Kevin Hart Interview

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the game? Get it off your chests? Man? Hey, good
to hear fromm god Man. Really nice out, really got through.
I just want to say thank you to DJ Envy Adely.
You guys always talk about a real estate. I just
bought my first house he asting and I'm sitting here
and I got my three month old baby with your

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Name's congratulations that I was looking at houses this morning
when ncame in. That's it's really good feeling your back
to back newborn baby and a new house toast to
you into your family. That's amazing. What those interest rates
look like. What those interest rates look like though? Two
and a half man, that's great, that's beautiful exactly. So

(01:27):
you put down one three and a half percent. I
gotta also welcome home grant that everybody's looked into, uh
state of Ohio covered five thousand dollars. So I walked
out of there without putting down any talk everybody. There's
a million one grants out there. All you gotta do
your homework. You have to pay p and model right yeah,

(01:47):
all right, yeah, but still you know you gotta you
had to put down no money. That is a great congrats, congrats, congrats,
fantastic feeling. Man. Thank you guys again, and also want
to shout out the man too. Thank you for your
health with the mental health and you can't appreciate your brother.
Thank god. If you can't DM me, because I want to,
I want to find out about that grant so I

(02:09):
can put people onto that grant. So if you can
DM me, welcome home and will all right? Brother, yeah, hello,
who's this yo? What's up this money? Man? Mike? What
I get it off your chest? Mike? What's what's Hey,
I got the call and get it on my chip. Man.
It's kind of the top of the TI. I will
talk about your day with face. Hey man, I I

(02:29):
got to tell y'all. Man. So the difference between surface
Earth and flatter man, we we got to get on
that top of you morning. We got boy. So you
believe in the flat surface earth and flat earth? What
is surface earth? Sir? Okay? Well you know the earth
that they say, you know, the regular earth side that
they say go on sound with the one you live on,
ye okay, so called little more Okay, So if you

(02:51):
say we live on that Charlotte made, which I disagree
on that, then how can you get okay? If you
was a print which I'm not, but if you was
a Christy, you was taught that on the sixy thing, Oh,
God made something that separated the heavens, the heavens of
a bull and earth, so there would be something like
a firmament. Right. I don't believe. I don't believe everything

(03:12):
in the Bible, but tell me I need to know
before we even continue this conversation, what do you think
we're living on? Before we even continue, what are we
living on right now? So you do you want to
hang on the phone, but I don't ask you a question. Listen,
I think I think, I think we kind of live
on something like it's kind of black, but we had
we have like a home on top of Okay, we're

(03:32):
in a globe. Okay, no doubt. Yeah, I feel like
I feel like we're in a globe. But at the
same time, do you want to go out of space?
Like do you think somebody shakes the globe every now
and then to make it snow? Yeah? Come on, man,
we're just asking a question. What's wrong? No, seriously, like,
how can't okay, if if you if you can, if

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you can't explain that, man, explain to me. How can
you see all? How can you see all? Right? Ain't rainbow?
That's what rainbow? Everybody knows. Everybody knows. Rainbows are when
angels are eating lucky charms and the lucky charms bowl
is reflecting off the dome and okay, and that's what

(04:16):
causes the rainbow. And sometimes you well he made a
lot of good points this morning. Thanks for calling. Have
a good day, sir. Man. Come on, what I didn't say,
I didn't I didn't just credit you at all. I
just said. You made a lot of good point with you.
We live in a globe, Brott Breakfast. That's why you
gotta go to space. It's why more people gotta go

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to space so they can see that the Earth is
not flat. I think he's in space. Get it off
your chests eight hundred five five one on five one.
If you need to vent or explain how the Earth
we live in a globe whatever, maybe he call us,
it's the breakfast logal borders. The breakfast Club is your

(04:57):
time to get it off your chests. Whether you're man
or blast PEP, have the same intry. We want to
hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey?
This is Key Jim and I. What's up? DJ Louise
Booty and Doctor Lenard? Yeah, how y'all doing today? Doctor
Lenard is funny? DJ lose By how much? How much?

(05:19):
How much you charge for your services? DJ lose Booty?
I don't know, you tell me doctor. I think sixty
nine is good, just a good starting price. Yeah right, Hey,
take all right, I have a gool Hello and Lose Booty. Hello,
who's that? Yah? Y'all funny? So my name is kate
Ja Blunt. Man not have thing. Auguste in Florida. I

(05:41):
wanted to share a little bit of positivity this morning.
Talk to me blunt man. I definitely just wanted to say,
everybody to give y'all family member to call and give
him some motivation and hit him a racer this morning,
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(06:01):
Empower Empower Clothing with the King. It's leg we worldwide.
We getting celebrities on it right now. Y'all don't want
to miss out. And y'all send you the song for
your IP messages. I know you don't take it, but
it's okay. Blunt Man. I think you need to change
the papers too. Man. All that tobacco gonna eventually catch
up to you. Brother, I don't smoke, so why they
call you blunt man? My last name, my last name

(06:24):
or your last name is blunt. Okay, all right, salute
to you. King. Hello, who's this? Hey? What's your name? Brother? Yeah? Yeah, bro?
What's up? Man? Yo? Yo? Good morningly a man. Good
for y'all. I always listen to y'all from my name,
don't be fulfilled. But I wanted to get off my
check because I was. I was. You what I've been,

(06:49):
I've been. I've been drinking, you drinking? What you say, sir, hi,
I was. I was blocked up in jail and as
the kind of correctional facility, how long I was? I
was for fifteen months? And I was helped for a robbery.
They never committed to the pandemic with a trump for me.

(07:09):
I was forced to be able to um take a ground,
a downgrade, a charge for set instead of a robbery.
And I just wanted to get off my chest, man,
because the correction the correction atility screw up like a
mom it is. That's what they need to call it,
the corruption facility, because they're not trying to correct nothing. Hey,

(07:30):
they ain't cruse, they ain't true. I was supposed right.
It's crazy because they they asked for people to get help. Actually,
but actually they ain't doing nothing about But they ain't
doing about nothing, man, Yeah they should. They should. They
should have trades in there for y'all to learn, so
when y'all come out, y'all can have like some some

(07:50):
some certified training on another goal. It's mad Trump and
like that that that's that's going on on the drug
systems and they and they ain't got um. They got
a plug, ain't got a drug bullgram with um with
people to get off the piction, with taking some poptions

(08:11):
and all that shit. And the people ain't really um
seeking help for they used to me as as a
community by being black. We all need to get a
together and we all need to change these systems because
everybody corrupted around it. I agree from us man, you're

(08:33):
going to get off my chest. But yes, sir, Bill Fresh,
he don't know that. He can't not curse on the radio.
You're locked up even listening to the podcast. Hepn listening
to all that cursing on podcast. He don't know no better. Hello,
who's this Hey? I was going for them? Good morning, Yes,

(08:53):
I was going. I got a quick question for Charlot
man Man. Yes, sir, and ask you a question. I
don't know somebody I asked you this, But who was
your top three donkeys of all time? And what you're
considered consider giving donkey a Donkey Hall of Fame? Oh yeah,
I mean at the end of the year, we're doing
top five Donkeys of the year, I don't. I'm gonna
be honest with you, Top donkeys of all time. Donald

(09:15):
Trump is definitely in the top three. I mean I've
given it to him more than anybody. And I'm gonna
always put myself in the top three because I always say,
you know, when you give people the credit, you gotta
give everybody to credit they deserve for being stupid, including yourself.
I don't know who the third one would beat up?
Sounds first, sign servant. Y'all want to include the brown
from the Breakfast Club. Thank you? However, go get it

(09:37):
off your chest eight hundred five eight five one on
five one. If you need to vent hit us up now.
It's the Breakfast Club, the Morning, the Breakfast Club Morning.
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(09:58):
Tracy J Happy than How are y'all though? How are
the both for y'all? Great? Good? How you guys doing? Sean?
I see you with the mental health, mental wealth. He's
coming on up. I'm excited to talk about that a
little bit. Yeah, it's Sunday World Mental Health Day. We're

(10:21):
doing it at the Marry Up Marquis Time Square from
eleven to four, a day of mental health education and healing.
Tracy will be speaking on the Black Woman's Panel. We're
happy to have you, Tracy. Thank you very much, Thank
your Grandfama's show. Thank you, Queen, appreciate appreciate it. Thank you,
and y'all coming back on Monday, October eleventh with Peace
of Mind. Yes, yes, we got a car helping us

(10:44):
all heal. You know, people that don't know about it,
break down what it is and so people will understand.
Peace of Mind is a talk show where we address
different issues dealing with mental health. Where we will interview
a celebrity because you know, fans think that just because
we are celebrities and we have money, somehow all of

(11:04):
our problems go away. So we show them that, yes,
everyone is struggling. You are not alone, even celebrities. Then
we interview a regular person, every day civilian who is
suffering with the same maybe mental condition, whether it's social anxiety,
whether it's depression, whether it's ADHD. We all have something

(11:27):
right and so then we have the third segment of
the show where we bring a professional and a psychiatrist,
a clinician therapist to help us understand the topic we're
talking about, to give us tools to know what to
do when we are feeling the way or those who
may be suffering or can identify with the subject matter

(11:48):
that we're dealing with. So it's an educational show. It's
a show where we laugh, we cry, and we're also
trying to show that actually, this is what a therapy
session looks like. You know, you in a safe space,
you talk about the things that are bugging you or
that are keeping you down, and you have a professional
there to help guide you through it, and you laugh,

(12:09):
you cry, and it's really not as scary as you think.
I see some fascinating guests that you guys have on
I saw the trailer for the new season, and I
was just in my head trying to figure out Like
Chloe Belly, I can imagine it's tough for her. You know,
her and her sister have separated their Instagram pages. She's
put out some amazing music and videos, but then at

(12:29):
the same time, all these people are coming at her
now because they're still picturing what she was like when
she was younger, and so I know things like that
have to be difficult, and sometimes people don't look at
artists as human beings that have feelings too, that part,
and I think that's another aspect of the show where
they get to see some of their favorites be human,

(12:50):
because that's who we are at the end of the day.
You just millions just happened to get to see us
go to work and see what we do. But at
the end of the day, we have feelings. It's a
real person behind all the flashing lights. How therapeutic because
the show been for you, you both for us, it's
like we're going to therapy every day. So it's been

(13:12):
such a gift in that way where I don't have
to go to my therapist as often as I used
to because you know, the show has sort of filled
in that space for me. So to be able to
talk about your own personal challenges, connect with others there
who might have the same challenges with you, and then
have somebody there to stop all of our bantering back

(13:34):
and forth and say, okay, that's nice. I hear you.
You want to help each other, but here the tools
you need, and you know, Taraga and I've been going
through this for thirty eight years, having these conversations and
sometimes where what we have to say is helpful to
see each other, and sometimes it might not be so
to be able to step back and say you my

