The Breakfast Club BEST OF - Patti Labelle, Kirk Franklin And Pastor Jamal Bryant Interview - The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wake up the program your alarm to power one oh
five point one on iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good morning us, saying yo yo.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
yo yo yo yo yo.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yo saluted Jess sceilarry. It's showing me the God.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
It's Christmas Eve.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Okay, So yes man, salute everybody out there listening to
us right now.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
Happy to be here, thankful. I haven't.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I haven't done it in a few days, so I
forgot what I'll be saying. What I'll be saying, I'm
happy to be here to serve our beautiful listeners or
something like that. I can't remember exactly what I say,
but I am truly happy to be here to serve
our beautiful listeners. But this is what happens when you
work on your day off, that's right. And that's what
we're doing on Christmas Eve.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
We were working on our day off.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
We actually went to Patti Labelle's house, Miss Patty, And that's.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Not really work, you know what I'm saying, Because Patty
Leabelle is Miss Patti Leabelle is absolute family. We adore her.
Uh and you know when she asked us to pull up,
you know, to come have breakfast. What she does from
time to time, you gotta do it. What I mean,
come on, come.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
Absolutely, she opens up her house to us, and I
mean she she cooks yesterday. Well this morning she'll be
cooking fried chicken and waffle. So I'm excited about that.
And we just have great conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
And I'm her soue chef. I'm always her soue chef
when when I'm there. But yeah, I just like being
around Patty Man. Patty is a spirit. Like Patty is
not a She's not a person.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
That you meet.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
She's a spirit that you experience. And I just love
I just love being around miss LaBelle.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
And also we're gonna be kicking it with Kirk Franklin today.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
What was Kirk at I ain't see Kirk now?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
This is a throwback. This this Kirk is ah okay, okay, okay,
I got you. I was like, damn, I ain't see
no Kirk over the holiday season.

Speaker 6 (01:37):
Nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
I mis that one.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
So we're gonna get it both those interviews on in
a little bit. So it don't go anywhere. You guys,
be safe out there. On this Christmas Eve.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
If you're traveling, just be safe on the roads. All right,
it's the breakfast Club.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
This is your time to get it off your chest,
whether you're man or blessed.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
I hate the way that you walk, the way that
you talk, I hate the way that you dress.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Everything. When he is best call up next undred five
five one.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Not just me, I'm with the coach of philing.

Speaker 7 (02:04):
Hello, who is.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Get it off your chest?

Speaker 8 (02:08):
Yeah, I'm just proud of going the politics.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'm just sid of wolves it Like, let's get done
for the money, man, I said, let's get done for
the money.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Let's just drink coquito and get high and just forget
about everything for the tell tell January first.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
I'm serious.

Speaker 8 (02:24):
Like the politics are so real man, that it's messing
up the holidays season, like the holidays, like the holidays,
with so much that's going on in the world.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Damn, let'll tell you.

Speaker 8 (02:35):
Thank you all, y'all have a good one.

Speaker 7 (02:38):
Hello.

Speaker 9 (02:38):
Who is this?

Speaker 10 (02:39):
Good morning, y'all? This is cheap from Connecticut. So I
just wanted to say shout out to all of the
parents that got their kids see throughout the years that
was blessed to get thee throughout the years so that
the struggling Christmas season, we don't have to come out
of pocket for damiel or anything. Like my kids. I

(03:02):
asked them to that yesterday. I said, what y'all want
for Christmas? They look like you have everything?

Speaker 3 (03:07):
And I said, you know what, that's amazing good.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
When your kids, it's beautiful when your kids know you broke.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Understand they stand.

Speaker 10 (03:20):
At this point, they have more money than me in
their little standwich dag and they drawers. They dressed the
drawers like they yeah.

Speaker 11 (03:27):
Well you don't sound down, you know, you know what
I mean. I love your energy.

Speaker 9 (03:33):
What you're gonna do, what.

Speaker 10 (03:34):
You're gonna do about it. Today moves on, the year
moves on, and money comes and goes, and you got life, and.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
You got you got life, and you've got good health.
Like that's that's the most.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Important, you know.

Speaker 10 (03:47):
And I close down the last time I was on
like when it comes down to my mental health. Remember
I was telling y'all, I go to counseling, and that
was one.

Speaker 12 (03:55):
Of the biggest things.

Speaker 10 (03:55):
I went to counselor for financial stress is just terrible,
like on the body, so Nope, you can't. You can't
worry about that.

Speaker 7 (04:03):
That right.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Hello, who's this?

Speaker 4 (04:05):
What's going on?

Speaker 10 (04:06):
It's the boiler Hero.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Boiler Hero, what's up? Off your chest?

Speaker 13 (04:10):
Listen, man, it's coldest helloutside. I just want everybody to
know the boiler Hero got them. I'm making sure New
York City is staying warm. You can check me out
on my YouTube channel, Boiler Heroes.

Speaker 8 (04:22):
You can see me give the heat to the city.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
I'm a boiler man, So what does that mean?

Speaker 9 (04:28):
Like that means I go.

Speaker 14 (04:29):
I go to buildings in New York City and I
fix their boilers and I give people heat and hot water.

Speaker 12 (04:34):
You can check me out on.

Speaker 14 (04:35):
YouTube boiler Heroes, Instagram boiler Heroes. I'm the only boiler
man in the world with a YouTube channel.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
I like you in through cathering brother. I like people
that take their job serious. Man.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
I like that. I love I love what I do.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Man.

Speaker 14 (04:48):
I'm out here to save you twenty four to seven.
So if anybody needs heat, just hit the boy and
I'm outside flying to you.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
So listen, boiler man, did.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
You go to trade school?

Speaker 4 (04:57):
How'd you become a boiler? Boiler the second generation boiler man.

Speaker 9 (05:02):
My uncle is a boiler man, and he put me
on and then I went to school.

Speaker 14 (05:05):
Because I was intrigued by the information, because I wanted
to get the certification to make sure nobody had to
you know, ask me question, broo, you certified? Yes, I
am what you know what I'm.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Saying, what's that paper? And then benefits like it's all good.

Speaker 14 (05:19):
I got the best, the best insurance in New York City.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Okay, that's what it is.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
Tell people the most important thing. I always tell people
they got to change their filters. When they don't change
their filter, and that stuff get backed up boilers.

Speaker 7 (05:30):
That's the truth.

Speaker 14 (05:31):
That's the truth. But Envy, I remember I called, like
I think like two years ago when I first started
my YouTube channel and you told me how your crib
the lower water caught on got broken and you.

Speaker 10 (05:41):
Had sent sent the man to gonna fix it.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got all my stuff is.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
I got a good boiler man now. But the other
day with my daughter's crib, she didn't change the field.
I should have changed the filter for my daughter, but
she ain't changed the filter.

Speaker 14 (05:53):
You could do that, yes, I said, But you could
do that, Envy.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
But yeah, I tell you about to change the filter.
That's the most important thing season, the season, change the filter.

Speaker 15 (06:00):
Fact.

Speaker 14 (06:00):
I appreciate youall Boiler heroes.

Speaker 7 (06:04):
Thank you. Hello.

Speaker 14 (06:05):
Who's this and what's up?

Speaker 15 (06:07):
Man?

Speaker 8 (06:07):
My name is Romeo from North Carolina?

Speaker 6 (06:09):
Bro?

Speaker 4 (06:09):
What's up Romeo?

Speaker 2 (06:10):
How you doing?

Speaker 7 (06:11):
My brother?

Speaker 10 (06:11):
Al Right, man, I want to speak my mind this morning.

Speaker 12 (06:14):
But I got fired for no reason because I guess
my boss decided to take a younger guy's invite and
he lied on me and said I was in a
bathroom of the apartment store smoking a box of cigarette.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
A whole box. He stressed, how you smoke a whole
box of cigarette?

Speaker 12 (06:31):
I don't even smoke, though, Charlie.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
I believe you, because smoking is nasty.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Smoking is disgusted. Are you smoking some weed or something?
That's a different story, but just a cigarette.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
I'm with you, right man.

Speaker 8 (06:42):
They didn't check the cameras or nothing.

Speaker 15 (06:43):
Man, they just let me go.

Speaker 12 (06:44):
Man, I got two kids, Bro, I might have.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
To go to human resources if they got it in
the resource department, and you might have to go see
an attorney.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Brother.

Speaker 12 (06:52):
Okay, it's in the wacker plug in my cash up.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
But you just got fired your times, Ain't that hard.
Now you just got fired win two weeks ago. Oh okay, allright,
well go ahead tell your cash.

Speaker 12 (07:03):
All right, my cash up dollars time g U A
p O F L Y.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Now I'm gonna tell you something.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Though, people usually put money in cash apps for very
compelling stories. I just got firing story for you know,
because you smoking cigarettes. That's not compelling in no way,
shape or form. It's a lot of people that just
lost their job, brother, over the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 16 (07:20):
Yeah, I'm sorry here, but don't you got another check coming?

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Still they came already two weeks probably just got it.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Well, enjoy the holiday is the best you can my brother, man.

Speaker 8 (07:28):
Sorry, brother, I appreciate it, man much love.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
Yes, sir, get it off your chest eight hundred five
eight five one oh five one.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
If you need the vin call us up right now.
It's the breakfast Club. Come morning, wake up, wake up.

Speaker 7 (07:41):
If you're time to get it off your chest.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Real your man or blessed, we want to hear from
you on a breakfast gloss.

Speaker 7 (07:47):
Hello. Who's this?

Speaker 15 (07:48):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Hey, Hey Jamie? What's up? Get it off your chest?

Speaker 9 (07:51):
Hey?

Speaker 7 (07:51):
How you doing?

Speaker 8 (07:53):
I just want I wanted to get on here and
excuse me.

Speaker 9 (07:55):
I might be a little nervous. I ain't never called
a video station before, but I just.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Want to sing a little song off y'all real quick?

Speaker 3 (08:01):
All right there, brother, and it's my birthday.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Birthday.

Speaker 11 (08:04):
You're from Baltimore.

Speaker 9 (08:05):
Thank you?

Speaker 6 (08:06):
Thank you?

Speaker 11 (08:06):
How yeah you're from Baltimore.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
I'm definitely from Baltimore. That death, ain't it?

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Right now?

Speaker 4 (08:10):
What's up?

Speaker 17 (08:13):
No?

Speaker 2 (08:13):
You can't not from the.

Speaker 17 (08:19):
Go ahead?

Speaker 11 (08:19):
Say something for a shout?

Speaker 17 (08:22):
All right, There's so many things I've got to tell you,
but I'm afraid.

