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Best of 2025- BEST MOMENTS - Wiz Khalifa, Dontay Banks & Kevin Freeman, The Cast of Harlem, Dj Envy & Gia Casey, Recorded 2025. · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Good morning Usa yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
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  Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
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  Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo.
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  Speaker 2: Yo yo yo jess Hilario ass some morning.
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  Speaker 3: And currently we are on vacation.
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  Speaker 4: Man, totally disconnected. Yes, we're not even really here. You
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  Speaker 4: think you're listening to us.
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  Speaker 5: But we're not.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we are not.
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  Speaker 6: We're here in spirit.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, we're on vacation.
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  Speaker 8: So we're playing the best Donkeys, the best interviews you guys,
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  Speaker 8: which is the best callers and some of the best
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  Speaker 8: moments the Breakfast Club has had in the last couple
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  Speaker 8: of months. So sit back, relax, enjoy and have fun.
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  Speaker 3: Keep a lock.
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  Speaker 7: Red is gonna be running the boards.
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  Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, telling, I'm telling what you doing? A call
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  Speaker 7: of yo.
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  Speaker 9: This is your time to get it off your chest,
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  Speaker 9: whether you're mad or blessed.
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  Speaker 6: Eight hundred and five eight five one.
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  Speaker 5: O five one.
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  Speaker 9: We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, who's this?
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  Speaker 3: You're what's up?
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  Speaker 10: Trap yas? What's the baby? What's our star? Are you?
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  Speaker 7: Please? What eup? Says?
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  Speaker 10: How are you now? I'm doing good? It's checking on
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  Speaker 10: my bro checking on my girl. See how y'all doing.
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  Speaker 4: We are bloods black, and how they with my brother?
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  Speaker 4: My brother who you're getting into this weekend?
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  Speaker 10: Listen, let me tell you all right, you see, I
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  Speaker 10: just try to skate by.
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  Speaker 6: That and I just keep talking.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, I'm sorry, Go ahead.
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  Speaker 10: So when y'all use the public restroom, right, do y'all
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  Speaker 10: put you off bear butt cheeks on the public toilet?
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  Speaker 3: No? I don't think anybody does.
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  Speaker 10: No, Okay. I had to stop talking to this guy
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  Speaker 10: because he'd be out here bear button public toilet seats,
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  Speaker 10: and he was trying to tell me that it is
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  Speaker 10: actually sanitary to not put the liners down on toilet seas.
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  Speaker 10: You know what's so crazy. I just called and I
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  Speaker 10: was just talking to be and he didn't answer the phone,
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  Speaker 10: and he said he heard the same thing. That is sanitary.
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  Speaker 7: Why a bottom? Yeah, well we're gonna get a bump
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  Speaker 7: on your butt.
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  Speaker 10: Don't sit or public toilet seat tweeze with your bear butt.
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  Speaker 7: That's nasty.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The only way it would be unsanitary if you're using
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  Speaker 4: the same line as somebody.
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  Speaker 7: Now that's nasty.
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  Speaker 4: Imagine seeing the line already the to and you sit
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  Speaker 4: on the line and you like, thank you guys.
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  Speaker 10: But all right, y'all, you have a good weekend, good Friday,
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  Speaker 10: freaky freaky Friday. Make sure you'll do something freaky today.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I ask you who you was getting into.
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  Speaker 5: By the business yard?
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  Speaker 3: Goodbye?
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  Speaker 7: Hello, who's this?
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  Speaker 10: Good morning?
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  Speaker 7: DJ?
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  Speaker 12: Andrey Charlom and the guy Hilario.
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  Speaker 3: Get off your chest?
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  Speaker 10: All right, I gotta get off my chest.
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  Speaker 12: Donald Rollins is clearly one of the funniest people on
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  Speaker 12: the planet because he's doing it for it's long at
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  Speaker 12: the highest level.
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  Speaker 5: For you to come at.
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  Speaker 12: The Breakfast Club and complain that people aren't taking you
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  Speaker 12: serious because of them, it's a little whack. It's ingenuously you.
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  Speaker 12: On one interview you said you had a book and
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  Speaker 12: brought out a pamphlet.
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  Speaker 7: He was funny, but I get it.
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  Speaker 12: But you hear David Chappelle Kevin Hart when he speaking interviews.
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  Speaker 12: They're funny, but you also haveing, like real conversation.
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  Speaker 7: It's always a joke, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 12: But hey, they swooped, Donald Rollins, you know you're one
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  Speaker 12: of the greatest to ever do it. Stop crying love
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  Speaker 12: to the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all have a good morning. And that's really what it
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  Speaker 4: boils down to. You want to you are great at
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  Speaker 4: what you do. Don now he is stop crying. Get
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  Speaker 4: it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one
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  Speaker 4: oh five one. If you need to vent, phone lines
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  Speaker 4: a wide open. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the
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  Speaker 4: Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 13: I'm telling, I'm telling what you're doing.
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  Speaker 7: Call of yo.
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  Speaker 9: If this is your time to get it off your chest,
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  Speaker 9: whether you're mad or blessed.
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  Speaker 6: Eight hundred five eight five one five one.
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  Speaker 9: We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 7: Hello.
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  Speaker 6: Who's this?
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  Speaker 14: Good morning? It's James calling from North Carolina.
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  Speaker 6: Hey James, what up?
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  Speaker 7: Brother?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 14: Oh, good morning everybody?
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  Speaker 6: What's wrong?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 14: Just love you?
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  Speaker 5: Can you can't hear you?
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  Speaker 7: Just love your kids? James.
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  Speaker 8: James recently found a text message from his son and
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  Speaker 8: uh and the text message his son was saying that
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  Speaker 8: he wanted to off himself.
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  Speaker 14: Well his mom saying about he doesn't want to be buried,
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  Speaker 14: but he's not.
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  Speaker 3: How old is your son?
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  Speaker 7: Brother?
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  Speaker 14: He's seventy.
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  Speaker 7: Have you take him? Have you took him? Took him
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  Speaker 7: to talk talk to anybody yet? Brother?
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  Speaker 14: I'm I'm gonna go the other day I was gonna
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  Speaker 14: go so it cut his hair and go see that
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  Speaker 14: captain there week. I think I'm gonna go to day.
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  Speaker 4: You definitely should do that. Y'all should go to y'all
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  Speaker 4: should go to some family counselor man. Just have him
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  Speaker 4: sit down and.
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  Speaker 8: Talk to somebody sooner than later. Brother, Absolutely, Oh god, I.
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  Speaker 14: Got out of the only think even bored I wanted
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  Speaker 14: to be around.
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  Speaker 8: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely where you call him from Carolina?
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  Speaker 4: As he said, no for South North Carolina.
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  Speaker 7: I'm gonna put you on hold man.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna get you in touch with somebody man that
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  Speaker 4: you that you probably can talk to.
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  Speaker 7: Hold on, brother, can you give you an email to
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  Speaker 7: a good psychiatrist?
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  Speaker 5: I know?
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  Speaker 10: Okay, hold on, hold on.
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  Speaker 3: You know that The sad thing is, you know, me
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  Speaker 3: and my wife we do a podcast, case podcast where we.
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  Speaker 8: Take emails, and in the last two weeks we got
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  Speaker 8: four emails from parents saying the same exact thing, you know,
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  Speaker 8: like you know that they've been talking to their kids
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  Speaker 8: recently and they've been seeing the change in their kids,
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  Speaker 8: and their kids have been talking about, you know, suicide.
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  Speaker 8: And these are the ages from eight to twelve.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 8: And we tell everybody as a parent, like my father
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  Speaker 8: went through my stuff, just to make sure if you
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  Speaker 8: see any change, it's not Brian.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're the mom, your dad.
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  Speaker 8: Go through the text messages, go through emails, go through
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  Speaker 8: your kids stuff.
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  Speaker 3: You would. You want to make sure that you're on
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  Speaker 3: top of it.
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  Speaker 8: And like Charloumagne always said, get the necessary help took therapists.
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  Speaker 8: Get help, like, don't try to do it on your
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  Speaker 8: own because you know you're not professionally trained for this.
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  Speaker 4: Get help and actually be happy that your kid is
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  Speaker 4: expressing that they have an issue. You know, because some
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  Speaker 4: kids don't express that they have an issue. They just
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  Speaker 4: keep it to themselves and then they actually end up
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  Speaker 4: completing suicide. Be happy that they're actually telling you, because
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  Speaker 4: now you know that's a cry for help.
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  Speaker 7: So go get the milk.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely eight hundred five eight five one o five one.
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  Speaker 8: If you need the vent, call us up right now.
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  Speaker 8: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 5: Morning.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody is d j n V. Just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy.
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  Speaker 8: We are the Breakfast Club. You got some special guests.
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  Speaker 7: In the building.
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  Speaker 8: Indeed, you have the cast of Harlem. I say your name,
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  Speaker 8: Jerry Johnson and Tyler LEFLI welcome, appreciate how y'all feeling
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  Speaker 8: this morning.
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  Speaker 2: That phenomenal, amazing study.
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  Speaker 15: Study.
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  Speaker 4: How many of y'all make sure everybody's house is good?
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  Speaker 8: Ok Okay, let's get right into it. Harlem is back
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  Speaker 8: January twenty third on Amazon Prime. But sadly they say
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  Speaker 8: this is the last season. Why so many people watch it?
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  Speaker 3: So many people are into it? How did they just
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  Speaker 3: do it like that?
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  Speaker 6: Ask Fun Prime.
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  Speaker 16: It's really really sad, and I think like everybody's super
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  Speaker 16: sad because we had so much story to tell and
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  Speaker 16: so like, if we did have more seasons, this would
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  Speaker 16: have the stories would have been so good. But they
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  Speaker 16: did such an amazing job truncating it, bringing it down
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  Speaker 16: into this final season. I think everybody's gonna be happy.
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  Speaker 3: But hopefully we get a movie.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, did y'all know it was gonna be the final
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  Speaker 8: season when y'all started taping?
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  Speaker 3: Did you know that already? Did y'all find a halfway through?
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  Speaker 13: I found no, not halfway through. I think I found
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  Speaker 13: out a little late, but sometimes I'm in my own world.
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  Speaker 13: But I found out the day of the reading as
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  Speaker 13: we were reading it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, going into knowing that it was the last season. No,
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  Speaker 2: I knew it, but I hadn't read the last two.
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  Speaker 13: I thought they were saving the last two episodes, so
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  Speaker 13: I didn't know, you know, And then as we were
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  Speaker 13: reading it, I.
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  Speaker 3: Was like, oh, no, this is it.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, but did y'all been doing a lot on the
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  Speaker 8: side as well?
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  Speaker 3: Y'all been engaged? You ever having babies, losing?
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, it's true, it's true.
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  Speaker 8: So how were y'all doing all of that on the
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  Speaker 8: side as well as taping the show?
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  Speaker 17: You know, what's interesting is that as we've been taping
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  Speaker 17: the show, because we.
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  Speaker 2: Started what you start twenty twenty, okay.
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  Speaker 17: Twenty twenty, and then we got like maybe three episodes in,
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  Speaker 17: then COVID happened, and then we took a break, then
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  Speaker 17: we came back, then we had a year off, then
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  Speaker 17: we went through striking, all these different things. But during
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  Speaker 17: the duration of all these things, we were experiencing life.
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  Speaker 17: We were having all kinds of life changes and having
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  Speaker 17: conversations in between, because not only are we, you know,
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  Speaker 17: friends on the show, we're like sisters in real life,
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  Speaker 17: but also with Tracy and then saying with Tyler, like
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  Speaker 17: that's our brother, that's our family, but each one of
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  Speaker 17: us were experiencing things that, you know, as Tracy spoke
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  Speaker 17: to us, She's like, what do you think about this?
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  Speaker 15: And what do you think about that?
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  Speaker 17: And I know you're on this journey and you know,
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  Speaker 17: do you mind if I implement this and all of that.
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  Speaker 17: So so much of it is actually mirrored in the
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  Speaker 17: show of what we were experiencing. So it kind of
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  Speaker 17: made it seamless in that way, and you know, you
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  Speaker 17: have a specific story about that, but yeah, just everything,
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  Speaker 17: it just it feels like it was a part of
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  Speaker 17: our actual, real lives.
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  Speaker 3: So what's your story with that?
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  Speaker 16: No, so we were talking about this, but you know
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  Speaker 16: how Quinn goes through her depression journey in season two.
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  Speaker 16: I did a lot of research on depression because it
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  Speaker 16: wasn't something I was personally dealing with at the time,
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  Speaker 16: but I wanted to reflect it in a very honest way.
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  Speaker 16: So went through that, did that research, and then I
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  Speaker 16: had the baby and then I was diagnosed with severe
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  Speaker 16: postpart depression. So even when I came on the show
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  Speaker 16: the last time, I was in the depths of that.
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  Speaker 16: Didn't really realize the impact and how that affected me
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  Speaker 16: until I started to kind of climb out of that. Right,
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  Speaker 16: going through that journey with Quinn, it gave me a
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  Speaker 16: space and I call it my help journal, like a
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  Speaker 16: reflective journal, to look back on and say, oh, like
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  Speaker 16: this was this was the way in which it was
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  Speaker 16: showing up for Quinn. I didn't realize that postpartum depression
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  Speaker 16: can show up as fatigue, as overwhelmed. We know about
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  Speaker 16: the sadness, we know about all that stuff, but these
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  Speaker 16: are some of the ways the mood swings. Didn't know
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  Speaker 16: that that was a part of those things. And so
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  Speaker 16: being able to play that and reflect that in Quinn
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  Speaker 16: gave me almost like a map that I could go, Okay, grace, like,
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  Speaker 16: this is how you can navigate.
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  Speaker 3: This did work help with her?
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  Speaker 16: It worse, No, it helped because it actually gave me
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  Speaker 16: an enlightenment, right like, oh, this is what it could
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  Speaker 16: look like. This is what And so even though I
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  Speaker 16: was I was doing it for Quinn, you know, I
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  Speaker 16: felt it on a different nuanced level when I was
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  Speaker 16: actually going through it myself.
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  Speaker 15: Gotcha, how are y'all juggling the schedules though?
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  Speaker 18: Like now, because it's still is it's like y'all personally
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  Speaker 18: flourishing business y'all flourishing?
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  Speaker 15: How can y'all because I know that the schedules.
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  Speaker 18: I mean, I know y'all said, it's been like two
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  Speaker 18: years since y'all did this, But now y'all all got
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  Speaker 18: individually a lot going on too.
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  Speaker 15: Can y'all still like, how y'all juggling schedules?
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  Speaker 16: We all start with Sian that one because she just
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  Speaker 16: got us single.
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  Speaker 18: You know, I thrive when I'm busy, I really do.
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  Speaker 18: I like the structure of figuring out my schedule. I've
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  Speaker 18: become more detail oriented when I have a lot of
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  Speaker 18: things to focused on.
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  Speaker 3: And I was very.
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  Speaker 18: Intentional about dropping feel my Love my new single after
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  Speaker 18: the ending season two with a engagement or proposal, and
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  Speaker 18: so I wanted to like balance that and have that
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  Speaker 18: come out at the same time as the show because
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  Speaker 18: I knew a lot of Harlem.
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  Speaker 15: Fans would be patting attention, but also just to like, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, maybe troll a little bit or.