(13:54):
boom and we got each other. But let me go
over here and talk to you know, right, she's gonna
have a more objective point of view. You know, I
was going to ask, how difficult is it to get
some of these people that you have that you're interviewing
to open up? Is it very difficult? Because a lot
of times some of these people never spoke to a
therapist before, so you guys might be the first time

(14:15):
that they're really opening up. So is that difficult. No,
we have a lot of guests come on and they
talk about how comfortable they feel because we are both
in therapy. We're not professionals, but we understand us, we
understand our culture, we understand our people, and we know
in order for any black person to open up to anybody,

(14:35):
they have to feel safe and they have to know
who they talking to is real. It's not like you're
not fake, you don't have no other objective. We're not
a show where we're baiting for numbers. We don't push
people to tears or things like. Everything on our show
pretty much happens organically. We of course set the questions up,
we make them feel very safe, and they just open

(14:58):
up because we're open up, you know. Yeah, all right,
we got more with Tracy Jade into Roger p Hinston
when we come back, don't move. It's to Breakfast Club.
Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Everybody is envy Angela, Ye
we are. The Breakfast Club was still kicking it with

(15:18):
Tracy Jade into Roger b. Hnton. Now ye, now when
we're talking about this new season of Peace of Mind,
right where there's some moments that you guys were like
shocked by as well, because I'm sure, like you said,
people are comfortable. They're coming in there knowing you're not
trying to get an AHA moment. But you have some
amazing guests this season, so where there are times that
you were like, I can't believe this is happening. G

(15:41):
Herbo sticks out in my mind. Um that young man,
I mean, please watch this show, watch his episode. I
hope so many young brothers watch that episode because I'll
never forget this, my son. You know loves rap music,
of course, and when he started getting really getting into it,

(16:03):
but he was listening to the rappers coming out of Chicago,
and I told you, Herbo that just listening to his
experience growing up around all that violence and m He said, Mom,
you know those the rappers in Chicago rapped from a
different sphere, Like I feel their pain. I'd I'd be

(16:23):
pounding my chest because I can feel their pain, he said.
And the sad part about it is that they're they're
really superstars, but because of what they've been going through,
they will probably never reached that success because of their environment.
And this kid had never been to Chicago at this point.
I wasn't shooting filming Cookie. This is what he felt
through the music, through the messages. And then when I

(16:46):
really sat down and got to know Ji Herbo, I
understood exactly what my son meant that. Thank god, Gi
Herbo made it out. But he talks about all the
people he said, he couldn't name what about one hundred
of his colleagues they know that has died. Yeah, it's
troubling because his story is the norm for our kids. Part.

(17:07):
So I'm watching New York right now. The way they
had the twenty one kids under eighteen who died by
gun violence. Yeah, um, in Brooklyn and all over. And
that's that blueprint is traveling through every one of our
cities right now. And that's scary. It's hell because they
don't care. I gee, Herbo said out of his mouth.

(17:27):
He did. It was the point of his like, we
didn't care every live or die. You're talking about children
who have their whole lives to look forward to, not
giving a sh about anything. I love ge Herbo because
he's twenty five years old man, and I wish that
I had the tools and the resources and the information
in regards the mental health at that at that young age.
So I love the fact that he's sold vocal about

(17:49):
what he goes through it too. I mean, I just
I have such a respect for that young man. Like that,
to me was my most special episode because I just
I have a love for black men just so deep,
because I just understand our struggles as a people and
what is put upon the black man and which you
gotta always gotta be strong and this and that. In

(18:11):
the third and because I have a son, I'm a mother,
you know, And just I saw so many men in
my life that I love, and this young man, my father,
my son, all of them men I loved, I chose
to love. I just, yeah, that episode is so important.
He's so important. Yeah, And I think if we all,
you know, those of us were in a position too,

(18:33):
if we all just took one young man. You see
them walking down to the corner store, you see them
not you know, showing up places and to the job interview, whatever,
If we could all just take one. And I know
that sounds really like I don't know, you know, a
thought that is impossible, like I don't have time, or
I'm scared, or whatever it is. But I you know,

(18:56):
I am looking in the eyes right now of a
young man that I love so deeply, and he's in
the middle of this stuff, and he maybe watching right
now or or not, but I love him so deeply.
I'm willing to do anything to offer him just a

(19:17):
moment of an opportunity. I don't know what he's missing,
I don't know what is heard. He just lost his
best friend, and his best friend was murdered three nights ago,
and I know he's suffering. He's young, he's a teenager,
and I'm I can't give up on him. He's out

(19:38):
in the streets. He's confused. That goddamn weed is going crazy.
You know what it is? They get hooked all that
crazy stuff. But I will not This weed ain't no herb.
This ain't no herb, ain't read. I don't know what

(20:00):
they doing, but it ain't right. It's mess messing out, baby,
drop man. Pay attention to the weed. They're telling us.
You guys have to brathat. You don't need to smell
to say when you know what We need to change
the narrative. Where are the seeds? Where are the sticks,

(20:24):
Roddy that you wanted organic? You don't want that gm
MO stuff. No, we need see, we need season sticks.
I'm as joining us. Make sure y'all watching Sunday. Make
sure y'all go to Facebook watch and check out Peace
of Mind on Monday, October eleventh, and check Tracy Jade

(20:46):
out at the Mental Health Expo this Sunday from eleven
am to four pm. And to marryat Marquee in Times
Square is free and open to the public. Thank you
to Roger, Thank you Tracy. How much guys the Breakfast Club,
Your mornings will never be the same. I haven't saying
it for weeks. Charlotte mean that you can find anything

(21:08):
in everything on TikTok, I hear. I saw this video
with some random person with the Central Park and overheard
a group of people talking smack about a girl named Marissa.
So he posted it, and this girl Marissa actually found
out and reached out to him. TikTok you have to
see it. The breakfast club humble slating the breakfast class. Hello,

(21:31):
who's this? Hey? This person's ball was going on? What's up?
Broke it off? Slant to the breakfast club. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
I want to get on your boy, Charlotte man, your boys,
Charlotte man. Ever since he got his face, change man, everybody.
I think he needs to go back to the old
hen he was waiting he got his face used me.
He was disrespectful before when his face was That's right,

(21:53):
the old men was very much more disrespectful. He got
fly boy disrespectful after he got his like for you
a little bit humble with it, I said, arrogant disrespect
now yeah yeah that was that was like, like, I
look through it now, I can talk. Think he looks good.
Do you think I King come on, Kingue, you know King,

(22:13):
but no one the dermatologist. She did work wonders. You know,
doctor Natasha Sandy. I think you're telling me that I
look good? What I wanted to tell me y'all look good?
Like compliment? Do I look better? Be honest? Do I
look better? King? King? King? Do I look better? King? Um?
You got actually dermatologist? So what do you like? What

(22:36):
do you like best about him? Oh? Nothing? I like Angela?
I like you don't try to switch it up? Goodbye, sir.
Now we're talking compliments Angela. Thank you said you shot
your shot with me? First? Hello, who's this? And what's up?
Slander the Breactist Club? What's going on? Man? First of all,
I want to say y'all through y'all, thank y'all for

(22:57):
chasing all dreams and everything. I listened y'all every boarding, blessed,
Thank you, thank you? No good. Your thing I want
to say is this man goes out to DJ Nvy.
Why do you always smack after every sentence? Yeah? Yeah,
old juicy mouth. Everything is You're always like keep So
I was like a five year old girl talking. You
know I never noticed that. Well, you don't know what

(23:22):
I did last night. We're making my mouth. What evy?
What was that? Did you just hit it to a
whole necessary level? Crazy little nas envy? Do you think
ain't what I heard? Just now? That's what you wanted

(23:43):
to hear? Hello, who's this? Oh? Hey, okay? If I
got something for all of y'all, really well, I've been
like Solomagne all right. So, Charlotte Mayne, I can feel
bad for the college college educated people in the room
because they're probably getting dumber and dumber by the day.
Charlotte Mayne, you need to do to college. You'd be
saying some real students stuff. And I can only astutely
because you were so no child left behind, one of

(24:07):
those few that got passing your whole life child left behind.
You can go to college, and I'm just like, you
just need to go ahead and do it. And I'm
not talking about one of those honorary degrees. You need
to go sit in a pass room with college wools,
those fool papers and a mechanical pencil and give you
some education. Well that was how many New York Times

(24:28):
bestselling offers two times over, and I have an honorary
degree from Southolinda State University. I think you don't need
honorary degree. You need a real degree. What I'm doing
better than you? Yeah? He up there, man, man, because

(24:53):
all right, but you'd be doing the room with the
front page news, Charla Man. You'll come in, you'll ask
something that he's literally just stated, because I want to
know a better understanding. They teach you that in school, right,
don't say it again, and you'll be like, but wow,
exactly what is real? Longed for a minute, and then
you'll repeat what she just said was literally the why

(25:13):
that is? No? That is that is not true. I
want to know why. I want to know. I want
to know why. What's wrong with asking why? Like I
want to know what's the root of your trauma? Right now?
Why are you so mad? Mama? You have a good day.
See that's the problem. What you caught I'm doing better
than you. We are, don't We don't know that. We

(25:37):
don't know that. I don't know. But anyway, up the
other day about by Kyye West, it was really hyping
up and Drake came out with a really good album
and you're gonna sit there and talk about only thing
you was too long and but some of the people
y'all be hyping up on this show are so trash?

(25:57):
Why why? Why do you think? Why? Why? Why do
I think they're trying? Okay, for example, y'all hype a
party be so much party? I'm so sick. Doesn't her
talking about her posy? I don't know if I could
say that on the radio, her talk about it? Okay,
I feel like I'm being inside that thing on every
single song. But every time she's dropping anything, y'all be like, Oh,

(26:20):
it's so amazing, it's so good, it's so wonderful. You
ain't come out with real lyrics and talk about different
stuff and young who who? Who? You see? Why follow
up questions are good? Who are the artists that you're
dropping real lyrics? Tell me who just dropped? Man? Knock
it off. I'll be on this radio talking about rhapsody.
You ain't scream a rhapsody song yet. I might rapsody,

(26:42):
but rapsy boring. That's see what I'm saying. See what
I'm saying. But you but you to college educated one,
but you can't appreciate a rahapsody. I might rapsody, but
rapsody boring though? Okay, we ain't. Can hear Ratty on
the radio or nothing like that? But Drake is actually exciting.
I don't like this. Let's combine. Let's let's combine. Everything

(27:03):
that she's talking about was too long, because he got
Win Pale used to be able to you. Ain't the
guy us have to sit there, your boyfriend think your
poom poom barn and he he wished that it was exciting.
Is Drake? You got party? Best box? All right? Goodbye?