Speaker 9 (08:34):
I don't know how mm hmmm, because there's a possibility
that you look at me differently. But since that first
moment I schooled you from me on that bind you

(08:56):
in in my life things?

Speaker 5 (08:59):
What change?

Speaker 8 (09:02):
Love Jesus?

Speaker 6 (09:04):
Okay, shutting?

Speaker 7 (09:05):
All right?

Speaker 9 (09:07):
Okay, your name is band?

Speaker 3 (09:11):
What else you I'm trying to finish the hook.

Speaker 9 (09:15):
Don't do it?

Speaker 7 (09:21):
All right?

Speaker 4 (09:22):
What else you do you need to be saying?

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Trade school? Startling?

Speaker 10 (09:32):
Man?

Speaker 4 (09:32):
You need to find something else?

Speaker 3 (09:34):
You have a great one, bro, Like what else you
do besides sing?

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Thank you?

Speaker 17 (09:42):
For uh?

Speaker 8 (09:43):
It's I played ball for real in college?

Speaker 9 (09:45):
Now ain't in college?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Right now?

Speaker 5 (09:46):
I got a little girl for real, though you don't
do nothing play ball in school in the city's yo, yeah.

Speaker 9 (09:53):
Twenty three. I I'm in Florida now, I'm from Baltimore.

Speaker 8 (09:57):
Vigally now I'm in Florida.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
What you doing in Florida?

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (10:00):
Just telling work?

Speaker 17 (10:01):
You know, working?

Speaker 8 (10:02):
Got your job?

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Hey, Yo, ain't no such thing as a regular job. Brother,
You got a job. That's a good day. You're working
at the marryout. You're making a living man for sure.

Speaker 9 (10:15):
Yeah, I went to all to see me out here.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yes, sir, I'm wishing the best for you.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Absolutely, God bless you.

Speaker 9 (10:22):
Man.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
Alright, get it off your chest. Eight hundred and five
eighty five one O five one. If you need to vin,
hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Good morning to be Holidays from your friendly neighborhood. Bad guy,
Charlamagne the Guy. This is diseason to be patty.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
Holding everybody's DJ Envy Jess hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
We are the Breakfast Club. Lonlamosa is here. We got
a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed have passed
jamal Brian.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Welcome brother, Thank you sir, good to be with you all.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
How you feeling this morning, Bill Gurdon, let's talk about
this the forty day fast of Target. Yes, and uh,
this is something that you're trying to put into play
and why I'm not trying you are putting.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
It in another Yeah. So people are asking why did
we pick Target when Walmart out of order, McDonald's out,
or the John DIA's out, or the Bank of America's
out of order, Amazon Amazon is out of order? Is
we wanted to go? The African proverb says, if you
want to eat an elephant, do one piece at a time.

(11:24):
So we picked Target first for several reasons. Number One,
Target is headquartered in the same city George Floyd was killed.
When George Floyd was killed, Target came out made an
announcement that they're going to invest two billion dollars in
the black business. Two billion drum roll, and it starts

(11:44):
December of twenty twenty five. When Trump made the announcement
January of twenty twenty five, they dishonored that commitment. So
we wanted to hold them accountable because when they made
the plage they had nothing to do with DEI. Secondly,
I am embarrassed Breakfast Club to say to you, Negro
spend twelve million dollars a day in Target, and I

(12:08):
don't know any black business that amasses that much money
in any singular day day a day. Number three, Target
is on twenty seven college campuses and not one HBCU.
Number four outside of the federal government, Target is the

(12:28):
largest employer of black people. There are four hundred thousand
Black people on payroll and don't honor us. So if
we're given that kind of money, that much human capital,
and to not honor us, I think is dismally disrespected.
And because they're publicly traded, we wanted to see what
will happen in those forty days that shows the data,

(12:51):
this is the impact when black people walk away, and
to share it with those sharecrops, so it will not
just be forty days. But every movement has to have
a benchmark, has got to have a strategy, and you
got to have some data.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
What do you say, call it not a boycott? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:06):
I called it a fast because this was a call
to the Black church to become active. Something happened silently
that scholars and historians are going to have to pay
attention to the rise of Black Lives Matter. Charlemagne was
the very first movement of civil rights for black people

(13:27):
that was not berthed out of the church, the very
first civil rights movement that happened that didn't have a
religious leader at the front, and so the Black church
is going backwards. This is the largest demographic of black
people since we've been in America who don't go to
church at all, who don't subscribe to organize religion, where

(13:48):
at twenty eight percent, the largest amount of Black people
who self identify as atheists, who say they don't believe
in God, don't believe in nothing. So this was a call,
specif specifically for Black Christians to show the younger generation
our head is not in the sand. We're a part
of it, but we're aligning it with prayer that those

(14:10):
forty days is a high holy season for the Christian community.
We're praying because this is a spiritual warfare that we're
under with JD. Vance and Donald Trump, with all of
the things that are happening with these executive orders. Marching
is good, protesting is necessary, Petitions are important, but if
we don't bring a spiritual grounding to it, I think

(14:32):
that we're going to miss it. During the Montgomery bus
boycott that lasts three hundred and eighty one days. What
nobody talks about is for three hundred and eighty one days,
every night they went back to the church for prayer.
So I think that in the movement, you've got to
have a faith entity intertwined in it in order for
you to move forward.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
What he said to some of the people that have
black products in Target, they say that, you know, because
of this boycott. If a boycott happens and people are
stopping go to Target, that is going to affect their
products even more.

Speaker 6 (15:02):
I know.

Speaker 7 (15:02):
We had the co.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
Founders of Rocket Roots in the Breakfast Club found the
lit Bar, and they were saying that if people don't
come into the store, which Target is their hugest manufacturer,
the hugest buyer, So what happens to those products?

Speaker 2 (15:15):
And number one, the lit Bar and all of those
entities understand a new thing out called drop Ship. You
don't have to go in the physical store to help them.
Because of that. In Foresight, we partner with the US
Black Chamber of Commerce. So every person that goes to
targetfast dot org, within an hour, I send you a

(15:37):
digital directory of three hundred thousand black businesses across the country.
So we don't want those businesses to be adversely impacted.
We want people to support them, but do it online.
I can support the lit bar and not go into
Target to do it. I can go online to do it.
And so I think that as innovative and creative people,

(15:58):
as black people are, let's do it online. We do
everything else online. So let's support them. And the one
thousand black vendors who are placed in Target, we're gonna
prominently place on the website so that you'll be able
to find them quickly without any post.

Speaker 16 (16:14):
Two things to what you're saying.

Speaker 18 (16:15):
So the first thing when they were up here, they
talked about the inventory and just how much money they
have to put ahead to be in the stores that
comes out of their own pocket that they will lose
out on if people do not, if they're not supporting
these companies or whatever. So even if you're buying it
from their website, because they're already in contract for this
amount of inventory with alloted to Target, they lose out it.

Speaker 16 (16:35):
They don't profit on that.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Now, yes, well, that money has already been spent. A
movement comes with inconvenience. It came that same argument happened
in the Montgomery bus boycod the question was asked, what
do we do for the bust mechanics who are all black?
So what they did is they pulled all of those
bust mechanics out of Montgomery and set up garages at

(16:57):
the churches. When nobody is talking about is four mechanic
shops came out of it. So I understand that it's
an inconvenience. I know we got to go a different route,
but I would then say that's up. The ant is
a business principle. Let's buy more to cover what is
that loss? Companies take losses all the time.

Speaker 6 (17:15):
But a group of.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Misguided preachers went into Target in Detroit and said, let's
just buy black inventory and come out. You're still supporting Target,
So I think that we've got to come away, even
if we got to raise the price in order to
make the balance. Let's do it. One of the things
that black people do wrong whenever it is with supporting

(17:37):
black business. We always want a discount. Let's pay full
price and support them. Let's not just do it with
lip service, but let's do it through the investment.

Speaker 18 (17:46):
Though women from Rocker Roots I own Jamison and Ellen
Seller's talked about how even in Walmart's majority of their
clients hell that they make a large amount of their
money off of on those products. They don't have the
access to the dot com So being able to walk
into like this, it's just different in some of the
lower royal areas. So being able to walk into a
Walmart or a Target helps them as far as invatory

(18:07):
and creates access for those people.

Speaker 11 (18:08):
What about that?

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, I think that we've got to ask ourselves what
is the principle and is the principle more important than
the profit. You've got a whole lot of churches who
have space that is underutilized and under used. The fact
that in twenty twenty five we don't have a minority
owned retail space to direct people on says that we

(18:32):
got to reevaluate how we do business. So going into
Target to buy whatever this product is to say, Hey,
forget that they don't honor us, forget that they've disrespected
the George Floyd family, forget that they are only allowing
black people on entry level positions. Let's do it for lipstick.
I think that we're losing the larger conversation. I want

(18:52):
to see the sisters win. I want to see them
do overwhelmingly well. But I think that we got to
get into a room and figure out how do we
make it more accessible for those in rural areas. I
don't think that the answer is to keep shooting ourselves in.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
The foot and then ask for a cast or when
we ever get there, past it, Like you know, we
want to get there, right. Will we ever own our
own Target slash Walmart? Where we ever own our own
car manufacturer? Will we ever own our own so we
can rely on it? It just seems like we're far
stretched from that.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah. So one of the things that we're asking for
Target to do, and for all of the demands that
we're asking of Target, please go to targetfast dot org.
I'm asking Target to partner with ten HBCUs to show
our businesses how to scale up and to go into
the retail space repend Shopton is one of my mentors.

(19:45):
But in the history of black people, we have never
marched black people into a white business to say, spend
money here. So we got to figure out how it
is that we really re route and redirect so that
we can create and eat system for us to be
able to do. I think that is possible, but as
a plan that has.

Speaker 7 (20:04):
To be a foot in order to make it done.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
I saw you say that Target has been trying to
reach out to you. Yes, I'm gonna talk no diversity. No,
you may not have a job next week. You reached
out during Black History. Remind I don't know if you're
gonna make it to Saint Patrickstown.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
I need somebody who got some job security and got
some influence to make a decision. I think this generation
don't want symbolic wins, they want substantive strides. And if
you're just doing that to say we met, we talked, autistreet,
credibility is gone. I need somebody who can make a decision.
And you gotta ask Envy, what's in the mind of

(20:43):
a CEO that can lose twelve million dollars a day
and say I'm not meet.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
So the person that reached out to you felt had
no influence?

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, not enough influence. Yeah, So you're gonna send the
black people out to talk to the black black guy,
go talk to the black out of them down?

