseling was more
so a hustle. It's like if the counselor is on
one side, then the other person might get mad. So
I just felt like it would it would get one sided.

(20:13):
But hey, maybe we do need counseling. Maybe mind would
you be open to that? Now? Would you be open
to that? Yeah? I mean I would. I mean I
was I spent all weekend, you know, at the house
with the kids and with Princess and my mom and
her friends, and you know, it was it was just
a good vibe and um, you know I just had
to fall back and go, damn, this is a really, really,

(20:34):
really good thing. Now, Princess Love was on Fox Sol
with Claudia Jordan's and here's what you had to say
about how now she doesn't want to work it out
after all this, Princess, do you still love him? I
always love him. Would you like to work it out
with him? Um? I feel like right now we just
I don't know, we just need to just really figure out. No,

(20:59):
I don't right now. No, I don't not right now.
I don't because I feel like by him, you actually
filed for divorce, You made me spend money on a
lawyer when we could have just talked about it and
went to counseling or something. So obviously you don't want
to be married to me. I mean, let's not forget
she found out online, so that's not an easy thing
to find out. Now. She does also say she regrets

(21:21):
how she handled the original divorce filing. Why did you
decide to work things out? Because you know, I wanted
to fight from my marriage. You know, at the time
all that happened, I was pregnant, I was hormonal, and
looking back now, I really I realized that I shouldn't
have handled it that way. But you know, when you're
trying to get somebody's attention and you wanted to know

(21:41):
how you feel, and it's like can't find them, you know,
I just I don't know. Looking back now, I know
I shouldn't have did that, but you know, it happened.
So you regret saying you wanted to end it. No,
I regret putting my business out there. Damn rage. I
just wish taking handless inside of doing it's so public
like this, you know, Yeah, I feel sorry if the

(22:03):
princess and Raja and by the way, people, counseling is
not a hustle. Counseling as a resource that helps you
and your queen, you know, on want accord and I
wish they could have gotten that before they you know,
you know, jump to the divorce of it all because
it sounds like they've both have been making a lot
of emotional decisions. And that's why you shouldn't move off emotion,
you move off strategy and then yesterday Princess had the
audacity to unmitigated gud to post that pick of her

(22:25):
in a bikini going through something through something, you know,
her DMS was happening. After that, I'm sure we're going
do something. Don't do that, call the counselor. I don't
want to divorce no more. All right, Well I'm Angela
Yee and that is your room of report. All right,

(22:46):
thank you, miss. We got front page news coming up.
What we're talking about, yes, and we are going to
be talking about voting. Of course, as we are getting
ready for this election, is so important to make sure
that everybody out here is registered to vote and participation
does their part. And you know they are having the
first presidential debate next weekend. I'll tell you what they'll
be discussing. All right, we'll get into that next keeping

(23:08):
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(23:30):
Hey morning, everybody, is DJ Envy Angela Ye, Charlemagne, the guy.
We are the breakfast club. Let's getting some front page news. Now.
The Lakers lost last night. They leave the series to one.
They lost to the Nuggets one fourteen, one oh six.
Don't sleep on them goddamn Nuggets. I'm trying to tell
you right now. I don't think the Nuggets are gonna
win the series, but I think that they can push

(23:51):
you to at least seven games. Those Nuggets are now Duke,
all right, well, what else we got? Ye? The first
president until debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden will
focus on different topics, including the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court,
and ratio reckoning in this country. And they announced that yesterday.

(24:12):
So that is going to be happening, as you know,
on September twenty ninth. It'll be happening in Cleveland, Ohio
at Case Western Reserve University. So they said are subjected, Yeah,
they said the topics are subject to change though, based
on news developments. But there's six segments. The six seconds
are ohga. The topics are the Trump and Biden records,

(24:33):
the Supreme Court, COVID nineteen, the economy race, and violence
in our cities and the integrity of the election. Yeah,
the topics is subject to change based on how Donald
Trump decides to change them. I highly died he sticks
to the script, and I got my money on Trump
in the debate. Biden simply can't outperform Trump. Trump is

(24:53):
a better showman, and I believe Trump is gonna hit
him with blows that Biden not ready for because let's
be honest, Democrats don't ever seem fat, and it's like
they will train Biden how to box when Trump is
gonna come in there like a UFC fighter. He's gonna
be boxing, he's gonna be kicking, he's gonna be biting, biting.
I don't I don't see it for Biden in the debate, hopefully.
I don't know a lot of times Donald Trump says
things that are just untrue, self serving, narcissistic, And it

(25:20):
absolutely does because you can't argue with a person like that.
You're using facts, but he's saying whatever just to win
the argument and to answer certain questions. That's that's even
better for Hillary told Hillary told Biden Hiller, Hillary told Joe, you, yo,
You've never debated somebody like this. Because it's a person
that's willing to lie and say any anything. You're you're

(25:43):
going in there all structured with your facts, and Trump
is out there freestyling. Don't know that lying in a debate, though,
is a thing that will make people be like, yeah,
he did, great, shall see all right? And Donald Trump
also says it. Supreme Court nominee will be announced Saturday
at five pm. Who is replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg? See

(26:06):
less than a week. I don't even know. Funeral arrangements
have been made for ALLBG. Come on, man, all right.
I've never seen nobody give less of an F than
Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell give less of an F.
They don't care, not at all. And that's why I
tell everybody. And we've been saying this, and I know
yesterday we've been talking about this, but every single day,
make sure that you are going to vote, Make sure

(26:29):
that you are registered to vote. If you need to
have any questions or if you want to know how
to register to vote, what key dates are election reminders,
you can go ahead and text Levi's lbis to seven
eight eight six eighty three and get all of that information.
But we need to make sure that everybody is out
here voting. We told you earlier Mike Tyson's voting for
the first time in this election. So it's Snoop dogg

(26:51):
and make sure you exercise You're right, all right. Authorities
have arrested three men and one woman in connection with
the death of a black man. His body was found
burning a ditch in rural Iowa. Yes. One of the
men arrested his thirty one year old Stephen Vogel. He's white.
He was already in jail on unrelated charges and now
he is facing charges of first degree murder and abuse

(27:12):
of a corpse. According to the Department of Public Safety
in Iowa, so authorities received a report of a fire
and a roadside ditch on last Wednesday, just after five thirty.
That man was identified as forty four year old Michael
Williams of Grinnell. They said he was killed on or
about September twelfth, and his body was then wrapped in

(27:32):
cloth and plastics, secured with rope and tape, and then
they took him to Kellogg on September sixteenth, that's where
his body was set ablaze. According to this statement, so
they did know each other. These two men, Williams and Vogel,
and Vogel's mother, who shares a home with him, will
face charges of abuse of a corpse, obstructing prosecution, and
accessory after the fact. According to court documents, So there

(27:56):
was a fourth person also who was arrested, Cody Johnson.
He's used of abuse of a corpse, also in accessory
after the fact, and his ex wife. Williams's ex wife,
Jane Bolt, says that he was a family person. His
kids were always important. He has four children and oh
he has five children. She has four of them. So, yes,

(28:18):
is that crazy? That's an understatement. Yea. They said he
strangled him, and according to a witness. This witness alleges
that Vogel strangled william showed him the body which was
in the basement of his house, and the two of
them knew each other for several years. Wow, I mean

(28:40):
that means he really really hated that person. He hated
decided that person so much so that him being dead
wasn't enough. It's just like, get him out of my face,
let me get him. I gotta get him away from you.
I gotta make his body just disappear. Oh my goodness,
all right, Well, that is and that's I mean, we

(29:01):
don't know. Those are the details that we know. They
got it. I guess whatever. He strangled them, and this
is a black man. You don't have to reprangled him,
put him in a ditch in Iowa, burned his body,
and now being charged as long as well as the
people that helped him cover this up. Lord Mercy. All right, well,
last front page news. Now reset, guys, hard reset, Let's go.