(27:23):
Mom didn't get to me. I didn't like that one
I heard him to take this. We supposed to be
quiet a little bit. I'm not gonna lie like that.
I don't like that. Don't do like that. Next week,
all right, we got more coming up next with a

(27:44):
breakfast club. The breakfast club wanted everybody's DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne,
the guy. We are the breakfast club. We got a
special guest in the building. The first thing he said,
why these chairs don't raise? The chairs so short and right,
and every time somebody comes in and they tried to
raise the chairs up. First thing I said, is well,

(28:05):
Kevin Hart bought those chairs. He wants everybody to look
short like him. Yeah, definitely. Uh, I don't know. I
don't know a better way to say, remember he bought
these chairs. I didn't he did, I didn't. But now
that now that I did, I'm gonna se if I
can get you guys another set to actually saying I
remember you came here one time and he was like,
you know what I should have did? I should put
my name on the back of these chair. Yeah, I'm
doing that. I've sent another set. I sent another set

(28:27):
and put my name on the back. But I make
sure they raised. What's going on, guys, Kevin, ladies and gentlemen. Yes,
I'm here, man in the building. How are you? Brother?
I can't complain, brother, drinking milk, getting tall, same thing
I'll say every time. So much on the table, you
so much Netflix, so much Audible, so much Chase Bank, Like, like,
where do we start? We start with True Story. Yes,
we need to start with True Story. Okay, dropping November
twenty fourth. Uh. For those who do not know, True

(28:49):
Story is my new series that is about to drop
on Netflix. Excited about it? Drama, thriller. Uh, this is
me in a way that you haven't seen me before.
By the way, I have baby walked you to this point,
the upside. That was my first step in the dramatic
space and after that hit you with fatherhood that was
a more drastic view with me and the world of drama.

(29:10):
And then now now we're touching the world of drama
and thrillers. So myself, Wesley Snipes, Billy Zane, theo Ross.
I mean, the cast is amazing, so many, so many
talented people. But um, this is the real deal. People
are gonna be blown away by this. What's You're sorry about?
What's it about? It's a show that's wrapped around loyalty,
trust and uh. It raises the question of how far
would you go to protect the things that you worked

(29:32):
hard for? Right? Like, what is your limit as an individual?
As a person, how far can you be pushed before
you feel like you have to push back or take
or take a stance of uncertainty right where you're you're
making decisions that you that you didn't know that you
were capable of making. Um, it's loosely based off of
the template of my life, the backdrop, the comedian, the mogul. Uh,

(29:56):
that's what the character is. But then it takes a
shiit if into a darker world where you see that
I'm not playing myself. Uh. The version of myself just
to get you interested. And then after you see, oh god,
it's not Kevin, it's some others. It takes a spend,
but it's it's some dope. His story. These two brothers
and just you know, a whirlwind of their relationship. You know,

(30:19):
like when you got an older brother younger brother, there's
a there's kind of a thing where an older brother
is in control and you know he's really much in
charge of that relationship. But then this thing happens when
the younger brother surpass as an older brother in life
and success. Uh, there's a narrative and there's a feeling
that comes with that and that conflict sometimes, uh, sometimes

(30:39):
put some real rocky water in that relationship. And in
this case, that rocky water is dark. What made you
do a drum or? Like? What what you wanted to
challenge yourself? You think people only thought you were funny?
Now not challenging myself And I'm talented. It's not about
it's not about challenging me, man. I like because I
was good, was really good, thank you? Was really with

(31:02):
shades oning on some rock staring not one that time.
I've always I've always had the glasses I always wear glasses. Okay,
s I'm trying to make it seem like I'm changing.
You are on the hood. I've been changed. You're never
having a fun card to get up here. That's a

(31:22):
little different. It's very Cashuh. You got on emerald, that's
how you know, Cam getting on he Cam. He ain't
got no diamond when these diamonds around them. You got
an emerald on these things that these are signature changed.
I've been wearing these favor the emerald on. Yeah. I mean,
come on, what day have you seen me? There's different
days you gefferent sales. Now, what what does that? What
else do you have out of the Lucky Charms box?
I know you probably got everything that's a diamonds, that's

(31:44):
a riginal. I ain't talking about that. I'm talking about
a real the emerald, the green clover, the purple heart. Now,
I'm you know, I like the I like the stone,
so the emerald, the rubies, the sapphires, the pink diamonds,
all that stuff I like, just like different. But it's

(32:06):
all like the signature heart with the Kane, I'm getting
a different type of money. I don't think y'all realize
that Kevin I know we're talking about the true story
and everything else, but that evolution of Kevin Hart over
the past decade has been incredible, from from growing up man,
from No No, from stand up comic to the acting
to now you can't You're just the mogul. I am
very much in charge of my direction and my opportunity.

(32:30):
I like the fact that I can control my narrative
in the business and do the things that I want.
So this, uh, this ecosystem that now exists underneath the
brand of Heartbeat is one that produces television, film, you know, uh, radio, literature, animation,
you know, whether it be comedy, drama, it doesn't matter.

(32:51):
It's all about what we feel is a great opportunity
for us at this point, at this moment. So to
his point where he said, why do you want to
do drama? Why not? Why not going you know, develop
something that's just different, is outside the box. I can
still find excitement, and I don't want to get bored
with the business. I don't want to get bored with entertainment. Um.
I want to find excitement and showing up to work

(33:11):
every day. So that comes with the within the creative
I like being a part of that process. So uh,
that's why I am Charlomagne. You might be right. I'm
looking at the last five interviews he did. He didn't
have glasses. Two years ago, no glasses. Tiffany didn't have glasses.
I took them off. Glasses way back to seeing wet glasses.

(33:31):
Glasses that money I can pull up right now that
you're wrong that I can go to two data back black.
Why I had glasses on Tiffany's interview. I took them
off because I got mad, So I took the glasses off. Okay,
the one before that, when I had on the dark
shades where I had on like Brown, I had glasses on.
I took them off at a certain point when you
guys get me hot, let's not just grab from all

(33:52):
this money you're making. Because why here the next announcement,
I think we're gonna hear, We're gonna hear Heartbeat Productions
has partnered with somebody for a billion dollars, the way
we saw with spring Hill and reach Wooden Spoons Company.
I feel like that's gonna happen with Kevin Hart. What
I feel like, there's none of your business. You wait

(34:14):
till it's in the trade. Wait till you see that
in the trades. I don't know you know what you're
talking about. Uh look man, listen, listen, here's here's here's
what I will tell you. There is a blueprint that's
been given and that blueprint has been given by Oprah
by Tyler by Hove shouts out to my brother Brian

(34:35):
mav Over there spring Hill. They're doing amazing things, man.
But the blueprint is about ownership. The blueprint is about
figuring out ways to control a narrative based on ip
IP ownership. Um, we're not in this business to be
worked for hires forever. Um, you eventually want to be
a partner. And what we're doing at our company and
I say our because I don't have employees, I have

(34:57):
partners my team. We've we've symboled an amazing foundation and
within that, the goal and desire is to have tentacles,
have branches, and these branches provide opportunities employment for so many.
And you know, I love the fact that we are
a black owned company that is all about equal opportunities.

(35:19):
So when you look under my hood, you see men, women,
you see everything. We are representation of what the business
should look like and be that equality, that movement, that portfolio,
it's one of opportunity and future success for the next
version of stars. So those stars are entertainers, those stars
are exacts, those stars are creatives, those stars are heads

(35:41):
of you know what I mean? Like it goes all
across the board. I've made mine, I've I've gotten to
where I've gotten this star and not gonna get no brighter.
It's about figuring out ways to help the next version.
That's what Heartbeat is. That's what we're about. So you know,
I can't answer that question. I don't know what you're
talking about. Well, when it comes out to the trades,
I'm going to say I told you so. Maybe you can't.
Maybe you can't. I don't know. I don't know. We

(36:02):
got more with Kevin when we come back. It's the
Breakfast Club. Good morning morning everybody. Angela Yee Charlomagne, the
guy we all the Breakfast Club was still kicking it
with Kevin Hart. It's Kevin slow down now, because Kevin,
you're super successful. You got three kids. I see you,
I got four kids, four kids. You love hanging out
with doing things with your kids. Do you slow down

(36:23):
to be like you know what now? It's trying to
be a far being slowdown on the work. So you
know what, man, I'm definitely I'm trying to I think
I do need to to go a little slower. Um.
You know now that we're we're getting back to a
place of old, We're getting back to life as we
once knew it. You know there's can't you do that?
Or you would like you have to, or you addict
it to No, I'm I got a problem. But like

(36:45):
I said, it's a it's about the foundation. It's about
this thing. And you know, making sure the bricks are secure,
making sure they can't move, and you know, you start
to ask yourself different questions. I'm getting older, I'm forty two,
So what am I doing it for? What is it?
What is it about? I've gotten to a place where
I opened up a door and that door had like
thirty other doors. I just start peeking in those doors.

(37:07):
So I know the different versions of success, and I
just want to tap into all of them. If you
look at the things that I've done, right, if you
go comedy, dramedy, action, adventure, action comedy, comedy, drama, drama, filler, docuseries, documentary, hosting, animation, author,

(37:28):
radio hosts, podcast hostsite. It's I'm tapping into every single
outlet because what I realized that everybody should. You can
do it all if you want to. There is no ceiling.
So I'm having fun and discovering how much more you
know the world of venture in VC stocks and real estate,

(37:50):
all of it. Like, there's so much that you can
do to occupy your time in your mind, and that's
what I'm love with. So I don't know. I don't
know about slowing down. I think removing myself from in
front of the camera at some point that'll be the priority.
But the world of what's going on behind will will
probably be ten times as much as what it was

(38:12):
when I was in front. You know, your conversations have
always been so interesting to me because you've always been
so self aware and to hear you talk now saying
things like because I heard you on All the Smoke
and you were saying things like you won't always be
considered the funniest or be the hottest at the moment.
What what? What about that realization? I mean, that's the reality.
Everything that goes up eventually comes down. But when you
come down, you know, you don't have to fall. You

(38:34):
can come down and be better than you were when
you were up if you manage correctly. It's not about
being the best anymore. You realize that that mindset pits
people against each other. And I can't say it enough. Man.
You grow the up and when you evolve immature, the
best thing that changes is just your mindset. My mindset

(38:56):
is different. I operate differently. I'm not I'm not in
the world of being bothered. I'm not in the world
of care when it comes to other people's needs or
want Are you going to do another season of u
um we? I talked about it because the documentary was
was dope, it was honest, But it has to be
when there's there's stuff to follow, you know. I don't

(39:17):
want to just to focus on my world of work
and success. I don't feel like that's a that's a
good layer. I think you want to show how how
complex life is in general, and that nobody is nobody
is free from both. My next one will be based
on my company, the company's growth and the people within
it and how they're managing success from the thing we built.

