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Go Off Then ( Craig Melvin) · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Fifty for cent righteous special year. I love you fifty percent.
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, but they tell me it was y'all.
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  Speaker 1: yo Good morning in jul Ye good money. She's hamby Cholomne.
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  Speaker 1: The guy piece to the planet is Thursday. Yes, it's Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. What's happening? If the weekend here? We can
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  Speaker 1: say the weekends here? Right? Not yet? We get starts
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, I'll be it's a holiday weekend too. It
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  Speaker 1: is yo June team? Yeah, yeah, yeah, June Team. What
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  Speaker 1: day is June Team the nineteen? Right? Did that? Saturday? Saturday? Saturday? Okay? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: My sister deVie Brown's born day is tomorrow the eighteen
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  Speaker 1: I know that? Yeah, right? And of course this Sunday
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  Speaker 1: as Father's Day. How quickly we forget I didn't even
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  Speaker 1: nobody cares about fathers. I mean, I'm happy to be
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  Speaker 1: a father though. I mean, that's the that's the joy
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  Speaker 1: of fatherhood, right, The joy of fatherhood is that we're
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  Speaker 1: father's That's right. You got beautiful wives, beautiful kids. What
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  Speaker 1: more could you want? Yeah? Yeah, whatever they do for
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  Speaker 1: me on Sunday, I'm happy with. You know, we already
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  Speaker 1: got my father his Father's Day presents. Should I say it?
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  Speaker 1: It's a good gift too. He listens it, say it
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  Speaker 1: if you listen. All right, all right, I'll wait till Monday.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I love a good sweatshood. I'm old.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I got only see what
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  Speaker 1: I got on the Puma sweatshoot right now. It's my
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  Speaker 1: It's what I wear. I like sweitchhoo. But it's a
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  Speaker 1: good gift. I guarantee everybody here, with all the fathers here,
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  Speaker 1: would like it. Okay, did you guys up a skateboard
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  Speaker 1: as a kid? No? I tried to know what about
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  Speaker 1: You had a pink skateboard? Really? You skaping? You were good?
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  Speaker 1: What you're doing is coming by help with my son
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  Speaker 1: learned how to skateboard, because yesterday he asked me, No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not teach that good. You got your son a
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  Speaker 1: pink skateboard. No, I definitely didn't get a pink skateboard.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to pick one out. I got him a
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  Speaker 1: pink one. But I got him. He has a skateboard.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted it for his birthday last week. Jackson is
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  Speaker 1: seven sixteen. I'm sure they got skateboarding classes, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but you know you learned as a kid, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: go to the class for riding a bike or skateboard.
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  Speaker 1: And I just got on there and did it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: your daddy, your daddy had the money. You have to
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  Speaker 1: pay for the god daddy probably couldn't pay with that
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  Speaker 1: extra curricular activity. Know I tried yesterday didn't work out
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  Speaker 1: too what I mean, you know it's I tried to
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  Speaker 1: show him how to you know, push the backup to
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  Speaker 1: make it jump and all that. But it was everything
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  Speaker 1: I met you envy, googled a little Wayne skateboarding and
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  Speaker 1: learn how to skateboard to teach your son, I guaranteed
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  Speaker 1: I thought about then. You know, I was playing catch
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  Speaker 1: with Logan yesterday football. So I just had a good
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  Speaker 1: day with the kids yesterday. I just I love what
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  Speaker 1: it's nice out so we can go outside and enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the weather. Basically, he's saying he tired. I'm tired, and
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  Speaker 1: they never want to stop. Last started to going tim
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  Speaker 1: on minutes, Dad, all right, let's tim on minute, hey man.
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  Speaker 1: That's why sometimes I envy people who had kids in
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  Speaker 1: their twenties, you know what I mean, because when they forty,
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  Speaker 1: their kids grown. You know what I mean, it was
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  Speaker 1: young and vibrant. They had the energy to do all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Now showed the hurt for no reason.