(29:22):
We come back. Stephen A. Smith will be joining us.
We'll kick it with Stephen A. First take. It's the
Legends of the Morning, the Breakfast Club holding. Everybody is
dcha Envy Angela ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are the
Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the line,

(29:43):
Stephen what's going on, y'all? How y'all doing, Stephen A,
good morning, King, Good to see you. How you feeling today.
I'm doing great, man. I hope y'all and all y'all
loved ones are good ding these crazy times, bro, it's
been crazy. It's Dad having crazy. You know. I watched
you yesterday, Stephen Ay, like I do most days, and
I said to myself, man, you know, Stephen Ay said

(30:05):
that the Atlanta Falcons is the dumbest NFL team and
the head coach Dan Quinn needs to go. But I
didn't see you given the greatest NFL franchise of all time,
or franchise that you picked, the whin the NFC East,
the Cowboys, any credit for the comeback. That's that's why
you're trying to do right there. Y'all have damn Cowboys
fans everywhere make me sick. But oh, my lord, was

(30:31):
so sick. And the watch, I mean, listen, you got
five guys surrounding the football, five guys, and they were
treating it like they punted the football off to the
other team. And they were waiting for the football or
just go and go so they could get better. Y'all
know you're supposed to pounce on the football, and they
sat around and waited. And that's how Dallas won the game.
I thought it was one of the dumbest, if not

(30:51):
the dumbest play that I've seen by an NFL team.
But nevertheless, Dallas was balling Dak Prescott. Hopefully he'll get
his money in the whole bit because he deserved. So
what can I say? Dallas won the game? I want
to think those players for social distancing from that football
at that key moment that was very important. What do
you think about these head coaches getting fined for not

(31:12):
having their masks on properly. I think that it's a
it's a it's appropriate because the NFL has to be
a particularly got to understand that if you come down
with a few positive tests, it could ultimately stall a season.
And so the mentality is that the players are one
thing because they out there balling and they're getting tested
and what happened, even though the coaches are going through

(31:33):
the same thing. The bottom line is you want to
send the right message that you know what were your masks,
engage in social distancing to the best of your ability.
And the NFL has got to do agree. You know,
they've been doing a great job and doing just that,
and they don't want to get facts with the rules
because they don't want the season to be potentially compromised.
And it's something that the coaches have to adopt. So

(31:54):
I understand where they come from them right now, a
Greek freak. Let's let's start with the Greek freak. NBA.
Is he moving on? He staying with Milwaukee? Is he
going to my son thinks that he's going to the
Golden State. That's what my son, my son is betting
on that. What are your thoughts on the Greek Freak.
First of all, Golden State, I don't think they have
the resources in order to give them. You can look
at various other teams. I mean, he ain't going to

(32:14):
Atlanta on New York and my estimation Miami could be
a possibility. You never know what pat Riley could pull off.
I personally would like to see him in a bigger market,
but nevertheless, it really really comes down to whether or
not the Milwaukee Bucks can give him that bona fide
number two dudes. Middleton can ball. Don't get me wrong.
The problem is that he's not the guy that you

(32:34):
could rely upon night and night out to do what
he did. I think it was like in Games four
against Boston when he dropped like twenty six and ten.
Put it on my shoulders. We don't have the Greek Freak.
I'm gonna handle my business here. He's not that guy
on a night and night out basis. And if you're
the Greek Freak, that's what you need. Because with all
of his great numbers during the regular season, The bottom

(32:54):
line is that he's compromised as a perimeter shooter to
come playoff time defenses hustle back. They turn you into
a highf court offense, and you got to be able
to hit perimeter the shots. And if you can't do that,
you're not going to win a championship. So you need
somebody else to be able to do that. That's why
he wasn't my MVP. That's why I had Lebron James
as my m VP. I was one of the sixteen
dudes evidently who voted for Lebron James to be m

(33:17):
VP because he was bawling out all season long. They
had the number one season the West. And more importantly,
he's got a true approven track record. You know that
his limitations are not going to show up come playoff time.
Do you think we've reached a point where we've taken
we started to take Lebron James great, And granted, I
don't think so. I think that a lot of people
that love him so much interpreted that way because he

(33:39):
can be sensitive to that. And I don't blame him
because I'm one of the guys that listen. I don't
find myself to be ultra critical of him. I just
say he ain't to go. It's Michael Jordan's all day,
every day, because it matters to me in the road
to prosperity that you took. And so when you were
in the Eastern Conference and you had d Wade and
Chris Bosh before years, I just look at it from

(34:02):
that standpoint that I understand and respect the fact that
Lebron James is great. He's going to Mount Rushmore. I
think he's top two, top three all time. I'm just
never giving him the edge over Michael Jordan's. And because
that's the argument that is made against them, people perceive
you as hating on him because you won't give him
gold status. And last time I check, if I put

(34:22):
you on the Mount Rushmore of any sport, let alone basketball,
how the hell is that an insult. I'm calling you
top two, top three at the work all time. That's
not hating, that's just saying you ain't Michael Jordan. Now
we got to also talk about those Clippers. Now. Now,
when we talk about the Clippers, what should the Clippers do?
It seemed like the Clippers just have bad luck. That's bad.

(34:43):
Ju Jude is there's something wrong with the Clippers. Fat standpat,
don't change the thing. They choked. It was definitely a
choke job, Ain't no question about it. Kauwhi with the
crown dangling from his mirror, come into the siege. You
remember those commercials that he was doing for New Balance,
the crown dangling from his merger, from his vehicle convertible.
There's a new king that's arrived in La. All of

(35:03):
this stuff. We were look into it or looking forward
to this all year long. Well Lebron handled his business.
You didn't. You didn't show up. You had a three
one lead. Jamal Murray put on the show, The Joker
put on the show. They won games, you know, five, six,
and seven. They took you out. Jamara Murray drops forty
two in game seven. You're supposed to be an elite
defensive team. If you're struggling offensively, okay, fine, how the

(35:26):
hell does that explain him giving it to you in
a game seven? Him Paul George loved Paul George. That's
my man right there. But it was a choke job
by everybody involved. What I would say to you is this,
I'm the billionaire Steve Ballmer. I got a team in
La La, In La. Everybody wants to be in La.
If you don't like the taxes in LA, but we
love being in LA. That's a weather tax right there.

(35:47):
Nobody trying to leave. I'm gonna sit up there, I'm
gonna stand Pad. I'm gonna say, all right, it was
the bubble season got interrupted, Steimy the momentum. Some of
y'all didn't even want to be here. You wasn't focused.
Lou Williams two times six Man of the Year. We
all know Lemon Pepper, Lou. We know what happened with Magic.
Who did him? Going there? That was? It's smart, all right,
But he's a good brother. And the people make mistakes.
You move on from there. They got the talent. I

(36:10):
make them stand Pat. I keep everybody in place, including
the coaches, and I let them know, you love La.
You want to leave because I promise you you don't
win this year. I'm getting all of y'all up out
of here. That's what I do. And I put them
on notice, and I make every single person on that
team come back to claim what should have been. There
is in a lot of people's eyes this season. Do

(36:32):
you think that if the Lakers win this year, but
which I think they will. Is there an asterisk on
the championship this season? Not to me? There's something to
be said about exercising the proper level of discipline. Yeah,
we understand that there was a pandemic and the stall
of the season, but remember the season was never canceled,
it was postponed. So it's incumbent upon you to stay ready,

(36:53):
be prepared, do what you gotta do to come ready
to ball. This is definitely a legitimate champion whoever comes
out of this. All right, you got more with Stephen A.
Smith when we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club.
Go more ej envy angela yee. Charlomagne, the gay we
are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it with Stephen A. Smith. Charlomagne.
You know, I wanted to ask you, because I didn't
see this yesterday, how did y'all handle the situation with

(37:16):
Lebron's son on camera smoking? Did y'all touch that at all?
We didn't touch that. We didn't touch that at all.
First of all, I really didn't even know about it.
I'm not gonna front I didn't know about it. But secondly,
and more importantly, Chances are Charlomagne I wouldn't have said anything.
You know, that's his kid, and I'm very sensitive to
stuff like that. I'm one of those guys that I
really have a problem. But how much people publicize him

(37:37):
when he's out there playing ball and stuff like that,
because his dad is still playing and so I don't
like to invite that kind of scrutiny on the kid.
Let the kid be a kid as much as we
possibly can. If you see him balling out out there
and you want to comment about his game a little
bit of something, that's one thing. But I tried. You know,
I do everything that I can to avoid talking about

(37:58):
people's families and things of that nature, people's personal business
and stuff like that. It is unfortunately you end up
in a police plotters. Sometimes we have no choice. But
outside of that, you know what, you just do what
you can to make sure you remind everybody you human First,
He's a kid, and obviously it wasn't the wisest thing
to do if that happened. But you know, we've all
been there, we've all made our mistakes, and you know

(38:21):
his dad will handle that. That's not for me or
anybody else. To get into as far as I'm concerned.
I just had one last question too, about Maria Taylor
from ESPN and the comments the reporter that actually got
fired from his job for tweeting about her outfit. So
how much more difficult do you find that it is
for women who gets scrutinized who are actually covering sports.