Speaker 7 (21:00):
Yeah no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
I need to talk to the CEO or I need
to talk to somebody who is on that board of
Target who can really help me understand where you are
and if you all are being punked by jd Vance
and Trump, tell me that let's figure out how we
can walk alongside each other.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
What it is, Yeah, that's what it is.

Speaker 18 (21:20):
Yeah, So I know that talking about meeting Eventually y'all
want to have a conversation or there is something schedule
right You guys will be meeting June twelfth in Minneapolis.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's when their stockholders meeting is. Yeah, so we are
planning on going now. I'm hoping that we have resolved
by them, That's what I was getting. Yes, we can't
wait till June, but June twelfth and there. Now it's
an underground murmur that they don't even want to do
an in person share holds me. They want to do
it by zoom.

Speaker 16 (21:49):
They don't want you guys to show me yes.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
But that's why it's important for you to have the
data to show how this has been impacted, how much
money you've lost in the stock and what is at stake.
So we wanted to take take all of that to
the shareholders meeting June twelfth.

Speaker 16 (22:05):
My last question for you, where are you at now?

Speaker 18 (22:06):
Numbers wives, because I know you were looking to get
one hundred thousand people by when's this Wednesday, the fifth
when it starts and you as.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
We had one hundred and ten thousand people gotch have
come and we did it before we ever got to
the breakfast club. So now y'all we got to get
to one fifty. We got we got to get to
one fifty. Because numbers is power. It was important for
me to have tangible evidence of how many people are
standing behind us. That is not just a post. It's

(22:34):
not just ights and sharees, but one hundred thousand people.
I can press a button's and the email to say,
hey we outside in Target, Hey we in Cincinnati, so
that the people at Target know that we mean business.
That is not just symbolism, but there's substance.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Find how can people get behind you?

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Go to targetfast dot org. It's just one word. There,
you'll see what is our list of a demand. When
it is that you sign up for get Fast, I'm
gonna send you a digital directory to those three hundred
thousand businesses. And even for those of you who don't
go to church or watch online, I'm gonna send you
a daily prayer devotional so that you can stay focused.
No pun intended, so you can stay on target for

(23:15):
what it is that we're trying to get done.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
All right, well, we.

Speaker 5 (23:17):
Appreciate you for joining us this morning again targetfast dot Org.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Brother man, thank you. And when y'all come to Atlanta,
I'm coming through. I ain't even got a ticket. I'm coming.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Well, yeah he came, Pat your mom's popped up through
my Black podcast Festival.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
I'm coming this year.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
I want to come to New birth Man to come
on Sunday and check it out.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, you gotta comes. It's room at the cross. Hey,
let me say this to I'm from Baltimore. Do you
know the first place I ever had Crabston, South Carolina?
Monk's Corner, Monks Corner, Monks Corner, a church right there,
James Blake, James Blake, this back in the eighties, all right, okay,
is the first place that I ever had. My famous
from Georgetown, South Carolina. So we used to come down

(23:57):
there every summer. But Baltimore, you had crab and you're
from Baltimore.

Speaker 16 (24:01):
They better than Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Never does not go too far. Trauma was trauma that
I had to do it in South Carolina before amazing
it's amazing.

Speaker 7 (24:17):
It's great.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Just not as good as Baltimore, but it's good.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Thank you all.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Passing Jamal Brian is the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning,
Everybody's dj en V just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy.

Speaker 7 (24:27):
We are the.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Breakfast Club's supposed to be off.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
We are supposed to be off. Yes, that's right, but
it is Christmas Eve and we are having Christmas Eve.
I guess breakfast.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
Listen. Only one person can make us work on holidays.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
That's right, Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Miss Patty Labez Hey.
So this is the second time that we are here
at Miss Patty's house. Last time it was more of
a Thanksgiving feast, but this time she's gonna make breakfast
and teach us how to actually cook breakfast, which.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Lauren needs because Lauren needs to keep a man.

Speaker 16 (24:57):
But he husky like the can you is such a
bad word. Okay, don't do that to my men. But
I can cooking. I'll be cooking what I cook.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Not that I doubt that.

Speaker 6 (25:12):
You shouldn't be able to.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
People.

Speaker 18 (25:15):
Just don't do it, my grandma. You can't grow up
in the house with my grandma and not cook. You
got to get up at a certain time and day.
You gotta cook, especially when you have people over the house.

Speaker 17 (25:24):
Oh it is.

Speaker 6 (25:24):
Don't just cook, No, I cook from the hearts.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Boy.

Speaker 18 (25:28):
I don't cook like you, though, Miss Patty. So I
take a little cues. He told me, bring some food home.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
How are you feeling? First and foremost, I feel like
a queen.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
You feel like you are well.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
Thank you. I just feel so blessed. And then I
was just saying again to Kim, I said, breakfast club,
we're here again at my house. And I admire all
of you guys and the lady. And I'm chosen. I
know I'm chosen. That's my baby.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, you're you just on tour.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
And I mean Christmas is the holiday season where they
want Miss Patty to cook. Yeah, you know, they want
Miss Patty's meals, they want Miss Patty's food, Miss Chattie's dinner,
Miss Patty's breakfast.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
But you just got off tour, Miss Patty.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
The rest too.

Speaker 6 (26:13):
I'm tired. I have to tell you that I'm blessed
and tired, but I still cook. I have to cook.
Like I said, I was gonna cook for Thanksgiving. I
ended up cooking a lot of stuff for Christmas, I'm
gonna end up cooking a lot of stuff for New
Year's I'll be doing the same. So I'm just a
professional cook who loves to cook. And I'm not never
gonna say that my stuff is better than your mother's

(26:36):
or your grandmother's or you know, because I cook the
way I cook, and I'm no better than those ladies
and gentlemen who cook also. But I'm happy to be
asked to cook.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
Are you at the point where you're passing down recipes yet?
Are you just like, no, go buy the products?

Speaker 15 (26:53):
No?

Speaker 6 (26:53):
I pass? Okay, yeah, but they still can't do it.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Like what's your favorite meal to cook during the holidays?

Speaker 5 (27:03):
One thing that you just enjoy cooking, And what's one
thing that you don't necessarily like cooking but everybody wants.

Speaker 6 (27:08):
Everybody wants my potato salad because it's so good. But
I don't feel like cutting up all that stuff, you know,
because you have to do fresh ingredients. So that's what
they want. But I don't feel like doing it all,
But I do it. I'm going to do it for Christmas.
And macaroni. Instead of buying my macaroni, I have to
make my own macaroni because Zori wants it. Zori is

(27:29):
my son who said, min don't buy your own stuff,
going in that kitchen and cook it. So I have
to make macaroni for him.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
It's Christmas enough to cook for himself now.

Speaker 6 (27:38):
And guess what, it's no that boy cook is better
than me really well. His chili, his food, his roast
chicken and stuff that he just does. And I happen
to have a piece of it. He only gives me
a little piece and he won't tell me what he
put in it. So he's a wonderful cook. You know

(27:58):
we're gonna have a cook off though.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
He's the one you trust with the recipes, like because
I know you've probably passed the stuff down, but everybody.

Speaker 6 (28:05):
Can't do it like you can't know he doesn't. Yes,
he does it better than me. So but I'm mad.

Speaker 16 (28:13):
Talk about how being in the kitchen just what it
does for you, like spiritually, So I get.

Speaker 6 (28:20):
Such a happy feeling. And I know whoever I'm cooking
for when they leave, they're going to ask for a
takeout container, and that I love more than anything for
them to say I need seconds. Girl, That just puts
a smile on my face, I am more of a
cook than a singer, so I enjoy well, I enjoy

(28:41):
both of them. But I say that I cook better
than I sing. Sometimes, Yes, does it?

Speaker 9 (28:46):
Does?

Speaker 3 (28:46):
It make you go crazy?

Speaker 5 (28:48):
Sometimes when people notice you for different things, Like I
have a twenty two year old son and I told
him I'm coming out here, and when I said your name,
he didn't say the music. He said, yeah, all stuffs
all over Target, and he knows you from that that
type of stuff.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
But my parents know you from your music and touring. Yes,
make you go crazy.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
Sometimes it makes me feel great because they know me
for both things. And you know, I just feel good
all the accolades that people put on me and just
say that they love this and they love that. Excuse me, guys.
My voice is like diminishing, It's like lo but I

(29:27):
like it all.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
You know, Singing was your passion. Singing is your passion.
Cooking is your passion. Do you ever think that you
could get paid off the passion of cooking?

Speaker 6 (29:34):
Never? I would always want to give that away. You know,
you don't grow up learning how to say this is
gonna cost fifteen dollars for this chicken dish. You just
give it out and say I hope you love it,
but never to get paid. But I'm blessed, especially now
with all the products those. Yeah, I am blessed. I mean,
I'm not gonna shy away from that because a lot

(29:55):
of people won't buy food from people entertainers, especially because
they think entertainers are lying. Most of the time. I
ain't lie, So that's why I love what I do.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
We were talking to your family earlier and we were
just saying, man, like, we don't know who uncle Ben is, right,
We don't know who that is.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
The people on these boxes, we don't know who they are,
if they're even real.

Speaker 17 (30:23):
I know, but you know me.

Speaker 6 (30:25):
Thank you so much for knowing me. Yeah, I am
so happy that people are accepting my foods and my music.
You know, I am happy about all of that. Keep
on doing it, you know at eighty one, don't stop again,
that's right at all.

Speaker 18 (30:41):
Did you ever think about it, because you said, like,
people don't want to buy food sometimes from entertainers because
they don't believe it. Did you ever think about like
not putting you at the forefront of it, just like
doing the recipes and the mixes and putting it out there.

Speaker 16 (30:51):
Just front of it up.

Speaker 6 (30:52):
I could have done that, but no, my face is better.
That's right.

Speaker 16 (30:56):
No, And that's exactly how.

Speaker 6 (30:57):
Yeah, and people you know, when they see Patty, that's
my girl. She has food that we're gonna purchase. Yes,
so no, I like it this way.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
And you have a bunch of celebrities who like license
their name, but your products always feel personal. So how
involved are you in the recipes and the quality control
and decisions.

Speaker 6 (31:16):
I'm totally involved in everything. Zuri, Alex and Charles. They'll
go to the people that they have to go to
the sea to show my food and let them taste
my food. But before that happens, I have to taste it.
So sometimes we go back like ten times making the
sweet potato pies and make sure the recipe is right.