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  Speaker 1: Me hurt for no reason. It's like, damn, all I
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  Speaker 1: do was racing. All I say was get on the
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  Speaker 1: air track and do a car. Well, it happened. They
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  Speaker 1: get on the trampoline. Let's do it. Oh lord, Daddy,
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  Speaker 1: don't flip. Daddy takes naps on the trampoline. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: even lie I take naps on the trampoline. When my
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  Speaker 1: two youngest asked me to get on the trampoline and
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  Speaker 1: my five year and two year olds, I get on there,
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  Speaker 1: I do one jump and then I just lay and
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  Speaker 1: I say, popcorn me, popcorn me? They jump up all
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  Speaker 1: around me and pop me up. That's it. Goodness. But
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  Speaker 1: let's get the show crack. Who's joining us today? Man,
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  Speaker 1: Today we have one of my South Carolina bredren, my guy,
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  Speaker 1: Craig Melvin, who is a co host up to the
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  Speaker 1: Day Show. He put out a book this week called
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  Speaker 1: Pops Learning to Be a Son and a Father. It
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  Speaker 1: is an amazing Father's Day gift. If you are looking
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  Speaker 1: to get your you know, father, something for Father's Day,
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  Speaker 1: this is the book to get. Craig Melvine Pops Learning
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  Speaker 1: to Be a Son and a Father. He's the co
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  Speaker 1: host of the Today Show. Me and him go way back,
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  Speaker 1: Man to the eight oh three Columbia, South Carolina. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll be talking to him today, all right in the
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  Speaker 1: front page news. What we're talking about you, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about the NBA playoffs and Kawhi Leonard and Chris Paul
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  Speaker 1: some issues. All right, we'll get into that next. It's
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  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Come one morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,
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  Speaker 1: Angela Guee, Charlomagne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: Let's getting some front page news. The last night, the
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks beat Philadelphia one o nine, one oh six.
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  Speaker 1: Great Game Series three two. The Sixes blew that one.
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  Speaker 1: The Sixes blew the last two games. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: that's got to be tough when you meek mill and
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  Speaker 1: you fly you and Quabo fly out on the PJA
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  Speaker 1: and you know Quabo's in Philly and you're probably clowning
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  Speaker 1: them the whole first half, the third quarter, in the
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  Speaker 1: four quarter they come back and win. Whoa yeah, because
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  Speaker 1: that turned it off. In the third quarter they were
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  Speaker 1: down by like I turned Loki on. I turned Loki
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  Speaker 1: on because I was like, man, this game is lope. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, and congratulations to LaMelo Ball he won
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  Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year, deserving to Congratulations to him. Now
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  Speaker 1: what else we got you, Well, let's talk about Phoenix
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  Speaker 1: Suns guard Chris Paul. He's been sidelined and that's because
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  Speaker 1: he's on the league's COVID nineteen Health and Safety Protocols
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  Speaker 1: the list, and they did announce that yesterday. They said
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  Speaker 1: there's a natural concern, and that's basically where it ends.
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  Speaker 1: The league is trying to do everything they can to
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  Speaker 1: keep individuals and teams safe, and it's such a natural
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  Speaker 1: concern for an individual. Now, Jalen Rose has said that
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  Speaker 1: Chris Paul is vaccinated, and he doesn't anticipate him missing
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  Speaker 1: more than one game. Unlike Kawa, this one isn't dooming
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  Speaker 1: gloom for me because they're off this week. He's already
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  Speaker 1: been vaccinated and I know the word and definitely makes
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  Speaker 1: you feel like he may not be in the next series.
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  Speaker 1: I don't anticipate him missing more than one game at
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  Speaker 1: the most, just based on the dynamics of time and
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  Speaker 1: how the polar call has worked. I don't see why
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  Speaker 1: he gotta miss any I mean, they said he's back,
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  Speaker 1: they said he's vaccinated. Give it to other people of
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  Speaker 1: the Yeah, but the series don't start to like the
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  Speaker 1: twentieth might not have to, but doesn't anticipate him missing
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  Speaker 1: more than one at the most. Yeah, and how many
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  Speaker 1: days you have to sit down? Usually they say quarantine
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  Speaker 1: for five days, right, I thought it was Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: three five, it's five. It's five days. They don't play
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  Speaker 1: till the twentieth, so he should be able to play
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  Speaker 1: and the twenty third if it goes seven games. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he should be able to play now. When he referenced
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  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard, Kawhi Leonard did miss a game and they
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  Speaker 1: said he could be out the remainder of the series
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  Speaker 1: and that's because of a right knee injury. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: they say, they say Kawhi has done done because they
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  Speaker 1: said he got um he gotta have surgery. But you
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  Speaker 1: know what Lebron said, yes today that you know this,
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  Speaker 1: that this is the reason why he said he didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to play. He says, the bodies are the players
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  Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to heal and didn't get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to recuperate. So now this that's why a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these people are being so injured. He's like, this
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  Speaker 1: is the most injuries from a superstars in the league
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  Speaker 1: in a long time, because he was like, the bodies
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  Speaker 1: just happening healed. I wonder how Lebron would feel if
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  Speaker 1: his team was still in the playoffs though remember Lebron
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  Speaker 1: was the one that didn't want to come back. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I wonder how he would feel if his team
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  Speaker 1: was still in the playoffs, because he would hate if
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  Speaker 1: somebody used that excuse and somebody said, well, the only
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  Speaker 1: reason the Lakers are winning because all the other stars
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  Speaker 1: are injured. No, he didn't say that. He just said
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of the celebrities and the stars are injured.