(38:43):
It's always been more difficult for women to be quite
honest with you. I know, I will never be away
from saying a thing, and there's not much harder in
America than being a black man, but being a black
woman obviously is incredibly incredibly difficult as well. Maria is
class besonified. She's an incredible Allen. She's somebody that I
know pretty well in this business. She's a star on

(39:05):
the rise. Unfortunately, that reporter decided, that radio host decided
to do what he did, and he lost his job
because of it. Because you just find yourself scratching your
head at the kind of things that are on people's mind,
and more importantly, their willingness to go out there and
just say it. I mean, it's bad enough for you're
thinking that way, but how about shutting the hell up

(39:25):
and not saying the damn word of just minding your business.
But when it comes to women in this business, there's
so many stars. I mean, Jamal Hill was a sensational
talent for ESPN, and I miss her being at the network.
Kerry Champion used to host First Take. She's a sensational talent.
I miss her being at the network. The list goes
on and on, but I would say this, just as

(39:48):
black men have to watch every single thing that we
do and be mindful and cognizant of the stereotypes and
things of that nature that people are going to put
out there about us, women have to do the same thing.
That's not the same Maria Tylor did anything wrong, because
she did not. But it's just pointing out that you
got people out there that have agenders and their hell

(40:10):
bent on stimming you at every single term. Be mindful
of that because they're just giving you an indication of
what other people in the positions of power might be thinking,
but might be smart enough not to say. Now, this
is HBCU week, and I'm noticing that a lot of
players are going to HBCUs a lot of athletes are
deciding not to go to your typical schools and going

(40:33):
to HBCUs. What's your thoughts on that? I love it myself,
what are your thoughts. I'm loving it as a as
a graduate of what's the Salem State, which is an HBCU. Obviously,
I'm loving that as well. And you know it's it's
especially that cat that elected to go to Howard University.
He's got tremendous potential. He can be a lot of
you picking the NBA draft, you know. So I think

(40:54):
that was a great thing as well. And you know,
HBCU Week is something that we did last year. We
had over twelve hundred people registered, gave out four million
dollars in scholarships last year. This year, over five thousand
people have already preregistered. And so I mean, when when
you look at it from that perspective and think about
the conduct of opportunities that are available. I tell people

(41:15):
this all the time. Me going to an HBCU, I
was surrounded by support. And you can't you can't put
a price tag on that. You can't measure the significance
of that. Just imagine. Like I said, y'all seem to
have great, great relationships. That's why y'all show is so great.
Imagine coming to work every day with somebody that you
don't like, you don't get along with, you don't bob with,

(41:37):
you have no chemistry with. It just makes that climb
that much harder. Well, it's the same that applies to
young kids, particularly when they're in pursuit of their education.
If you go to a university and you don't have
that support, based, that foundation, those people to be cheerleaders
and mentors and to lift you up when you fall,
the task or the road to prosperity can be significantly

(41:57):
harder to claw your way through. And so for me
going to an HPCU, that's what it did for me,
and that's what I try to preach about it to everybody.
That's the joy of going to HBCUs. People who look
like you, people who share your cocial backup identity and
all of that stuff, who know what you're going through,
who understand it, who are there to lift you up,
to motivate you, to push you. All of those different

(42:18):
things are incredibly important. That add to me is the
significance of an HBCU. Of course the education comes with it.
You don't get all of that, but that to me
is what the kids you mentioned, my core maker and
I know you got to go in a few but
you mentioned my cure maker. How can college athletes committing
to HBCUs, you know, change things for HBCUs. Well, I
think it's the attention. I think that the athletes themselves.

(42:39):
We all know that sports assist in bringing that level
of attention to an institution university. When you think about it,
if you think about North Carolina, what you think about
thinking about basketball, think about Alabama, you thinking about football.
There's a whole bunch of institutions that offer similar curriculums.
But what really illuminates a university in the mind's eye
is how they resonate in the schools world. And so

(43:00):
because of that, just imagine Cats electing to go to AHCU.
When you do that, particularly if you have any kind
of profile, it forces attention to gravitate towards you, and
they can't gravitate towards you without mentioning the school that
you're attending. So I just look at it from that perspective,
and I think it's all about the attention to profile.
That's where athletes going to those institutions can really really help.

(43:22):
Just raising the profile of HBCUs to highlight that you
can indeed get an education from there. You can indeed
go up against IVY leagues and smoke them. This is
what I do every day. Max Kellman graduated from Columbia.
I graduated from winniver I was gonna make sure, how
do we make sure these HBCUs get the proper coverage
because that's the one thing kids are worried about. They

(43:42):
want to make sure they get the coverage of some
of these other schools, whether it's on TV, so they
can get the rink in and they can get in
the leagues and they can get those opportunities. I think
that's the only fair a lot of these students have.
We're going to HBCU. Well, it's a legitimate fair, and
that's something that I've spoken about in the past. But
how you all set that as about making sure that
you go there, you ball, you perform, because when you perform,

(44:03):
the attention will gravitate to you, and then you gotta
hope that that student is mindful enough to turn around
and say, Okay, let me make sure that I mentioned
the importance of being here. It's HBC using I highlight
what it's done for my life. My fugere et cetera,
et cetera. And that's how it goes about because you're
operating behind the eight ball from the standpoint that those
other institutions d once colleges the big time to eve

(44:24):
in college they have the television contracts. That's really where
it stands out, even for college football right now. Just
think about this for a second. Most of college football
said we're not going to take the risk, we're not
going to have a season this year due to the
coronavirus pandemic. But then ain't stopping the SEC, the ACC,
the Big twelve, the Pac twelve, the big Then ain't
stopping them now? Why because there's so much money to
be made, particularly from the television networks that they can't

(44:48):
they can't help but continue to go forward and play
because to them, it's worth the risk. When you are
at an HBCU, obviously the television networks and what have
you hope they will gravitate towards you, but it's going
to be up and coming upon you to perform and
to make sure you do what you can to bring
attention to the HBC. I'm on TV every day and
what do I do? I bring attention to wins to

(45:09):
Salem State and HBCUs every chance I get, because I
understand the importance of articulating that message. All right, well
don't move. We got more with Stephen A. Smith. It
is the Breakfast Club gomoning. I think everybody is DJ
Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne, the guy we are the Breakfast
Club was still kicking it with Stephen A. Smith, Charlomagne,
Steven A couple more questions where you get out of here.