(31:37):
So I'm totally involved. If there's no Patty in the decision,
there's no food work, you know.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
Ex fact, I.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
Wanted to ask you know for yourself, you would like
the bridge when it comes to the older generation and
younger generations.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Sometimes you don't see that.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
Sometimes you know the older generation or say I'm only
staying with mine, But I feel like you open your
arms to so many different people, right.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Why is that because it doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
If you're talking to Laurence's grandma on the phone, you're
just as kindness and you're talking to a younger artist.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Why is it that it's that thoughtful of Why? Why
does that mean to most of you?

Speaker 6 (32:11):
It means a lot to maybe because they trust my
food and my music because everything that I do is
from my heart. It's like I said I would give
food away, but now that it's gonna sell, I'm not
gonna sell it. I mean that's just because it's from
my heart. Everything I do is from my heart and

(32:31):
will take time on the macaroni recipe of making sure
it's mine because I make it just like the one
that you're buying in the store. I make it like that.
I have to say that I have a little more
cheeses and mine than in this one. Maybe three more cheeses. Yeah.

Speaker 16 (32:50):
And I know currently you are number two behind Pearl
Milling and Walmart, Kroger and hd B.

Speaker 6 (33:00):
We know you.

Speaker 16 (33:00):
We can walk in the storts and we know exactly
who you are.

Speaker 18 (33:03):
I mean starting out in this and you're doing it
just so easily and gracefully like starting out, did you
what was the plan, Like was it always let me,
you know, go into these big retailers or like did
you want to just feedure people?

Speaker 16 (33:15):
Like what would your goal?

Speaker 6 (33:16):
I wanted to go into the big, the big, big places,
you know, with my food. Like what's girlfriend's name? You know,
shut up the girl?

Speaker 16 (33:31):
No Martha Stewart?

Speaker 6 (33:33):
Yeah, who did you just say?

Speaker 16 (33:36):
Tabitha brouh Oh.

Speaker 6 (33:37):
I love Tabitha, but ms Martha. She's doing it, and
so would Tabitha if she was not a black woman,
you know. So I know why bird things and all
that stuff. So I want to be big, you know
why not? And like you said, when you look at
the box, she said, Oh she looks like me, or

(34:01):
she cooks like me. So I'm buying and stuff. I'm
gonna cook my own because people do cook much better
than I do, you know. But I am happy to
say that they've been buying my food.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
What have you learned about ownership and longevity from transitioning
from the music business into retail and consumer products.

Speaker 6 (34:19):
Oh, it was so good to be an owner of yourself.
It's just like with your music. If you own your music,
you know, you're so much better than just letting a
company take care of you. So I've learned with Zorri,
Charles and Alex we don't make many mistakes when it
comes to now presenting our foods to the public because

(34:40):
they're truly businessmen and I am whatever. I am the
woman behind the I think I'm the woman behind the
through God, you know. So they do the hard work
and like I said, I'm blessed to be surrounded by

(35:01):
smart people and people who are not going to let
anyone take advantage of me.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
And I don't think you would know that that she
They fully own it all like you and your son,
that you'll own it on. So every decision is from y'all.

Speaker 5 (35:15):
Every time you put something out there, whether it's pancake batter,
whether it's peach cobbler, whether it sweet potato pie.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
It's it's all done and sort over from you.

Speaker 5 (35:24):
Oh yes, that has there's nobody in behind you a
water and your product down and making sure it goes here.

Speaker 6 (35:31):
Everything, And we don't mind doing it because that's what
we're supposed to do. A lot of people lazy out
and said, well, I'm go, but it so far, I'm
not going to do this. I'm not going to do that.
It will just happen. Well, my voice is gitting worse,
and yeah, we take care very great, Yes we do.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
You sound fine.

Speaker 16 (35:55):
Everywhere with these other.

Speaker 6 (36:00):
Queens, so much fun. We go back February nineteenth, we
start again, and that's been fun fine. I've been doing
my own shows also with my bad so I never stopped.
I don't want to stop. But I'm recording, so don't
say god it's been fifty five years since she had

(36:21):
a record out. Well, it's been about twenty twenty years
and I've been working on it for the last year,
so it's going to happen.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
So you recording music right now, that's why you're talking
about your voice.

Speaker 6 (36:35):
Yeah, there's been a lot of wonderful things that I've
been doing this working on mine.

Speaker 18 (36:41):
So yeah, in the Queen Story, you guys, we were
talking earlier about you guys being top ten grossing tours
for urban tours as well, so that's.

Speaker 6 (36:52):
Really great, really, and the four of us have so
much fun, although we don't get to see each other
too much because we all have fifty minutes on stage.
As soon as that girl goes off, that one's on,
and then that one's on. It's like a well oiled machine,
the way this thing works. And then there's those beautiful

(37:12):
little young princes you know, the girls, the babies.

Speaker 18 (37:18):
Oh, they come on prior to you guys. No, yes, okay,
because they saw you there. You guys are both with
black promoters collective.

Speaker 6 (37:26):
Right, Yes, So, I mean they've been doing a great job.
And it's just good that you see all black women
doing it together, which sometimes it doesn't happen, but it's happening,
and it's so even. It's just good. It's good. And
they all sing their faces off.

Speaker 16 (37:43):
I saw them give you all your flowers too.

Speaker 6 (37:45):
Yeah, but yes from Kelly Roland and Beyonce was backstage
as I received these roses, and I well, they talked
to me about how they're on my shoulders and wasn't
her like people like Patti La Belle, They wouldn't be
Destiny's child when they were. Yeah. So I was truly

(38:07):
at it that night. I was a superstar.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
You can't be surprised when you hear stuff like that.

Speaker 6 (38:15):
I was when Zuri called and said, Kelly wants Kelly
wants to give you your roses. So I said why
and what I didn't really understand that her husband called
Zuri and said that Kelly wants to do something for
Miss Level And when I went, they told me what
they were going to do. I said, well, just called
me up. And it was just one of the better

(38:37):
moments of my life to hear the ovation and to
see the young girls Monica and they're all coming to me,
just giving me love. And you can't get that out
all the time.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
I feel like you would like you should like this.
Well if not you, who, yeah.

Speaker 6 (38:55):
So many others, you know, but if it depends on
who they like. And those little girls like Patty Patty.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
I mean, it's like, you know, you're you're kind of
like the last of a dying breed.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
Like it's not too many miss Patty the bells left right,
I can't even think of too many of them. Of course,
you know Stephanie Mills and the Shakakan, which is great
to see all.

Speaker 6 (39:19):
Oh, yes, it's like so many of us, but there
are so many of us who aren't working, you know,
which is not good. It's just kind of sad because
those ladies can sing. But people forget black women quicker
than they do white so they're forgotten for the reason
is the color of their skin. And you know, but

(39:40):
we still persevere because I know, I know that I'm good.
You know I'm not. There's like always compare myself with
my girlfriend Celine Dion if you asked me to, and
I always say, gosh, that girl killed that with with
her ratings or her cells and we did the same
song the same way, And you know, I gotta be real,

(40:03):
It's just one of those things. Do I love her? Yes,
But let's get a little even stuff going around every
now and then. You know that that would be wonderful.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
Has been a challenge in the product business too.

Speaker 6 (40:16):
Hmm hazard Sorry.

Speaker 7 (40:19):
You think.

Speaker 6 (40:23):
You know they've been small and lately, the three guys. Yeah,
so no, we, like I said, we have something that
a lot of people work so hard to get and
they don't. They never stopped working, and nor do I.
So you got to keep on keeping on. Don't stop

(40:43):
because they tell you no.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yes, I still told me that you're taking a trip internationally.

Speaker 18 (40:49):
She's going to say, yes, you are going to it's
your celebrating your birthday at eighty sixty five or fifty six,
the eighty sixty five.

Speaker 6 (40:57):
That's going to happen, But it's going to happen next year. Yes,
not twenty six, twenty seven. Okay, okay, Patty, it's okay.

Speaker 16 (41:10):
Sixty five tour.

Speaker 18 (41:10):
It's a celebration of your birthday, but also sixty five
years in the entertainment business.

Speaker 6 (41:14):
Correct, sixty five years singing. It's gonna be nice. The
last time was in this story. It was thirty years ago.
And we're happy to be invited. Yeah, we're gonna do it.

Speaker 16 (41:31):
And this is a solo tour, well, solo dates that you're.

Speaker 6 (41:34):
Going to solo dates. Yeah, this is not with the
Queens solo.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
That's twenty six hours on a plane.

Speaker 6 (41:41):
At least eighteen I think is it eighteen?

Speaker 3 (41:45):
Is about eighteen twenty? Is it twenty six twenty from
the East coast?

Speaker 4 (41:54):
What makes you still want to tour? You don't have to?

Speaker 6 (41:56):
Oh, I have to for my soul. I mean that
brings me joy. If I stopped singing like today, I
would do what.

Speaker 16 (42:04):
Correct.

Speaker 6 (42:05):
I'm tired of that.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
Too, grandkids running around.

Speaker 6 (42:10):
I know. I cope for the babies, you know, but
right now there's never going to be a time when
I can say to the world this is my last tour.
No way, And when they say it, they lie. Nobody
want to stop. Yeah, I can't stop this.

Speaker 16 (42:25):
I saw this story.

Speaker 18 (42:28):
Queen Latifa was talking to Jennifer Hudson about how she
was ready to leave the entertainment business and you. She
didn't really go too much into detail, but she just
said that you were the reason why she stayed, Like
you came into her life and she decided not to
leave the entertainment business.

Speaker 6 (42:42):
Yeah, because you know, I've been there where they're going,
and I know once we get in, we're in, and
don't stop something that you love. They all love to
sing and they can sing. That's that's a big difference.
Sometimes sometimes we'll sing and they can't. But all these
girls they can sing.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
Yeah, all of them.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Well trouble now, don't you get this, Patty in trouble now?

Speaker 6 (43:08):
All of them?

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Okay, how do you balance staying authentic to your roots
while still evolving your brand for new generations.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
Who may discover you through your products?

Speaker 3 (43:24):
First, we just do, I just do.

Speaker 6 (43:27):
I mean it's natural for me to stay who I
am and oh gosh, I just like being Patty, just basic.
I'm a very boring person, very quiet, very laid back.
The only thing I do that people might say, why
are you doing that and they better not say it
because they all do it. Play cards before you leave today, Acy, Yes,

(43:56):
we all We're having a game tomorrow night at my house.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
I never heard at this house?

Speaker 6 (44:01):
Hold up at this house?

Speaker 4 (44:04):
Okay what this was?

Speaker 1 (44:06):
Yours to?

Speaker 6 (44:07):
Oh my house?

Speaker 7 (44:12):
And I don't live here?