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  Speaker 18: Make them question whether and you would actually end up
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  Speaker 18: in this relationship because we don't get a yes or
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  Speaker 18: no at.
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  Speaker 15: The end of the season two. Okay, strategy anything, you know.
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  Speaker 4: We're trying to have a rollout making you refer to
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  Speaker 4: them as your sisters and your brothers. That does that
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  Speaker 4: happen naturally because a lot of times, you know, people
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  Speaker 4: want to keep things business.
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  Speaker 7: So that just happened naturally that this bond.
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  Speaker 17: It happened completely organically in the beginning from day one.
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  Speaker 17: If I started with Schnik, well, like we were on
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  Speaker 17: FaceTime a few years prior and I had never met
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  Speaker 17: her before, and we just spoke and we talked about like,
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  Speaker 17: you know what, one day we're gonna do a show together,
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  Speaker 17: and we touched and agreed on the camera of the FaceTime.
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  Speaker 17: And then literally years later, here we are both walking in,
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  Speaker 17: we're both testing, and we're in the bathroom and.
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  Speaker 16: She's like, do you remember me?
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  Speaker 7: I was like from here?
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  Speaker 15: And she told me and I was like wait what.
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  Speaker 17: And then we ended up praying and crying in the bathroom,
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  Speaker 17: and you know, there's that. And then literally with Tyler,
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  Speaker 17: it was just immediate, like just family and just easy
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  Speaker 17: or organic. Same thing with Jerry, it was like like
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  Speaker 17: I've known her forever, like you know.
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  Speaker 15: And then with Grace, I called her, I was like, girl,
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  Speaker 15: I'm getting.
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  Speaker 7: She was like, don't doubt me.
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  Speaker 3: You getting ready to.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, Like for years before that, so that was exciting.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, is that the normal sex?
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  Speaker 15: It isn't always like that.
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  Speaker 17: And then you also you know it when it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 15: For women, you just never know what you're gonna get.
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  Speaker 15: You hope that that is the.
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  Speaker 17: Experience, but you know, and we had talked about this
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  Speaker 17: a few years prior, saying how it would be great
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  Speaker 17: if we got an opportunity to work on a show together.
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  Speaker 17: So when I called her and she was like, I
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  Speaker 17: can't really, I was excited. It was like you just
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  Speaker 17: knew that God was in it. And I have to say,
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  Speaker 17: for me, this has been the best professional experience that
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  Speaker 17: I've had in my entire career. You know, you know,
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  Speaker 17: in a way, it's the end of a chapter, but
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  Speaker 17: it's exciting because the way that we end the chapter
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  Speaker 17: were really really proud of. And I think the audience
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  Speaker 17: is going to get everything that they want to get.
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  Speaker 17: But also I think that we got what we want
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  Speaker 17: to get outside of having a movie.
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  Speaker 15: Additionally, but.
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  Speaker 17: It's better, I think to move this way where it's
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  Speaker 17: you know, you didn't stay for too long, but you
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  Speaker 17: gave everyone exactly what they wanted and needed, and I want.
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  Speaker 13: To give Meghan her props too, because she was a
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  Speaker 13: great leader in setting the culture of our set. And
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  Speaker 13: everybody who has come and guest starred, they've had a
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  Speaker 13: really great time. But we learned from Meghan from Grace
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  Speaker 13: like it truly.
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  Speaker 2: Is a fun time. But also we have decided.
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  Speaker 13: We decided early on that we were going to stick
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  Speaker 13: together throughout this situation, so nobody could say, you know,
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  Speaker 13: this person was a difficult one, or this person was
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  Speaker 13: this one, or because if there was a problem, we
• 14:04
  Speaker 13: all have the problem.
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: If we all have it and we're on the.
• 14:08
  Speaker 13: Zoom calls or whatever, and you won't know where the
• 14:11
  Speaker 13: source is, because we didn't want it to be like
• 14:13
  Speaker 13: somebody was pinpointed or somebody is And we promised each
• 14:17
  Speaker 13: other that if somebody says something to one of us
• 14:20
  Speaker 13: about the other one, we're not just gonna take it
• 14:22
  Speaker 13: at face value.
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: We come into the source and saying, hey, did this
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: really happen.
• 14:26
  Speaker 7: People do like.
• 14:28
  Speaker 13: To like separate women and pen women against each other,
• 14:31
  Speaker 13: and so I think it was really important for us
• 14:33
  Speaker 13: to And this is my second show. I mean, I
• 14:36
  Speaker 13: was like six months out of grad school and I
• 14:38
  Speaker 13: booked this show, and the first time being the lead
• 14:41
  Speaker 13: in something and then to get to do it like this,
• 14:44
  Speaker 13: which is for me my manifestation, and to be like,
• 14:48
  Speaker 13: oh wait no, actually, for me, this can be the
• 14:52
  Speaker 13: norm of.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: The experience and y'all set the tone for that. I
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: thank you for.
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: Being a student.
• 14:57
  Speaker 8: We have more with the cast of hallm here making Good,
• 15:00
  Speaker 8: tal Aleplee, Grace Biased, Janiqua Shandai, and Jerry Johnson.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning everybody.
• 15:06
  Speaker 8: You'rj NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the God we are the
• 15:10
  Speaker 8: Breakfast Club. He's still kicking in with the cast of
• 15:12
  Speaker 8: Harlem Megan Good, Tala Leplee, Grace Bias, Shaniqua Shandai and
• 15:17
  Speaker 8: Jerry Johnson.
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: Charlamagne does acting allow y'all to just escape when you're
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: dealing with all of these personal things.
• 15:23
  Speaker 7: Now you can just go be somebody else for a
• 15:25
  Speaker 7: few hours.
• 15:25
  Speaker 17: It allows you to work through things, you know, past trauma,
• 15:30
  Speaker 17: certain experiences. Rather it's childhood, I mean, whatever it may be.
• 15:33
  Speaker 17: It allows you to have a place to put it
• 15:35
  Speaker 17: to good use and for it to be something that
• 15:37
  Speaker 17: someone else can watch or see and take from it
• 15:40
  Speaker 17: and go Okay. That made me feel not alone, or
• 15:41
  Speaker 17: that made me feel soon or understood. So I think
• 15:44
  Speaker 17: in a way it's therapeutic. I don't know if it
• 15:46
  Speaker 17: really allows us to escape, I get to each of these.
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: Gets a little dangerous. So do y'all allow y'rselves to
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: lose yourself in a row?
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: You don't?
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: You don't can't go to there?
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: You can?
• 15:56
  Speaker 13: Because that's I think the if we think about like
• 15:59
  Speaker 13: some of our great that have lost themselves and then
• 16:03
  Speaker 13: we lost them. I was gonna say that, Yeah, it's
• 16:07
  Speaker 13: like when you go there, if you don't know how
• 16:09
  Speaker 13: to unzip that character and step out in order to
• 16:12
  Speaker 13: go home and not have that energy in your home,
• 16:15
  Speaker 13: it gets crazy. But also the body doesn't know the
• 16:18
  Speaker 13: difference sometimes, So when you go and when you're going
• 16:21
  Speaker 13: deep into a character and you're not doing those things
• 16:25
  Speaker 13: where you are separating when you get.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Home, your body don't know the difference.
• 16:30
  Speaker 13: So if my character is going crazy, if I'm playing
• 16:32
  Speaker 13: the Joker and I'm really in there and I'm taking
• 16:35
  Speaker 13: the Joker home with me, my body don't know that
• 16:38
  Speaker 13: I'm not the Joker.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: If I believe it enough.
• 16:41
  Speaker 13: And so sometimes you know it's good to be like
• 16:45
  Speaker 13: all right, I'm gonna give a cap on this, Like,
• 16:47
  Speaker 13: if I really gotta go there, I'm gonna go there
• 16:50
  Speaker 13: for the six months I gotta go there. But I'm
• 16:52
  Speaker 13: already planning all the things I need to plan so
• 16:55
  Speaker 13: that day I'm done, it's already set up for me
• 16:58
  Speaker 13: to release this. Whether I'm going to the ocean, whether
• 17:01
  Speaker 13: I'm wherever I am, whether all of my friends come
• 17:04
  Speaker 13: to my house to remind me of who I am.
• 17:06
  Speaker 13: I have to have something that reality sets me back
• 17:09
  Speaker 13: to who I am, or it's not gonna be it's gonna.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Be on my spirit and it's not gonna be good
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: for me.
• 17:15
  Speaker 18: Then, speaking of then Jerry, where's Tie's head at?
• 17:19
  Speaker 15: After she found out she smashed the mother and.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: She got to jump back into being.
• 17:30
  Speaker 13: Yes, that's crazy, that's crazy, you know, to find out
• 17:35
  Speaker 13: something like that is like, how do you even deal
• 17:38
  Speaker 13: with that? And I think Tie decides because what I.
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: Really want.
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: Open.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I think Jerry is poly, but she's loved be Jon.
• 17:54
  Speaker 13: Even though Jerry is Polly, I wouldn't describe Tie as Polly.
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: I think Ty was really wanting.
• 18:00
  Speaker 13: Something, but also probably in that moment, being greedy because
• 18:04
  Speaker 13: she was wanting something.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: But having something else.
• 18:07
  Speaker 13: And I think sometimes if my intention is commitment, then
• 18:10
  Speaker 13: I have to go towards what that intention is.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: And if it's commitment towards one person.
• 18:15
  Speaker 13: And I'm letting my energy fly, of course I might
• 18:19
  Speaker 13: end up with a daughter.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I lost.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: I knew what was going on, and I was like, Grace,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: how is motherhood changed you?
• 18:29
  Speaker 16: I think what I did not expect was that I
• 18:32
  Speaker 16: was fully prepared to be like, I'm ready to learn
• 18:34
  Speaker 16: everything I can about motherhood and my child. I did
• 18:37
  Speaker 16: not anticipate that I was going to also go on
• 18:39
  Speaker 16: a journey to learn about myself, and so I had
• 18:42
  Speaker 16: to face things about myself in order to ensure his
• 18:46
  Speaker 16: well being. Right, So I had to go back to
• 18:49
  Speaker 16: my own childhood, go back to the things that you
• 18:52
  Speaker 16: know that I didn't realize that I was like holding
• 18:54
  Speaker 16: on to, or dealing with, or like simple things like
• 18:57
  Speaker 16: you know, like being being a recovering people pleaser. I
• 19:01
  Speaker 16: can't do that with my child. I will be so depleted.
• 19:04
  Speaker 16: I will not show up as the mother that I
• 19:06
  Speaker 16: need to be. So how do I then organize in
• 19:09
  Speaker 16: my mind? Like how do I prioritize myself for real?
• 19:11
  Speaker 19: For real?
• 19:12
  Speaker 18: You know?
• 19:12
  Speaker 16: So like things like that that I didn't expect that
• 19:15
  Speaker 16: are really changing my life.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: Wow, are these moments bittersweet?
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Knowing that you know it's gonna be the last time
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: y'all probably do interviews together and thinks of that nature.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: They said, they talk about movie, they manifest the movie.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: So the last time we need a petition.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Is not this.
• 19:32
  Speaker 18: Y'all could do something else, Yeah, because y'all are so grounded,
• 19:35
  Speaker 18: even as just outside the caves, just hearing y'all speak like,
• 19:39
  Speaker 18: you know, like even from the last interview that we
• 19:41
  Speaker 18: had with you, like so much growth, like not saying
• 19:44
  Speaker 18: that you you know last time right, No, well not that,
• 19:54
  Speaker 18: but just I don't know, it's just it's zinful, it's tranquility.
• 19:58
  Speaker 15: This is a whole bunch of all are very grounded
• 20:01
  Speaker 15: as a cast.
• 20:02
  Speaker 18: So I appreciate it. Anything else not even don't have
• 20:05
  Speaker 18: to be all the or just you know, y'all can
• 20:07
  Speaker 18: write your own movie. I can directly, we can just get.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: It list.
• 20:14
  Speaker 16: Come on here, like we really appreciate enough.
• 20:17
  Speaker 20: And even just like you know, to all of us
• 20:18
  Speaker 20: before you know, as we're saying goodbye, I feel like
• 20:20
  Speaker 20: one of the biggest uh you know reasons it's not
• 20:22
  Speaker 20: a sad goodbye. It's like for a multitude of things, like, hey,
• 20:25
  Speaker 20: we have a you know, we have a great beginning middle,
• 20:28
  Speaker 20: and now you know, we knew are and we knew
• 20:30
  Speaker 20: who were landing at so like that's a beautiful thing.
• 20:32
  Speaker 20: But then on the flip side off of the script,
• 20:33
  Speaker 20: you know, because of the way we were able to
• 20:35
  Speaker 20: come together as a family, Like I feel like this
• 20:37
  Speaker 20: is a you know, a lot of times when we
• 20:39
  Speaker 20: say goodbye to people, it's like a sad goodbye, you
• 20:41
  Speaker 20: know what I'm saying. But it's like, I really feel
• 20:43
  Speaker 20: like this is a you know, this is the opposite, is
• 20:45
  Speaker 20: almost like a happy goodbye.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
• 20:47
  Speaker 20: When we say goodbye, it's almost like we're raising the
• 20:48
  Speaker 20: trophy up, you know what I'm saying. So it's like
• 20:50
  Speaker 20: when I do, yeah, it's on a good note. So
• 20:52
  Speaker 20: when I think back about these times, it's not really
• 20:54
  Speaker 20: going to be a sad thing. You know, we're able
• 20:55
  Speaker 20: to experience together, share it with the world, and uh,
• 20:58
  Speaker 20: close the book at the right time.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Cause you telling, were not leaving like that. We're leaving
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: with your singles. So we don't record, we don't play
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: your record, you play.
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: Your record, misgrace. I felt the God in you this morning.
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: We're gonna say a prayer before we get about here,
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: to say.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Good God is great.
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: Eat on the table.
• 21:23
  Speaker 19: All right, let's do it.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: Let's do it.
• 21:26
  Speaker 16: Thank you, dear heavenly Father, Thank you so much for
• 21:28
  Speaker 16: this time together.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: Lord.
• 21:29
  Speaker 16: We asked that you bless the Breakfast Club. Lord, we
• 21:31
  Speaker 16: asked that you blessed our minds, their hearts or words.
• 21:33
  Speaker 16: Your Father, thank you for a form like this, or
• 21:36
  Speaker 16: that we're able to galvanize as one, that we're able
• 21:38
  Speaker 16: to come together in truth and honesty and love and
• 21:41
  Speaker 16: just celebrate amazing black work. Lord. We are so grateful
• 21:44
  Speaker 16: of this moment, grateful for this time.
• 21:46
  Speaker 19: Dear Father.
• 21:46
  Speaker 16: We ask that you go before us, that you make
• 21:49
  Speaker 16: the crooked pass straight. We ask that you continue to
• 21:51
  Speaker 16: uplift us in your spirit. The Lord, let us always
• 21:54
  Speaker 16: stay in your purpose and your will. Lord, We thank
• 21:57
  Speaker 16: you for your love. We thank you for your blessing
• 21:59
  Speaker 16: and Jesus name. We place amen, Amen may.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Because Harlem, it's the Breakfast Club.