(39:37):
I don't want to. I don't want to be the focus. Yeah,
building dollar episode is gonna be crazy. I don't know
what that's not. I didn't say that it's it's gonna happen.
I don't know what you're doing in an atmospere. It's
gonna happen. I'm just looking at what I'm not. I'm
just saying I'm not. I'm just looking around. I see
what did I see what spring Hill did? I'm like,
heartbeat is absolutely next. I saw a trade, I saw
an article. It was like, you know, its hard to

(39:59):
be getting suitors. People are snipping around. I'm sorry, I
read these things I read. I've all if you read it,
then maybe you saw I don't mean I don't know
what's going on. I don't know what to tell you here.
Anything you regret about doing it on the documentary, regret
absolutely not. The documents don't focus Up was dope because
it showed how to find solution and problem right, And

(40:19):
I think today everybody's focused on problem. Everybody's focused on
the argument. How many people are focused on the solution
and a conversation to stop the argument? You have? You
have some big social media moments in the last couple
of months. Don Cheto's age and me. You know, I'm
fifty six years old. Damn. I'm sorry because it was
a fought, it was a thought, and I blurted it

(40:41):
out that if we could play it back right now,
play back. These are two different damns. Lay back. And
so there wasn't I said, I said, there was no
like wow, I said, damn, No, you said the word damn.
Oh amazing, real moment, But goodness, you can't fake that.
You've heard it's hard like you watch that hundred one

(41:04):
of my closest friends now a second. I saw it
in his face. He was like, don Cheeto and I
are extremely close. I agree, but you still heard the feelings.
You heard your friends feelings. He thought, I knew. I
didn't know you get I didn't know. Yeah, yeah, saw
that out there like that. He was clean shaven, he

(41:24):
was had a young love to him that day. He
told me that said he got me. I didn't know that.
I know what you meant, but it just didn't come off,
didn't come up. But how do you think I thought?
He caught me off guard when you started explaining it afterwards,
that's what made it even more funny. Said yeah, he said,
he looked at me. I said, I didn't mean like that, Yes,

(41:47):
she did not. It's like rewarding the take. You can't
when you watch it. When you watch it, you'll see
that that's not. That wasn't. How wid how many times
did you laugh at it after you saw it back? Well,
when we did, you don't realize it. But when people
start cutting it up, you know the internet has got
damn dangerous. They could do anything they want. Awkward was
it because they look una comfortable? Awkward for me? I

(42:09):
wasn't that old. Ain't for me? He didn't damn me,
damn anything. It was awkward for don. We got more
with Kevin Hart. When we come back. It's the Breakfast Club,
Good Boarding the Morning, Everybody's cdj En v Angela, Yee,
Charlobe and the guy we are the Breakfast Club was
still kicking it with Kevin Hart. I also thought it
was big that I don't I don't know the communist

(42:29):
name apologize that he was tied up in something that
was going on in your life, and you forgave him.
You talked about it, and what made you say, You
know what, I'm gonna be a bigger man, and I'm
gonna forgive this situation and all that I don't know
which community you're talking about, but I can assume who
I can't remember his name. I'm I'm very once again,
it's just where I'm at. I don't have the time
for bs. There's a lot of like who's funnier. Some

(42:52):
of these comics take that and they they've run with
those narratives and they they're getting golfed in that. I
don't care. Got you there? What got you at that
level of not caring and saying, you know what? It's?
Google is net worth? Well, I've never been you know though.
You gotta be honest, I've never been the I'm better
than guy. I've never been the the I do feel
like you've been down my outwork, you guy, I'm I'm

(43:14):
absolutely I am older. But I don't like the crabs
and the barrel mentality. I don't like the idea that
can only be one and it only lives in our culture.
You talking about that situation, But I know what you're
talking about. Respect, I was saying, But the fact that
you're forgiving and that you can look over things, it's
just it's a step I haven't got to yet. But
I love the fact that you're there. Why what's your problem. Honestly, yeah,

(43:39):
it's your problem. Um revenge what I don't know. It
feels made me feel good, maybe feel warm and cuddly,
But what does it do after you get said revenge?
So when somebody tries to attack you for no reason,
it almost feels like why me, I don't do anything
to nobody, you know, So it feels like, you know
now I want you to die living but you But

(44:00):
that's that's life. And as a day's time, any narrative
can be attached to anybody, correct anything like it's it's
honestly sad. How it's different? Would it affects you? But
when it's something that could affect your family, it's But
I'm telling it's different. But I'm saying, no matter what
the reality, the reality of the world do we live
in today, it's claim first, no proof, no real idea

(44:25):
if said thing or said said verbal is true at all.
I'm gonna take this, you know, from from my brother Dave.
I did an interview and the reporter asked me, He
was like, you know, how do you feel about Dave
coming to your defense? And I said, why do you
feel like he's coming to my defense? Why can't you
see that he's just my my friend. Especially when you

(44:46):
know a person, if you really know certain things you
see you like, I know that's not Here's where me
and Dave just laugh. The conversation attached to Dave's name
is attached to him as if people know him. Right.
The reality about Dave Chappelle, this mother has everybody around him.

(45:09):
Like when when I say everybody, I'm talking about everybody.
So so like when the conversation attached to the LGBTQ
plus community and it's attached with the negative narrative in
association with Dave, you didn't really do your due diligence
in looking at his world. That community is really around him,

(45:30):
like his friends, Like I'm talking close friends are part
of that community. I'm talking people that Dave has embraced
and has loved for years that are like Dave. That's
not true. So the narrative, once put on and once
attached was spirals. That's the thing about today. So when

(45:51):
you talk about revenge, you're in a never ending cycle
of incomplete buddy like that revenge ain't coming, like the
win that you're looking for, it don't exist. So if
you're not mature and cool enough just to chuck up
deuces to the thing that you can't control and give
a goddamn salute. You're gonna be unhappy for a minute.
It's bad to have that mindset, especially in today's time,

(46:15):
as if you don't see it, and it's honestly not
going to be corrected. Like you know, with the world
of social media and the idea of what cancel and
cancel culture has become the thing that it was and
what was necessarily needed for the moments where you had
to use it, it's now lost. So it's now this

(46:37):
other thing that's so much you gotta go. People have
lost sad of reality. We're destroying people's lives, like we're saying,
it can happen to any and everybody, everybody. Do you
understand like we're now in a place where people we
are going you, We're gonna take everything from you now

(46:59):
and walk away, and that is when you walk away.
Do you understand that this person that just went through
that thing we're saying like you now can't work ever again?
What happened to the world of progression, understanding, apology, solution growth?
When do we skip that? Yeah? Because humans are always
failed purity tests, So I don't know why we well,

(47:21):
we act like we're so perfect. Absolutely when did that happen? Though?
When did we all check into the perfect box? You
should deal with nuance, right. If you don't like a
joke I said, you don't like something I said, say
you don't like it, tell me where I did wrong,
but don't label me as a whole thing because of
one bad statement or one bad joke. I'll go further right.
I'm aware of the changes that need to be made,

(47:43):
especially with the conversation attached to respect. I think it's dope.
I think it is time we make sure retreating each other,
not only fairly, but with understanding and appreciation that your
life may be filled with problems and obstacles that I'm
not aware of because my life is not the same.
Because of that, I need to understand that, I need

(48:04):
to fall back. I need to respect that. In that
same instance, we also all have a choice. You can
support or not support. The thing that killed me the
most is you know when you see all the conversation
that was trying to be attached to Dave's special, Well,
you got an option to go on Netflix, you got
an option to search, click watch. I don't have to

(48:29):
watch who I don't like. It's okay to not like
or to not with. It's okay, oion if you like
I don't like that, that joke isn't for me. It's okay.
But there's now a thing of well, because I don't
like it, y'all can and y'all shitt either. That's the
part where it just gets difficult. And by the way, guys,

(48:52):
we're not going to please everybody. But the only thing
you can do is try your best to educate, try
your best to speak on things in a positive way
so that people take the positive side with it, may
understand it. I can say I understand a lot more
now because of some of the conversations I had my
mindsets a lot better. I can say that just on
behalf of my brother. The thing that stuff for me

(49:12):
is that you don't know him. He's a good dude
that loves hard. When you talk about Ohio, he has
built a goddamned community economy in a place where he
is from to make the place better for the people.
The people in Ohio are all different, black, white members
of the community. I'm talking. He put that on his back.

(49:35):
He out there shaking hands. He's the mayor out there
and he's doing it for the people. So when I
see people speak on behalf of a man whose intentions
are nothing but good and uplifting, it just makes you
a while. That's where we are. And this is not
to defend. I'm not defending. I'm not coming to Dave's aid.

(49:56):
I'm speaking truth of me, just going you don't know
the guy. That's it. Let's talk about a couple more
things if you get out of here. I don't know
if this is a joke or not, but the comedy
rights itself. Are you are you really playing Arnold from
one night Only on a different show Jimmy Kimmel live
on stage, we're doing what you're talking about. Yeah. I

(50:17):
thought that just looks I mean, it just looks funny
on paper. It's just I said, Jimmy. Jimmy has been
doing this thing where they create these old TV shows
and they do it live. And he was like, what
do you think about different strokes? And I was like,
one of the funniest shows ever. He's like, what we created?
And he told me the people that he was thinking
about man And when Damon Wins was like, he wants

(50:38):
to be Willis and you can be on so you know,
you put your own take on it. But I'm gonna
be nld from different strokes. I'm gonna grow to little
throw out and everything. We got bold with Kevin about
when we come back, it's the breakfast Morning. Everybody's DJ
Envy Angela Ye, Charlobe, the guy will be out of
Breakfast Club. Was still kicking it with Kevin hart sph company.

(51:01):
We have an audible next year we start rolling out projects.
How are you feeling about that venture? And do you
think people understand what it is? Where? I think they will.
And you know, I think when you when you say it,
make sure you make people understand the initiative and reason
behind it, right, Like I think when people now say
your name, they speak of it in one tone. But
once again, when you really know the person, it's like,
you know, he's got a different drive and initiative. When

(51:23):
you look at the books and you read the books, well,
what is his real what's his real one? And you're
a part of the problem or are you trying to
be a part of the solution. The problem is the
significant gap in our economy from black to white. Right.
The solution is being a part of the attempt to
close said gap, bring people closer, bring things to them.

(51:45):
This entity that we created, well, we saw a gap
in the space of audio literature, and in this space,
our culture hasn't been embracing the world of knowledge that's
available here. So in this entity, well, how can we
deliver it in the way that can be creative enough
where our culture can come over and grab onto things

(52:08):
that they didn't know existed. Or we're going to create
IP through audio. We can create experiences, we can create
content and have it available. We can also bring in
talent to take a hold of previous content that may
or may not even be known about. So in this space,
I think that our opportunity of successes is extremely high.