Speaker 6 (44:16):
Yes, at my house, yeah, tomorrow night.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
That's what is Pennsylvania in Philly mean to you?

Speaker 5 (44:23):
Because here and I was telling my mom and and
Lauren with some of my grandmothers, was like, everybody know, Patty,
stay in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
That's hotown Philly hotwn. What is what does Philly mean
to you? And why won't you?

Speaker 6 (44:34):
What does Philly mean to me? It means that you
don't have very much to do, kind of boring, kind
of way laid back.

Speaker 11 (44:42):
But I love that life.

Speaker 6 (44:44):
So that's why I'm still here. Most people say, why
aren't you in l A too? Phony?

Speaker 15 (44:49):
You know?

Speaker 6 (44:49):
And I don't deal with pretending people, people who pretend,
and I just Philly is my job job.

Speaker 16 (45:01):
Yeah, oh my god, that is gonna be gonna just
be out here. Wow.

Speaker 6 (45:07):
Okay, yes, So I love Philly, you know, and I'm
gonna be here.

Speaker 18 (45:12):
How does that helped you like in moments where like,
I don't know if you've ever had the moment like
with Queen of the Teapa was talking about, were you
just exhausted from everything you know on the cook inside
and the music side, being at home and there's so
much family around you. How does that, like, you know,
rejuvenate you on these when you like, yo, leave me alone.

Speaker 6 (45:27):
Never do I say leave me alone. I just close
the dough so they know if I'm closing the door
that it's like quiet time.

Speaker 17 (45:34):
Right for me?

Speaker 6 (45:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (45:38):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (45:39):
Are you ready to tell like your story through like
documentaries and Bible?

Speaker 6 (45:44):
We started during the documentary and we also started on
doing a biopic, so there's gonna be somebody playing Patty.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
Wow, you got anybody in mind?

Speaker 6 (45:56):
I got loads of girls in mine, but I can't
tell you yet.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
But the first and foremost do they have to look
like like?

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (46:05):
No, more than anything. If they sound like me, they
look they can make that make up make me look
like me. Oh my god, there's so many. Well, I
have a big mouth, loud, loud singing voice. I don't know.

Speaker 9 (46:28):
You.

Speaker 6 (46:28):
Okay, do you have an idea of one person? Yeah?

Speaker 16 (46:34):
Yeah, okay, but she's saying, yeah, but she.

Speaker 6 (46:37):
Did something for another artist, did she or did she not?

Speaker 16 (46:44):
I thought Jennifer Hutton too, But I feel.

Speaker 6 (46:45):
Like Jennifer.

Speaker 16 (46:48):
Yeah that and also to dream Girls as well.

Speaker 18 (46:50):
I feel like you need someone who hasn't kind of
taken on that space of like telling someone's story so
that we can see them at you only.

Speaker 6 (46:58):
I have a lot of mind, and I just really
don't know yet. It's a lot in mind.

Speaker 18 (47:04):
Yeah, there was the there's a lot of stuff that
circulates from like Facebook to everywhere about you. They said
that You're serious was to be like it was sixteen
episodes and you were producing every single episode, And I
was in here asking people today, it's like that.

Speaker 11 (47:18):
Is not true.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
Child and stuff I've been reading about me, I said,
really at eighty one a half, twins, Yeah, twin real babies, congratulations, Okay,
so many things like the homeless shelter.

Speaker 16 (47:36):
And the hospital.

Speaker 18 (47:37):
Yeah, they said that you were creating the hospital for
homeless people to get completely free services.

Speaker 6 (47:43):
Of course it's true. No, none of that stuff is true.
I did say that AI is the reason for all
of this false stuff going around about me. So when
people read it, they call fifty times they'll call him.
Is the truth to pay had Twins? Is it's true
that is building a house hospital? Is it true that

(48:05):
she's married? Is it true that she has this going on?
And it's all AI? And they're doing it not just
to Patty LaBelle, but to so many entertainers. They're catching
the heck because so many people believe that and it's
just not true. And the sooner we get the word
out so people can stop doing this having privileges to

(48:27):
just say anything about anybody, you know, it's it's not good.
In Twins at eighty one, that's Rosemary Baby, that did
you awful? It's awful.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
All the AI stuff is not.

Speaker 6 (48:45):
It's just disgusting and when people believe it, it's worse
than that.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
Did hear what Jamaine do Pre said?

Speaker 5 (48:51):
Jamaine Dupre said that AI singers should have their own chart,
like their own billboard for AI artists, their own.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
Platform for AI artists and old stuff. It shouldn't be
mixed with regularitis.

Speaker 6 (49:02):
They just need to shoot AI uh where you know,
and it shouldn't be two. It shouldn't be AI and
then real.

Speaker 16 (49:13):
Yeah, no, yes, even though it's like the times are changing,
go ahead, you.

Speaker 6 (49:20):
Better be watching me.

Speaker 4 (49:23):
Okay, I'm good.

Speaker 16 (49:25):
I was saying.

Speaker 18 (49:25):
I know AI is like, you know, a part of
the times, but for real like singer singers like you
who've always like your craft. Like when people talk about
Patty LaBelle, it's like you can't get close to her.
Right when people have the argument of like whether we
should accept it or not, do you take it as
like a disrespect thing when people are saying, yes, you
should because this is where things are going.

Speaker 16 (49:46):
You can't get around technology, yes, say that they.

Speaker 6 (49:50):
Should keep going?

Speaker 16 (49:51):
Or do you just take it as I.

Speaker 10 (49:56):
Did?

Speaker 6 (49:59):
Else you wherever you can shoot to kill it, saying
it's awful, it's a waste of time.

Speaker 11 (50:07):
Yeah killing I heard it.

Speaker 4 (50:11):
Yeah, let's go to the kitchen, man, let's cook for us.
But you can get all her products and and Walmart.

Speaker 6 (50:18):
H E B and at my house.

Speaker 4 (50:21):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
We appreciate miss Patty for joining us.

Speaker 5 (50:23):
Now if you're listening right now on air, the food
version will be on YouTube when Miss Patty will be
teaching us how to cook chicken.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
Yes, I am make sure you pick up all the products.

Speaker 6 (50:34):
Can I say one thing?

Speaker 3 (50:34):
Of course?

Speaker 6 (50:35):
How you guys just support me every chance you get
how great that makes me feel because you don't have
to call Patty label.

Speaker 7 (50:42):
Because you do.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
I love you, we value you.

Speaker 6 (50:47):
I'm not playing though. A lot of people take what
they get for granted. I never take Breakfast Club for
granted because you're so everything. You're your everything. And I
was telling this thing. I've been watching her do interviews
and she phenomenal. It's just that I thank you, thank you.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
You don't think it's a flexible.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
We kicking on the phone, but we're going to miss
Patty's house right now.

Speaker 16 (51:10):
Out for I'm like, you got to hang up on her.
She's gonna hold you.

Speaker 6 (51:14):
But you're not real to some people. You're like a
fairy tale of people. That's really interesting, and that's another blessing.

Speaker 4 (51:22):
She said, you like, hey, it's some people.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
No I did it.

Speaker 16 (51:26):
We gotta go cook.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
You'll have a happy holiday. It's merry Christmas and all
that good stuff. It's the breakfast clubs.

Speaker 10 (51:33):
It's a read.

Speaker 7 (51:34):
But you're so good at your charlamagne.

Speaker 16 (51:37):
You wants charlamagne, solomme, who do you giveing dusky other
day too?

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Now?

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Well, sexy read don't here to day goes to a
woman named Shannon Teresa Marie Schwartz. She is a playboy model. Yes,
that playboy. I don't know exactly what that means to
be a playboy model. I assume she's been in a
Playboy or two and she has poles in a bikini
on the cover.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Of Maxim Maggan. Yes, Maxim New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
But we need to have a discussion this morning about
just how far a woman should go for her man. Now, Shannon,
who I will keep telling you is a playboy model,
has a boyfriend.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
And her boyfriend's name is will Helm Lewis Huntzinger.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
He was charged with being a felon in possession of
two hundred and five rounds of rimitting two twenty three
caliber ammunition and some drugs and other stuff, and he's
incarcerated in the Honolulu Federal Detention Center. Now, Shannon clearly
loves her man and is willing to do anything to
get her man out. But if I was her man,
I wouldn't want her to offer what she offered to

(52:35):
get him out. No, no, no, See, ladies, as a man,
I don't want you to do anything that's going to
possibly cause you to be in the same situation that
I'm in, And in this case, it's jail, and I
definitely don't want you giving what you gave away. See,
Shannon made a bribe to one of the officers. What
do you think of playboy playmate would offer this federal
officer in exchange for releasing her man? Let me tell

(52:57):
you a story. Then Shannon offered the agent blank to
helping persuade the judge to release her boyfriend. The agent
says he received numerous miscalls, text messages, and voicemails from Shannon.
Shannon told the agent that she was referred to him
as someone who could handle a situation for a high
profile inmate. Shannon, who was a playboy playmate, told the

(53:18):
agent that she was trying to secure her boyfriend's release
and asked the agent to meet with him so he
could see she was serious and she could give him
what she had for him.

Speaker 4 (53:29):
Ladies, this isn't the way.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
I appreciate the help, but do you really believe your
boyfriend would be okay with this? This is why you
tell men when they go to jail, don't worry about
what's going on outside. Okay, you can't control what your
woman wants to give someone while you locked up. You
will drive yourself crazy trying to control where a woman
wants to give someone while you locked up. And I
damn sure don't want you giving things to other men, okay,
saying you're doing it for me, Shannon allegedly texts the agent,

(53:51):
I can help with whatever you need. Not show what
your services costs you paying him to service you first
of all, that's trafficking, okay. And you know what the
agent did after she texted, He opened a formal investigation
in the Shannon hot ass.

Speaker 7 (54:07):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
I guess Shannon didn't know it was an open investigation
because she was too busy trying to open something else.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
The playboy playmate.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
Shannon allegedly continued to contact the agent despite the agent
informing her I can't do nothing to help in regard
to securing her boyfriend's release, but she's a playboy playmate
to cover a maxim, so the agent agreed to meet
with Shannon. Also, because Shannon wouldn't stop trying to throw
it at the agent, the agent says she was persistent
in asking for help. Now, this is when the agent

(54:37):
was either trying to set her up or she was
wearing him down. Because the agent told Shannon that he
would have to continue communicating with her on his personal phone. Now,
I'm joking, he was just trying to set her up
because it was actually an undercover government device to monitor
their conversations. And during a meeting between the playboy playmate
and the agent, she allegedly offered to give the agent

(54:59):
this bribe he could ask a judge he was friends
with to help aid the release of her boyfriend. And
she told the agent, I'll give you some now, and
give you some with my boyfriend's release. Now, what would
you tell your boyfriend?