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: Good morning, wake up, you're like's into the Breakfast Club.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: Everybody is DJ MV Jess Hilarius charlamage to God. We
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: are the breakfast club going. The roaster is here as well.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: We got a special guest in the building. Where's Khalifa?
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: What's happening to my brother? See you in a minute,
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: not in person.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: I know it's been a while. Yeah, yeah, you've been
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: working out. COVID happened. I've been taking care of my kids.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: How are you?
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: I'm amazing, Thank you. How are you?
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: You're still doing the MMA and all that absolutely every day. Yeah,
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: you wake up and do it early in the morning.
• 22:38
  Speaker 20: I have like a routine, so I go to the
• 22:40
  Speaker 20: gym five days a week. I do martial arts as well,
• 22:44
  Speaker 20: so I'm like lifting, martial arts, and I do hot
• 22:47
  Speaker 20: yoga three times a week. So I'll get up at
• 22:50
  Speaker 20: like six with my kids, take care of my dogs
• 22:53
  Speaker 20: and my kids.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: Then I eat breakfast.
• 22:55
  Speaker 20: Then I go to the gym probably around like nine ish,
• 22:58
  Speaker 20: you know, from nine to about one or two in
• 23:00
  Speaker 20: the afternoon.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: That's my program time. And then after that I got
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: the rest of my.
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: Day program to smoke.
• 23:06
  Speaker 20: No no, no, program is like workout, got yeah, yeah,
• 23:09
  Speaker 20: whatever the program is for the day.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: That's what I did stone.
• 23:13
  Speaker 21: Smoking between all of that.
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, No, I.
• 23:16
  Speaker 20: Smoke on the way to the gym and then on
• 23:18
  Speaker 20: my way to the next event. Yeah, yeah, for sure,
• 23:20
  Speaker 20: I stay stone.
• 23:22
  Speaker 21: How long have you been smoking now.
• 23:25
  Speaker 20: I've been high for longer than I've been not high. Okay,
• 23:29
  Speaker 20: yeah consecutively. Yeah, you be doing the shrooms? No, I
• 23:34
  Speaker 20: quit doing shrooms. I did it for a minute, so
• 23:35
  Speaker 20: I don't really need I feel like I need to
• 23:38
  Speaker 20: keep doing them over and over.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: I'm glad you said need right, because I was going
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: to ask, what is your intention when you smoke weed?
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: Nowadays?
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: I just love being stoned. Yeah.
• 23:47
  Speaker 20: I like the way it makes me feel. I like
• 23:48
  Speaker 20: the decisions that I make when I'm stoned. I like
• 23:51
  Speaker 20: the way movies look when I'm stoned. I like playing
• 23:54
  Speaker 20: with my kids when I'm stoned. I just love being high. Yeah,
• 23:58
  Speaker 20: off marijuana, though, marijuana, not anything crazy.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: The Cushion Orange Juice range juiced too. Yeah, great project.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: I love the first time, second episode too.
• 24:07
  Speaker 13: It.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: I really love the first app thank you, But it
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: got like a nineteen ninety now.
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: G funk sound.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: Uh huh? For sure?
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Was that intentional?
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
• 24:15
  Speaker 20: I think that was like the original sound of Cushion
• 24:18
  Speaker 20: Orange Juice. For a lot of people, it was like
• 24:20
  Speaker 20: nostalgic for the nineties or G funk or you know,
• 24:24
  Speaker 20: just riding around in the car going to house.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Parties getting fresh.
• 24:27
  Speaker 20: It just got that whole, you know, player vibe to
• 24:30
  Speaker 20: it and a little bit of funk to it as well,
• 24:32
  Speaker 20: just like the way the beats slap and the way
• 24:34
  Speaker 20: that the base is there. So a lot of the
• 24:37
  Speaker 20: productions Cardo Sledgern and E Dan and just the original
• 24:41
  Speaker 20: people who you know, put that sound together, so it
• 24:43
  Speaker 20: was really easy to just bring it back.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm glad you like it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: It slaps.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 24:48
  Speaker 21: You had announced in twenty twenty four that this project
• 24:51
  Speaker 21: was done and now it's here. Yeah, the release of it,
• 24:54
  Speaker 21: so is it traditional release to streaming or like how
• 24:56
  Speaker 21: you're going to do Because Cushion Orange Juice won, it
• 24:58
  Speaker 21: was like you do, did your own thing, you dropped
• 25:00
  Speaker 21: change the way people were listening to music at the time.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: Right now, this one's going to streaming.
• 25:04
  Speaker 20: We're releasing it through BMG, and they've been really really
• 25:08
  Speaker 20: cool at letting me kind of just curate the vibe
• 25:11
  Speaker 20: and what the feeling of it is, and they understand
• 25:13
  Speaker 20: what the project is and we've had meetings you know, weekly,
• 25:17
  Speaker 20: just how we're going to attack it and you know,
• 25:20
  Speaker 20: make it last and making something real. So I've just
• 25:22
  Speaker 20: been really excited about updating, you know, the format. I
• 25:26
  Speaker 20: think that's what's most important, especially for like being an
• 25:29
  Speaker 20: OG in the game, is releasing things with the times
• 25:32
  Speaker 20: how they are now, but also still being innovative as well.
• 25:35
  Speaker 20: And that's why you see, like in between I've been
• 25:37
  Speaker 20: dropping freestyles and doing a lot of stuff like just
• 25:40
  Speaker 20: entertaining my fans because I still have that freedom, I'm
• 25:43
  Speaker 20: able to do that as we get ready for the
• 25:46
  Speaker 20: album too, So just to put it all together and
• 25:48
  Speaker 20: make it current, I think that was the idea for
• 25:50
  Speaker 20: all of us.
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: You know, April fourteen was the fifteenth anniversary of Chrissenards.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I did hear that, So you did hear that?
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah, album.
• 25:59
  Speaker 20: I try so many albums and stuff like that, like
• 26:02
  Speaker 20: every month is an anniversary of another project, but fifteen years, Yeah,
• 26:06
  Speaker 20: that's tight, And I think we're really lucky to be
• 26:08
  Speaker 20: able to well, I'm grateful to be able to drop
• 26:12
  Speaker 20: you know, the sequel as close to as I did
• 26:15
  Speaker 20: with the original one. I feel like that's like a
• 26:17
  Speaker 20: sign that just you know, feels real now. It just
• 26:20
  Speaker 20: worked out like that.
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: This is divine alignment.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: Like that.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Do you remember your mind state April fourteen, twenty ten.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: I do. Yeah. I was just getting off tour. I
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: was in Miami.
• 26:33
  Speaker 20: I was working on rolling papers the album, but I
• 26:35
  Speaker 20: already had Cushion Orange Juice done and I had been
• 26:39
  Speaker 20: hyping it up for a lot of months before, so
• 26:41
  Speaker 20: my fans knew it was about to come out. And
• 26:43
  Speaker 20: I remember just going to the hotel room. I was
• 26:45
  Speaker 20: in a nice ass hotel on the beach. I was like, yeah,
• 26:47
  Speaker 20: I'm about to drop it, and I just released it
• 26:49
  Speaker 20: from my computer that day. I was really I was
• 26:51
  Speaker 20: still am super confident, but I was really really like
• 26:54
  Speaker 20: super duper confident about the music and just my connection
• 26:57
  Speaker 20: with my fans.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: So that was the time to do it.
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: Did it pistol label off? When you dropped it?
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: I really wasn't signed at that point.
• 27:03
  Speaker 20: They were kind of thinking about signing me, working on
• 27:06
  Speaker 20: signing me, But it didn't piss them off at all.
• 27:08
  Speaker 20: They knew how important it was for me to still
• 27:11
  Speaker 20: curate that organic thing because at that time I was
• 27:15
  Speaker 20: doing a lot more for myself than any label could do.
• 27:17
  Speaker 20: And it's still like that, like I promote myself, I
• 27:20
  Speaker 20: do my social media, I do my merch, I do my.
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: Marketing, I do all.
• 27:24
  Speaker 20: I just give you a whole package and then you
• 27:26
  Speaker 20: could just you know, you look like a genius.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: Well, cushion ar just changed everything though. That was like
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: your that's like your section eighty.
• 27:31
  Speaker 21: That's so far gone that like beanded the tailor gang
• 27:36
  Speaker 21: all of the like we we were talking about it
• 27:38
  Speaker 21: before you came in. Like I remember the feeling when
• 27:41
  Speaker 21: Cushion Orangers came out, and like I was a senior
• 27:43
  Speaker 21: in high school and like they would throw parties where
• 27:44
  Speaker 21: you would literally come to smoke and only listen to
• 27:47
  Speaker 21: Cushion Orange Jeps, and like it was such a movement.
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: I love that.
• 27:49
  Speaker 21: It was like really such a movement.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's what it was for. So it's good
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: that that happened.
• 27:54
  Speaker 20: It was all intentional and it was like like you said,
• 27:56
  Speaker 20: that's like my you know, or my doggy style or
• 27:59
  Speaker 20: my illmatic Like I knew I had to make something
• 28:01
  Speaker 20: that was like that, you know, that was a good
• 28:03
  Speaker 20: one to be attached to. And yeah, it was just
• 28:06
  Speaker 20: I always tell people it's bigger than the music. It's
• 28:08
  Speaker 20: stuff like what you're saying, Like, that's what makes it
• 28:10
  Speaker 20: what it is. Like even this album now, it's amazing
• 28:13
  Speaker 20: music wise, but you can't just sit there and listen
• 28:15
  Speaker 20: to it.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: You gotta experience that.
• 28:17
  Speaker 20: You gotta go to a beat, you gotta go on vacation,
• 28:19
  Speaker 20: you gotta kick it with the homies, you gotta hang
• 28:21
  Speaker 20: out super duper late.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: You got to hook up with.
• 28:24
  Speaker 20: Somebody who you've been you know, or you got to
• 28:26
  Speaker 20: meet somebody who you never even understood, understood that with you.
• 28:30
  Speaker 20: That's what makes it what it is, And that's what
• 28:32
  Speaker 20: I'm excited for people to experience as well as the
• 28:35
  Speaker 20: music being good.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: People don't realize that though.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: When you put out music, music just provides the soundtrack
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: to whatever you're experiencing in life. Yeah, that's why you
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: can never argue with certain people about certain albums because
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: the time of life they were experiencing that album. Yeah,
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: you can't like when somebody says, oh, this is this
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: is going to remind you of Whiskally for cushion ards.
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: Nah, right, I'm on something totally different than the more.
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: Than twenty ten Exactly.
• 28:59
  Speaker 20: It's personal Yeah, I think people do have those personal
• 29:02
  Speaker 20: moments or those life decisions and what you're listening to
• 29:06
  Speaker 20: at the time, definitely, you know dictates, you know what
• 29:10
  Speaker 20: your memories of that are, so it gets deep.
• 29:13
  Speaker 21: Do you think that because I saw you have like,
• 29:14
  Speaker 21: it's twenty two or twenty three songs on the project. Yeah,
• 29:17
  Speaker 21: it's twenty two, I.
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: Think, so full bonus record full five.
• 29:21
  Speaker 21: So normally with people who put that many songs in
• 29:23
  Speaker 21: one place, it's like you think people are gonna listen
• 29:25
  Speaker 21: and start to finish. But like I and me listening
• 29:27
  Speaker 21: to it, I don't have any doubt that people will.
• 29:30
  Speaker 21: Do you think that the conversation that you're having at
• 29:32
  Speaker 21: the beginning and then the conversation you're having at the end,
• 29:34
  Speaker 21: is it cohesive or do you just throw songs on there?
• 29:36
  Speaker 21: Like how do you kind of flowing out of well?
• 29:38
  Speaker 20: With this project, the last maybe four songs we put
• 29:43
  Speaker 20: out before the album came out. We use this method
• 29:46
  Speaker 20: called the waterfall method, where you put songs out and
• 29:49
  Speaker 20: then add them to the album later. That was a
• 29:51
  Speaker 20: conscious decision because I didn't know what people were gonna
• 29:54
  Speaker 20: want to hear, So those songs helped me dictate what
• 29:57
  Speaker 20: I was gonna do with the album, and I still
• 29:59
  Speaker 20: like those songs, but they weren't exactly what you were
• 30:03
  Speaker 20: going to get from the full album. So I used
• 30:06
  Speaker 20: that as an opportunity to, you know, do some promo
• 30:09
  Speaker 20: and get the idea of the album out there. But
• 30:12
  Speaker 20: by the time you get the actual real album, those
• 30:15
  Speaker 20: eighteen songs are brand new. Those are an experience that
• 30:18
  Speaker 20: nobody has yet and that everybody's gonna get together. And
• 30:22
  Speaker 20: that's where to me that more of the conversation is
• 30:26
  Speaker 20: is from the intro to the eighteen song. Yeah, it's
• 30:30
  Speaker 20: pretty simple. The whole album is just about keeping it
• 30:32
  Speaker 20: players motivational. It's get stoned, and there's songs for the
• 30:37
  Speaker 20: ladies and their songs to ride around to. So as
• 30:39
  Speaker 20: long as I'm in that pocket, the conversation is good.
• 30:42
  Speaker 20: In my opinion, I know what my fans want and
• 30:45
  Speaker 20: what they expect, so I didn't go outside of that
• 30:47
  Speaker 20: at all.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: We got more with Wiz Khalifa when we come back.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club Good Morning. More than everybody is.
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: Jesse larra Is Charlamage, the gay All the Breakfast Club
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: is still kicking it with Wiz Khalifa, Charlamagne.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Why a sequel left all of you that could be
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: hit a miss too, That's something.
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just again listening to the fans.
• 31:06
  Speaker 20: Man, everybody was telling me like how much they missed
• 31:09
  Speaker 20: that sound or that pocket of what I was doing
• 31:11
  Speaker 20: at that time, or how much they enjoyed it. So
• 31:14
  Speaker 20: it's nothing for me as an artist to like, you know,
• 31:16
  Speaker 20: dig in my bag and get with the producers that
• 31:19
  Speaker 20: I trust and really not recreate that but do what.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: That sounds like now.
• 31:23
  Speaker 20: But it's the same feeling though, like you know what
• 31:25
  Speaker 20: I mean, and I'm not scared to do that, And
• 31:27
  Speaker 20: it's all about the fans. It's offered them and it's
• 31:29
  Speaker 20: what they want, you know, Like a lot of nostalgic
• 31:32
  Speaker 20: stuff is coming back.
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: And my era, like.
• 31:34
  Speaker 20: You said, it's fifteen years ago, so it's way yeah,
• 31:37
  Speaker 20: it's way further removed than it is closed. So why
• 31:40
  Speaker 20: not just go ahead and just revisit something that was
• 31:42
  Speaker 20: you know, big to us and that people appreciate.
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: The problem with fans though, they trickle and they don't
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: want you to grow.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: So so even though you've grown, like you're a father now,
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: like your life might be totally different than it was
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: fifteen years ago.
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: They're like, no, I want twenty ten. Yeah, that's impossible.
• 31:56
  Speaker 21: That sounds fling.
• 31:57
  Speaker 20: I don't think it's impossible really, yeah, because I think
• 32:00
  Speaker 20: they just want the best. Like I can experiment and
• 32:03
  Speaker 20: I can sing, and I can do country songs or
• 32:05
  Speaker 20: pop records, but they're like, yo, we like when you rap,
• 32:08
  Speaker 20: or I could wear you know, high fashion and you
• 32:10
  Speaker 20: know runway stuff, but they're like, we like when you
• 32:13
  Speaker 20: wear streetwear.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: And it's not hard for me to just get right
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: back into that.