(52:28):
And you know, for the projects that we've already signed
on to do, the original IPS that we're creating, the
things that have existed that we're going to amplify by
attaching talent. I just think that the world of great
is real. And you know, I got to also give
Audible credit for knowing where there is a void and
for saying we trusting you guys to create this entity

(52:50):
and rather than us trying to just control, let's partner,
you know. So for a company of that magnitude to
say what We're going to give you, guys the money,
Now run a machine ate the company that you said
you could do. We're trusting in you to do that,
and as your partner, how can we assist you. This
is the world of solution. So when we're talking about
the need for diversity inclusion, when we're talking about making

(53:14):
sure that the black voices and that the black portfolio
within business is given a shot, when you got companies
like that that are on the proper side of the
conversation by saying we understand and we want to help,
that's a dope thing, you know, dude. I'm proud of you.
I love the direction that you're going in, and as
a partner, I'm bringing value to his idea. He had

(53:37):
a dope idea. All right, I'm on your train, brother,
How can I help amplify? I got this whole machine
over here. And to his credit, he has a world
of people that these he now is on the seat
like Charlote, got a team. Man. It made me smile
to get on conference calls and hear people speaking on
his behalf. On his behalf with the vision that he
has to help execute. So I think the world is

(53:59):
going to definitely be shot, and I think the world
of audio originals and IP is growing SBH show up
black and handsome productions. I have two more questions. Shut up.
I mean, it's just it's the name. It's your problem problem.
You gotta get rid of the same man. Bade rains

(54:20):
is what we call it. Two more questions. At this
point in your career, who do you get the most
game from? I tell you who people don't give enough
credit to. Tyler Perry's a machine. Yes, the business mind,
the ability to really change the narrative in business and
how deals are done and how they're made. The world

(54:41):
of you can't do that doesn't exist for a man.
It finds ways too. I love to just watch the
way moves. Do you know a couple of years ago,
real quick, you know, a couple of years ago, Tyler
said to me, nobody ever taps him up for information.
It's only been two people, he said, you and uh, Tiffany,
I think, said Tiffany. Tyler Perry is one of the
smartest mothers on the planet. And he's not smart from

(55:04):
a rocket scientist, brilliant. I have all the answers perspective.
He's smart from the side of why can't we do that?
Tyler Perry is an enterprise, and I don't think people
really give enough credible credit is due in Atlanta. You
know you got stages now that are owned by a
black man. Right. The crazy part is who do you

(55:25):
think partners with this black man to do projects? Now?
The studios have to partner with Tyler Perry because they
need to access his world of production Atlanta. The tax
breaks are insane to have the mindset to say I'm
gonna build here because people come here because of the
tax breaks. So no matter what, they have to do

(55:46):
business with me, whether you want to or not. Marvel
was using Tyler Perry stages. Do you understand that I
applaud him. I love him to death. Hove I'm different
in the world of VC because I've watched how Hove
has moved. That has no problem with sitting down, talking
to me and sharing information. But more importantly, hold Jay Brown,

(56:07):
the world of partnership when it comes to investing is
not just about your money. It's about understanding how to
make businesses grow. He graphs the concept shout out the
nas too Now this is another one that was into
it for years and was quiet about it. These guys
grasps the concept of I can bring value to a company,
and me bringing value to a company. If a company
grows and they exit, oh my god, I'm a part

(56:29):
of that win. So watching the way that my brothers
move and I say brothers because that's what I mean.
That's information. That's school. We're all in school. So my
respect and admiration for the people that have given the
blueprint and that don't hesitate to give the information. I
applaud it. Oprah has given the blueprint for years. I
don't think people really understand what all Oprah has going on,

(56:52):
Like Oper's got a network, a network like Oprah's got
a full functioning network that has a full day of
content each day of the week that's not small, like
you gotta network that means I can watch a show
produced by and developed by underneath the brand of whether
she's present, they're not there. This machine is controlling operated

(57:16):
because of her vision and her want to create opportunities
for you know, I know I said those are the
black people and partners, But I got a shout out,
Mike Rubin, when you talk about partners. Me and Mike Rubin.
Right now, we're developing a fast food plant based restaurant
Mike Rubin, where we're global, we're developing a real chain.

(57:39):
And I talked to Ruben and Ruben said, keV, if
you like it and you want to do it, I'm
gonna partner with you. Here's what we're gonna do. Here's
how we're going to access it. And before I knew,
if Rubin had me in the room with all of
the partners that he has, so you know, I get
I get flowers. A matter of fact, I will show
him because I think it's dope, just what we're on.

(58:00):
And once again, just to show how relationships work, the
audible side of it. Right when we get to the
side of this thing living and this thing going well,
accessing people in their ears, Hey, audible, maybe there's a
world where you partner and you have how can we
promote market like that's the world of relationships. Fincher VC,
That's that's the space that I'm in. So remember I
was talking about the star being briped me backing away,

(58:23):
this is where my this is where my passion is.
Now that's my last question. I know you want to
be a billionaire, has the illuminate Illuminati approach. You're about
sacrificing anyone to make it happen all the time. Okay, yeah,
according to the end of that, I've been in the Illuminati,
by the way, I've never I still don't know what
it is, like, what is it? Is it? A is
the club? What is it? You're closer than me, I
don't know it? Do you know exactly? But if you

(58:43):
want to sacrifice somebody, you can sacrifice your part of
this is so they say you're supposed to sacrifice. What's
they where they say have people eating babies? What was that?
That was Pezza Gate? Right, Pizza Gate? Okay, I was
in that too. I was eating baby. So what is that?
Aluminating pizza get not the same thing. I don't think
it might be the same elite circles Okay, yeah, but

(59:05):
they eat babies, that's what they say. This clip right
here is going probably they're gonna put this up to
and say, see doing it right in our face with
your hand and you got the hand that's the hand
sign right there? Is what is this? I don't know.
I'm just saying I was about the restaurant is gonna
be a baby based restaurant, so you're gonna eat babies.
What Kevin Hard is always a pleasure, always inspirational, always motivational.

(59:31):
Always man, you guys do it right. Look, I want
to say true story. It comes on Netflix. All right,
Well it's Kevin Hard, It's mogul Kevin Hard. It's the
Breakfast Club. Good morning, Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never
be the same. I've been saying it for weeks, charl
I mean that you can find anything in everything on TikTok.

(59:51):
I hear you. I saw this video with some random
person with the Central Park and overheard a group of
people talking smack about the girl named Marissa. So he
posted it and this girl, Marissa, actually found out and
reached out to TikTok. You have to see it. Let's
don't be a dusty because right now you want some
real It's time for Donkey of the Day. So if
we ever feel I need to be a donky man,

(01:00:15):
did she get it? Becomes Donkey of the Day the
practice Club bitches. Yes, Donkey to Day goes to the Friest.
That clinic, Okay, to Friest. That clinic is a hospital
in Austria. And listen, let's be clear, nobody likes going
to the hospital. There's not a soul alive who wants
to be in the hospital. If you're in the hospital

(01:00:36):
for anything other than having a baby, that means something
is wrong. Okay, we would all rather remain healthy, not
have to have surgeries, etc. But that's just not reality.
The reality is we all have elements, we have medical conditions,
just like this eighty two year old man in Austria did. Okay, see,
there was an eighty two year old patient suffering from
many illnesses, some of which have affected his legs, and

(01:00:57):
those medical conditions affected his legs. In fact, whatever was
happening with one of his legs caused him to have
to get one of his legs amputated, just like Big
Mom in the movie Soul Food. Okay, that should be
a pretty cut and dry procedure. Correct sidebar speaking of
dry as in dry age meat. I've always wondered what
do they do with body parts after they do these amputations.

(01:01:19):
You can't just throw a limit in a trash, can
can't you? In my mind, they're selling this human flesh
is food Somewhere somebody in the world right now, dining
on from eighty two year old dry age human flesh. Okay,
who needs to age beef when you can just eat
an old human. If these body parts aren't being eaten,
please tell me what's happening with them, because inquiring minds
meaning me, would like to know. Now. As I told you,

(01:01:39):
this eighty two year old suffered from a bunch of
medical conditions, so doctors had to amputate his left leg.
But in life, you must learn to measure twice, so
you only have to cut once, literally, especially if a
surgery is involved. See, this guy had to get his
left leg amputated. We all know where our left is correct,

(01:01:59):
that's where Beyonce told us to go, and you know
where the right is right, that's where conservatives are. So
he needed his left leg amputated. But an error occurred
see the hospital work and mistakenly put a preoperative mark
on the wrong leg. So doctors were supposed to amputate
the left leg above the knee and ended up cutting

(01:02:20):
off the right leg above the knee. The right leg
was the wrong leg, Okay, all right. The right leg
instead of the left leg, was amputated above the knee.
This is not my bad situation. Oh my goodness. I
came here to get my left leg removed because I
had a medical condition and end up getting the right
leg removed, only to still have to come back and

(01:02:42):
get the correct one amputated. Oh new friestat clinic. Okay,
you know y'all getting sued. Y'all don't have a leg
to stand on in this situation. They are wrong and
have admitted such a a statement. A disastrous combination of
circumstances led to the patient's right leg being amputated instead
of his left. That is an emission of guilt. I mean, damn,

(01:03:03):
I'm eighty two. I can do one leg for the
rest of my life. I mean, damn, at that age,
I got one foot in the grave anyway, But now
I have nothing. This is sad. Okay. I can't stand
human era that ruins someone's else's life. Okay, It's really
hard to just stand by and watch something like this happened.
I just don't know what to do. All I know
is we can't stand for this, and neither can that

(01:03:24):
eighty two year old man or his family. The clinics
medical director, Norbert First said, we have to find out
how this failure, this mistake could happen. I would like
to apologize publicly here well Norbert. Okay, from where I stand,
the clinic should be reviewing its stand dirts. Okay, poor guy,
you don't know what he wanted to do with the

(01:03:44):
rest of his life. What if he wanted to try
stand up comedy? Huh? Now what when things like this happen?
The hospital should be financially responsible to the family, but
the next few generations okay, free medical bills covered for
all the family. The clinic does not have a leg
up in this situation at all. They are wrong, period
and they need to be some stand up people and
do the right thing by this eighty two year old

(01:04:05):
man and his family. Please let me give the Friestad
Clinic in Austria the biggest he haw, he haw, he haw,
you stupid mother? Are you dumb? Do they have enough
money to pay this family? No? No legs. I'm telling
you it saying costing arm in the leg, but there's
no really no, there's no price for a real leg

(01:04:27):
Come on man, all right, well, thank you for that
donkey of the day. All right, we got more coming
up next with a breakfast club. The Breakfast Club morning.
Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We
are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in
the building, the Queen, the icon, the legend, and we're

(01:04:49):
celebrating her today. That's right. Flowers, ladies and gentlemen, Mary J.
Block Flowers, by the way, we just balloons and your crown.
Thank you. Yes, yes, So my Life documentary. What made
you say I wanted time to do it now? Well?
I did it like two years ago. I was on
the Royalty Tour and it was the twenty fifth anniversary

(01:05:12):
of the My Life album and everybody was celebrating it,
and I felt like, you know, it was time to
do it then, because it was the twenty fifth and
I never did it, and everybody was like you should
do it, you know, and I said, this is the
right time because I can gather up all the testimonies
and gather up all the love and the energy and
shoot the documentary. We did it in like two years,
so this is just it was just time. Telemann and

(01:05:33):
I said earlier today that we cried watching it. Yeah.
I cried. I cried like three times, like three times,
and I was like I was I was watching it
for you. I could tell it was emotional, and I
was wondering, like, you know, reliving the making of the
album to stir up more happiness or trauma. I look
at this as like the other side, Like we're on
the other side of it now, So we're not crying
just because we were visiting this and we're sad about it.