Speaker 3 (55:14):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (55:14):
What man would be okay with that? Would you be
okay with your woman doing that? No, Jess, would you
do that for your man? No?

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Ladies, we love y'all, but don't be giving up what's
ours to get me out?

Speaker 4 (55:25):
Shannon dinner arranged the second meeting with the agent. How
many dates they gonna go on?

Speaker 15 (55:29):
This is too much?

Speaker 4 (55:31):
And at the airport she gave him something. Remember she promised,
I'll give you something now and then someone he gets out.

Speaker 5 (55:39):
But I thought you were investigating, right, That was part
of investigation to see if she would really do it.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Do what you never said it?

Speaker 11 (55:49):
Yo, You got us on a tip like.

Speaker 4 (55:54):
Earlier.

Speaker 7 (55:55):
No no, no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
No oral oh backshot, but what's wrong?

Speaker 1 (56:04):
Get your thought the gun wristmas. She was offering him money, okay,
five thousand dollars. She gave him twenty Yeah, she gave
him twenty five hundred at the airport and after the
meeting she was arrested in charge with one kind of
bribery of a public official and one kind of instruction
of justice.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
And she's bar from communicating with her boyfriend.

Speaker 19 (56:20):
Oh yeah, he's what I do that for. Yeah, oh yeah,
I do that for my man, Jess. You can't rob
me right, It's like, oh my god, I thought it
was like a legend.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
Yeah that's what you kept saying, mate.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Mate think she's a playboy play maid and she couldn't
wait to open her bank account.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
The gut is that ridiculous. I can't believe y'all. Y'all
need to get your money to get y'all got kids.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
You're so funny, grow up.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Please give Shannon Teresa Maurice Swartz the biggest he hull.
I can't believe these people at work with you said
open up and you put your he put you a
little seductive voice of how he tried to make it.

Speaker 4 (56:59):
Give you something, yes, money.

Speaker 3 (57:02):
Nobody says I'll give you some.

Speaker 4 (57:03):
Money like that.

Speaker 11 (57:04):
So it don't even matter that she had Playboy play meat.

Speaker 4 (57:06):
It don't matter.

Speaker 19 (57:08):
You want to come a maxim Well, it matters if
you're a good storytelling. Yeah you're a clown though, because you.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
Really find me. Now.

Speaker 5 (57:17):
I wonder if she would have offered that, if the
agent would have said, you know what, maybe right possible.

Speaker 6 (57:24):
Damn.

Speaker 5 (57:24):
So now both of them and jam both now their
mama gotta come get right, and mama got to offer something.

Speaker 11 (57:31):
I guess she ain't got no money. She probably got
no money. She probably be like I got something.

Speaker 4 (57:35):
Take them. Then she's out and get to work.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
Yeah, man, all right, well thank you for that. Donkey.

Speaker 5 (57:42):
Today everybody is the DJ mg es hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
We are the breakfast club. Law La Rosa is here
and we got a special guest in the building.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
Yes we do, Kirk franks On.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
Ladies and gentlemen welcome.

Speaker 7 (57:54):
I feel like I left here. That's that's like I listened.

Speaker 17 (57:58):
What is this?

Speaker 15 (57:58):
What is like the twenty thousand?

Speaker 2 (58:02):
I'm good with it.

Speaker 7 (58:03):
I'm just humbled.

Speaker 3 (58:04):
I'm glad you.

Speaker 8 (58:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (58:05):
Well, first of all, welcome and congratulations for being honored
at the BT Awards this year.

Speaker 15 (58:10):
How is that feeling nervous? Had bubble guts?

Speaker 11 (58:15):
Really what you are the performer of?

Speaker 7 (58:22):
I am always nervous.

Speaker 18 (58:23):
Then we talk about that too, Yeah, I couldn't believe
it eithern when he said it's we talked about.

Speaker 15 (58:28):
Yeah, I'm always nervous and I go speak, if I
go to a nursing home and perform, I'm nervous if
I go speak to kids, I always have.

Speaker 11 (58:36):
Yeah, what's about it makes you nervous?

Speaker 9 (58:38):
Like?

Speaker 7 (58:38):
What is it?

Speaker 11 (58:39):
What are you thinking about?

Speaker 15 (58:40):
First of all, I think that it has served me. Well,
it's because it's never normal. I'm never comfortable. I'm always
wanting to do my best. I'm always you know, like
I'm always concerned about every moment, you know, will it
be good enough, will it be accepted, will it be
will it be light?

Speaker 7 (59:00):
And so there's never a.

Speaker 15 (59:02):
Moment where I'm ever dialing anything in, you know, like
everything for me is my first, Every project, every album,
every song, every moment, it's my first. Like I'm a
new artist, I'm a new I'm I'm I'm I'm a
struggling artist every time. And I think a lot of it,
and you know, y'all probably just even to test this
all the the the guests that you've had that have

(59:25):
come from a traumatic background, you know, childhood, abandonment, adoption
and all that, is that I think that you are
always chasing ghosts. You're always chasing ghost You're always looking
for that good job baby that Mama didn't give you,
that you didn't that you'd have had in those formative years.
So yeah, every moment is it is nerves and new

(59:47):
and so at the B yeah B two wars, I'm
I'm about to lose it.

Speaker 7 (59:51):
Back stage, I'm about to pass.

Speaker 15 (59:52):
I'm like why, And then I didn't know I was
going last?

Speaker 11 (59:55):
Yeah, I was made. You went last. I was made.

Speaker 19 (59:58):
And says you put somebody that like in the front
or the middle because it was so late.

Speaker 7 (01:00:03):
Well yeah, but that but but we stayed up.

Speaker 6 (01:00:05):
I know we did stay up.

Speaker 7 (01:00:06):
Wow, that's kind of y'all.

Speaker 15 (01:00:08):
But what I'm saying, though, is that you feel even
more pressure. It's like I'm not going last.

Speaker 11 (01:00:13):
It's like, you know, because you Kirk Franklin though.

Speaker 15 (01:00:16):
But I'm the gospel guy, and so you don't think
of your genre having a space like that. You don't,
you know, and you don't even expect it, like you know, yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:00:27):
It's it's it's almost like it's it's an.

Speaker 15 (01:00:29):
Honor or even the genre to be acknowledged and and
even part of the the ecosystem.

Speaker 7 (01:00:36):
Right.

Speaker 15 (01:00:37):
But when when I found out that I was going last,
I mean, yeah, brother, you didn't want to be sitting
by me.

Speaker 6 (01:00:43):
Pressure was on.

Speaker 11 (01:00:44):
No, I was letting him go, so to you on
the tailor and Aaron Pierre was smelling the little.

Speaker 7 (01:00:48):
And I lied, I was like, oh man, who did that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Way?

Speaker 16 (01:00:55):
Because did you have gas when you were sitting next
to me? I ain't smell nothing.

Speaker 7 (01:00:58):
Well, I wasn't nervous talking to you.

Speaker 18 (01:01:00):
Okay, good right, because I'm I've been telling people since
I mentioned it's my first time meaning you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
It threw me.

Speaker 16 (01:01:06):
I didn't know you were so like just normal and yeah, like.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
I said, he's a real Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:01:16):
Why do you think people like, what are people expecting
for me to come in floating on clouds?

Speaker 16 (01:01:20):
Yes, a little bit, that's what people And I.

Speaker 15 (01:01:22):
Think that's unfortunate and I think that we got to
find ways to still deconstruct that it's I just think
that it stands in the way of people feeling like
that they can be a part of the family too.
You know what I'm saying, Like like like everybody can
pull me in and be part.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
Of this God love wagon.

Speaker 7 (01:01:39):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 15 (01:01:39):
It's like and and so it's always challenging for me
when when there's this work where there's this ideal of
what being a person that loves Jesus looks like. And
so I want to be the lowliest, the most humble,
the most realist person so that you can see, man,

(01:02:00):
that everybody's supposed to be on this bus and we
will be riding together.

Speaker 7 (01:02:04):
Man, we don't always know where we're going, but we're
riding now.

Speaker 5 (01:02:08):
The BT Awards, they kept showing you when Kevin Hart
was doing Common and then the whole twist was Kirk
Franklin was upset with all the Kevin Hart jokes.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
And I'm like, they must not know Kirk, so oh.

Speaker 7 (01:02:19):
I was it was so good.

Speaker 15 (01:02:23):
He's good. He's But then I'll also give you this side,
and you know, and and and I want him cap right.
It's I think that the biggest thing is for me
is that I always have to be careful because I
know that there's a community of the super religious that
if I enjoy something too much, then it comes across like, well,

(01:02:46):
why he not, why he's not praying for him?

Speaker 7 (01:02:49):
He needed to walk out?

Speaker 15 (01:02:50):
And and so there's this there's this dichotomy that that
you live in when you say that you represent faith,
that it's like I love.

Speaker 7 (01:02:59):
Gez, but I'm not Jesus. Yeah, I'm not him.

Speaker 15 (01:03:04):
I love God. I live in a body that ain't his,
uh yet, until he cracks the sky and make me
more like him. Until then, I live in this broken house,
and I live in a world where things are gonna
be funny. I'm gonna stub my toe and I'm not
gonna speak a tongue in the middle of night.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
I'm gonna cuss.

Speaker 7 (01:03:22):
You know what I'm saying. You push me too hard,
it's gonna be hands you know. I mean, I'm you
know I.

Speaker 15 (01:03:29):
I I am not a perfect person. And so when
something's funny and it's good and funny, I want to laugh.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
How do you stop yourself from laughing?

Speaker 5 (01:03:36):
Because he kept going and you know, Kevi, Kevin's gonna
keep going to and you laughing I feel like.

Speaker 19 (01:03:43):
Wife, you were, but you still was trying to keep
that sense of like all right, like you was like cracking,
but you were like still containing yourself.

Speaker 7 (01:03:52):
I was because it was funny. It was it's funny.

Speaker 15 (01:03:55):
He's funny, he's good, and so you get to see
them perfect Kirk.

Speaker 19 (01:03:59):
But I think also what people don't understand is God
don't want us to be perfect anyway, and either like
I just you know, Jesus, they were not posed to
be perfect.

Speaker 11 (01:04:09):
That's why he made us in his image.

Speaker 19 (01:04:11):
But it's like if he if he put us here
and he knew, he know everything we're gonna do before.

Speaker 11 (01:04:18):
We do it, like he already knows.