• 32:16
  Speaker 20: It's like, Okay, I'm trying what I like and I'm
• 32:19
  Speaker 20: still gonna do that in my off time or if
• 32:21
  Speaker 20: I get an opportunity to do it, I'm gonna throw
• 32:23
  Speaker 20: a suit on it, and I'm gonna do a pop record,
• 32:24
  Speaker 20: but it's not gonna be my song. It'll be somebody
• 32:26
  Speaker 20: else's and I could still chart and perform it all
• 32:29
  Speaker 20: over the world.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: But for my fans, I'm gonna give them what they want.
• 32:32
  Speaker 21: But you are Dad now data too, and making these
• 32:36
  Speaker 21: music and putting this project together, like it does still
• 32:38
  Speaker 21: sound like Whiskly for it's new and it's innovative, but
• 32:40
  Speaker 21: it's it's still the same feeling. How do you because
• 32:42
  Speaker 21: you are different, your dad is so different.
• 32:45
  Speaker 20: Now Yeah, yeah, I just keep it one hundred Like
• 32:47
  Speaker 20: that's what I always did. I always just talked about
• 32:50
  Speaker 20: my life. I talked about my day. I talk about
• 32:52
  Speaker 20: my week. So like I've never run out of bars.
• 32:54
  Speaker 21: What's it like doing this whole runner? So you got
• 32:56
  Speaker 21: your coachell.
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: These dance they don't go nowhere, man, I need some
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: citys got.
• 33:05
  Speaker 21: I saw you were you and Amy were dancing on
• 33:07
  Speaker 21: the side of stage.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, why are.
• 33:08
  Speaker 21: People so mad that that's your girlfriend? Why I'm mad
• 33:11
  Speaker 21: that you deals with your girl.
• 33:12
  Speaker 20: I don't think people were mad. I think people just
• 33:14
  Speaker 20: need clickbait. Like that's what the world we live in
• 33:16
  Speaker 20: these days. But I don't live my life based off
• 33:18
  Speaker 20: of that. I'm still gonna if I'm hearing some music
• 33:21
  Speaker 20: like I'm a dance.
• 33:23
  Speaker 21: But you never have like kind of leaned into all
• 33:25
  Speaker 21: of that stuff though, Like you've always kind of like
• 33:27
  Speaker 21: just even if it was happening, you did your own thing.
• 33:29
  Speaker 21: But with what like people the clickbait stuff. So like
• 33:32
  Speaker 21: even when you were dating and Baroles now with Amy,
• 33:34
  Speaker 21: just people are really invested in your life because you're
• 33:36
  Speaker 21: such a big start and now your kids are growing
• 33:39
  Speaker 21: up and they're on social media as well too. People
• 33:41
  Speaker 21: just want to know things and they throw things on Yeah.
• 33:44
  Speaker 20: I know I'm in control of all of that, though
• 33:45
  Speaker 20: I give them enough to you know what I'm saying, Like,
• 33:48
  Speaker 20: like I said, I don't live my life based off
• 33:50
  Speaker 20: of it. Yeah, but I know that people are nosy,
• 33:53
  Speaker 20: Like you haven't even seen my daughter.
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: She's almost a year old. So I can keep some
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: stuff quiet.
• 33:58
  Speaker 20: But this is the entertainment industry, so at the end
• 34:01
  Speaker 20: of the day, people are going to have their perception
• 34:03
  Speaker 20: of whatever whatever. But as long as my intentions are good,
• 34:06
  Speaker 20: I know I'm out here doing exactly what I'm supposed
• 34:08
  Speaker 20: to be doing, and nobody who really knows me and
• 34:11
  Speaker 20: loves me is ever going to be embarrassed by my
• 34:13
  Speaker 20: actions when I'm outside.
• 34:14
  Speaker 21: So yeah, you won't be doing nothing. Really, how do
• 34:18
  Speaker 21: you talk to like a Sebastian's older getting older and
• 34:20
  Speaker 21: that which is crazy because it's just crazy to see.
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: Him to get older.
• 34:24
  Speaker 21: No, but it's literally like when you think about when
• 34:26
  Speaker 21: he was first born to now and just being a
• 34:28
  Speaker 21: fan and watching him grow, there's probably so much things
• 34:31
  Speaker 21: that you guys, decide when to talk to him about
• 34:33
  Speaker 21: or not talk to him about. But your celebrity, so
• 34:34
  Speaker 21: it's different. How do you kind of like what is
• 34:37
  Speaker 21: your discretion on, Like, here's what I allow him to know,
• 34:39
  Speaker 21: we're see or whatever, because you can't guard kids from everything.
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we just keep it one hundred with him too.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: He's a smart boy.
• 34:46
  Speaker 20: And these kids are we were you know, grew up fast,
• 34:49
  Speaker 20: but they're growing way faster on the Internet and everything.
• 34:52
  Speaker 20: So it's just about keeping it real and you know,
• 34:54
  Speaker 20: just allowing him to make his own decisions as well.
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: It's like I can tell you what to do, but
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: you know what's.
• 35:00
  Speaker 20: And wrong, and just instilling that in him. And also
• 35:03
  Speaker 20: his friend group too. That's a real big thing now,
• 35:06
  Speaker 20: is his friend group. But I feel like just him
• 35:09
  Speaker 20: being a kid. He's a normal kid. He goes through
• 35:11
  Speaker 20: the same things that normal kids go through. He gets
• 35:14
  Speaker 20: in trouble at school. We have to get on zoom
• 35:16
  Speaker 20: calls with his teachers, Like all of it on a.
• 35:18
  Speaker 21: Zoom call with a teacher. How is it, like, how
• 35:20
  Speaker 21: do the teacher react. I mean the probably use to
• 35:22
  Speaker 21: celebrity parents, they'd be.
• 35:23
  Speaker 20: Cool, they be chill, Like I think it helps him
• 35:25
  Speaker 20: a little bit more too. They're like, oh, we get
• 35:27
  Speaker 20: to see what here, you can pass this class.
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: How is it being a father of a daughter.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: Now, I got four daughters, not his daughter, so I
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: know daughters bring out a different energy.
• 35:37
  Speaker 20: Yeah. Man, it's it's super duper sweet. She's she's really
• 35:41
  Speaker 20: young still, She's only eight months, she'll be nine months,
• 35:44
  Speaker 20: so her personality hasn't come out yet. But it is
• 35:49
  Speaker 20: a little bit different having at a little girl. And
• 35:52
  Speaker 20: I'm older now too as a parent, Like I was
• 35:54
  Speaker 20: twenty five when I had Bash. I'm thirty seven now,
• 35:57
  Speaker 20: so it's just like a whole different mind state, like
• 36:00
  Speaker 20: having a new child and it's a girl.
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: It was crazy to watch y'all all get older. Yeah, yeah,
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: I remember that.
• 36:07
  Speaker 21: Not kids get older.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Because you know what it is. And I don't know
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: if it's because of the Internet. I don't think we've
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: had another movement like that, Like when I think about.
• 36:18
  Speaker 20: The you and Nick Kendricks and yeah, I feel like
• 36:21
  Speaker 20: like the twenty sixteen, like Uzzi and Cardy and them,
• 36:24
  Speaker 20: they they.
• 36:25
  Speaker 21: Had a movement. But I will say it's because I
• 36:28
  Speaker 21: know what you're talking about with Uzzi, especially because I'm
• 36:30
  Speaker 21: from Delaware from Philly, but it was it's still just different,
• 36:32
  Speaker 21: Like I can't really describe it, Like the way that
• 36:35
  Speaker 21: the whole tailor gang and like how we were dressing.
• 36:37
  Speaker 21: It was really different.
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: How often do you revisit the First Christian As now?
• 36:42
  Speaker 20: I listened to it a lot because we perform it
• 36:44
  Speaker 20: a lot. Yeah, there's a lot of like festivals and
• 36:46
  Speaker 20: places where they're like, can you come through and perform
• 36:49
  Speaker 20: the whole catalog or give us three songs off of
• 36:51
  Speaker 20: there or something like that. So I listened to it
• 36:54
  Speaker 20: and I listened to it for inspiration too. Sometimes I like,
• 36:57
  Speaker 20: I sampled a couple of songs on this new one
• 36:59
  Speaker 20: from the old old one.
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: I like threw it in there. You wouldn't even know,
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: but just to like keep the DNA.
• 37:04
  Speaker 21: There, can you get can you tell me so I
• 37:06
  Speaker 21: can go about you figure it out?
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: I got to do it again, exactly and again and again.
• 37:10
  Speaker 21: Because it feels literally I said that it feels like
• 37:13
  Speaker 21: the original Cushion Oranges even though it's new music. But
• 37:16
  Speaker 21: and a lot of artists can't do that, not this
• 37:18
  Speaker 21: far apart. Hmm.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I love how you keep Max B's name a lot. Yeah, Yeah,
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: he's on the new project.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: He's also one of my favorite artists as well. Yeah.
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, did you speak.
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: Here and there?
• 37:29
  Speaker 20: Yeah, especially now that the album's coming out and he's
• 37:32
  Speaker 20: coming home too.
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we talk here and there. It's nothing too crazy
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: to just be like, I see big Bro.
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: How dy'all get him on the project over the phone. Yeah,
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: it's not as good as that.
• 37:42
  Speaker 20: Yeah, was a voice note. It's easy to do it
• 37:44
  Speaker 20: on voice notes now and then just line it up.
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: Like I told you, we manipulated music these days.
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: So you take the vocal then put the beat behind it.
• 37:52
  Speaker 20: Yes, I don't want people to start getting their friends
• 37:54
  Speaker 20: in jail on their records the.
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: Whole album.
• 37:59
  Speaker 20: I don't know how much. I don't know, but don't
• 38:02
  Speaker 20: do it. They out of trouble.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: The other thing I was gonna say too, Man, do
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: you see the moments in your life when like your
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: career just went up, Like for example, like when you
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: put out weed and boys, that's another level. You put
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: out the other black and yellow, that's another level, and
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: then see you again. Come on, that's every white person
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: in America's favorite funeral.
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: Anthem, favorite funeral it is.
• 38:28
  Speaker 20: Yeah, No, I look at my career, like like a
• 38:30
  Speaker 20: basketball player or something like that, like me being science
• 38:33
  Speaker 20: to Atlantic I did really well, like being a major artist.
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: So I look at it like that.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: How do you feel about your children being open to
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: public scrutiny like on social media commenting, and.
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, it is what it is like.
• 38:45
  Speaker 20: They're gonna go through that anyway at school, like they gouts,
• 38:49
  Speaker 20: snapchat and they be doing all that stuff at school.
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: So that's just the world that we live in now.
• 38:54
  Speaker 20: And like back in the day, we used to rip
• 38:56
  Speaker 20: on each other too, so we just didn't have the
• 38:58
  Speaker 20: computer to do it.
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: But it builds tough skin, and it is what it
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: is like.
• 39:03
  Speaker 20: I've always been able to still be confident in myself
• 39:06
  Speaker 20: and function and not crash out, you know, due to
• 39:10
  Speaker 20: what anybody says about me. So I feel like they'll
• 39:12
  Speaker 20: be all right.
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: If it's the week whenever you feel yourself about the
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: crash out or like.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, it's not the weird, it's the confidence. Man.
• 39:19
  Speaker 20: I breathe, I do yoga, I believe in myself. I
• 39:23
  Speaker 20: got a higher calling.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: And sometimes they might be right. I do look funny
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: sometimes my feet.
• 39:28
  Speaker 20: My feet are ugly or not ugly, but messed up,
• 39:31
  Speaker 20: but like you can't get mad at like, you know,
• 39:33
  Speaker 20: people pointing out your flaws, because we're not perfect, so
• 39:36
  Speaker 20: if you point out a flaw, you might be right.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: We got more with Whiz Khalifa when we come back.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club.
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: Good morning morning everybody at CJ Envy just hilarious. Charlamaine
• 39:46
  Speaker 8: the god we are the Breakfast Club. Were still kicking
• 39:48
  Speaker 8: it with Wiz Khalifa, Lauren.
• 39:50
  Speaker 21: Since you like, there are people that are younger than
• 39:52
  Speaker 21: you just in music that I'm sure call you about
• 39:54
  Speaker 21: different things, because creatively your music does inspire people like
• 39:57
  Speaker 21: you mentioned, but like just as a dad and in
• 39:59
  Speaker 21: a relationship, a lot of your stuff is public. Like
• 40:01
  Speaker 21: I saw a conversation an interview where I think it
• 40:05
  Speaker 21: was Ambert. She was talking about you guys had to
• 40:07
  Speaker 21: sit down Sebastian have a conversation. He found her only
• 40:09
  Speaker 21: fans or something like that. How do you guide first
• 40:13
  Speaker 21: of all yourself and have that conversation with your son,
• 40:15
  Speaker 21: But when your friends, your peers are calling you like yo,
• 40:17
  Speaker 21: my girl's doing this online or like whatever, what's your
• 40:20
  Speaker 21: conversation with people? Because you handle things so well and
• 40:22
  Speaker 21: so gracefully.
• 40:23
  Speaker 20: Nah, I think I don't expect everybody to handle things
• 40:26
  Speaker 20: the way that I do, so my advice and sometimes
• 40:31
  Speaker 20: it's like man.
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: Like that, that's just how it is.
• 40:36
  Speaker 20: But you have to accept it and you have to
• 40:38
  Speaker 20: understand that that's a part of it as well.
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: And it be like that sometimes.
• 40:43
  Speaker 20: But we make these decisions based off of what we
• 40:46
  Speaker 20: think we can handle and what we can handle, so
• 40:49
  Speaker 20: or you're giving a lot of responsibility based off of
• 40:52
  Speaker 20: what you can handle and you don't even know you
• 40:54
  Speaker 20: ready for it like that. So if you really want this,
• 40:57
  Speaker 20: you're gonna deal with the good and the bad.
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: I'm built for it.
• 41:01
  Speaker 20: I know how to smile, I know how to you know,
• 41:03
  Speaker 20: put on a face in front of people who I
• 41:05
  Speaker 20: know might have talked on me or tried to cut
• 41:08
  Speaker 20: my throat or one up on you know what I mean.
• 41:10
  Speaker 20: But it is what it is. Well, I don't get
• 41:11
  Speaker 20: no further by exposing all of that. I get further
• 41:14
  Speaker 20: just by being me. But a lot of people ain't
• 41:16
  Speaker 20: built for.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: It like that. So you know, you really got to
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: be like that as a parent.
• 41:21
  Speaker 21: Are you ever really ready to have those like really
• 41:23
  Speaker 21: public conversations with us like that's such a public thing
• 41:26
  Speaker 21: you have to talk about in your child to see
• 41:28
  Speaker 21: and then in private you have to deal with it.
• 41:29
  Speaker 21: But then also in public you have to deal with
• 41:31
  Speaker 21: it because then y'all talk about the fact that it happened.