(01:05:57):
We were visiting and we're sad because we had to
see it, but we're also crying because we're happy that
were on the other side. We got out on the
other side. But you know, it was painful having to
go back and see all that stuff, see Andre too. Yeah,
you know, but it's but it's it's it's okay now
because I can. I can do that because I'm strong
enough to do that. Now. Well, you happy Andre was there.

(01:06:18):
I mean, I know you're happy, But isn't it a
blessing that Andrea was dead to talk and to share
his experiences and everything. Yeah, I was so happy that
we got a chance to to get him, because nobody
knew that he wasn't going to be here right, So
that was Yeah, to see him in the documentary made
me cry. And you said you didn't know that you
were you back then. And I think so many women,

(01:06:41):
so many black women, go through that when they're younger,
when you're when you look back and you're like, I
didn't know how specialized was. Your fans knew, and they
knew how much you touched them, and you help people
get through so many difficult times, but you didn't know
the power that you had, not at all, not even
a little bit. That's why I ran myself through so
many things I went. I went through drugs and alcohol

(01:07:04):
and just treating myself so bad because I didn't know
I was worthy of anything. I didn't know I was
this person that I can truly say I deserve everything now,
you know, because I give so much in my life,
and I worked so hard on myself, you know, not
anybody else on me mentally, spiritually, physically. So I didn't

(01:07:24):
know I had this power, and I didn't know. I
didn't know. I just didn't know, you know what I mean.
And when you don't know who you are, you can't
treat yourself well. You can't you know, good to anybody else,
you know. So now I feel like I earned the
right to say I'm good for something, I'm good to
someone and I'm good for everything because I earned it

(01:07:45):
and I'm still earning it because it's not over. I
cried watching you um talk to your younger self and
when you was watching the video, like, at what point
did you know you're you're inner child needed healing. It
was a it was a years and years of finding out.
I think twenty sixteen was my like, real, you know what, Mary,

(01:08:07):
you have to really gather all of you up, the
young you, to confuse you, the everything you just and
just love all of you. I can't say it came
in nineteen ninety four and nineteen ninety six on two.
It just it was a process of you gotta love you, baby,
you older you, confuse you, great, you, clumsy you, whatever

(01:08:28):
it is you are, alcoholic you, whatever it is, you
have to love you. And the child was suffering thinking
everything was her fault and that's the that's the one
that was making me feel ashamed. So I had to,
you know, as an adult with all his confidence, you
know that I'm developing. That's the one that I embraced

(01:08:49):
the most because she got hurt the most. When did
you realize that you needed to change? Like, what was
the knock on the door, the thing that says, no,
I need to figure this out. Now. What in twenty
and sixteen got you to that point, Well, twenty sixteen
was terrible. You know, we all we all saw it
go down in the world. What happened When I got
out of that terrible situation, I was like, I'm never

(01:09:12):
gonna allow myself to hurt like that again, or anybody
to hurt me like that again. I don't deserve that,
and I don't deserve to treat myself like that. So
I think it was during a normal Drama album when
I was like, I'm tired of feeling like this. It
was an ongoing process of healing, getting getting better, getting stronger,
But the actual day, I don't know the day, but um,

(01:09:35):
the time was during the normal Drama album because when
I said I'm tired, I'm tired of feeling like this,
I'm tired of feeling like I hate myself. I'm tired
of feeling I want to kill myself. I'm tired. So
it was a process of just still doing the same thing,
but trying to be stronger, trying to be happy, trying
to find some joy somewhere somehow, and were soldiers and

(01:09:56):
we're strong and we're from the hood, and nothing embarrassed
is us easy, So it's like what else you got?
But really test me even seeing Papa us are talking
about how both of you were going through so much
during that time, just a lot of heartache, and you
guys wear kids like we forget that when we look
back at it. You were so young when you put
that album out, going through so many different things. So

(01:10:18):
you guys are leaning on each other a lot during
that time. What were those conversations like with Puff while
you were doing the album? I mean about his pain,
you know, what he was going through. He never really
got into detail with me about it, but I knew
because I know, I know him and I knew him,
and I knew what he was dealing with. What he
was just, you know, like any man, didn't want to

(01:10:38):
discuss it with his little sister. Me. On the other hand,
I was, you know, dying in public, so everybody knew
what I was dealing with. But I didn't want to
really tell him what I was dealing with because I
didn't want him to kill somebody. So I just but
he knew though, he knew, and so you know, he said,
just put it in the records, just put just so. Man,

(01:11:00):
when I've seen Casey do that interview where he I
was like for the international interview, Yes, and then they
asked you the question. I mean, I have to be
the worst, like honestly like disgusting because as women look
at it like that's Mary, like show some respect, damn
Jay blithe But like you said, at that time, you
didn't even know exactly it was embarrassing. But look, I

(01:11:23):
was treating myself, you know. I mean I can't. I'm
not taking a whole blame, but I had to take
responsibility for me. This is what was lightening the lol,
you know, not pointing the finger. You did it. You did,
a lot of people did it. But I gotta fix it, period.
And you talk about forgiveness too on there. So what
is the process of forgiveness like for you when it
kind of sell all the things that you've been through.
Like you said, you can't take all the responsibility. You

(01:11:45):
just got to release people. Just release them, and that's it.
I can't be responsible for what you did, and I
can't keep pointing my finger at you for what you did.
All right, you did it. I don't never have to
see you again. I don't never have to deal with
you again, but I do have to deal with me
every single day, and I'm not going to carry the
poison of unforgiveness in my heart. You don't even know

(01:12:07):
that I'm feeling this, feeling like this all my life.
So I don't want to be stuck and dying every day.
You know, every time you get stuck in um unforgiveness
and you just get stuck, it's like you dying every day.
You're losing yourself again. It's like I want to grow,
I want to I want more. So you do forgive everybody,
but you just don't want to see it. You just
dont want to be like, Yeah, forgiveness does not necessarily

(01:12:28):
mean reconciliation. I need to reconcile. All you just need
to know is that I forgive you, and please don't
come over here, because every day I have to remember
that I forgive you, Like that's The's a process. We
have to remember that we forgave a person because when
you see him, you got to remember what made you
forgive them. Yes, I'm not to forgive face. What allowed

(01:12:49):
you to say that, all those people that hurt you
that you said, you know, what you hurt me. You
might not even apologize, but I forgive you what what
allowed you to do that? Because I'm not I can't.
I'm not there yet. I don't have any time to
race on you, you know, me being mad at you,
like I just I don't care telling with success, that's right, Yeah,
I just gotta I gotta keep pushing, I gotta keep moving,

(01:13:09):
and if you don't, you're gonna, you know, you're just
gonna be stuck. And being stuck is the worst thing
that can happen to you, Just stuck and you just
so many people are just stuck in nineteen ninety four.
I don't I don't want to be stuck in nineteen
ninety I don't want to be stuck in twenty twenty.
I want to be already in twenty twenty one thinking
about the next thing. But I can't move if I'm

(01:13:30):
still in nineteen ninety four, pissed at you, got you
all pissed yourself. That's why, that's why I love that
seeing where you just talking to your younger self, because
I was sitting there, like, how do you forgive your
younger self? How do you give your younger self that grace?
And you know, and you talk to her with so
much care because it's you, it's your child. When I
look at him, like, gosh, she hurts so much. She's

(01:13:51):
been through hell. I love her. I gotta And I
look at the little girl pictures she's been through hell.
I gotta. I gotta take care of her because she
is me and if I don't take care of her,
she can get me hurt. Right when we come back,
we got more with Mary J. Blige. Let's get into
a Mary Mini mixed man, Mary Saah, it's the breakfast Club.
Good morning morning, everybody in Steve j Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne,

(01:14:13):
the guy. We are the breakfast Club. We're still kicking
with Mary J. Blige. And what the different was when
you said you talked about all the things that you
dealt with as a child, and they were all horrible
and nasty. I wouldn't want that for anybody. But then
when you said this more that I can't even talk about,
I was like, what's the more, because I mean, you
said some things that are so horrible, Like I'm like,

(01:14:33):
you were dealing with a lot, and the fact that
you were able to climb out of it. Is a blessing.
And who was there besides your sister to help you
crawl out of those situations? It was just me, my
mom and my sister, two women living in the hood,
no male figure. I mean, it was hell just getting
to the store, my mother going to work, leaving us
with people she thinks she can trust. And that's life,

(01:14:57):
you know what I mean. And my mother's a older
and we just watched her and mimicked her. You know,
during that interview when you were watching your younger self,
you said that you used to be mean, right, so
I'm like, never smile and you didn't like the interviewer.
You said, you must not have liked the interviewer that
was doing it. I didn't, okay, So what would make

(01:15:18):
you like not like somebody? And was that a reputation
because you yourself said you mean, was it a reputation
you had because I haven't heard Mary with me, but
you were going through a lot, and sometimes people don't
understand that. And I feel like even today when you
interview these celebrities, you don't people think it's a perfect life,
but they also don't understand what goes on behind the scenes.
And so was that something that hindered you in any way.