(45:29):
You mentioned Max Kellerman and how you smoke him every day.
Sometimes I get the feeling that you really don't like
Max Kellerman, like you really disgusted by so many things
that come out of his mouth. Is that true? Well,
let me say this. I do it's false. I actually
do like him a lot. He is a really, really
good guy. But you are right when you say sometimes
I do get February very disgusted with this kind of

(45:51):
stuff that comes out of his mouth, you know, And
I'm not apologizing for that. That's my man, He's my partner,
our first take. He does a hell of a job.
He's incredibly intelligent. All of that stuff is true, and
we all noticed we should disagree with somebody, you know,
and still don't hate him. We just disagree with them.
But there are times that he speaks and you know,

(46:12):
it's like he's trying. And I've told him this before,
you trying to act like your brother. I don't give
a damn who you are. You ain't that you understand,
you don't have, you don't really know. And so there
have been times where I have felt the need to
check him on that matter. But that's all. It's like
his heart is in the right place. But he's the
kind of person that he reads a lot, highly intelligent,

(46:35):
and he thinks that reading and that knowledge gives him
a level of expertise that myself, you, or DJ and
V or anybody else might have. And I'm like, nah,
that's not true. There's certain things about our experience you
can't get in the book. And I'm not saying he
says that literally or feels that way literally, but with
some of the comments he comes across that way. And

(46:57):
if I get annoyed, I will check him. But then
I will I will, I will go and I will
talk to him after if necessary, and I'll always let
them know. You know, we teammates. I got you. But again,
just like you would disagree with me if I said
something you know about that's relevant to the Jewish community,
if I think you said something out of pocket that's
pertaining to the black community, I'm gonna let you know.

(47:18):
And I think a lot of times Charlemagne he looks
at things from the very altruistic perspective. He looks at
things about the way, and he admitted this, he looks
at things the way they should be. I look at
things the way they are. Or I'm mindful of saying
stuff and promoting and pushing stuff that I think are
gonna lead black people down a dead end path or
something even worse. I might know that we're absolutely right,

(47:42):
but I'm like, wait a minute, it's because you got
to think about the forest from the trees. If Charlemagne
is going down, I'm cool with Charlemagne. Well guess what.
I got a lot of respect for this brother. If
I see you doing something and I think that that's
gonna hurt you, even if I know you're right, I'm
gonna say, yo, bro, Marathon Sprint, make a decision. You're
doing this that's not That might not be the way
you want to go because you might get that off

(48:04):
your chest, but it might cost you here. He's the
type of person that says, damn all of that, And
I'm like, that's easy for you to say because you
ain't black, so you don't know. But I do know,
so fall back. And there have been times and I
and our time with one another, that I've had to
say that to him. But it's always knowing that as
hard as in the right place, that he's a really

(48:25):
good brother, um, and I'm I'm happy to be working
with him. He used to be a rapper back in
the day. Yeah, I heard about that. You know, you know,
you always got some with them, and I want to
be you know, you know you get all that, but
you damn sure a rap better than me. I never
tried to, So I ain't like now now now as

(48:45):
your oldg partner coming back to First Take, is Skip
Bail is coming back to First Take. That's what we're
hearing out him. No, he's not like you can say
that without a shadow of a doubt. Max is under
contract for the next two and a half years at
a minimum. I think Skip, if I remember correctly, I

(49:06):
thought this contract was up. He's about to stand a
new deal. That doesn't mean that we can't reunite in
some capacity somewhere down the line, because there's a lot
of things that I got planned for myself, and that's
still my brother from another mother. I got a lot
of love him. Remember he's the one that brought me
the First Take, and so you know, I'm very mindful
of that, and we're still very close, even though I

(49:27):
always disagree with him. But in the end, the bottom
line is that he got his thing going on. I
got my thing going on. In terms of him coming
back to First Take, I can't see that happening in
the near future, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility
that he and I will reunite in some capacity down
the line. I just don't think it'll be First Take.
Right now, Max and I are Roland. We're still number one,

(49:50):
and I've been number one in the mornings for the
last six and a half seven years, So I'm gonna
roll with that. There's no reason to look at look
in any other direction. But again, I'm not limiting my
opportunities to just First Take. But in terms of your
question about First Take, directly, it would be being Max.
But don't rule out skipping our reuniting in some capacity
in the future who knows all right, Well, we appreciate

(50:14):
you joining us, brother, Thank you so much. Can y'all
make sure to send everybody to hbcuweek dot org. Could
y'all do that for me? Please show just hbcuweek dot org.
We already got over five thousand people registered. We raised
over four million dollars last year and two hours. We're
gonna plan on doing some big things this week as well. Man,

(50:36):
I appreciate y'all so much. Keep up the great work
all rank you. Thank you so much. It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning. This is the Rule Report with angelin you listen. No, yes,
So Quavo is not feeling academics right now, and I

(50:57):
can't blame them. Academics are talking crazy about Sweetie and
you know that's Quevo's girlfriend. And here's what academics had
to say. Let me tell you why why Sweetie is trash?
To me, Sweetie, it's only a cute face. That number
one doesn't right, But a lot of women do it, don't.
It's fine. But she's remaking old songs. She basically taking
an old song that was already a hit and making

(51:19):
a girl version and putting it out do we call
that talking crazy though. I mean, if your woman is
an artist and she's getting critiqued on her music, you
may not like it, but it's nothing to want to
fight a person over. I don't think I was talking crazy.
He's critiquing music, and if he was talking about her
appearance or something something other than music, I get it.
But just he did also talk about her appearance, though,

(51:39):
I mean not in a negative way. She was just
a pretty face and she couldn't right something like that.
That's just such a way to demean a woman too,
as an artist. And then he said most female artist.
You know. I think that was all just I didn't
like that as a woman. I mean it was about
it was about the music though, from what I heard
just now. Anyway, But can you blame Quabo for being mad? No,

(52:02):
I can't blame Yeah, I don't. I mean, I can
understand him being upset, but he's been in the industry
long enough to know that people are going to critique
your music. And I mean, even if it's your woman,
they're going to critique your your woman's music too. I
can understand and being upset, but nothing to like. Well,
I think he should have been I think you should
anticipate that. He didn't say he was gonna beat him up.
Here's what he said, pull up and chop it up
like a man. I promise, I ain't gonna hit you.

(52:24):
Just want to play you these new Megos records since
you think is sweet, and stop bashing my girl. She's
a female. But if I tell her going your iss,
she would so what the trash word? Internet girl? He
did put the fist emoji too, though. Ain't gonna hit you? Yeah,
that's classic. Hey, come outside, I just want to talk, bro,

(52:44):
I want to talk. I just want to talk. Come out, sorry,
real quickly. I want to talk to you. Man. All right. Well,
academics also had something to say about the Megos. Megos
absolutely on the clock. It was the hottest group on Earth,
after Bat and Boogee, after really successful one of really
great singles. Then at that point they started licensing and
selling the cool to everybody else. We saw them with
football players there, We saw them doing this and by

(53:06):
the way, great business moves. But with the Megos they
were a street rap group. We were using these balls
in the band o. This that third all of a sudden,
all of us that they're only in the Hollywood Hills,
Beverly Hills. They looked like they've lost the street presence
and street essence. I don't agree with that either, Like
I don't think the Megos and fell off. We live
in an era where if you not read hot, if
you're not all over the radio, you know you're not

(53:29):
dropping music every week, people just think you fell off,
Like you can't just take a break. The Megos have
been out here for a long time. How long may
they do have a new They do have a record
performed they did performing at the iHeart Radio Music Festival.
It's called Burken. Listen to this. She wanted I tell

(53:51):
the fool one hundred thousand forward bag hunted. That's a
whole lot of cash. I bought a watching made of
glass and caught the cooper working drash about the bag
and made them bad. They're saying someone fell off is
very very, very very harsh. They're just not the red
hot act of the moment. But to say they fell off, like, nah,

(54:16):
come on, man, he's been around for a long time.
Academics also tweeted out by the way, I love Quevo
take off an offset I critique for them to elevate
certainly not hate being a fan of them for a
long time, being a fan that was sometimes challenging the
artists you love. That's that's very true too, Like I mean,
we can all we're entitled to have an opinion on
the music, good or bad. Once you release it to