• 41:33
  Speaker 20: I think, like me, I just keep it pushing, like
• 41:36
  Speaker 20: as long as I'm good, Like in the household, you're
• 41:39
  Speaker 20: going to have to deal with that or things like that,
• 41:42
  Speaker 20: regardless if it's not even directly involved with you. You're still
• 41:46
  Speaker 20: going to have to have some type of conversation like
• 41:48
  Speaker 20: that with your kid.
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: And it's not easy for anybody.
• 41:51
  Speaker 20: So as soon as they start finding that stuff or
• 41:53
  Speaker 20: looking at that stuff or hearing things about you know,
• 41:57
  Speaker 20: it might be their parent, it might be their sibling,
• 41:59
  Speaker 20: it might be you know what I mean, it could
• 42:00
  Speaker 20: be whatever.
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: There's no age limit to that.
• 42:03
  Speaker 20: Either it happens through their teens, it's gonna happen in
• 42:05
  Speaker 20: their twenties.
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: Oh I heard your son is out here.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: Da da da da dah.
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: Right, I don't even know.
• 42:10
  Speaker 20: What that's like yet, But we go through the stages.
• 42:13
  Speaker 20: Every parent's gonna go through the stage. But as far
• 42:15
  Speaker 20: as publicly, I don't live my life for the public,
• 42:18
  Speaker 20: So I don't even like I don't even consider that
• 42:21
  Speaker 20: when I'm making my moves. I don't care, Like I
• 42:23
  Speaker 20: don't hear it, I don't digest it. It's not it
• 42:26
  Speaker 20: ain't it ain't real to me. And if it pops up,
• 42:28
  Speaker 20: then it's something that I could you know what I mean.
• 42:30
  Speaker 20: I'll deal with it in the moment, but it's like
• 42:33
  Speaker 20: I ain't tripping on none of that.
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: Are you gonna keep secrets from your kids?
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: What kind of secrets?
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: Just in general?
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: Like you always tell people that you know, you should
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: always have conversations with your parents because you'll find out
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: that they had a life before they were your parents.
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think having how old are your kids?
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: Sixteen, nine, sixty.
• 42:49
  Speaker 20: Three, Yeah, having a twelve year old, it's like I'm
• 42:51
  Speaker 20: finding out that they know way more than you.
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: Actually think that they know.
• 42:55
  Speaker 20: So it's hard to keep secrets when they're telling you
• 42:58
  Speaker 20: that they know that you thought that they didn't. No,
• 43:01
  Speaker 20: So it's like, damn you, there ain't no secrets, like
• 43:04
  Speaker 20: for real, for real you I didn't even know I
• 43:06
  Speaker 20: was gonna have to explain.
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: That to you.
• 43:08
  Speaker 20: But it's just part of it, Like because I think
• 43:12
  Speaker 20: the benefit of that is them not having to hear
• 43:14
  Speaker 20: it from somebody else. I was raised by my cousins
• 43:17
  Speaker 20: and you know what I mean, a bunch of eighteen
• 43:19
  Speaker 20: year olds and twenty year olds when I was his age,
• 43:22
  Speaker 20: so I was learning things a little bit differently, Like
• 43:25
  Speaker 20: the filter was totally different. So I would rather be
• 43:27
  Speaker 20: able to give my kids that knowledge than like the streets.
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, hell yeah, because it's gonna happen.
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: What is a drake move with?
• 43:36
  Speaker 20: What's a drake A very smart business decision? I know
• 43:41
  Speaker 20: that's right, That's what a drake move is.
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: You know what I want to ask you too, Man,
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: You've been a mentor to a lot of great people.
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: And I recently saw this thing called the Mount Rushmore
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: white rappers and the good brother Mac Miller was on it.
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: You know how. I don't know if you saw it,
• 44:03
  Speaker 7: but how did that make.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: You feel knowing that you was a mentor to him?
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: He's the greatest rap was Eminem, it was Mac Miller.
• 44:10
  Speaker 20: They shouldn't be separating white rappers and black rappers.
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: They're all rappers. And mac Miller is an amazing artist.
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: Bro.
• 44:17
  Speaker 20: Like I watched him, you know, come from just being
• 44:20
  Speaker 20: a kid in the studio to like really changing how
• 44:23
  Speaker 20: people digesting listening to music like on his own, And
• 44:28
  Speaker 20: of course we started. He started like kind of after
• 44:32
  Speaker 20: I was doing what I was doing, so it was
• 44:35
  Speaker 20: people associated me and him together like like I was.
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: Doing that for him or something like that.
• 44:40
  Speaker 20: But he was just inspired by what he was around,
• 44:42
  Speaker 20: and as soon as he like branched off and started
• 44:44
  Speaker 20: doing this thing, he gained his own identity, his own
• 44:47
  Speaker 20: fan base, his own expectations of what his music is,
• 44:51
  Speaker 20: and his own you know, love and legacy.
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: For what his music is. So I love I love
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: that kid.
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: It's been it's been seven years since Macpasz. Do you
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: have those moment you like here.
• 45:02
  Speaker 20: It kind of still bothers me just because like he's
• 45:05
  Speaker 20: not here, like you know what I mean. And that's
• 45:07
  Speaker 20: the that's the part that sucks because it happened like
• 45:10
  Speaker 20: close to my birthday. So every time it's around my birthday,
• 45:12
  Speaker 20: they celebrating the well, you know, celebrating his life too,
• 45:15
  Speaker 20: so I'm always reminded. I'm like, damn, bro, that was
• 45:18
  Speaker 20: just like it's like sometimes when people pass, it's like yo,
• 45:21
  Speaker 20: that's bro, Like yeah, you never really it never really
• 45:24
  Speaker 20: sit sits well, like.
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean. So that's one of them.
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: Didn't shift anything in your life?
• 45:29
  Speaker 20: Nah, not really, because I knew him personally, so we
• 45:32
  Speaker 20: would have conversations and you know, he was like, I think,
• 45:36
  Speaker 20: out of respect, everybody don't speak on like how what
• 45:40
  Speaker 20: he was dealing with, you know what I'm saying, So
• 45:42
  Speaker 20: we just like talk about his legacy. But it was
• 45:45
  Speaker 20: it was a lot to see him go through that.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: Just to see you smile mm hmm. Was that a
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: difficult record? No, okay, I like to make real songs.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: It was it was, like I said, it was.
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: In a moment, and I talk about my mom on there.
• 45:59
  Speaker 20: I talk about like the original like what was going
• 46:01
  Speaker 20: on when I first started making music and I brought
• 46:03
  Speaker 20: it till now, and then I talk about my sibling
• 46:05
  Speaker 20: who passed away on there as well.
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: So no, it's not difficult for me.
• 46:09
  Speaker 7: Is it therapeutic in a way, Yeah, yeah.
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I will say that.
• 46:12
  Speaker 20: I think it's just like for me, I have to
• 46:14
  Speaker 20: talk about everything, like I can't just I can't just
• 46:16
  Speaker 20: give you like one side of like what's going on,
• 46:20
  Speaker 20: and a lot of people they may or may not
• 46:22
  Speaker 20: want to hear that. But for the people who do,
• 46:26
  Speaker 20: I make sure that that stuff is there, and I
• 46:28
  Speaker 20: make sure that it's it's current and that it's real
• 46:30
  Speaker 20: for them to go through too.
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: Hey with is man, keep doing what you do. Man,
• 46:34
  Speaker 7: you are a blueprint.
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: Whether people realize it or not, you know what I'm saying.
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: From the music aspect, even to the entrepreneurial aspect, you
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: got strange weed, you got mushrooms, you got liquid death Liquid.
• 46:47
  Speaker 7: Look with death that.
• 46:51
  Speaker 19: For you?
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: Oh my god?
• 46:55
  Speaker 21: Explain that?
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: How did you get involved early before they even took off?
• 46:58
  Speaker 20: Like it was like hey, move bam and the whole
• 47:01
  Speaker 20: business thing and the whole you be a part.
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: Of this, we do that and with Death.
• 47:09
  Speaker 20: Yeah, this was Yeah, I've been I've been a part
• 47:12
  Speaker 20: of this company almost ten years now.
• 47:15
  Speaker 21: Liquid that yeah, wow, every yes, that's so everywhere. The
• 47:19
  Speaker 21: first time I saw it, I was like, what why
• 47:21
  Speaker 21: are you drinking that? And then they explained that it
• 47:23
  Speaker 21: was water? Yeah, and I was like, oh okay, but
• 47:25
  Speaker 21: even the can in the way that is branded, it
• 47:27
  Speaker 21: just fits your whole esthetic. Yeah, that's what else do
• 47:30
  Speaker 21: you do business wise on the back end at Like
• 47:31
  Speaker 21: I mean, if you want to talk about it, like
• 47:33
  Speaker 21: there's a whole portfolio back there that the people might
• 47:36
  Speaker 21: not like.
• 47:36
  Speaker 20: You, said McQueen, But we we're part of that whole
• 47:39
  Speaker 20: company though, the whole duce and bel air and all
• 47:42
  Speaker 20: of that.
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: P f L as well. I don't know if you
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: guys have.
• 47:44
  Speaker 20: Heard a Professional Fighters League, but I'm involved with them too.
• 47:48
  Speaker 20: We just bought Bellator's and UFC and there's PFL PFL.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm down with them too.
• 47:59
  Speaker 21: Yes, I made it here.
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: Come on now, it's easy for whiz y'all cool. I
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: came to see y'all Christians.
• 48:04
  Speaker 7: Hey, you're about to go on to the tailor game World.
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: Taylor Gang in the world.
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: Yep, Taylor Game in the world.
• 48:09
  Speaker 20: Chris you Knowles used to follow me on all socials
• 48:12
  Speaker 20: TikTok Wiz Khalifa Instagram whis Kalifa x wiz Khalifah.
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: It's wiz Kalief for the breakfast club.
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: You're checking out the breakfast club.
• 48:24
  Speaker 7: I was born to Donkey.
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: It's the Donkey of.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: The bunch of.
• 48:34
  Speaker 12: Today.
• 48:35
  Speaker 7: That's pretty.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: Devil breakfast club.
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: You're gonna get the dusky other day soon then, well,
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: sexy red Donkey of today goes to five Memphis Men.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: Michael Sayanders eighteen, Rashawn Bryant twenty two, Jordan Smith nineteen,
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: mandre Cole May's eighteen and Desmond Subbery eighteen. All of
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: them have been arrested, and youngcle Shlin needs to let
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: all u y ns know something. Please please please stop
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: with the organize crime seriously, man, if you can create,
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: you know, a criminal enterprise, and you can also you
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: also have the brains to start some type of small business.
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: I'm just sick of hearing about young people coming together
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: to form drug rings and fraud schemes, even organized stuff.
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: If you can put so much time and energy and
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: doing the wrong thing, then you can put that same
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: time and energy into doing the right thing. Okay, you
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: youngins are not applying yourself properly, and you could be.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: And that's what frustrates me the most. Okay, unity and
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: group operation is a musk. But why do we only
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: seem to see unity in group operation when folks are
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: coming together to commit crimes and this country not playing
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: with you? Okay, they are ready at all times. They
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: introduce you to their good friend Rico, and these five
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: Memphis men sadly are the latest example of that. Would
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: you like to know what the criminal behavior was Would
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: you everybody take a deep breath, Come on to a
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: deep breath because this type of organized crime triggering. Let's
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: go to the Miami Herald for the report.
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: Police.
• 50:03
  Speaker 11: Tennessee cops say traffic came to a halt at a
• 50:06
  Speaker 11: downtown Memphis intersection when five men leapt from their car
• 50:09
  Speaker 11: and began twerking before baffled motorists in Tennessee. It happened Monday,
• 50:12
  Speaker 11: March tenth, about three blocks east of the Mississippi River,
• 50:16
  Speaker 11: and the dancing was still in progress when a police
• 50:18
  Speaker 11: lieutenant drove up. What the officer saw was a twenty
• 50:21
  Speaker 11: sixteen Chevy Malibu blocking traffic at a green light and
• 50:24
  Speaker 11: four men twerking around the car outside. A fifth man
• 50:27
  Speaker 11: was spotted dancing on the car's hood. The five men
• 50:29
  Speaker 11: were taken into custody so the offense would not happen again,
• 50:32
  Speaker 11: and they were charged with obstructing traffic. The men ranged
• 50:35
  Speaker 11: in age from eighteen to twenty two. A motive behind
• 50:38
  Speaker 11: the stunt was not released.
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: Five Memphis men got together to disrupt the lives of
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: law abiding citizens just trying to go about their day.
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: A vehecular blockade caused by booty. That's what this was. Hey,
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: Michael Rassan, Jordan Mandri Desmond. When you were scrubbing the ground,
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: cheeks the concrete, did you think about the ambulance you
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: may be keeping from getting to the hospital. Just got
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: a job, first day of work and they about to
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: be late because of your traffic tampering through torque terrorism.
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: This should be an episode of law on order tork
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: Victims Unit.
• 51:09
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: Not only is this a criminal enterprise, it's a whole production.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: You all probably had glorilla blasting, Okay, cameras out just
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: to synchronize routine of reckless rump shaking. Why first degreef
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: for loneius fraggle maggatry. That's what this is, okay, the
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: unlawful act of throwing it back in a way that
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: disturbs the peace, blocks traffic, and disrupts people's everyday lives.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: Why we cannot let the ass cartel get away with this?
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: Are we really gonna sit back and allow an underground
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: network of professional rump shakers to disrupt society? People like
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: this don't think of anybody but themselves. The only real
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: luxury any of us have is time. People, Okay, because
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: it doesn't come back. So imagine you running late for
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: something important, rushing to pick your kids up, trying to
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: make your Brazilian wax appointment. I have one today, by
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: the way, and you're stuck in traffic because five grown
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: ass loose booty bandits decided to turn the highway into
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: Magic City Monday. They are all charged with obstructing a
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: highway or passageway. But I feel like this should be
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: a free cocase. This is a free cocase.
• 52:14
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: There has to be a stiffer punishment for this organized
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: booty movement because this was a coordinated effort to weaponized
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: the wobble in public. Where is President Trump to signed
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: an executive order to stop discrete scripting syndicate?
• 52:26
  Speaker 7: Huh?
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: If he doesn't intervene, this could get out of control. Okay,
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: men will mimic this behavior all over America. This could
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: get out of hand. Do you really want criminal organizations
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: dedicated the torque related infractions popping up all over the country?
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: Do we really want booty trafficking?
• 52:41
  Speaker 7: Did he? Don't you answer that? Okay?
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: The illegal transportation and distribution of reckless working across state lines.
• 52:47
  Speaker 7: Do we need that? Let's do better.
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: Please give Michael saying this, Rashaun Bryant, Jordan Smith, mandre
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: Cole Mays and Desmond Subbury the biggest he hull.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: I have a question now, if this was back in
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: your day, and.
• 53:10
  Speaker 7: Five went back in my day, like you, we wasn't
• 53:12
  Speaker 7: born in nineteen hundred and.
• 53:13
  Speaker 8: Seventy seven, if five women would twork it in front
• 53:16
  Speaker 8: of you, would you mind?
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: Would you call the police? Backing?
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: First of all, I don't have time for your hypotheticals.
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: Let's deal with the reality of the situation. So that's
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: what's wrong with people nowadays. They don't never want to
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: deal with the reality of things. Let's deal with the
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: shared reality. Somebody show you this muck shot.