Speaker 19 (01:04:20):
It's like we are not him, We're of him, you
know it. We're not meant to be perfect. We're just
meant to follow him, And in that.

Speaker 7 (01:04:28):
We always should be pursuing to be better matter.

Speaker 15 (01:04:32):
We want to be more like him, we want to
be able to be changed in ways. There are things
that I see in myself that I want to grow
and look more like him.

Speaker 7 (01:04:40):
But I'm not on your watch.

Speaker 15 (01:04:42):
I'm not on your calendar, and how I get there,
I am on his. And so I think that if
we Like I said something on this new digital series
album called dan if Kings is that we have to
understand man that that that that we are patients.

Speaker 7 (01:05:02):
We're not doctors.

Speaker 15 (01:05:04):
And Christianity is supposed to be a place that's a hospital.

Speaker 7 (01:05:08):
It's a hospital.

Speaker 15 (01:05:09):
If that's to be a country club, it's going to
be a place where people that don't have it together
could come and everybody can feel comfortable that they know
that they don't have it together. But when people come
to us in our community and they feel like that,
we are more concerned about their their habits and their
ways being changed before our eyes, and you're not being
changed yet you're doing it's like that, then people create

(01:05:33):
performance anxiety. That's where the mask comes is because if
I don't look the way that you think I should
look soon, then now I gotta fake it till I
make it, and then you never and then what happens
then you become a human doing and never a human being.

Speaker 5 (01:05:47):
They also, I'm sorry, I was gonna say back to
the B and T Awards, they were mad at one
of your outfits that you wore.

Speaker 16 (01:05:52):
They were mad at every I was about to say that,
like the office had them.

Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
This year yeah, they said that you apologized for it.
It was you wore like a take top of.

Speaker 16 (01:06:00):
Show that was p We talked about that to the
media room.

Speaker 3 (01:06:04):
But what at the I mean, it wasn't POM shows
you didn't have.

Speaker 18 (01:06:09):
So they tried to say brow Sorry, they tried to
say Kirk Franklin. Yeah, sorry, No, I don't think like that. Yeah, sorry,
you just feel like it's so crazy, how like naturally
you just feel like the homie and I'm like, it's
Kirk Franklin. He kind of like watching you at the

(01:06:33):
BET Awards and seeing it. See God didn't want me
to call you, bro.

Speaker 7 (01:06:40):
That's what happened.

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
Don't you call it bro?

Speaker 18 (01:06:43):
Talking about the awards show though, there were a couple
of things. So first, people were upset at the performance
in a hole like they felt like, yeah, I mean
I thought it was a great performance, but I think people, uh,
I think it just goes to like the people that
you bring onto stage and how you uh I have
a quote here. I think it was Diedrich Cadam was
upset about Gloriala won in the award, but they also
called he also mentioned like things being like a mockery

(01:07:05):
of worship and like things of that nature. Do you
get tired of that conversation at this point or at
this point.

Speaker 16 (01:07:10):
Are you're so used to it? It's whatever, be.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
Real, brog.

Speaker 7 (01:07:17):
Own everything.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
I love.

Speaker 6 (01:07:19):
It is what it is.

Speaker 7 (01:07:20):
Yeah, it.

Speaker 9 (01:07:23):
Is what this.

Speaker 7 (01:07:23):
God blessed him, and God blessed him.

Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
How did you feel about that?

Speaker 5 (01:07:26):
Because some people were mad that in the gospel category
it was Glorilla in Yourself, it was Little Baby in Yourself.
It was rhapsody, not your quote unquote typical gospel songs.
What did you think about that that Glorilla won her
first BT award was a gospel record.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
What are your thoughts on that? Primarily gospel artists.

Speaker 15 (01:07:46):
I'm trying to keep my eyes on the prize, trying
to keep focused on the things that really matter. I'm
trying to tell the world about Jesus, trying to tell
the world that for godspel of the world, that he
gave his only son, whoever believes in him should not perish,
been the last in life. That's one man. That's one man.
Everything else is just noise. That's one man.

Speaker 11 (01:08:07):
I feel like you meet people where they are.

Speaker 19 (01:08:09):
You've been doing that since I since I was a
little girl like, you know, I I feel like when
you say you meet people where you are, it's always
been saying you meet people where they are.

Speaker 8 (01:08:21):
Right.

Speaker 19 (01:08:21):
Christ and Christianity and Church don't look the same for everybody.
So if like a glorilla can speak to us the
youth young, you know, and you stamp it and we like,
oh we know, Kirk Frank, this is all of our
mothers and grandmothers and aunts played and growing up.

Speaker 11 (01:08:44):
And she because she she is the bridge, you know
what I mean, Like she would be the bridge for it.

Speaker 19 (01:08:49):
And God uses everybody like you can use anybody, can
use a bum on the street, and can use a
homeless person. He can use you know, anybody to lead,
you know, to so you can pay attention to bring
you to you know, to God and Jesus.

Speaker 11 (01:09:03):
I feel like it's not it's not Why is that
frowned upon?

Speaker 7 (01:09:07):
You know what I mean? There's a text.

Speaker 15 (01:09:10):
In Scripture there's this moment where the disciples were talking
to Jesus about people that were not part of their
crew that was also using his name and trying to
do things in his name, and they were upset about
it because they were not part of the crew. And
so they came to Jesus, they pulled up like, Yo, man,
you need to go pull up on a boy in there.
They over there saying your name and trying to do

(01:09:31):
boo boo in your name, and we need to we
really need to squash that. And and that Jesus was like, Yo,
if they over there and they are still trying to
do good things in my name even though they're not
part of our crew, I'm not going to squash that.
It's because they are still telling people my name. And
so I feel that it is the same that today.
That Christianity has for so long been a country club,

(01:09:54):
and you've had to have a membership, you've had to
look a certain way, like like like like like, let
me tell you. One thing that's funny to me is
that people always say to me and even Tammy, sometimes
it's like, you know, like y'all look younger the other y'all.

Speaker 7 (01:10:04):
Did when you first started. Let me tell what a
lot of that was.

Speaker 15 (01:10:07):
We were assimilating to what the church. If you were
young in church, you had to look old to be
thought of as serious. Like they didn't take you serious
if you did not look a certain way. So you
dressed though you had the long you know, if you
had the long jackets, you know, the squat toe gators.

Speaker 4 (01:10:23):
And you know had the big lamp.

Speaker 15 (01:10:27):
The first time I took it to Coja convention. We
were twenty five years old, and you know, God blessed Church.
I got in Christ, love Church.

Speaker 7 (01:10:33):
I got in Christ.

Speaker 15 (01:10:34):
You know. But there's a certain aesthetic that sometimes you
have on ta me twenty five years old, got a
big old hat on gloves and she said, she said,
I felt like trick or treat, you know, because we
were trying to assimilate. You're trying to do all the
things to be accepted as a young person. And so
now I mean, we're just comfortable being who we are.

(01:10:54):
And I just think that it is really really important
to just put people back on the focus of mass.

Speaker 5 (01:11:00):
He's what matter, that's right now? What was the concept
of dinner? King's How did what inspired that?

Speaker 9 (01:11:06):
Bro?

Speaker 7 (01:11:07):
First of all?

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
Bro?

Speaker 7 (01:11:09):
First of all, I am bro.

Speaker 6 (01:11:13):
Drag me.

Speaker 15 (01:11:15):
That's the motif of the show right now, Bro, Bro,
And it's a beautiful thing, beautiful thing. But one thing
that I'm very excited about is that I just had
this idea that I've always been told that people enjoy
the way I hold court during dinner, Like when you
go to dinner with me, we're gonna chop. You know,
we're gonna chop about politics. You know, we won't talk
to talk about religion, sex, We're gonna talk about whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:11:36):
And get it in. And so during my birthday, I
came to Atlanta.

Speaker 15 (01:11:40):
While I went to Atlanta, had dinner with some of
my good guy friends and they were like, yo, bro,
you need to turn this in so this, you know,
because I've had really great conversations. So with that, I
just thought about having dinner with black men and what
that could look like in that conversation. And so the
first episode shot in Atlanta, grew great food, chef, beautiful house.

(01:12:03):
You know, you had Country Wayne, you had Uh Lou,
you had Uh, you had Dval, you had d C.
And it was an incredible moment. And the response has been.

Speaker 16 (01:12:15):
I've been telling everybody I know to watch it.

Speaker 7 (01:12:17):
It's been amazing, as like when you shocked at the response.

Speaker 19 (01:12:20):
Yes, especially with DC and how it gets deep in
high yacht man. I love that because that's my brother,
you know what I mean? Yes, yes, yes, and you
know even Country Wayne, you know, like just you gave
them that safe space, that vulnerable place where they can
they can talk about things that they don't usually talk about,
and they talk about but they don't go in depth

(01:12:40):
with it, you know what I mean, Like you provide
that and I love to see that.

Speaker 15 (01:12:45):
And it has been I mean, the response has been overwhelmed,
like it has been so so you know, we've got
another one on deck coming up, so you know, and
it's just you know, dinner conversations with men with black men.
And I'm humble and I want to thank everybody that's
been tuning in and watching it and it's just been

(01:13:05):
it's just been an amazing moment.

Speaker 11 (01:13:07):
And it's like men's therapy. It's like watching a men's
therapy session.

Speaker 4 (01:13:10):
It's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 16 (01:13:12):
It's each episode about fatherhood is gonna be different things
that make.

Speaker 15 (01:13:15):
Different different conversations. Next one is by being a boss,
and uh, you know, we we are going to have
so many conversations that are just really just kind of
peeling back and just having a really, really, really great conversation.
You're gonna pull up on one, of course, don't play.

Speaker 16 (01:13:30):
I think, no, I think, and Charlotte, I think y'all
be so amazing and sit down, it'd be fire because
it's like a real conversation, non judgmental as well.

Speaker 15 (01:13:39):
Non judgmental, non judgmental. And I want everybody to feel safe,
and I try to lead with vulnerability and transparency myself.
So I try to create the environment that makes you
feel safe and comfortable.

Speaker 11 (01:13:50):
Will there ever be a episode with you and your
baby boy, your son, It's.

Speaker 15 (01:13:55):
Not that I haven't thought about it. It's it's it's
it's because it's still a working part. I I would
want there to be real healing in his life, or
there is anything that that that that that puts a spotlight,
they could even be more damage.

Speaker 6 (01:14:14):
It got it to his process.

Speaker 15 (01:14:16):
You know, I want him hope. I don't give a
heck about writings. You know, I was gonna say someone else,
but I just want to hope and so whatever it's
going to be for his best healing. And a lot
of times that that happens with the cameras all over.