(54:37):
the public, it's up to us to decide whether we
like it ran and those discussions are gonna happen. And
then can't you just say I didn't like the new
single they just put out instead of the same day
like you said, fell off. You gotta get people time.
I critiques, You could critique. You could say whatever you
want to say about a person's project, a person's album,

(54:57):
or persons anything, and then artists can reply how they
want to apply, like right, academics when it comes to
you know, absolutely limited or anything. He either is charlemagneither's
me either, as you it's how we feel about a record,
and your regular people. It's people on social media like
they are worse more than anybody. And by the way,
your critique can be critiqued too, just like academics. Critique

(55:18):
is being critiqued right right now by us. All right now,
let's talk about DJ Boof. He did an Instagram live session.
You know, he was Wendy Williams DJ. Just recently as
us one has took over that spot. We're not sure
what happened with DJ Booth and Wendy Williams, but he
went on live to let us know that there was
some type of dirty laundry situation going on. Here's what

(55:39):
he said about to be crazy. Yoh God, don't like
ugly and this little DJ is a powerful I ain't
know I was this powerful because I ain't know I
had this bunch of weight. Bro. I feel thankful. I'm blessed.
You know, you never know who really did you? Yo?
And when I say it's about to be crazy, it's

(56:02):
about to be crazy. I don't got the juice. I
don't got the tea, I got the coffee. Who was
Booth talking about in that video? Is he talking? And
by the way, I want that would be a great
time for me. Sure it's not Wendy. I'm sure that
I do have a coffee company called Coffee uplifts people.
Since people want to spill the coffee, you know, make

(56:24):
sure you check us out. But yes, continue you should sponsor.
I'm just wondering who this one is. He talking about
in that video, you should talk, you should sponsor DJ Booth.
That'd be a great sponsor right now. You because I've
never heard some coffee coffee. Yeah, she's definitely just spilling
the coffee, all right, we're in Is that because coffee
is stronger than tea? Maybe it can be mmmmm. I

(56:46):
just want to know who moves talking about in that video?
Who thought about this one? Are Wendy, I'm sure Wendy,
I'm sure. Yeah. I don't know if he does he
know some tea on well, we don't know, we don't,
we don't know. I'm sure he does. Well. All I
know is if I was that bar Mercury or you know,
lions Gate or whoever is behind that situation, I would

(57:07):
make sure Boof has been paid accordingly and I would
have maked. I don't make sure. I would have make
sure Boof Boof Boof Sufferance was was was intact. That's
what I'm sure. I'm sure he knows what the bodies are.
I'm sure he knows what the bodies are. And you
don't want to do you think he was what y'all
think he was wrong for exposing that though? If he

(57:28):
was done dirty. We don't know what body, Yeah, we
don't know what happened in that situation. But if he's done,
you know, nobody's wrong to be telling that story and
don't And back in New York then they say Boofing
was sticking something up. Ye, yes, Boofing was sticking something up.
Your boy. Don't want Booth? Okay, So you don't want
Booth to pull something out of all right? You want

(57:50):
him to keep all those skeletons in his Boofing, all right,
don't let Booth pull out all right? Well, you know
Booth is gonna be okay regardless, so are we's gonna
be fun? You see how this lays out the corporate
America just can't do people dirty when you do people dirty? Okay, Yeah,

(58:10):
you just don't want him to pull up, all right, y'all.
I hope y'all been doing right by DJ Booth, debt
by American and lions Gate, and I really do all right.
We don't forget ask he's coming up next hour eight
hundred five eight five one five one. If you need
relationship advice to any type of advice, you could get
on the phone lines right now. But donkey today who
are giving that donkey to Charlemagne. I need this the

(58:30):
seat chief executive of Wells Fargo, Charles Sharft, to come
to the front of the congregation. There the lesson to
be learned here today is a teachable moment corporate America.
Listen up, all right, we'll get into that next. It's
the breakfast Club. Good morning. Don't at the gate you
get drunk, you are, I'm gonna fatt and all that

(58:58):
around your man to Dolten Blowers. Man. They're waited with
Charlomaye to top these gloves to make a judgment. Who
was going to be on the Donkey of the day.
They chose you because the breakfast club, bitch you, Who's
donkey of the day today? Donkey of today from Wednesday,
September twenty third goes to Wells Fargo and Co. Chief
executive Charles Sharf. Now Charles Sharf pissed off some black

(59:21):
employees this summer. You know what, I don't know if
pissed off the employees is the correct term. It's more
like black employees are exhausted, all right. That's what whiteness
can be. Exhausting. We get fatigued during these fights. It's
been a long, long fight, and one thing about the
fight against systemic racism, It's gonna always come down to stamina,
and we is tired. Okay, Well, Charles Sharf exhausted black

(59:45):
folks yet again this summer on his Zoom meeting. Oh lord, now,
I know my brothers and sisters wexhausting all by itself.
But Charles, he made all of us sleepy when he
was discussing Wells Fargo not being able to reach its
diversity goals because there was not enough qualified minority talent.

(01:00:06):
I re pete. Okay, Charles Sharf, Wells Fargo chief executive said,
Wells Fargo is not able to reach its diversity goals
because there's not enough qualified minority talent. Case ura, Sara. Now,
imagine a company wide memo goes out announcing diversity initiatives
as nationwide protests are breaking out over George Floyd and

(01:00:29):
your company. In this case, Wells Fargo says, and I quote, well,
it might sound like an excuse, unfortunate reality is that
there is a very limited pool of black talent to
recruit from. Basically, we would love to put some of
you negroes in leadership positions, but y'all simply don't exist.
Can you imagine an NBA executive saying that, of course

(01:00:49):
she can't because it doesn't happen. Even when the talent
pool is so called low in the draft, they will
draft someone, all right, they will draft a lot of people.
You know, somebody gets to opportunity. Hell, Charles, all those
mediocre Mannaids flavored mammals, y'all putting leadership positions on a
regular basis, y'all will scrape the bottom of the hellman's

(01:01:10):
jar when it's empty to be able to spread death
thick cold sauce all over a company. But when it
comes to black folks, we simply don't exist. Story of
our lives now, Charles. Let me use myself as an example.
In twenty sixteen, I tweeted out, would be dope if
a young black or Hispanic woke woman. I even put

(01:01:33):
woke in quotation use social media to create a platform
to be a voice like Tommy Lauren did. Yes, I
posted that totally tone deaf tweet for one reason, all
those women already existed. Not only did they already exist,
I was already working and had worked with several of them, Charles,
All that qualified minority talent that you are saying doesn't exist.

(01:01:56):
Trust me, it does. That limited pool of black talent
that you are saying is dry is full. You just
don't have the creative eye to see it, because all
you do is see America through a white lens. This
is what happens when you have white privileged pulposts. Okay,
for all those folks who want to make the white

(01:02:17):
in their eyes wider, this is how you do it.
Be a white person in a leadership position at a
company and be asked to find black talent. I agree
with AOC who tweeted out yesterday, perhaps it's the CEO
of Wells Fargo who lacks the talent to recruit black workers.
I also agree with Ken Bacon, a former mortgage industry

(01:02:39):
executive who was on the boards of Comcast, Ally Financial,
and well Tower, Inc. He just quoted in this NBC
News article saying there is an amazing amount of black
talent out there. If people say they can't find the talent,
they either aren't looking hard enough or don't want to
find it. I'll take don't want to find it for
five hundred Alex. The only people who should be in

(01:03:01):
a bubble right now is the four remaining NBA teams
and the staff that makes the NBA move all right,
That same bubble, okay, is the same insula bubble most
white people living in all their life see. Okay. When
I was young, my mother encouraged me. In fact, damn,
they had demanded that I read things that didn't pertain
to me. Therefore, even on a dirt road in Monsquin

(01:03:22):
to South Carolina, I knew other people's coaches and places existed.
When she told me to read things that didn't pertain
to me, I immediately started reading Judy Bloom and Beverly Clearly.
Ramona Quinbey and her family introduced me to the white
middle class. Okay, Margaret from all you there, God is me.
Margaret made me realize white people believe in God and
actually called on God for help. I didn't know. I