(01:15:38):
Was it a reputation. It absolutely hindered me. And I
had a reputation for being a bit and being difficult
and not making it to interviews one time, not making
it to shows. And I was doing all of that.
I was bad. My thing was I didn't trust anybody,
and it took me a long time to trust. I
still don't really trust people that much. But then I
was just on guard, like straight out of the hood,

(01:16:00):
like please, just don't say nothing stupid. And it seemed
like everyone that interviewed me was saying something stupid and
asking the same stupid questions over and over again. But
what I realized when I got older is that that's
their job. And I realized that I have to learn
how to respect people's job, even if they're being stupid.
Did you ever rectify that, like go back and talk

(01:16:20):
to people later? And I did. I remember I had
to go to the record label and just apologize to
so many people. And when I apologize to all those people,
they were like like they were holding their hearts, like
like they was like, thank you so much. And I
was like, oh my god, and I must have been

(01:16:41):
a monster. And I don't. I don't even remember all
the stuff I did, And they were coming up to
me and telling me that I was cursing them out,
and you know, I remember some of it, but some
people I was like, I don't even remember your face.
I was just going off. That's because I didn't trust
anybody and I was on guard. How difficult was it
because you know, we were all in high school and
we don't see how hard it took. We just knew

(01:17:03):
Mary Jim Blas signed and all of a sudden, reminisces
was cool and in real love out the window. How
long did it take for you to get going? Was
it a long drive or was it just first single
in the pop well? The first thing I did was
with jeff Red m jeff Red was already signed, and
I went I started singing background with him on some
of his out on his records, and then I did

(01:17:23):
the Apolo with him. If you look at the Apollo,
that's me in the background singing with jeff Red. And
that was my one of my moments. But I had
to go back to slow mom after that, and after
the Father MC video, I had to I still had
to go home. It was terrible. Star in the hood though,
when you came home listen to my friends that hated me.

(01:17:44):
I was, I was. I had to fight, My family
had to fight. We had to It was rough, and
I didn't realize what was Now did I go back
and think about him like, wow, we was really in
the hood still while the records was charting, Wow, that's crazy.
I wondered what was going through your mind? Because you know,
you performed Anita Baker for Andre, and then you got
the opportunity to perform with Anita Baker. What was going

(01:18:06):
through your mind in that moment when you're performing with
what was? What was? What was that Mary telling Little Mary?
I was just so happy that that Anita Baker existed
because if it wasn't for Anita Baker, I wouldn't be
sitting here if it wasn't for that tape that I
made accord up in the rapture Andre when it came
to my house. So when I was singing with her
on stage, and I was about to cry, like cryby

(01:18:28):
five minutes because that woman was my angel. But who
knew that one of my favorite songs was want to
get me the deal that I got? That's why you
kept telling to take it away because you about to
cry every time. And that's why she was like gonna
cry because I was being mass Do you realize how
big you are for the culture, what you did for
the culture? Do you step back and be like damn

(01:18:49):
like because Mary j B know who she is? And
yet do you know who you are? Now? I do now.
It took me a while. It took me. Twenty sixteen
was the day I woke up and said, all right,
I'm it. I earned it, Like I went through hell
to hell to hell to hell to hell to hell
to hell in twenty sixteen was like enough of this
hell man. So it took me a minute to learn

(01:19:11):
how to receive. But I'm receiving it now since since
you you know, not realize who you are in the
impact you have on people, that don't make you more
intentional about about your words. Yes, and it makes me
know that it's a responsibility and I have to take
all this with humility. I can't just take it like
how to take it with thank you and grace. Thank

(01:19:33):
you so much. But you know, when it's goal time,
I'm just I'm monstuited, you know, from performing, you know,
to whatever I do, I give one hundred percent. I
can't think about what someone's thinking about me or what
someone's not thinking about me. I gotta just go. Is
there ever a time where Mary would do a versus?
Because we talk about unbeatable artists right in my opinion,

(01:19:58):
there was just a rumor about Tony Braxton and they
had to clear that up. What you doneatable? I don't
know what the verses would do for me. I like,
I'm because I don't know what verses can do for
Mary j Plies right now. But um, right now, it's
not something that's on the top of my list. It

(01:20:20):
got to be extended one hundred songs versus But because
you got too many songs, like, I don't even know,
how could you narrow it down to twenty? Couldn't? I
say it all the time, it's not even close. Now
you dedicated to doctor mister Andre Horrell, who you called dad.
At what point did he become that father figure in

(01:20:40):
your life? When um, I was in the music industry
alone with no father figure, and he was there a lot,
like he was there to talk me out of my foolishness.
Why are you doing this? Why are you doing drugs?
Why are you doing alcohol? Like like I would hide
from him because I didn't want want him to see me,
you know, in that condition, because I knew he had

(01:21:02):
something to say, and he'd just be giving me that
look like like a father, like I don't like this. Yeah,
And I was hide and I was hiding all the
stuff I was doing from puff. He didn't really know.
Could you ever love again? Like being love again with somebody?
Would you ever have that trust for somebody again? Or no?
Love is beautiful for the moment, you know, I would
never reject love, but marriage is something that I would

(01:21:24):
reject right now. I can also tell you know about
watching the doc. You have been doing a lot of
healing work? Do you do? You must shaying what you've
been doing, just some self help books, prayer, looking at
myself real good, always checking myself, like if something is
bothering me about someone, why is something about you bothering me?

(01:21:45):
Just you know, I have friends and people that are
into self you know, healing to that of teachers and
stuff like that. So I take information that makes sense
to me from anywhere where I can get it. You know,
like if you have a good word, I take a
good word. You got a word, I'll take a word
from you, because prayer just reveals to you you you know,

(01:22:06):
and sometimes the worst thing to look at is you.
But I'd rather see me acting ugly or see need
needing whatever kind of help I need so I can
know how to fix it. And that's really it. It's no,
it's no like, oh, you know, I visited you know,
all the shrinks in the world with nothing, nothing's wrong,
nothing wrong with that at all, you know. But I
think the best shrink is us. Like we just need

(01:22:29):
to be able to look at ourselves and and and
say it's okay on you by going to therapy. Though no,
like we don't. We don't badge each other with stuff
like that. It's like when you're ready, I feel like
that's a Capricorn thing too. Yeah, we don't get in
a way. We're like, look like we love it all right,
you're safe, call me what something going wrong now, you know,

(01:22:52):
But we don't like you need to you need because
we don't want nobody you need to on us. We're
not just mental like they don't move. We got with
Mary J. Blige. When we come back, it's to breakfast club,
Good morning, the breakfast clubs. We're still kicking with Mary
jade Ye. Now, what about your instincts. You talk a
lot about how you have really great instincts where there

(01:23:14):
are times that you feel like you should have followed
your instincts and you didn't and you disregarded it every day,
every day, damn every day from from nineteen ninety four
to for a long time. Yeah, when I didn't when
I don't listen to my gut on my instincts, disaster,
I mean like big disasters, Like I've had some big

(01:23:34):
disasters that I didn't follow. Mine was the moment when
you say, okay, God, I finally hear you twenty sixteen, Yeah, okay, okay.
What got you into, you know, saying you know what,
I'm gonna sit down and do a serious like you know,
we've seen you in movies before and usually that might
be a short stand and then you can go back
on the road and you do what you do. But
now like you have to stay in one space, you
have to film, like you know, last night, you're film

(01:23:57):
into midnight. Like, what made you say I'm gonna do
this time? Character? I mean, I'm a power fan, been
a power fan, So that's why I'm on the show.
Right now. Um, this character is so much fun and
it's very cathartic, Like I get to just blow people
away that I always want to blow away in my
mind and then forget about it when I came home
and I get curased. I get to do all types

(01:24:20):
of just crazy stuff. You know. So the art is
what makes you just say, you know, I'm gonna stay
up and I'm and I'm gonna do my job. Wait,
when you're acting, your picture ain't blowing away somebody else
in real life? Well whatever way, well method acting, you
gotta do some dark places. So whatever you have to

(01:24:43):
be a real place. If you got a real place,
whether it belonged to you with somebody else, visit that
place and make the character real. I go back and
visit horrible things that have happened in my life and wow,
and I just do you have time for yourself though,
because it seems like that character's gonna continue to go.
That character's not going anywhere. It seems like it's getting
spinoffs and all type of stuff. Do you have time

(01:25:03):
for you know what? Married time? Yeah? I take that
married time. You know, I'd be exhausted, but I get
the time I need. What did you learn about yourself
after after completing my life documentary, man that I'm a
really strong individual. Absolutely, yeah, and it's gracious. I mean
that that documentary you forgetting. I don't want to forget,

(01:25:25):
but you forget the influence when you start seeing the
young girls and saying they look up to you and
they respect you. They've been through the things that you've
been through, And how did that make you feel when
you see because it was young girls that their mama
had to be playing your music? And how did that
make you feel beautiful? Because then I didn't know what
anybody cared like. I didn't know Alicia keys Kid, I
didn't know nobody getting you know what, I didn't know

(01:25:47):
nobody cared to see. I didn't know that then whoever
was out what was you know was doing and trying
to be like Mary J. Blige, I was like it
didn't matter because I didn't matter. I just you understand
what I'm saying. It was just in your life and
not understanding what you meant to other people because you

(01:26:07):
were just trying to survive, like you said exactly, and
make it through and do your job and work and
not even considering like these people are coming up because
sometimes people will be coming up to you and it
didn't even look like you comprehended, like how exciting it was. Yeah,
because I didn't know I deserved any of it. I
didn't know I was supposed to be praised. I didn't
know I was supposed to be loved. So I didn't

(01:26:30):
know anybody even cared. And you were demo yourself down,
you said in your own relationship because you didn't want
to shine too, right, That's how you know. It's something
I just I didn't want, you know, just like in
the hood, I just didn't want people messing with me.
You know, you get too happy, or you get too
brave or too bragged, doocious you gotta fight somebody or
you gotta you know, this guy might start getting insecure

(01:26:52):
because you think you beautiful. And so that s those
are the things I had to lay down, like excuse
my friend that I need to live, I need to breathe,
I gotta take my time in my space for me.
The hell with y'all. I suffered too much for y'all,
So there's no more that. So even back in the
day when when guys like Jay would say I did

(01:27:12):
songs with Mary, Jay Blige money like he was saying
that out of excitement. That didn't do nothing for you
one moment. Yeah, yeah for a second, and then I'll
be back to you know what I mean. It was like,
all right, that's dope, and then now what Yeah, the
end of the documentary is a new song. I never
heard that song off us. I'm assuming it's new. It's new. Yeah,
it's it's new. With the documentary, are you gonna do

(01:27:32):
a new album or is that the process? Have you
started working already or I'm already in the process. I'm
already there. Maddison Square Garden, I was talking about this right. First,
I want to ask the room, and then I want
to ask you, Mary, Maddison Square Gardens sold out. You
got one song to before? What song you want to
hear married before? Form me um? Either either my life,
the title track of my life? Just one, yeah, probably

(01:27:54):
the title tract of my Life. That's a gospel record.
That record is about God. Come on you, just one record, man,
that's I can't say just one record, come on, come
on you. I don't know. That's how hard. I have
a lot of great memories. It's like a soundtrack to
my life. So there's some good memories, some bad ones too,
to some I do I want to hear something that's

(01:28:15):
like fun that was a great memory, pain for memory
my life because it helps me cry when I need
a good cry. Now, what would you perform? I do
like be happy though, that'll always be like my song
because I feel that, Yeah, one song got to perform,
one song sold out. What's the song you performing? My life?
My life? Yeah, that's the one, man, that's I wonder