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  Speaker 1: That's the game though, I mean, and I agree with him, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they did. They did come back from a
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  Speaker 1: shortened season, so I'm sure that is, you know, one
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  Speaker 1: of the main factors for people having a lot of injuries.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes that's just a game. That's just the way things.
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  Speaker 1: Though they also played a shortened season though we just
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  Speaker 1: said that, That's what I'm saying, So I don't understand
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  Speaker 1: the argument. What do you mean they had like a
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  Speaker 1: how long were they out for? Like a month at least?
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  Speaker 1: Right with the COVID protocol, Right, it was a short season,
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  Speaker 1: and they sayed more games more times. Remember they were
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  Speaker 1: in the so they were playing every other No Lebron
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  Speaker 1: saying they didn't have the same amount of rest hime
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  Speaker 1: R that they would have between seasons, but they didn't
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  Speaker 1: play as long, all right. And Congress has passed legislation
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  Speaker 1: to make Juneteenth a federal holiday for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in nearly forty years. Congress has moved to establish a
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  Speaker 1: new national holiday just in time for the anniversary. That's
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  Speaker 1: the one hundred and fifty sixth anniversary of that day,
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  Speaker 1: which marks the last African American slaves being freed. In
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  Speaker 1: Texas after the Civil War. All right, So which is
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  Speaker 1: waiting for Joe Biden to sign that he's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: sign it today? I mean, you know what, man, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's cool. I know people was pushing for that,
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  Speaker 1: but man, it is so much other legislation that black
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  Speaker 1: people need, Like they always do, these these symbolic gestures
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to making real tangible change, like what's up
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  Speaker 1: with the George Floyd Policing Act? You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: What's up with voter rights bills? Okay, they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: take y'all. They're literally taking away black people's right to vote,
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  Speaker 1: like literally, they're making it like super difficult for to
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  Speaker 1: even go out there in Captain vote. Where is the
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  Speaker 1: voting right? The John Lewis voting rights? That like something
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  Speaker 1: some things that can actually impact us in a real way. Well,
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  Speaker 1: clearly it doesn't start with just I mean doesn't stop
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  Speaker 1: with Juneteenth. But this is something celebrate, all right, Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it does stop with June. Team with these people, shout
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  Speaker 1: to all the black promoters. They are definitely making Juneteenth
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  Speaker 1: a weekend really immediately, Hell yeah, Juneteenth parties like crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Now listen, I was at a recording yesterday for a
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  Speaker 1: juneteent celebration that's going to be happening, which is black
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  Speaker 1: historical figure. Y'all gonna disrespect about putting on flies. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: well the thing I was at Modern day out pfarming
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  Speaker 1: and she gets performing in the red. I told you
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  Speaker 1: a man the Seals is hosting, and I don't think
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  Speaker 1: Jabe Smooth. I think Seals on vacation. I think she's
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  Speaker 1: on the flyer. So that's the black historical figure they
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  Speaker 1: put on the right. Get it off your chests eight
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  Speaker 1: on five eight five, one on five one. If you
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  Speaker 1: need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club,
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  Speaker 1: you got something on your mind? Let hello, who's this year?
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  Speaker 1: What's up? Trap? Very start please travel. What I'm says
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  Speaker 1: doing good Listen, I want to talk about that amazing
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  Speaker 1: version of last night. Don't want to clude bonds for
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  Speaker 1: e Trena Man, Now that was big. That was big.