(01:03:42):
was a kid. I thought white people called other white
people for help, not God. The moral of the story is,
when you're black, you're forceded. You're forced to know what's
going on with other races, especially the white race, if
not for anything else. Survival. Charles Sharf, chief executive at
Wells Fargo. Like most white people in positions of power,
will never have to know any black people in order

(01:04:04):
to simply survive. Here's the thing about guys like Charles,
and this is a lesson for all the corporate America.
If you want your company to be a company and
not a plantation, then hire folks who have the eyes
and ears to see and hear diverse candidates, and go
out of their way to find these diverse candidates. Are

(01:04:24):
give the black, the brown, the women in your company
the experience to qualify for seeing your roles. And all
you negros who get in seeing your roles at these
companies who are already in seeing your roles at these companies,
the ones who have hiring power. Don't get in these
positions and adopt the energy of your oppressors. Don't be
just happy to be there. When you find yourself in

(01:04:47):
that position, it is imperative. It is required of you,
under the laws of God and blackness, to lift other
black people up with you. That's how you keep the
Charles Sharks of the world dancing for you instead of
us dancing for them. Now, there's a Wells Fargo employee
who wants to remain anonymous, who told NBC News there

(01:05:07):
simply is no lack of talent. I can get them
ten to fifteen resumes to day well. Breakfast Club reaches
a lot of people, tens of millions between the podcast
and the radio show. I know that it's quite a
few people that can hear my voice right now. So
let's have a petty party, but a petty party with
a purpose. And it's not even really being petty. It's

(01:05:30):
a professional petty party. For all you qualified brothers and
sisters out there with resumes. Send them to this email.
Get a pen, pull out your phones. I'll give you
some time. I'll wait wait for you to get it together. Okay,
got it ready? Good? Send your resume to Charles dot Sharf.

(01:05:51):
Sharf is spelled sc h a r F. Charles dot
Sharf sc h a r f at Wells Fargo dot com.
Charles dot Sharf at Wells Fargo dot com. Tell them
you were referred by me, Uncle Charlott, Charlemagne, to God,
Lenard mckelby, whatever you want to call me. Tell them

(01:06:13):
you were referred by me, and in the subject put
qualified black in all capital letters. See Charles needs to
know we exist. Because once he knows we exist, and
he's flooded with tens of thousands of resumes. You will
have no corporate excuses to cover his potential racism in

(01:06:33):
the future. Oh, the Mayonnaid's was heavy with this one.
Please let Kathy Griffin handle my white work, I mean,
I mean light work. Please give this giant Jaromle the
biggest he hath. All right, well, thank you for that
dunkey today. That's right page. Remember Charles dot Sharf at
Wells Fargo dot com sharf spelled sh r f. Please

(01:06:57):
send him your resumes with the subject qualify five black
use me as a reference. Thank you, all right? Ask
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Hello the relationship advice, need personal advice, just the real advice?
Hall up down for ask ye morning. Everybody is DJ
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(01:07:40):
It's time for asking yee. Hello, who's this? What's up?
This fresh part from Baltimore? What's up? Man? What's your
question for? Yeasy? Yeah? I want a see like how
can I get my girl to to understand? I want
to move into a new spot like we literally together,
but I want to get a new spot for man
my son. But she feels like we should just they

(01:08:01):
are not her kids, by the way, but she feel
like we should stay under one roof and I don't
know what I should do it. Wait, you want to
move away from her even though y'all live together? It
sounds crazy. Females, y'all make things sound crazy. Don't do
it like I'm trying to clarify it because it does
sounds so listen to listen. I just want to move
into a spot that raised my sons under one roof

(01:08:22):
instead of like we can commute. You understand. It's not
like I want to move away for I love her
to death. My name is Tamika, Um, she's she's my heart.
But I just want to spot for me and my son,
like I don't I don't think it's wrong, you know
what I mean? I'm confused. Why can't they why can't
she be with you? There? If you guys are together,
all right. So look when you're a young man and

(01:08:43):
you got two kids, they thirteen and eleven, Like, I
feel like we gotta do betterfi our children. So me
stepping out is something to show leadership in our community.
So having multiple people around sometimes because you know, like
clarse religion or like me, I'm into vegan food now,
So these things could be confusing if you're trying to

(01:09:03):
teach your upbringing, you know what I'm saying. So I
feel like one roof, you know, one to hear the household.
They can understand. You know where I'm coming from with this,
And like I said, I love her. I just want
to teach them under one roof instead of you know,
the kids come at you. I just all right, as
a couple of questions here, So are you going to
be the primary caregiver for your kids? Like is it

(01:09:24):
a joint custody situation with the mom? What's going on
with joint custody with man the mom? But but like
I said, as far as raising them and teaching them
different you know, you know, values in life, I feel
like the man should be there, you know, mostly and
they should see how it should be. Like if they
have kids in the future, they should be, you know,

(01:09:44):
dedicated to keeping the kids under one roof and you know,
being that that role model they need because there's a
lot of fake role models out here. Kids can be
looking up to anybody and they don't have no values
a moral so I feel like, you know, it's easy
for them to be swayed, you know what I mean?
A lot of stuff. Married to your girlfriend or together
for the long term? Does she know your children? I want,

(01:10:05):
I want, I want Maha, Yeah I do. I love
her a death for real. But I still feel like
I should be able to do this with my kids.
I don't feel like it should be a I don't
understand why these things that are mutually exclusive though. Why
can't you be with your women who you want to
marry and also raise your kids at the same time
under in a bigger house with your girls. Jealousy it's

(01:10:27):
like jealousy between women. My sons, they the young black men,
so they gonna say stuff and then she comes to
me like why do you say that? And you know
what I'm saying. So it's always so you're a child,
your children's mother and your girlfriend don't get along. I'm
not sure if they don't get along, but I know
they don't like each other. They don't talk at all,
but I know they don't. You know what your sons

(01:10:48):
need to see. They need to see a functional relationship
in a blended family situation. They need to see that
if this is a woman you want to be with
and you want to marry, they need to see her
being able to communicate with their mother, because of course,
any mom would not want their kids around a woman
who she doesn't know or like, right, and you need
to work on that relationship if this is somebody you

(01:11:09):
see yourself with, because I'm not gonna lie if I
was in her situation. We live together now, you want
to move out because you say you want to be
able to when your kids come to see you and
stay with you, being a roof for just you under
there with them. I would feel like that means you
don't see a future with us. Yeah, she said that,
and it's almost making me feel like I'm being shopped
between the two, like I shouldn't be able to you

(01:11:31):
know what I'm saying. I understand. I'm not being you know, dismissive.
I'm very aware of the situation, and you know it's
just something we gotta work through. But yeah, and maybe
it does feel like something you guys have to work
through because you know, I just think you got to
work on that relationship between the mom and your girlfriend,
and if this is somebody you really want to be with,

(01:11:51):
that should be the first thing that you do, right,
so that she's comfortable with her kids being around this
woman and so that she feels secure. Are also because
I think to set an example for your kids. Look,
their relationship didn't work out with their mom, and you're
in love with somebody else and this is the other
person you want to be with. They need to see
those functioning relationships. I think that's a great example. Yeah,

(01:12:12):
I think it's I think it's just kind of excuison
because I still love her too, like we're all great friends,
but it's just kind of yeah, it's just kind of
confusing for real. But so you kind of want to
be with the mom with them No, not how okay,
I'm just asking. I just love it. Respect I wouldn't
and there's nothing wrong. But she's a beautiful woman. They
both beautiful woman. But I want to move on with

(01:12:34):
the one I'm with now. She's more like together, if
that makes sense. But part of that moving on is
making sure that you guys can all actually get along
and know each other and be adult about it and
set that example. So I can see where she's coming
from it. I think you should look at it from
her point of view as well. I don't think you
should have to make a choice between the two. Why

(01:12:55):
can't they coexist? I agree, Angela, I agree, I agree,
Hey King, I just want to tell you too, man Um.
I can hear the Baltimore on your breath, so I
just want you to know that I'm praying. I'm praying
for ye j Instagram fresh po Oh, my goodness. I'm

(01:13:15):
not gonna be able to dn ask ye eight hundred
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Good morning, keep get some real advice with Angela Ye
gets ask ye morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne,

(01:13:41):
the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Were in the
middle of ask yee, Hello, who's this? How are you doing? Un?
Good morning? Good morning man? What's your question for you?
Hey morning? Um? Like it's a relationship question like, um
of late, me and my girl, we've been getting into it.
Um So I noticed like when it comes to her

(01:14:01):
admitting like when she does like crazy stuff, she has
a hard time admitting it, like literally, we're gonna get
we're seeking counselors now. But like, what is a good
way to just like, you know, break the ice when
it comes to yoh, man, you did something, you did
something crazy? Ya? I mean I understand you. Just give
me an example. All right? So she cut my right.