• 53:29
  Speaker 7: Look at that. Don't get bricked up over there? Can
• 53:31
  Speaker 7: you see this?
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: Just justice?
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: Can you Can you see that somebody sitting in this
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: picture to jail.
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: I don't want you to get bricked.
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: Up over there, bricked up.
• 53:40
  Speaker 7: Don't get bricked up.
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: It was women.
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: I mean, if you try to get somewhere, that's that's right. Like,
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: what are we doing? This thing got nothing to do
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: with the agenda of nothing? Why are you disrupting traffic, stopping
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: people's day Okay, we got things to do. You're just
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: hopping out of a twenty sixteen Chevy Malibu to twerk
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: in the middle.
• 53:55
  Speaker 7: Of the street for what five? Come on, stoping? None
• 53:59
  Speaker 7: of to do agenda?
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: Hey, you looking at the picture because I'm.
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: Trying to figure out what they all identify. It's one
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: with redhead right then you know what, Hey, it don't matter.
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: There was an executive orders, right, you're right.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: You're right, right, all right, okay, Well, thank.
• 54:17
  Speaker 15: This pride every day he's talking about, all.
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: Right, well, thank you for that dog in the day.
• 54:23
  Speaker 6: The breakfast Club.
• 54:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah to Breakfast Club, Charlamagne and God. Lauren l. Ross
• 54:31
  Speaker 7: is here. Just hilarious, is here?
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 54:34
  Speaker 7: Who's feeling in? For invY?
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: Lauryn L.
• 54:35
  Speaker 7: Rose is feeling in? Isn't he feeling in? He's here?
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: I'm here, she's feeling in?
• 54:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 54:40
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: He's a guest today though, because his new book Real Life,
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: Real Family with the Queen of the House Giah Casey
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: is out right now, how you feeling here?
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: By being given the opportunity to write a book about
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: something that is the most important thing to me, the
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: thing I'm the most passionate about, the thing that brings
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: me the most joy family parenting, my household, our home.
• 55:04
  Speaker 19: So yes, I'm very humbled.
• 55:06
  Speaker 15: This is the second book. Yes, it's amazing. You know what,
• 55:09
  Speaker 15: let's just rewind it back.
• 55:11
  Speaker 18: For those who don't know who is the kse Ccrew?
• 55:15
  Speaker 18: Where did that name come from? How did y'all get started?
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: Do you remember the carew Yes? Our last name?
• 55:21
  Speaker 7: What do you mean?
• 55:21
  Speaker 10: No?
• 55:21
  Speaker 19: No, no, But do you remember how we came up
• 55:23
  Speaker 19: with the name.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: Come up with the name.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: We were doing our first podcast and it was before
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: we were doing like the audio version of the video version.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: It was just the audio version, and we started the
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: podcast without a name, and we sat there and we
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: kind of was coming up with like different names, and
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: one of us said, well, how about the k C crew.
• 55:42
  Speaker 19: You know, our last name is Casey. We have a
• 55:43
  Speaker 19: whole crew of kids, a whole gaggle. What about the
• 55:46
  Speaker 19: k C crew?
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: And then people you know, DMed us and emailed and whatnot,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: and they said, yeah, we love that name.
• 55:51
  Speaker 19: We love that name. So we decided to call ourselves
• 55:53
  Speaker 19: the k CY Crew.
• 55:54
  Speaker 7: Amazing that it came about.
• 55:56
  Speaker 21: And whenever you post on social you always hashtag the
• 55:59
  Speaker 21: create the Casey Crew. Yes, MV does as well. But
• 56:02
  Speaker 21: one of the things that you guys do really good
• 56:04
  Speaker 21: from the podcast to bringing it online is you pay
• 56:07
  Speaker 21: attention to the comments and the responses Kia. Yeah, and
• 56:10
  Speaker 21: you guys bring them into the podcast, but you also
• 56:13
  Speaker 21: reflect on them on social media. So I want to
• 56:15
  Speaker 21: read one of the posts that we pulled and I
• 56:18
  Speaker 21: thought that this was great. You inspired me. This is
• 56:21
  Speaker 21: someone commenting to you guys, you inspired me. I wish
• 56:23
  Speaker 21: all parents had this level of intention, planning and vibe.
• 56:26
  Speaker 21: Truth is, most parents, moms are stressed, over worked by
• 56:30
  Speaker 21: trying to make ends meet, in harboring trauma. Therefore, it's
• 56:33
  Speaker 21: passed down to the children. You've passed down light and
• 56:36
  Speaker 21: love because of that and because of what you are
• 56:38
  Speaker 21: high five to all of the parents during their best
• 56:40
  Speaker 21: and you use that as a moment to talk about like, no,
• 56:43
  Speaker 21: it gets a little crazy over here, but oh yeah,
• 56:46
  Speaker 21: but it's important because when you if you've ever been
• 56:47
  Speaker 21: around your family, it is a lot of love and
• 56:49
  Speaker 21: a lot of light. But I'm sure on inside things
• 56:51
  Speaker 21: get crazy.
• 56:52
  Speaker 19: Well, you know, that's a big misconception.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: People assume that because you live a certain lifestyle or
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: because you've earned a certain financial status that you don't
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: have the same problems that they have, you know, So
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: that comment really really stood out to me because she
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: spoke on the troubles and the trauma and the word
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: trauma that she used, and Rashan will speak on the
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: word trauma sometimes he feels as though it's a word
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: that's overused, but it's a word that represents something that
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: so many people endure. The difference now is that we
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: have words to identify how we feel and what we
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: go through, and it's articulated. Because when our feelings and
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: our experiences are articulated, then you're able to communicate. People
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: are able to understand you, You're able to understand other people.
• 57:41
  Speaker 19: You're able to have empathy.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: And compassion for other people because now we're all speaking
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: in universal language. Like the word triggered, like the word trauma,
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: like the word of gas. You know, these are things
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: that some may think are overused now, but yes, but
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: there is value there. There is value there because now
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: we can see each other, we understand each other.
• 58:03
  Speaker 7: When you're trying to create.
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: A safe space, you know, how is it to venture
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: into an unsafe space like.
• 58:08
  Speaker 7: The comments, especially when somebody looks on the air every day.
• 58:11
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean.
• 58:12
  Speaker 7: You have an opinion about every day.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: So I read every single comment.
• 58:20
  Speaker 19: I interact. It started when I had a lower follower account.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: It started because I always felt that if someone follows me,
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: that's an investment. In a small investment, maybe, but it's
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: an investment that they put into me. And they're looking
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: at my content content, they're looking at my pictures. And
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: you left a comment, I want to respond back to you.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: I used to respond to almost every comment, you know,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: but then when my followers went up, I wasn't really
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: able to do that, and that was something that you know,
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: I had to take that on the chin. I wasn't
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: able to. But it's a sign of respect. And you said,
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: why do I do that to myself? Because I'm strong
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: enough to do that. I'm strong enough to do that.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: The comments don't if they are negative, and I have
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: to say, I don't receive a lot of negative comments, thankfully,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: thank god.
• 59:10
  Speaker 19: But if they are negative, I look at it as insight.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: I might ask myself, why might someone have that perspective
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: to me? It feeds my mental because I'm a thinker.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: I'm a deep thinker. I'm all over things. I love
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: to understand people. So for me, the comments are food,
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: and they also bring me happiness when they're good. It
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: lets you know that you're reaching someone, you're whatever it
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: is that you're putting out because it's in the sense
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: of sharing.
• 59:35
  Speaker 19: There's a lot of things that I don't share, so if.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: I choose to share and it's well received, then that's
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: a good feeling. I think that's why a lot of
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: people are on or part of the.
• 59:43
  Speaker 19: Reason why a lot of people are on social media.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, And I'm strong enough to
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: do so, and that's because of the way that I
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: was raised. I was raised to be a very strong
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: and resilient woman. It comes directly from my parents. I'm
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: fortunate in the sense that I can look back and
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: identify things about the way that I was raised that
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: created the individual, the woman, the mother, the wife that
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: I am, and it's for me. It's a very beautiful thing.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Both of my parents are no longer here, so to
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: be able to say, wow, when my mother did this
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: every single day, or when she took me here once
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: a week, or when she said this to me, and
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: those compliments and that the way that she fed me
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: and she fed my soul and the joy that I
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: experienced and the amount of fun that I had as
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: a kid, Like I loved my life.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 19: And it's not because we were wealthy. We were not.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: We're a middle class family. I'm from Brooklyn, from East Flatbush.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: We weren't raised you know, like I'm from an urban area.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: And it's not had nothing to do with money. I
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with wealth. It had everything to
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: do with what my parents poured into my home and
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: the love that I felt. And that is what we
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: put into writing this book. There's a lot of books
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: that we could have written, you know, so many ideas came.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Oh because Real Life or Love was a huge success.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: It was a national bestseller. So it's like, go you
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: write a book about this. We said, we want to
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: write a book about family. It's what we know best.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: It's what we know best. We've had so many ups,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: so many downs, so many wins, so many losses, so
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: many things that we thought we were doing right that
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: we weren't. That we had to regroup and make sure
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: that we were balanced, you knows, as a married couple.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: Because when we didn't agree, it's like my way is better,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: know what my way is? Better and this, you know,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: we had to come to a meeting of the minds. Yeah,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So a relationship, you know,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: the relationship grew, you know, because we had to learn
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: how to see eye to eye as parents. So there
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: was just there was many many ups and downs, and
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: we wanted to pour that all into a book, you know,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: we wanted to let everyone know, like it's really that
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: village mentality. It's really that like we are a community,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: especially our black community, because I'm black.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 22: Yes, yeah, yeah, for the record, for the record, Spanish,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 22: but I know that you're well aware because you speak
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 22: to things of this nature often.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: But our history is being erased in schools and it's
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: being stripped away silently in society. So the foundation starts
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: in our homes. We have to teach children how to
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: identify themselves. We have to teach children that sense of
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: belonging and they have to understand that they come from
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: something meaningful. And if you leave it up to society
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: to teach them that, you're going to wind up with
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: children that are lost, that are overlooked, that don't know
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: how to identify themselves, that get taken advantage of, and
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: that are susceptible to what society wants for them. So
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: for us, our core, our nucleus, our foundation, our home
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: supersedes anything else in this world.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 19: We put our family first.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: When we come back, we have more week. Gia Casey,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: our book Real.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 8: Life, Real Family is in stores right now. A Guide
• 1:03:20
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• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: Is the Breakfast Club The Morning.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 8: Jess, Hilari and Charlamage the God we are the Breakfast Club.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 8: Law LaRosa is here as well as we're kicking it
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 8: with Gia Casey. Our new book, Real Life, Real Family
• 1:03:35
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• 1:03:37
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• 1:03:39
  Speaker 18: Jess, would you say that you and and we have
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 18: two different parenting stuffs?
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: Absolutely the more lenient parent.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 7: Who's the more lenient parent?
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: It depends what it is.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 8: You know, everybody knows my dad is retired police officer
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 8: and ex military, So I'm disciplined.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: I was the yell of the screamer because.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 8: I said, so, Gia is a lot different, like seven hours,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 8: like she wants to know why.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah, did you feel that? I thought she likes to
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 7: break down.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: You don't get it, You're gonna get it.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 7: By the end of the right exactly.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 8: So you got to think, really think before you speak
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 8: to up because she's like, all right, explain that, like
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 8: I just said it just because no, no, no, explain this.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 8: But so I'm more like, because I said so, She's
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 8: more like, well, you can't go to the more because
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 8: of this, because this could happen. Explain your parents, because
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 8: now mine is my dad was like no, and you
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 8: didn't ask why, it just what it was.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: What it was you just figured out later is a
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: little different.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 7: I prefer the explanation.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 19: Yeah. So that's how my parents were with me.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: I knew that my parents were invested in me living
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: a happy, fulfilled and fun life, and we didn't go
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: lightly on the fund. And because I knew that at
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: the end, and my parents never said no just for
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: the sake of saying no. Because parents are overworked and
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: they are stressed, and the last thing they want to
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: hear and they walk through the door is mommy, can.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 19: I can you take me here? Can you buy me this?
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 19: Can we watch this together? Can we go like flow down?
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 6: No?
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 19: And sometimes you say no, you don't even know why
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 19: you're saying no. That's not a good parenting. Technique. You
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 19: really have to take a moment. You have to take
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 19: a beat.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: We all have to take a beat to listen to
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: our children and be patient. And because I knew that
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: my parents were invested in me that way, I knew
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: that when they said no, there was a good reason.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 5: Yea.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: How do you make sure you're raising the kids out
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: of love and not fear?
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: Though that's such a good question, it comes with the explanations,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: do you know what I mean. I don't tell them
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: you can't do this and you can't do that. Why
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: because I said so, Let.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 19: Me explain to you why. You know, sometimes we'll watch.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: The news together, you know, when they're at an appropriate
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: age at about nine years old. You know, I think
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: that they're mature enough to ingest certain things. So what
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: I do is I would record it on my DVR
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: and then cherry pick different stories that I think that
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: are appropriate, that speak to the protect the measures that
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: we take on them, you know what I mean. So
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: it's like, if I see a child abduction that's not
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: too traumatic, I might save that and then show it
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: to a child that's old enough.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 16: You know.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: I did it with Madison, I did it with Logan
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: and I find that they take that into their adult
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: lives and they're very, very like Madison walks around like
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: a police officer.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 19: She has a boyfriend.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: His name is Andrew, and when they go into a restaurant,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: she's the one that sits facing the door. She feels
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: like the protective force in that relationship because her head
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: is always on swoovel, you know what I mean. She
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: could tell you a car that was driving six cars ahead,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: you know, and she's always paying attention to license plates.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: When she was young, I used to go through like
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: in case you get kidnapped scenarios because it's the type
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: of information.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 19: That can save a life. Girls are being taken. So
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 19: if you have.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: A young girl, it is very proactive to educate them
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: about the realities and the tricks and the cons that people.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: You know, because even me as proactive as I try
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: to be, that whole technique with a baby crying outside
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: your house, I would I would be inclined to open
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: the door if I hear a baby crying and someone
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: that sounds like a mother yelling and screaming outside the house.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: I am that type of person, but me, but now
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: I am I am. I would my heart with my
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: I would be inclined to open that door. But now
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: with all the knowledge and some of the good things
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: about social media is that so much knowledge is being spread,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: so now we're consuming good information as well. So I
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: heard that, I'm like, wow, that's absolutely right. It jogs
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: your thinking.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 19: It makes you say, oh, wait a minute.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: I do have to put myself first, even if someone else,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: a stranger, seems to be in need. I have to
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: prioritize myself, my home, my family. So you know, it's
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: it's important to spread information and to teach your kids,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: even though it may be a little scary, but you
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: do have to do it in a way where it
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: doesn't incite fear.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 21: How y'all pick and choose? What do y'all like? What
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 21: y'all decide to be transparent about? Like it's just so
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 21: much your kids are getting older and they're like, you know,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 21: like they they're wanting to walk by themselves with their friends.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: I would know if it was up.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 8: To me, I'm transparent with everything. Right has to hold
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 8: back a lot, like for instance, like with Logan, right,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 8: Logan when he was in high school used to get
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 8: picked on all the time, but he used to get
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 8: picked on guess for what reason?