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  Speaker 1: I told y'all, man, Treina got joints. You know. I can't. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie. I was telling the same man
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  Speaker 1: that I have. I mean, I do, I do. I
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  Speaker 1: am more a biased because you're from Philly a lot more,
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  Speaker 1: but I do love Treeta Austin. I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of forgot some of the songs that go well.
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  Speaker 1: And you didn't grow up down south like I used to.
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  Speaker 1: I've been to so many different training shows growing up
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  Speaker 1: because Trina was like always an artist that would come
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  Speaker 1: down to perform in South Carolina. Like, I know women
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  Speaker 1: that worship Trina. They loved Trainer's music. So I knew
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  Speaker 1: Trina had joints. I just didn't think that they were.
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  Speaker 1: They were resonating nationally. So I'm from Virginia. You're telling
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  Speaker 1: you I'm from the southern origin, ye, Like I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know that. I thought you was from the top, trave
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know you from down bottom. But let me
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  Speaker 1: ask a question I tuned into the battle. Lad Why
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  Speaker 1: weren't they in the same room because he was in London. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he was in London. Trainer was in Miami. But they
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  Speaker 1: had like during the fift thousand people watching them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and they were looking amazing too. On top of all that.
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  Speaker 1: But all right, hello, who's this? Hey? This is Emmanual, Emmanuel,
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  Speaker 1: what's up? You know if you're chess. Yeah, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: calling to let you guys go. Hey, man, financial literacy
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  Speaker 1: and we need it. Man. You know, our people don't
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  Speaker 1: want to learn, so we just want to go. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that that's true anymore. We definitely want
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  Speaker 1: to learn. Yeah, that's not true. I mean that's not true.
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  Speaker 1: When you see when I wouldn't say that. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like to make those broad statements. Yeah, when I when
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  Speaker 1: you see how popping Wall Street trapp is and earn
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  Speaker 1: your Lesia and everything envying and season them doing. No,
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  Speaker 1: people definitely want to learn about financial literacy. Black people
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  Speaker 1: definitely are all has a strong fan basic they go
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  Speaker 1: around the country speaking to people. I know every time
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  Speaker 1: we do it. I had my team Wealth went, I
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  Speaker 1: had my team Wealth Wednesdays dot Com all the things
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  Speaker 1: that I do for financial literacy that so many people
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  Speaker 1: are involved in. I don't have semin all, so we
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  Speaker 1: got one this Sunday on Father's Day. They always set out.
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  Speaker 1: So I think people want the knowledge and the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: all the artists talking about it, from Diddy to Rick
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  Speaker 1: Row like, No, people are definitely tuned into financial literacy
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  Speaker 1: right now. Say we don't have the money to invest
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  Speaker 1: as we should, then that's a different situation, but we
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  Speaker 1: definitely want the knowledge and the getting the knowledge absolutely
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  Speaker 1: absolutely right. I think you guys are doing I think
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  Speaker 1: you guys are doing a great job, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: putting that out there websites and all that stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, yo, you know, we really need it, man.
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  Speaker 1: I just see it's probably in my neighborhood, in my
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  Speaker 1: community that I'm seeing it over in here that I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to do things as far as like, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know we from we need to Oh I'm actually
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually live in Tampa right now. Okay, we're live
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  Speaker 1: from New York right and Tampa's a booming market now too.
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  Speaker 1: I love Tampa. Shout the Seventh and Grove. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of black businesses in Tampa. I'm gonna be doing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff out in Tampa too, So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean they're definitely learning. And even the owners of
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  Speaker 1: Seventh and Grown, they own a pharmacy. There's people out
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  Speaker 1: there spending some money and learning, really learning the game
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  Speaker 1: and teaching. So there are people out there, brother, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah. Yeah, I kind of I wanted to say,
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  Speaker 1: like all the people out here, but all right, you
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  Speaker 1: guys have a good day. Man, I appreciate this. All right,
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  Speaker 1: hit it off your chests eight hundred five, ain't five
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  Speaker 1: one on five one if you need to vet hit
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  Speaker 1: us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the
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  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Wake up, wake up, wake y'all, as you're
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  Speaker 1: time to get it off your chest of blast. We
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  Speaker 1: want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Who's this? Yeah? This is a shell Andy, what's up?