(01:14:24):
I'm driving her to work, venting to her. She didn't
like it, made like literally in front of her job,
mid moving, I'm turning the car. She cuts my car
off those and in part like opens the door, jumps
out of the moping car like justiffy by saying hey,
I told you I wanted to get out of your car.
Comes like, Yo, that's what's your response. Let's let's have

(01:14:46):
my conversation now. So she says, all right, I told
you I'm trying to get out the car. You didn't
out the car, so I turned it off and jumped out.
I mean, what you expect? What's my response? I'm gonna
call the cops, man, because you're not understanding what I
don't know. Like I try to tell her, like what
she was doing was dangerous. The other driver, you know,

(01:15:08):
we could have crashed. Man, And she's just like, I
don't care you telling you gonna call the cops? Yeah,
how would you feel that she she was gonna call
the cops? You should have. She had to jump out
of a car, moving car. That's this. This sounds like
a b I mean, I didn't agree with that, but

(01:15:29):
I mean I just thought it was you can't respond
too crazy, but with crazy also though, I mean, here's
what my thoughts are. Right, when it comes to calling
somebody out on something they've done that is wrong, instead
of telling them you're wrong, you did this, you did that,
you have to talk about how it makes you feel.
That's something that I've learned, Like, look, when you did that,

(01:15:51):
it made me feel this way, because that's not accusatory.
That opens the door for communications. And then it's also
you expressing your thoughts on the situation and how you felt.
And then now you can ask her, well, how are
you feeling when you did that? This is how it
made me feel. Instead of saying you always do this,
you never do that, that's accusing you have to say okay,

(01:16:17):
And I think that's the best way to start, is
just talking about your own feelings, your own emotions, why
you have some concerns, because it feels like things blow
up into a bigger situation. She does something, then you
do something to be even worse. It's like a tip
for tat pretty much. Yeah, well a really big tat.
But see it. Look and here you are again. You

(01:16:37):
know you just you gotta take responsibility too, like where
are you doing that contributes to her behavior? Not that
she's right, but that doesn't mean that you have to
be wrong as well, because that is a you do this,
So I do this, and then you did this, which
was worse than what I did. And she's looking at
it like, no, what you did was worse than what
I did. If you know what we decided to do.

(01:16:59):
So we're gonna get like a counselor, but we don't
know the clase counselor to get. I thought it was
like a behavioral health counselor. I don't know. I thought
like maybe Charlomagne Kid. I tried to reach him online,
but I know he's busy. Maybe type of counseling. Yeah,
I go to therapy. But I go to therapy every week. Um,

(01:17:20):
I don't. I've done couples counseling before my wife, but
that's not a frequent thing that we do all the time.
I do my own personal self work every week via
a therapist and a sacred purpose culture. But yeah, I
think you guys need couples counseling. And I will say
for yourself. What my help in your conversations is if
you do own up and take responsibility for what you do.

(01:17:40):
You can say I know that my reaction was wrong,
all right, and start there and say, but but the
reason I did that was because I felt this way
when you did this, and this was my reaction, and
my reaction was wrong, and I apologize for that. And
it's great when you can start with an apology for
your actions, because then that leads her to apologize for
what she's done. Okay, but somebody got to be the

(01:18:03):
bigger person and take that first step. I appreciate you got,
all right, find him somebody to talk to? Now, Lord
please ask ye eight hundred five five one oh five one.
Now you got rumors on the way, Yes, let's talk
about time they have put out there. One hundred Most
Influential People issue, and gonna tell you some people who

(01:18:23):
made the cut and the cover. All Right, we'll get
into that next. Keep a 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 times most influential people.
It's about. This is the rumor report, Angela Yee on

(01:18:51):
the Breakfast Club. All right. Time magazine has put out
the list of the most one hundred most influential People
of twenty twenty, and these are influential people from all
over the world. These are different categories like Pioneers, Artists, Titans, leaders,
and icons. You know, it's pretty interesting to see how

(01:19:11):
they did it this year because they also have each
person profiled by a famous fan or an admirer of theirs.
For instance, Dapper Dan was written about by Missy Elliott
Denzel wrote about Michael B. Jordan Elton John about the Weekend.
He said, the Weekend is a mysterious figure in an
era when mystery is rare and pop. Gabrielle Union and

(01:19:31):
Dwayne Wader also featured Meg the Stallion. Just a lot
of different people that deserve these accolades. Yeah, saluted the
Black Lives Matter founders, Alicia Gaza. Alicia has a book
I think it's out of coming out called The Purpose
of Power that I want to read. I want to
have Elicia on the show out. I love Alicia's energy.
She's got a great spirit. Right, So, if you want

(01:19:53):
to see the full list of the one hundred most
influential people in the world, you can go over to
Times website. By the way, Donald Trump and Joe Biden
made the list, so did Kamala Harris, doctor Fauci, Jay Balvin,
Jennifer Hudson, Tyler Perry, Angela Davis, Selena Gomez. Yeah, I
saw a Trump on that list. So I wonder what
the definition of influences for Time magazine people. It definitely does,

(01:20:18):
but I mean, you know, I guess, I guess. I
guess it doesn't matter if it's a positive or negative influence.
I guess I don't know, all right. Vanessa Brian is
suing the La County Sheriff's Department and Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
That's for leaking that photo of the helicopter crash that
killed Kobe Bryant and their daughter Gianna and other people
as well in January. So it's a civil claim and

(01:20:40):
they are seeking undisclosed damages to remedy civil rights violations,
negligent emotional distress, and violation of privacy. That's devastating. It
is devastating because even if they win, it's not going
to take away any of that trauma. It's not gonna
take away any of that emotional distress at all. All right,
and shout out to fifty cent his power. But Two

(01:21:01):
Ghosts has been renewed for his second season, So congratulations
to them. A record breaking premier. Let me tell you
something watching that show, let me I might be a
prisoner at the moment. It's possible. I think I really
love Ghosts too. I love the casting of Ghosts too
more than I love the original Power. And I know

(01:21:22):
that's crazy to say, because you know, we had like
six seven seasons of Power. But I love Marriage. I
love that family, like I love Woody is the Sun
playing Kane. I love Mary as the aunt. I loved
everything was good. Yeah, I love the attorney. I think
to Reach is killing it. I love Tash and like

(01:21:42):
I really like. Uh, I like. I like Power too, Ghosts,
I really do, and shout out to my girl not
Tory Man. I got my free Tasha shirt that I
was wearing the other day. So how long how long
before ghost shows up as a ghost? Though? You know,
Power like to show us a spirits on these shows?
How long before showed up as a ghost? Well, fifty

(01:22:02):
Sam posted when I had the idea to create the
Power Universe, I knew there were going to be many
levels to its success. I'm glad the fans agree. I
am looking forward to releasing Raising Canaan and Force soon.
Executive producer Curtis fifty Saint Jackson. I enjoyed early, enjoyed,
and I can see how they're setting up to Tommy Show.
Is the Tommy Show Force? I can see how they
setting that up in this one, all right. Now. Rick

(01:22:23):
James miniseries Brothers Keeper is officially in development, so that
should be something pretty fun to watch. It was recently confirmed.
It's a seven episode mini series about the life of
Rick James and his brother, former manager Lee Roy Johnson,
and it's in development with a twenty twenty one filming date,
so you'll get a chance to get an in depth
look at his life along with his brother and former manager.