(01:28:36):
even that about you And you say, um, you know,
don't when you're feeling that, don't you have a fake it?
It's like, is that why you were like so closed
off maybe back in the day and interviews because you
didn't want to show you're such a great shooter. You
didn't want to show people what you was really going through.
I don't want people to see me cry. I don't
want to see people to see me smile. I don't
want people to see anything that could lead to them

(01:28:58):
thinking I'm soft and anyway, because I just didn't trust
people with my emotions and my feelings. I just didn't
trust them with that part of me. Because as soon
as you open up, they pull a rock from under you.
You bust your head on the floor. So yeah, that's
what that was about. My last question, because I can
tell you ready to go. How would this whole, more

(01:29:21):
healed version of Mary j. Blige tell younger Mary how
not to get in her way? Well, I always say
if she could, if she can hear me, which I
don't think she could. It's two different marries. The younger
Mary is not going to listen to nobody, so all
the healed Mary definitely can't tell her what to do.
But if she would listen, I would just say, stop

(01:29:42):
being afraid of you. That's you. That big thing you're
feeling that you're running from, that's you. All right, ladies
and gentleman Mary, Mary Jane, congratulations are the documentary. We
can't wait to hear more music. No, I love you
in a real way like your Your music has been
the soundtrack to my life in a real, real way,

(01:30:05):
And even now as I'm older, I understand the music
more so. A song like my life hits different, a
song like be Happy when I'm you know, dealing with
the depression or something that hits different. So just just
thank you for being you. Yeah, thanks. Not too many
artists that you could say their music has withsted the
test of times. Thank you, guys, I perceived my flowers

(01:30:26):
right now. Thank you. Can we have the song? Can
we play the song right now? Or what song the documentary?
In the documentary, Na, that ain't that's kind of song.
What's the one you want us to play you? I
don't have it, but when I have it, I want
to hear it. And it's coming, It's coming. It's Mary J. Blise.
It's the Breakfast Club Morning, the Breakfast Club. Your mornings

(01:30:47):
will never be the same. I'm saying. I mean that
you can find anything in everything. On TikTok, I hear you.
I saw this video with some random person with a
central park and overheard a group of people talking back
about a girl named Marissa. So he posted it and
this girl Marissa actually found out and reached out to him. TikTok.
You have to see it. Everybody is d ch Envy,

(01:31:09):
Angela Yee Sheloman, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
We got a special guest on the line, Berna, what's
up brother? Long time I've seen my brother. Now, Berna,
I would have to say, when we talked marijuana and cannabis,
you were the first person. I know they had their
own marijuana cannabis line. I don't know if it was
legal or illegal back then. But you've been selling cookies

(01:31:31):
for a long damn tun How long have you had
the cookies man? You know, cookies probably been about like
twelve fifteen years. I've been in the gray market we
call it the gray market the traditional market for about
twenty years. So how did you get into selling marijuana
when it wasn't legal? I mean, it's legal everywhere now,

(01:31:52):
especially you know, medicinal, So how did you get into
selling it? How come you never got in trouble? Well,
you know, I was blessed to being in bad Area,
which is like one of the most liberal places in
the world when it comes to bud But in nineteen
ninety six they passed a law called Proposition to fifteen
where you were allowed to buy, sell, and grow medically.
And so there was a lot of loopholes in that law.

(01:32:13):
And so I just growing up just kind of came
up around that, you know what I mean. So I
wasn't dumb doing child stayed and I like that. I
just stayed in my lane and just learned the game.
And once it became wreck, I was fully gamed up
to go. You know, I like that story because a
lot of people will tell you, oh, don't get a job,
and that means you're working for the man and just
being an entrepreneur. But you actually learned a lot of

(01:32:35):
the ins and outs of the marijuana business from having
a job working at a dispensary early on, And people
don't understand the importance because then it really prepared you
to be able to start your own thing, right Yeah,
And that's what separates us from everyone else. Like as
we roll out globally, not just nationwide. You know, we
got cookies Israel, we got Puerto Rico coming, we got
we got so many things on deck. But we're providing

(01:32:56):
an experience at like you going learn hands on, you know,
to actually show the customer the bud be knowledgeable about it.
Our experience comes with twenty years and our shorefronts. So
it's not like we just can't for the money grab
or just decide we want to just be let's be
a week. You gotta let's just get it cracking, like
we actually put real time into it. You know, does
it about to you to see you all these people
are now jumping into the business that before I might

(01:33:19):
have been condemning it. Nah, you know, at the end
of the day, you gotta adapt. Would change. You gotta
know that people are going to come rushing and want
it changes a little bit. I just I just feel
good at knowing that they're so far away from us
and they don't have to peer intentions. So it's going
to show, you know what I mean, like culturally and
just where they're hearts at with the bud. It's going
to show that they're not really in it for the
long run. So I feel good about it. Even some

(01:33:41):
politicians that were so against it are now like trying
to get in the business. That has to be so ironic.
It's funny. It's funny to me another thing that you're
doing because obviously for our twenty gotta have Burner on
the show, and you do have an event happening, a
pay per view comedy show, So can you talk about that? Yeah,
you know, during during just everyone's doing these concerts like

(01:34:02):
wrapping on screen, Like I could never get myself to
do it. I live. I feed off the energy in
the crowd, So I was like, what could I do
that we can bring into people's homes. But then stay
it's true to what I like to do. I'm like,
comedy would be perfect. Everyone's doing live stream rap shows.
It's cool, don't get me wrong, but I as an
artist cannot do it. I get the buye from the crowd.

(01:34:22):
So you know, at the end of the day, I
thought comedy would be great. No one's really done it,
and we got a great lineup for y'all, and it's
gonna be perfect to compliment the high on four twenty.
People are gonna laugh their ass off. Yeah, my boy,
Siper Sounds is on it, who, by the way, doesn't
smoke but always looks high. If you look at I
thought you smoked for sure. Yeah, Styper Sounds, Bob Sagging,

(01:34:45):
you got Michael Blacks and Paul Rodriguez, um a little duvault,
Jeff Ross. It's gonna be so break down the different
streams of weed and what people would use weed for,
whether it's a TI but in the hybrid. Break that down.
Because you smoke in the mornings. You what are you
smoke in the morning? You know I smoke. So typically
people say it's Stiva is more for like the mind,

(01:35:06):
like a head high indicas more for like the body
but just like anything else, the human body is different.
So Angela might smoke an indicat that kind of makes
your mind kind of race a little bit. You might
smoke a sativa that that that super puts you down.
So it all depends on your body. This morning, I'm
smoking something super strong and kind of wake them up
because I was like, I gotta get on camera, I

(01:35:27):
gotta get right. So you know, I find what I
like in Bernie, but Budd does so much and it's
so good for you, bro, Like, I gotta send both
of you guys a new products, a mushroom UM CBD
CBM blend, and I like that it's incredible. Look for
the morning, we got clarity. It opens up your minds
like out of raw without your heart beating there feeling
many and then we at the BedHead for night, which

(01:35:49):
gives you the best rest. But the mushrooms is the
next thing too. You're gonna see your boy ahead of
the game with the mushroom is so good for your body, man,
And so I gotta send both y'all some caps. They're legal,
you won't get in trouble, but they're they're incredible for
the morning and the night. Now I wanted to also
talk to you about I saw you discussing, and I
really loved your response. Right, your store, one of your stores,

(01:36:11):
they actually broke in and stole like a million dollars worth,
and obviously people were protesting in the streets, and your
response was, if you can just discuss that, because I
know a lot of people who are store owners when
they were protests and their stores were getting damaged and looted,
What did you have to say when that happened to you? Look,
it sucks, obviously, but I understand why it happened. I

(01:36:33):
respect why it happened. It's it's part of the world, right,
Like the world is in such an angry state, and
they've killed multiple people on camera and keep rubbing in
our face and act like it's not a big deal.
And so as a as a minority owner in any business,
just being out here being racially profile when I'm out
and about, I understand one hundred percent what was going on.
So I told my guards to stand down. No one

(01:36:54):
needs to die with it's just money. I could bounce
back real quick, but you cannot get that man's life back,
Like that man's life was taken from him and it
was televised, and the whole world washed it, and so
we were a part of what the world's reaction was.
We were in the way of the storm, and so
you can't get more You can't get mad when it rains, right,
And so my whole thing was like, dude, I understand
why it happened, and I wasn't mad at all. A

(01:37:18):
bunch of people online talking to get Superman, like that's
how could you not understand where people's hearts were at
when that happened? That she was like, and it was
it keeps happening. It's still happening. Look what happened in
the thirteen year old boy in Chicago. So it's like
at the end of the day, like, you know, I
just I felt what the world was feeling, and I
understood it, and and I just took it because it

(01:37:38):
is what it is, you know what I mean? Like,
how could you how could you trip all some money
when someone just lost their father. It just doesn't work
like that. And now we're waiting for the outcome of
Derek Chauvin's child, So that's gonna we'll see what happens
after that. They're trying to prepare for that across the
country too, But it's gonna be some If you kill somebody,
you're asking you to go to jail. It's it's on camera,

(01:37:58):
like whether he had COVID or whether he was on drug,
whatever it was that his knee was on his neck
for how long it's on camera, you cannot say that
that's justifiable. So I hope that they do the right
thing in that. One more thing I wanted to ask, though,
have you always had this entrepreneurship mindset? Because I saw
you posting about the hotel and how your goal is
to own a hotel one day, and then you have

(01:38:20):
this network. Obviously you have cookies, So can you tell
us where that mindset came from for you? No, my
parents always told me, don't work for nobody else, to
search your own business, even if it doesn't work for you,
just be your own boss. So that was in starting
my heads a little kid. You know, my father had
a Mexican restaurant. I've seen what he did growing up,
and it was never enough for us, Like it's it's tough.
You can only sell read or taco for so much.

(01:38:41):
So I was like, what can I do? And I
just kind of follow my gut. I don't know what
it was, but I've been working stup and twelve. I
loted by my age, got my job and started stacking
my bread and flipping my bread, and you know that's
that's just the way I am. Maybe it's Siberia Barria,
is you know? Independent Blueprint Central. So readily appreciate you
for checking in. And yes, I'm gonna stop by cookies

(01:39:02):
because I'll be in Detroit next week, so I'm amation man.
Come by a mile. We got you, says hit me up.
We got you, and obviously hopefully cookies New York soon too.
Whoo Hey, thank you, Bernard. We appreciate you for checking in.
All right, shal morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee,
Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, um,
it's time to end on a positive note. You got

(01:39:24):
a positive no charge positive note. It simply, don't let
the behaviors of others destroy your inner piece breakfast club, y'all,
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