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: No, because because Charlamagne, yes, yes, so.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 8: When you gave me to ask, that's why he gave
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 8: me the buck cake.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 7: Not much better.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm not about it used to be getting
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: made fun of course of that.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 8: So but the reason I'm so transparent is there's so
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 8: many things family and people dealing with the same things
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 8: would never want to talk about it scared to. So
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 8: that's why I talked about the orgasm thing in the
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 8: first book. That's why in this in the second book,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 8: we talk about, you know, the time that thing from
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 8: the first and.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: Every view every.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 8: You want to do some right, no, even like in
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 8: this book we talk about the time that that U
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 8: Logan found a bloody condom at one of his friend's house.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: So he can't but he's comfortable.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 6: Why you're looking at that, It wasn't mine.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 22: He's like, oh he fout bloody house a.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Right friend friends and and he was like maybe nine
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: years old, nine years old, about nine years old, but
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: he was comfortable enough.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 19: To was in the basement and the little boy had
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 19: an older brother.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so she had that's what we had the sex
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: talk and had to have the sex talks with.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 7: Logan and that what kind of sex talk?
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: Though it wasn't a backdoor sex talk.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 5: That ain't just.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: They got a full blown sex talk. They had to
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: understand because if you leave it back.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 7: That's what I'm really trying to figure out. Why was
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 7: the condon bloody? I'm really when somebody ran red?
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: Like yeah, somebody, but.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 15: Somebody ran red.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 21: Don't be like a first time thing.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but no they at that point I found
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: that they were old enough and mature enough, and you're
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: they're encountering things now, these conversations are being had amongst
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: their peers, and I knew that if I didn't set
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: them straight, that they were going to be absorbing all
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: of this wrong information and wrong ideas. So I told
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: him sex feels good. It's a pleasureful experience. God made
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: us that way because God wants us to reproduce. He
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: wants us to create offspring. So he made it something
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: that we would enjoy. But it's meant for someone that
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: you love, and that's the reason why. So they're like, oh, okay,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: so what is it like and what did you say? Okay,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: if I'm being honest, I told them that there is
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: a penis, and there is a vagina and my son
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: Logan was like, so like this.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 15: I was like, yeah, something like that.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 19: I said, you know, some people look at it as
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 19: a negative thing.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: No, no, No, he really didn't know.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 21: He really didn't.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: He really didn't.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 19: Even like my eleven year old son right now, he
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 19: does not know. So when they asked me questions that
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 19: I don't want them to know about. And he's older
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 19: than Logan was.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: But now with I have a better grip on his
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: friends and a grip on what he's exposed to on
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: his phone and whatnot in parameters boundaries. So I'm really
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: abreast of what he knows and what he doesn't and
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: our lines of communication are way better.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we have more with Gia Casey when we come back.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: Our new book, Real Life, Real Family is out today.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: It's a Guy to Raise It in Powered Children and
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  Speaker 3: it's the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 7: Good Morning, the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: And Jesse Lari and Charlamagne the God.
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  Speaker 8: We are the Breakfast Club. Long LaRosa is here as
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  Speaker 8: well as we're kicking it with Gia Casey. Our new book,
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  Speaker 8: Real Life, Real Family is out today. You can pick
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  Speaker 18: Jess, you have six kids, so is there anything that
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  Speaker 18: you felt like in the beginning, I didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: And until y'all got to that six.
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  Speaker 19: Kid, of course, yeah, Like what were some of the
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  Speaker 19: I'll give you another.
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  Speaker 3: Thing, but you didn't know. You just was like, well
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  Speaker 3: man and Raseean winging.
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  Speaker 1: This, I'll give you an example. So one of the
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  Speaker 1: fails and this was something that we disagreed on. So
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  Speaker 1: it was the explaining everything to the kids. I have
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  Speaker 1: the patience to do it. And he really is a
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  Speaker 1: because I said so type of guy and it worked
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  Speaker 1: beautifully with Madison, but with Logan from a young age,
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  Speaker 1: I would explain everything to him and he's a mama's.
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  Speaker 3: Boy times thirty, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 19: Like we're very very close.
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  Speaker 1: But it kind of went wrong with him because what
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  Speaker 1: we found was that we created an environment where he
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  Speaker 1: felt that he was entitled to an explanation and he
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  Speaker 1: felt as though because we gave him too safe of
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  Speaker 1: a space, that he could challenge me and he can
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  Speaker 1: challenge a decision that I made. So we had to
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  Speaker 1: dial that back to boundaries and then we had to
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  Speaker 1: teach boundaries and let him know his place. So that
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  Speaker 1: was a fail in a sense. And Rashamad always look
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  Speaker 1: at me like, see I told you, Like see I
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  Speaker 1: told you, because.
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  Speaker 3: He's the bad guy, because now I got to go
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  Speaker 3: discipline that. So now me and Logan get into it.
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  Speaker 7: And now you can't beat Logan because Logan.
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  Speaker 8: So now I got a discipline Logan, and then me
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  Speaker 8: and Logan get into it. But one thing about Logan
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  Speaker 8: and all of our kids, which is the craziest thing,
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  Speaker 8: is they're very forgiven. Like with Logan, I have to
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  Speaker 8: get sometimes so disrespectful for him to understand. And the
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  Speaker 8: next day he's like, hey Dad, what's up. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 8: hey Dad, what's up. But that's how he is, and
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  Speaker 8: he just has conversations. But we have those conversations and
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  Speaker 8: we understand and we talk. But he's he's the one
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  Speaker 8: that just like his mom love.
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  Speaker 7: Did y'all have a family mission state?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 7: What is the mission statement?
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  Speaker 8: And tell people the importance of that, well, just so
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  Speaker 8: we know we don't have it on our wall and
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  Speaker 8: then make the kids read it when they walk in
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  Speaker 8: the house.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's not like that.
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  Speaker 8: So our mission statement is just something that we, you know,
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  Speaker 8: as a family, we all live by, right and I'll
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  Speaker 8: read some of them. And the reason is is we
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  Speaker 8: are a close unit. Right, So if you see us together,
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  Speaker 8: we're all always out together. You see me the other
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  Speaker 8: day with Jackson, You've seen me before for so the
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  Speaker 8: misterstatement is we are a unit, right. We all ride
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  Speaker 8: together like we are really a unit, a unit. I'm
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  Speaker 8: an only child, so I'm heavy into taking care of
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  Speaker 8: each other. We respect each other, of course, simple like
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  Speaker 8: we make sure that you know, we respect each other's feeling.
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  Speaker 8: We always have each other's backs. That's one thing that
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  Speaker 8: we always do, and it's you know, sometimes when we
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  Speaker 8: have conversations up heare, I always talk about my kids.
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  Speaker 3: So when they see stuff on social media at.
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  Speaker 8: Times I have to stop them because they will go in,
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  Speaker 8: especially Logan Logan, Oh yeah. We always love to uplift
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  Speaker 8: each other and point out the good in one another, right.
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  Speaker 8: We see that more especially with our girls in dance
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  Speaker 8: because they compete against each other a lot. So when
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  Speaker 8: they do, we have to make sure that regardless of
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  Speaker 8: what happens. Like a couple of weeks ago, London lost
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  Speaker 8: and we thought London got jerked. So I told you know,
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  Speaker 8: I had a conversation with Brooklyn and Brooklyn was like, Dad,
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  Speaker 8: don't worry, I'm gonna get first the second four. And
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  Speaker 8: she went out there and busted.
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  Speaker 7: Ask that first second.
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  Speaker 19: She got first place, and you know, gave the.
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  Speaker 8: First place to her sister because that's what it was.
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  Speaker 8: We represent each other at all times. That's how it
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  Speaker 8: always is. So we always tell our kids if we're
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  Speaker 8: not there, you make sure that those parents come back
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  Speaker 8: and say, oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: He was such a pleasure. He was polite, he was
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  Speaker 3: this even with Jackson at the game.
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  Speaker 8: You know, Jackson said thank you a million one time,
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  Speaker 8: so you said hello million one times, because that's what
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  Speaker 8: he's taught to do.
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  Speaker 3: That you show respect with that.
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  Speaker 1: My goal for my kids is that when they leave
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  Speaker 1: our house, I want everyone that they come in contact
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  Speaker 1: with to know that they're well loved. What we teach
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  Speaker 1: you inside this house you exemplify outside of this house.
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  Speaker 1: And these are things that a lot of parents don't
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  Speaker 1: put into perspective when raising.
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  Speaker 19: Children because what do we usually do. We take, like,
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  Speaker 19: you know, an idea, and we throw it up against
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  Speaker 19: the wall. We see if it sticks or not. You
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  Speaker 19: know what I mean, Oh that worked, Oh that didn't, okay,
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  Speaker 19: But a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: People don't have something tangible that they can go back
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  Speaker 1: to and be like, this is a way to create
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  Speaker 1: a foundation, this is a way to create a structure.
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  Speaker 1: And because we had so many ups and downs, we
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  Speaker 1: were able to do that and put it in one place.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the biggest story I now you hate
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  Speaker 3: want to tell a story was Jackson.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So, we had a parent teaching night a couple of
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  Speaker 3: weeks ago and a teacher came up to me. Teacher,
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  Speaker 3: I had no idea you know who he was night Right.
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  Speaker 3: So he walks up to me. He was like, are
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  Speaker 3: you Jackson's dad? And I'm like, yeah, what a teacher
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  Speaker 3: usually asked that usual bs right? So I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: here we go.
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  Speaker 7: What did Jackson do?
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  Speaker 8: And he was like, I just want to tell you,
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  Speaker 8: you know, Jackson did something that no child or adult
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  Speaker 8: has done in my life. The other day, I'm walking
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  Speaker 8: down the hall that Jackson comes running.
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  Speaker 3: Up to me and he goes, you know, are you okay?
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  Speaker 3: And the teacher was like, what do you mean? He
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  Speaker 3: was like, you just don't look as happy as usually do,
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  Speaker 3: or you are right? Is anything bothering you?
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  Speaker 8: Would you like to have a conversation with me and
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  Speaker 8: just talking through like what he's like, Now you just
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  Speaker 8: don't seem as happy as you do, but don't let
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  Speaker 8: things stress you out. Just pray on it and tomorrow
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  Speaker 8: be better, right and if you need to talk to me.
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  Speaker 3: Come talk to me.
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  Speaker 8: And he said Jackson ran off and he was like,
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  Speaker 8: I've never had an adult or a child ever do
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  Speaker 8: that to me. So he was like, whatever you're doing
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  Speaker 8: at home, continue that, and you know, I mean that
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  Speaker 8: just shows what the kids are learning at home is
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  Speaker 8: worth everyone.
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  Speaker 7: So you need to report that teacher too. He don't
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  Speaker 7: need to be in the school.
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  Speaker 15: Was like, you got some time.
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  Speaker 7: There's such a beautiful thank you, you know, have you?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for pulling up and for everybody else. We
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  Speaker 3: just want to add this last part.
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  Speaker 8: We actually wrote it with somebody that helped us out
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  Speaker 8: with MS and helped us with different phrases and helped
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  Speaker 8: us with made sure that we were actually doing the
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  Speaker 8: right thing when it came to raising our kids.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so we wrote it alongside a psychologist because yes,
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  Speaker 1: because we wanted to make sure that our outlooks were
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  Speaker 1: were on the level that I would.
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  Speaker 19: Want to put it out to the public.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted the psychological research and quarterbacking behind the way
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  Speaker 1: that we parent to pretty much put a stamp on
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  Speaker 1: it to know that what we're doing not just from
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  Speaker 1: our personal experience driven point of view is sound, but
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  Speaker 1: from a psychological point of view is also sound. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that alongside the truth and the
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  Speaker 1: transparency and the experience that we had that backing to
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  Speaker 1: the book as well. I wanted that level of value
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  Speaker 1: in the book as well. So and also, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a child with anxiety, add ADHD, other setbacks,
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  Speaker 1: other disabilities, you know, we speak to you in this
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  Speaker 1: book as well, because those people are very like they
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  Speaker 1: don't have that many resources.
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  Speaker 19: This book is for anyone who is a parent, a
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  Speaker 19: single parent, a parent.
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  Speaker 3: That is married, maybe about to have kids next time,
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  Speaker 3: someone that.
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  Speaker 19: Wants to have a child. Thank you, It's it's it's
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  Speaker 19: it's forever.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very relatable book, and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: exercises in the book. We kind of also created it
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  Speaker 1: in like a workbook style, so there's a lot of reflections.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of places in there for you to
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  Speaker 1: answer questions so you can kind of analyze yourself and
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  Speaker 1: understand your own point of view in a way of
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  Speaker 1: like articulation, where if you haven't really thought about certain things,
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  Speaker 1: it'll jog you to think about things. And even if
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  Speaker 1: you don't do, don't take our take, it encourages you
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  Speaker 1: and helps you to come up with your own takes
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  Speaker 1: on parenting.
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  Speaker 7: So happy to real family. Casey crew is the breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: You're checking out the breakfast Club morning.
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  Speaker 8: Everybody is DJ Envy, Just Hilarius, Charlamagne, the gud.
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  Speaker 3: We are the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 8: La La Rosa is here and we got some special
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  Speaker 8: guests joining us this morning. We have Dante Banks and
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  Speaker 8: we have Kevin Freeman. Welcome fellas, how you guys doing
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  Speaker 8: this morning?
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  Speaker 7: Tell the people who, well, who y'all are, first of all,
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  Speaker 7: so they get some context.
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  Speaker 23: I'm Dante Banks, I'm Little Dirk's father, and I'm Kevin Freeman.
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  Speaker 23: I'm the executive director for Little Dirk's non profit Neighborhood Heroes.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, well, how was Dirk doing? First and foremost?
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  Speaker 5: Are you doing? Great? Wonderful? I just seen him this Sunday,
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  Speaker 5: past Sunday. The spirit is off. You're looking forward. You
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  Speaker 5: know his day in court freedom as you know, as
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  Speaker 5: it's going to turn out to be, you know, releasing him.
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  Speaker 5: But he's doing great. Long in there.
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  Speaker 8: Now you have a story as well. For people that
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  Speaker 8: don't know your story, you want to put them onto
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  Speaker 8: a little of your story. And who quote unquote Big
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  Speaker 8: Dirk is.
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  Speaker 5: What Big Dirk is known in Chicago, in the streets
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  Speaker 5: of Chicago. Not for good, you know. But back in
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  Speaker 5: nineteen ninety three, I got called in the fest myself
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  Speaker 5: caught up in the fairs, and I received a life
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  Speaker 5: sentence and it took me almost twenty four years of
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  Speaker 5: twenty six years to get up out of there. So
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  Speaker 5: I spent most of my life, more life in jail
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  Speaker 5: than I did on the street.
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  Speaker 21: What was it like, you know, when you were locked
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  Speaker 21: up in Dirkys here? What was out And he's climbing
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  Speaker 21: and he's rising as a star, and you're like you're
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  Speaker 21: seeing it, but you're not seeing it, but like you're
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  Speaker 21: kind of you're calling home, you're feeling it.
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  Speaker 6: Like what was that?
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  Speaker 5: Like? Oh, that was amazing. At first, I'm on the
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  Speaker 5: phone as any father, would you know, go to school,
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  Speaker 5: get a trade, go to college, you know, get a trade.