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
What's what's your relationship now with them?

Speaker 15 (01:14:35):
It's it's still work. It's it's it's still works now.
The beautiful thing that has happened.

Speaker 7 (01:14:41):
Is, you know, I.

Speaker 15 (01:14:43):
Ran into my biological father these years and his what's
the most incredible thing about God? Everything that my oldest son.

Speaker 11 (01:14:53):
Needs, that's his profession, your dad's professional, biological.

Speaker 15 (01:14:59):
Father's fession, and I think you can impact that right, right,
everything that my oldest needs. So my biological has come in.

Speaker 7 (01:15:09):
Because that's his grandson.

Speaker 15 (01:15:11):
So he has a personal interest and in.

Speaker 7 (01:15:15):
Him being whole.

Speaker 15 (01:15:16):
And it's been amazing, it's been well, it's been amazing
to watch, but it's still a process.

Speaker 5 (01:15:24):
You do you regret what you've done in gospel music
because it took so much time away from your family.

Speaker 7 (01:15:31):
That's an incredible questions.

Speaker 15 (01:15:33):
I think that any man, in my humble opinion, that
is ambitious and driven will always look back and have
regrets on how the people around them have had to
suffer because of.

Speaker 5 (01:15:45):
That because you, yeah, your family suffered, but you brought
joy to people. You probably saved a million in one
lives with your music and your dance and the word,
But you might have hurt a couple in the family
because you weren't there. So how does that balance out?
And you know, as a father that works a lot,
I feel that sometimes it's like, damn, should I be

(01:16:07):
home during this time?

Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
But I gotta.

Speaker 7 (01:16:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, boy. You know you you you
have many regrets. Yeah, you have many regrets, and and
you have confusion.

Speaker 15 (01:16:24):
It's because it's it's it's almost like if you were
not driven, if you were not a dog, if you
didn't have that attitude, then you wouldn't have been what
you are.

Speaker 7 (01:16:36):
But you also know that many around you, whether.

Speaker 15 (01:16:38):
It's your wife or your kids, that they've suffered a lot,
that they've gone through a lot because it comes with
a heavy price. And I think that for me, mine
also has another level of of of kind of dichotomy.
It's because you also don't want to You don't want
the kids faith to be I don't want having to
do with Jesus because Jesus was the dude that kept

(01:16:59):
my daddy away. So I'm trying, you know, you've also
tried to have that new on space in that too.

Speaker 7 (01:17:05):
Now.

Speaker 15 (01:17:06):
The beauty of my children, it's step mother, my My
My children are are are are great because of their mama.

Speaker 7 (01:17:18):
Tammy.

Speaker 15 (01:17:19):
Tammy has Tammy is like she just that Midas touched
you know she, But then how mama was dead. Tammy's
Mama's dad, Tammy's Mama's like that would be you know,
step said midas touch and she knew I didn't have
a mama, So it's damn just a minus touched. But yeah,
you live with a lot of regret. You live with
a lot of guilt. You live with a lot of questions.

(01:17:42):
You live with that internal war of of of missing
things and and wondering what it would what it would
have been more like for you to be at home.
But then at the same time, you also that dude
that wakes up in the middle of night with dreams
and ideas and ambitions and songs.

Speaker 7 (01:17:59):
You know, like I wake up in mid life with songs, and.

Speaker 15 (01:18:01):
You know, I'm at a basketball game and I got
to step outside to put something in my phone because
of song.

Speaker 7 (01:18:06):
Because if that song don't.

Speaker 15 (01:18:08):
Work, then I can't pay for that school, and I
can't pay for that college. I can't pay for that
your new car you on after you graduate. It's like,
you know, there's that tension. It's because people are blessed
by your sacrifice, but then they're also hurt by your sacrifice. Yeah,
and I don't know all the answers. I just try
to show up and be honest.

Speaker 11 (01:18:27):
What I love.

Speaker 19 (01:18:27):
I love that you said, social media is not evil,
you know, it's broken people.

Speaker 11 (01:18:33):
They use it as a tool of evil.

Speaker 7 (01:18:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:18:35):
Right, So does commentary on social media affect you at all?

Speaker 7 (01:18:40):
Yeah? I can't.

Speaker 15 (01:18:41):
Yeah, And I think anybody be aln to this. And
I think that we're all trying to do our social
media ask if we try to pull back, you know,
like after the Beach Awards, I was like, I'm not
reading nothing. I don't want to read nothing. Yeah, I
don't want nothing, you know. And then you know, a
few days lady by yourself and looking.

Speaker 7 (01:19:02):
Please by Jesus, you know.

Speaker 15 (01:19:04):
So you know, yeah, you you find that at tension
and you try to do the best.

Speaker 7 (01:19:09):
I really believe y'all.

Speaker 15 (01:19:10):
And I know y'all gotta wrap me up real soon, man.
I gotta believe. I believe that everything that we discuss
can be summarized in these major points of humans have
to be more kind to humans that we we Here's
the illustration before go right. If you are on an

(01:19:31):
island and the island is now slowly sinking into the water,
and the only way off that island to the other
piece of bigger land is this rope, this type rope,
and everybody has to walk across that type rope. Now,
why mind you, they're walking over water that is shark invested, right,
So if you fall off that type rope, But that's

(01:19:51):
the only way to get off this island. It's this
type rope. Everybody that is getting on that type rope.
If you're sitting there standing there watching them because you
know you're he is coming up next, you're not going
to be sitting there criticizing how they're getting off on
that type you're not gonna be going, look at the leak,
look at I even walking on it, right, look a
look at that. You're not doing it because you know
why you're not doing that because you know you next.

(01:20:13):
So you said there going please man, oh god, please
let them make it.

Speaker 7 (01:20:16):
Please she made it. She may because they give you
a hope that you can make it. That's what life is.

Speaker 15 (01:20:23):
It's sinking and we're trying to get off, and there's
only way. There's only one way, and but we're criticizing
each other while we're trying to get on. That's the
only way. There's no boat, there's nothing. The only way
off the sinking island is this damn difficult way. We
should be praying people make it instead of complaining how
they walking because you next.

Speaker 19 (01:20:45):
And the church said amen, Dan, Well, dang, I was
let me, how did you listen when you got some
of the strongest pipes coming about of your choirs, like
I'm talking about like everybody was like a lead singer,
like everybody.

Speaker 11 (01:21:01):
How did you find these people?

Speaker 7 (01:21:03):
That's how I do it.

Speaker 15 (01:21:05):
I do it's I look for lead singer individual It's
I go after artists. I look at people that I
see an artists come rocking, and that's what I do
and that's why they're so amazing.

Speaker 7 (01:21:19):
Yeah. So, but that's dope that you caught that.

Speaker 15 (01:21:22):
Since I was I'm like, yo hot.

Speaker 19 (01:21:23):
Everybody can not just sing, but say everybody can sing
like he could add like everybody do their own solo.

Speaker 7 (01:21:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:21:31):
Crazy man.

Speaker 19 (01:21:33):
But I want to say I love you so much you.
I've been inspired since I was like just.

Speaker 11 (01:21:38):
So young, just those lung mornings.

Speaker 19 (01:21:41):
My mother pop your CDs and for every CD we had.
You know, I grew up on you and I love
you and I'm so happy that I got to meet you.

Speaker 3 (01:21:52):
You know, this is so crazy. This is the first
time you met him because he sime.

Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
It's just always I met him before.

Speaker 18 (01:22:02):
It is kind of crazy mean, Kirk Franklin, because you
men are in our household are literally and I know
my heart for word, I know that like everything my
whole life.

Speaker 11 (01:22:12):
So meeting you was just like so I'm mad.

Speaker 16 (01:22:14):
It was Kirk Franklin like okay, and it is your presence.

Speaker 19 (01:22:17):
So I thank you so much just for all of
your work and everything that you that you've done, you've
contributed to just to my household and my and to gospel,
the Word of God everything.

Speaker 11 (01:22:28):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:22:29):
That's kind of yeah, thank you well, Dinner Kings. You
can check it out on YouTube. New single dude again.
We're about to play that again and we have to
leave with a prayer.

Speaker 7 (01:22:38):
What's wrong with you?

Speaker 6 (01:22:39):
I was.

Speaker 16 (01:22:41):
First of all.

Speaker 18 (01:22:42):
He prayed for me at the media room as well too. Okay,
I'm always covering in prayer.

Speaker 3 (01:22:45):
Thank you, all right, always covering your week too, But
that you see.

Speaker 19 (01:22:49):
Shay you, I need you to pray exactly exactly more
because they talked about them, so many of them talked
them right off.

Speaker 7 (01:22:58):
We're including prayer for Zaddy, are we.

Speaker 15 (01:23:02):
Please?

Speaker 16 (01:23:02):
Are you allowed to say that?

Speaker 17 (01:23:03):
To go go here?

Speaker 16 (01:23:04):
I can't feel like I.

Speaker 15 (01:23:08):
Man, man Father, wow man, thank you so much that
you are just the most kindest, the most patient, creative
of them all. Thank you Lord that you constantly just
forgive us when we mess up, and that you are
always warning us to win, because when we win it
makes you look great.

Speaker 4 (01:23:23):
Father.

Speaker 15 (01:23:23):
We know that the world is crazy. And Father, I
want to thank you for these three soldiers, for the
four soldiers, and how they are doing their best to
try to plant seeds of goodness in the earth. Just
watch over their families, watch over their lives. If we've
ever needed you before, we need you in the world now.
Please break down the walls of religion so that we
can be able to see the light of your son.
And I'm talking about your son as oh end and Father,

(01:23:47):
we want him to be glorified in our lives. We
are far from perfect, messed up, and we love the
fact that you take the lemons and make lemonade in
our lives every day. Thank you for not giving up
on us. We want to make you proud. I want
to make you happy. And your name Jesus, Amen.

Speaker 6 (01:24:03):
Amen.

Speaker 3 (01:24:04):
All right, Well, there you have it.

Speaker 5 (01:24:05):
It's Kirk Franklin, It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning now,
it's time to get up out of here. Show theman
you got a positive note, positive notice. Simply this, being
honest with myself is something I like. Okay, I am
happy that I don't make excuses when I make a mistake.
This is just a good way to improve in the
fastest way.

Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
It actually shows that you have integrity, because integrity is
telling yourself the truth. Okay, I repeat. Integrity is telling
yourself the truth, and honesty is telling the truth to
other people. Have a great day, Breakfast club.

Speaker 17 (01:24:35):
Finish

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
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