(01:22:45):
I hate the name. I hate the name. There should
be no Rick James mini series are biopick. That's not
titled I'm Rick James, b James bitch. Yeah about him
and his brother who was also his manager. So that's
why it's called brothers Keeper. All right, Well maybe I'm
like that brother. I'm I'm Rick James brother bitch. That

(01:23:07):
could work, all right. Well I'm angela yee. And that
is your rumor report, all right. Shout out to Jermaine
du Pray. Today is JD's birthday, so happy birthday to
j D. Also, happy birthday to Pecks. Today Pecks turns fifty,
so can't he can't even have a little pool party.

(01:23:28):
It's a little cold out, not too cold now I have.
Let's get in the mix and stutter off with some JD.
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(01:23:51):
Everybody's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are
the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the
line this morning. We have doctor Torrean Easterling. Welcome, Brobo.
Thank you, thanks for having me. Good morning. First and foremost,
thank you for everything that you've been doing right now
during this pandemic. I know it's a rough time for
a lot of people. Absolutely. I mean we're coming out

(01:24:12):
of a sobering weekend. I mean we just hit the
mark over two hundred thousand deaths here in the United States,
and I think it's a it's a reminder of the
moment that we're in, and I think this is why
I'm here, and thank you so much for allowing me
to join the show this morning to talk about the
importance of the flu vaccine this year. We know that

(01:24:35):
this is going to be a really important year. All
of the public health officials and experts are really showing
how because of the emergency and the pandemic that we're in,
we really have to sennounce the message that it's going
to be really important to get your flu vaccine this
year more than any of the year that we've we've
been through. I've been talking to a couple of dogs
and they said that, you know, if you take the

(01:24:56):
flu vaccine, you know it helped with the covid virus.
Because you know what you have and what you don't have,
you can tell the difference between just a regular cold
or the flu or what's going over covid. So they're
saying that definitely, kids and older people should definitely take
this vaccine this year. Yeah, so absolutely, anyone over six
months of age should take the flu vaccine. It's going
to be specifically important for young kids, It's going to

(01:25:20):
be specifically important for our elderess and so individuals over
sixty five, but really it's going to be important for anyone.
But DJMV you just hit a really important point. The
symptoms are going to be similar for both covid as
well as flu, and so it's going to be really
hard to distinguish between both. I mean, you can experience fever,
you running, know, its shortness of breath with both covid

(01:25:42):
and flu vaccine, So it will be difficult to really
discern between the two. So that's why we really want
folks to just understand the prevention is really getting ammunization.
What about the fact that you know a lot of
these people that die from COVID nineteen, they have a
lot of underlying conditions. Yeah. Absolutely, so have chronic conditions
such as diabetes and hypertension. Or if you're immunal suppressed,

(01:26:05):
certainly you are at a higher risk of COVID nineteen
related symptoms. But certainly that's the same case for for influenza,
that you're at higher risk if you have chronic disease. So, uh,
you know, I would add that category along with children
and as well as older adults if they really need
to make sure that you're getting a flu vaccine this year.

(01:26:27):
What are your predictions of coming now? Because people keep
saying that there's going to be a huge surge with
coronavirus and that is because of the flu, because of
the weather changing, because of schools opening again. So what
do you predict is about to happen. We're certainly looking
at the science, We're looking at the data. You know,
as you three of you know, New York City was

(01:26:48):
the epicenter when this all kicked off in early twenty twenty,
so we continue to pay attention to the data. You know,
the folks who are saying that we're being too fast.
I mean we've really been looking at this and being
intentional throughout you know, looking at restaurants, you know, looking
at businesses across school reopening as well, and even as

(01:27:10):
we think about you know, sort of larger workforce and
other business steps. So that's why, you know, taking the
preventive steps, continuing to wear face masks, wash your hands
are the messages. They're really clear and short of anything else,
of having a flu vaccine on the market, we have
to continue to take those precautions, but certainly having the
flu vaccine available early this year, people getting emmy unized

(01:27:33):
early this year, which is why I want to thank
you again for having me on earlier this year where
we were really sort of sharing the same message. But
we need to get the message out early. They're talking
about a vaccine for COVID that's supposed to be available
in November. Would you recommend taking the vaccine? So I
think we're going to have to pay pay attention absolutely

(01:27:54):
to the data around the COVID vaccine. So we're certainly
right now in phase zero right when you think about
development of a vaccine trial, because a lot of the
information that's coming out, people are to really trying to
discern what's true, what's real. What I would say is
we need to have, you know, some serious conversations around
the history of vaccination, immunization, and Black and Round communities.

(01:28:15):
You know. Addressing equity issues is paramount to making sure
that people understand how important it is to take a
COVID vaccine, but also safety, and so we want to
make sure that it's both safe, but it's also equitable,
and so thinking about who is most at risk, you know,
I talked about some of the important you know, groups
that we have to think about, healthcare workers, people with

(01:28:37):
chronic disease, elderly, you know, even Black and Round communities
as they have bear the brunt of you know, the
COVID pandemic. So you know, equitable allocation is going to
have to be a part of the process of how
we distribute a COVID vaccine. So certainly all of those
three factors are going to be important. Safety, equity, but
also thinking about an equitable allocation. Due to everybody wearing

(01:28:58):
a mask, they said they don't expect the flu season
to be as as strong as it usually is. That
I guess they got, you know, pre things from some
other places that they said it shouldn't be as bad
because everybody has those masks on. And do you think
that's a new way of life for the next ten years?
People are gonna have to wear masks, you know, certainly
right now, you know that's the way forward. And you know,
you hit a really good point. You know that having

(01:29:20):
some of the infectious disease control measures in place, like
face covering, such as physical distancing is also going to
support the flu virus this year as well and sort
of transmitting it. So I think that we could certainly
see that it's not as bad as it has been
in previous years. But I think what we're trying to
say is that it's also those you know, precautions, but

(01:29:42):
also taking the flu vaccine is going to really help
ensure that we don't see, uh, you know, a high
number of deaths this year. Well, thank you for having me,
and I just want to also say, uh, you know again,
I think that this is going to be really important,
not just for right now, but also so that we
can have a safe ling season as well, because I
know that's just as important as making sure that we

(01:30:03):
address code was vaccine, and I know that you all
have been raising the importance of voting and supporting our
electoral process as well. So thank you, Thank you doctor
doctor Torrian easter Lane. Make sure you go out there
and get your flu shot, and we appreciate you checking
in alight when we come back, we have the positive note.
It's the Breakfast Cleve, Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ

(01:30:25):
Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Yes, listen, man.
I want to tell everybody out there, all you sports
fans to go check out the new podcast from Steve
Smith Senior. Cut to It, available on the Black Effect
Podcast Network, and make sure you check out the All
the Smoke podcasts with Matt Barnes and Steve and Jackson.
They dropped a new episode yesterday as well. All the

(01:30:49):
Smoke as Jamil and Jamar Charlowe on this week and
tomorrow they have my favorite basketball player of all time,
Alan iverson on, so check them out on showtime and
listen to the podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network
on iHeartRadio. Steve Smith Senior, he has Frank Kaminski on
his podcast this week. Cut to it. He's talking all

(01:31:10):
about the NBA draft process. So you know wherever you
listen to podcasts, or you can just go to the
iHeartRadio app and type in black effect and you know
the podcast will pop up. So yes, go check those out.
All right, well, you got a positive note. I do
have a positive note. My positive note the day comes
from the OG. Mister Rogers. Okay, mister Rogers says who
you are inside is what helps you make and do

(01:31:33):
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