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  Speaker 5: That's I don't want to hear about it. While everybody
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  Speaker 5: said it gonna be a rapper, you know, everybody said
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  Speaker 5: even to play ball and different things like this. You know,
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  Speaker 5: that's every kid's dream. So I didn't really take it seriously.
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  Speaker 5: I'm focused on what I know to be a true career.
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  Speaker 5: You're trying to get something up under your belt, and
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  Speaker 5: every time I want to rap, I want to rap.
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  Speaker 5: And then I asked his brother, his oldest brother, which
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  Speaker 5: was d thing at the time, Donte Banks Junior. I said,
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  Speaker 5: is he good?
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  Speaker 3: You know, is he good?
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  Speaker 5: Is he gonna go anywhere with this? He said, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: he's good. And then it was on one old What
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  Speaker 5: was that one O six in part? I'm in prison.
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  Speaker 5: I look up there, I'm be on one O six
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  Speaker 5: in part and I said, okay, everybody in prison, he's
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  Speaker 5: gonna be on one o sixth part. So every TV
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  Speaker 5: is on one O six in part. We waiting on him.
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  Speaker 5: And then that's when we found out, Yeah, he he
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  Speaker 5: got a little bust bus, got a big bus.
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  Speaker 21: And I see you, like, even just in talking about it,
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  Speaker 21: you're smiling, and it's just I can't imagine, like, you know,
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  Speaker 21: just as a parent, it's like I want my child
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  Speaker 21: to be successful and it's happening, and then you're in
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  Speaker 21: a predicament that you're in and seeing it. It feels
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  Speaker 21: good to know that, like he's carrying the family and
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  Speaker 21: things are working out, and then everything that we are,
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  Speaker 21: you know, seeing now happens. How did that feel when
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  Speaker 21: you hurt when the indictment come down and things of
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  Speaker 21: that nature.
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  Speaker 5: You know, from being in there and knowing what he
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  Speaker 5: up against, now you run right there so I can
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  Speaker 5: be with him to help him through this, because being
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  Speaker 5: an affairs ain't no small task, you know, this is
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  Speaker 5: a big thing. They don't they don't give no room.
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  Speaker 5: They just snatch you up with it almost and put
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  Speaker 5: you in a hopeless situation. You know, everybody goes in
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  Speaker 5: kind of got to fight their way out to show
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  Speaker 5: and prove that this is what it is. But you know,
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  Speaker 5: it hurts to know that he has to go through
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  Speaker 5: what I just went through. I have to deal with
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  Speaker 5: this system now. It hurts real bad, you know, first
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  Speaker 5: losing the oldest son and to the streets, and now
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  Speaker 5: losing him to the government. You know. So that's why
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  Speaker 5: I'm their hands on, lawyers, hands on with him, telling
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  Speaker 5: him every step of what to do now and how
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  Speaker 5: to fight this.
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  Speaker 7: Being a person of faith, you know, you know allis
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  Speaker 7: the us knower and planning. But when you lose your son,
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  Speaker 7: you know, to to murder, and you lose the son
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  Speaker 7: to the to the jail system, how does that make
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  Speaker 7: you feel like just your faith? How did that test
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  Speaker 7: your faith?
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  Speaker 5: Oh? It's test your faith. Will test your faith in
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  Speaker 5: a way that's you have to be a parent to
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  Speaker 5: understand what I'm saying here really tests you, you know.
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  Speaker 5: But just like you said that faith, you know, everything
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  Speaker 5: belongs to a law. They don't actually belong to me.
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  Speaker 5: He just used me as a vessel, but it belongs
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  Speaker 5: to him. So I just got to be patient for
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 5: what's going on here and trusting him and continue to
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  Speaker 5: make it do out with your supplication that he brings
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  Speaker 5: about the victory that we are looking for in the situation,
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  Speaker 5: a relief that we're looking for.
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  Speaker 8: I also I wanted to ask about his case so
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  Speaker 8: much because the dirt that we knew that I knew
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  Speaker 8: personally he was such into giving back.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 8: He would call all the time about the things that
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  Speaker 8: he wanted to do for Chicago, in the area that
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  Speaker 8: he grew up and the things that he wanted to
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  Speaker 8: change and how he wanted to give kids an opportunity
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  Speaker 8: that they would think more than the street and have
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  Speaker 8: things to do.
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  Speaker 3: So what is allzation.
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  Speaker 8: Is his organization still out there being able to help
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  Speaker 8: or is a lot of those funds and things been
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  Speaker 8: pulled from that?
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 23: Absolutely, And so this didn't just happened yesterday, you know,
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  Speaker 23: sitting down with Dirk Banks, you know, I remember the
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  Speaker 23: day when he was like, keV, you know, this is
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  Speaker 23: my vision. This is what I want to do. Because
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  Speaker 23: he was already doing the work. He's like, Okay, but
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  Speaker 23: let's let's do it for real, for real, And we
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  Speaker 23: say for real, for real, let's get a registered five
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  Speaker 23: oh one C three and let's really truly, you know,
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  Speaker 23: look at the impact that we can make. And one
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  Speaker 23: thing that we landed on is still to this day.
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  Speaker 23: It's like, Dirk, this is your vision. This is your vision,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 23: and it's going to be our jobs. When I say
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 23: our jobs, my job, the board of directors and those
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 23: that support, we're going to help bring it to life
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 23: and to be able to look back and see from
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 23: twenty twenty and all the amazing work that he's done.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 23: And as you know in media, you know, a lot
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 23: of folks don't want to talk about the great things
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 23: and the positive things that individuals are out here doing.
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  Speaker 6: And he didn't do it for that.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 5: He did it for the fact that he know that.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 23: He said, keV, these are things that I wasn't able
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 23: to experience when I was a kid. So now that
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 23: I'm in position to do it, I'm all in, let's go.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 23: I'm the voice. So I'm like, all right, So sitting
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 23: with him, I mean all around the clock. When I
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 23: say around the clock, I mean, as you know, he's
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 23: coming from the studio at three four in the morning.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 23: He's calling like, listen, this is what I want to do,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 23: and I'm digesting and I'm saying, okay, from all the
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 23: things that I'm hearing, all the things that I feel
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 23: your passion. We created four foundation pillars based off the
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 23: things that Dirk Banks was truly invested in wanted to do,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 23: and it started off with neighborhoods, prosperity, emerging leaders health
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 23: and wellness. So with all those four different pillars, there's
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 23: a bucket of work that lives within everyone. So everyone
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 23: can't be the next little dirt, but everyone can't be
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 23: that guy behind the production and this is exposing these
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 23: young black boys and girls that Dirk has been doing for.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: A long time.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 21: I was going to ask y'all the last thing that
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 21: he did before he was taking into custody. It was
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 21: the big prayer event that he had and then he
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 21: received the keys to the city. But the mayor, I
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 21: believe it was the mayor got a lot of backlash
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 21: after he was arrested, and I think, you know, there
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 21: were certain people and things that like step back. So
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 21: how hard has it been because the organization is tied
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 21: to Dirk, Like, are y'all facing opposition or people still like, no,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 21: we know he's a good person.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 23: You're going to face the opposition just being a young
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 23: black artist, a young black man, a young black woman.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 23: There's always gonna be trials and tribulations. And if we
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 23: allow one situation like that to stop us what we're doing,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 23: and we're losing the focus of what his true mission was.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 8: Yes, all right, we have more with Dante Banks and
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 8: Kevin Freeman when we come back.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 3: Of course, Dante Banks.
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  Speaker 6: Is little Dirk's father. It's the Breakfast Club.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 3: Good morning morning, everybody. You see j Envy, Jess Hilarious.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 8: Charlamagne the gud we are the breakfast club. Lorla Ros
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 8: is here as well. We're still kicking it with Little
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 8: Dirk's dad, Dante Banks and Kevin Freeman, who was the
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 8: executive director for Little Dirk's non profit Neighborhood Heroes Building.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 3: Now, can you give us an update on Dirk's case?
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Now, one thing I can said, Well, y'all had
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 5: the question. Y'all ask Kevin how people looking at him? Now?
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 5: It ain't a place I go. It's not a place
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 5: that I go. A phone call and I don't get
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 5: what he get one support. Ain't nobody like turning a
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 5: back on him. We're saying nothing negative about other than
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 5: you know, a little blob here and now or a
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 5: podcast who's trying to get some type of recognition about
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 5: saying some negative about him. But overall, ninety everybody's there
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 5: in a pridy support. You get many, many letters, you know,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 5: keep your head, keep going on, You're gonna get up
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 5: out of this, you know, things of that nature there.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 5: So the support is one hundred percent. And I love
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 5: that about him because that tell you what kind of
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 5: person he is when no one is trying to, you know,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 5: look at his downfall to something that we can now say, Hey,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 5: look at him, we told about not this type of
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 5: thing here.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 7: What do y'all when y'all call out here and y'all
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 7: do these press hits? What are y'all hopes?
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 5: What are y'all trying to do? We're trying to bring
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 5: a a real look, what's really? What is junior?
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 6: I call him junior?
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 5: What is him? What are he supposed to be looking?
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 5: You know how you supposed to view him? Don't take
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 5: allegations and make him a fact. Don't take allegations and
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 5: make it a conviction. You know, allegations are just that,
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 5: these are allegations. Give us a chance in court to
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 5: prove ourselves. Give us a chance, you know. And this
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 5: one thing again, we shout out the mayor of Chicago,
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 5: Brandon Johnson, when they try to attack him, he said,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 5: don't give the brother his.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 7: Process.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 5: You said, give him his chance in court. And it's
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 5: what we actually about, give our chance in court. And
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 5: we approved that all of this there's nothing but falsehood
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 5: and alive.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 21: You know, wait, when you talk about going places and
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 21: wanting the conversation to be just fair for him, even
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 21: if people are gonna have their opinions, how hard is
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 21: it for you? And you can answer this if you
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 21: want to. I know, it's a legal situation. So for instance,
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 21: like I know, I've seen reports of like there were
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 21: like text messages that allegedly were like between Dirk and
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 21: the guys who are who they threw the murder charges
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 21: at for the thing? And then they have the verse
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 21: from his song aha, and they're trying to pin that like, yo,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 21: this is you saying what you did? How hard is
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 21: it to go up against stuff like that? Just because
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 21: legally they're talking about that every single time he goes
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 21: in the court.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 5: It's not hard if you get all the information, but
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 5: I will refer I have to refer all these things
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 5: to the legal team because you know, this is some
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 5: of the things that they would have to answer and
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 5: give a little people understanding. He got three great lawyers
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 5: on the case, you know, so they working around the clock.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 5: They constantly keep us updated. You know, I talk to
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 5: them regularly about the case, and so it's going good.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 5: You know, all these text messages, these these things. Here
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 5: they on top of all this, and like I said,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 5: give them his day in court and they approved. You know,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 5: what's what? What's the real truth? About these text messages, right,
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 5: how confident as a Muslim, I'm confidence a law that's
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 5: a muscling and I just continue to make do uh
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 5: that this that were victorious in this case, and you
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 5: know that a lot of grant us the relief that
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 5: we are seeking out of us. So looking at everything,
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 5: it's weak, but we make sure continue to a lot.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 8: What about with the with the government, because you know,
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 8: the government, as we've seen what many cases before, if
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 8: they play a nasty game where they try to make
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 8: somebody look crazy so that the jury looks at them
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 8: as crazy.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 3: From the start, you know, I mean we see that
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 3: a lot, a whole.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 5: Lot, and hood on the the person that's been in
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 5: the belly of the beast, you know, I know, the fixing,
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 5: the game they they That's why, like I said, I
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 5: stay on this case looking at from every angle, cause
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 5: I know they games. I know what they play. I
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 5: know they lives, they deception. I know they'll create something,
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 5: you know, and creates a witness, you know, out of somewhere,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 5: out of blue and if it's somebody come along, don't
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 5: nobody know who, just do and they'll put them up
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 5: there to say some things. So yeah, I definitely know
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 5: about them.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 21: And I know y'all brought up India earlier and we
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 21: found out that they were married through like the new
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 21: music and the photo on the album. What conversation do
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 21: you and Dirk had before he decided to get married?
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 21: And like what are you talking to him? As dad?
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 21: You know what I mean? Like what advice are you
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 21: giving him? Or you know how what's that like?
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 5: Okay? Now as a Muslim, cause it's different for you,
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 5: right right, You got to get married. You cannot like
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 5: you sleep with a woman that you're not married to. Oh,
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 5: these are my conversations to him. You have to be married.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 5: It's a great saying in his mom If you're not married,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 5: we don't believe in for ication, we don't believe in adultery,
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 5: you know, sleeping outside the marriage and different things like that.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 5: If you an interest in his sister, then let her
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 5: know who marriage that you're ready to take on the
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 5: responsibility of a husband. Oh yeah, all right?
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 4: As a Muslim, are you on him about the content
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 4: of his music? Like if you know he beats his situation,
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 4: it comes home. Are you gonna tell him that musically
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 4: he should go in another direction?
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 5: He told me, Oh, he told me. So I'm just
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 5: keep saying, How'm to a lie? Every time I talk
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 5: to him. He's learning more about his line and what
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 5: he supposed to be doing as a Muslim.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 7: What do he say?
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 5: And he's saying that, Hey, I can't talk about these
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 5: things no more. I can't walk this way of life
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 5: no more.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 10: You know.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 5: So he already on point with all of you know,
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 5: and that's one of the things about you know, prison
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 5: give you time to really reflect, think, you time isolation
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 5: to read, study, So now you're able to you know,
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 5: you ain't distracted about these brother things. You know. This
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 5: is a this is a star, this is an artist.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 5: He on the planes all the time, He moving all
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 5: the time, from the moment he wake up to the
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 5: moment he go to steep. He always doing something. So saying,
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 5: you know, he took his card that he became a
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 5: Muslim in prison, I mean at the prison when he
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 5: came to see me. But then this his life took
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 5: off from there. So now he got a chance now
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 5: to study. So everything that he needs to know, he
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 5: learning it right now. So he knowing, he telling me
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 5: like that, I can't talk about that no more. I
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 5: can't do this no more. I'm glad that I got married.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 5: I'm glad that I went this the ration right here
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 5: because he's trying to see now.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 8: Wow, we'll definitely send him, send him out love man
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 8: and tell him that, you know, we we'll continue to
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 8: pray for him, man and support him.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 5: And no doubt because when I told him about this,
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 5: he said, that's beautiful. Them they right there, they gonna
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 5: keep it real.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we've been watching Dirk since the beginning literally
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 4: literally her up with vond and everybody. So it's like
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 4: we literally watched him grow up.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 5: And also we can't forget about our main guy with
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 5: oh Swiss. We definitely shout out to that brother man,
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 5: and that is Swiss is one of his biggest mentors.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 5: That's the one who talks to him, keep him on point,
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 5: different things like he always calls Swiss. They're always talking
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 5: what direction? What should I do?
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 18: You know?
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 5: And it's good to have somebody like Swiss in this corner.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 12: You know.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 8: Absolutely Well, thank y'all for joining us, Dante Banks, Kevin Freeman,
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 8: thank you so much, and please keep it FUS updated
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 8: when you can.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, we'll do, And I appreciate your all from having.
• 1:35:04
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