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  Speaker 1: She'll get it off your chest? He Charlot Mane and
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  Speaker 1: the leg j good one to y'all. King. Hey, question,
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  Speaker 1: Charlot Manne, what do you think about Loki? I love
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  Speaker 1: Loki thus far. I think it's very good and I think, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's really introducing us to Marvel phase four
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  Speaker 1: and in a real way, we're getting a real glimpse
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  Speaker 1: into a Marvel phase for it's gonna look like. Okay, now,
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  Speaker 1: I totally agree with you, but my only problem is
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  Speaker 1: I can't be waiting on everything to get one episode
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  Speaker 1: of Man, I want to them to just drop the
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  Speaker 1: whole year. I'm gonna be honest with you. I would
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  Speaker 1: agree with you, but I kind of like it. I
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  Speaker 1: like appointment television. I think appointment teller vision of the
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  Speaker 1: Lost art binge watching is cool. But man, there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: like you know, every Wednesday looking at having something to
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  Speaker 1: look forward to. I'm not gonna lie true. Nd Now,
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  Speaker 1: now one more thing right before I leave, Uh, Charlotte
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  Speaker 1: May I totally agree with you with this June two thing.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: I think it's the only thing we don't get. Everybody
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: going to celebrate hand me and nothing's gonna get a coming. Yeah. Man,
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: we got too many We got too many real real
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: issues that need to be handled. Man. But I mean,
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: June teenth is cool. I'm happy for you know, people
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: that were pushing for that and got it, But now
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: it's too many other real issues out there bro that
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: we that we need to get pushed appreciate love y'all, Yes, sir,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: all right for you too. All right, Hello, who's this
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: David Man? I'm on him, man, trying to get it
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: on the chin the morning, man, I want to know
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: where your child support pails. Gonna get the tent for
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: the kids. They shouldn't be concerned as a little tact,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Brad intended. We've been charge yelling what happened? Now I'm
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: not I'm not well versed on child support. What happened right? Oh?
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: You know to you when we found we get count
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: for all the money that we make. So where we're
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: gonna get a tech break the dependent? Why dan child
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: supporting not taxes up? The money you paying taxes? I
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: mean child supporting, man, I don't pay that time for him.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: I ain't getting no chet. Brazy the mom she's getting
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: the money, but she had That's crazy, man, that's crazy.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: That's what's going on. Well, you you know, I feel
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: like they should consider that like it's it's an end call.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: You know, we should be getting trying to tech. I
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: agree that's coming out. So then what I want to
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: get off and change that morning man, Charlot main't ivy man,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: y'all have a thank you King, have a going up,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: get it off your chest. Ain't happy five? Ain't five
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: five one? You got rumors on the way, Yes, Nick Cannon,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Abby day Le Rosa, they have welcomed their twins. But
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: tell you what their names are? All right, we'll get
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: it to the next It's the breakfast Club. Good morning,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: the breakfast Club. This is the rum of report with
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Angela years well. Congratulations and Nick Cannon and Abbe de
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: la Rosa. They have welcomed their twin boys. Now. The
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: mom wrote on Instagram June fourteenth, twenty twenty one, Welcome
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: to the world Zion Mixo Loodean Cannon and Zillion Air Cannon,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: My world, my twin boys. Dropping a cloth box for
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Nick Cannon's the young lady Mabel Rosa Abide la Rossa.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Congrats on the two new babies. They named it Zillion now, yeah,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Zillion is the first name in I guess Air is
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: the middle name. Hb Ir. It's actually kind of hard.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: It's creator Zillion Zion, Zill young Zill. That's hard. H.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: So that's the second set of twins he has obviously
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Monroe and Moroccan with Mariah, and then he also has
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: two other kids, Golden who's four, and Powerful Queen who
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: was six months with his ex Brittany Bell. Altogether that's six.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Nick is very literal with the name, very literal. Powerful
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: or Powerful Queen was Golden h very literal. But you
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: know names matter, so why not be literal literal with it? All? Right? Now,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: let's talk about Eve versus Trina. Last night, the two
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: of them went head to head for over twenty rounds.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: They were playing hits from the last twenty years. They're
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: actually the I think they're the first hip hop women
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to battle right, definitely rappers. Yeah, and uh, Missy Elliott
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: was weighing in because obviously she posted, I want to
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: say this. I am humbly grateful because I've been on
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: a lot of artists versus and I want to think
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: those amazing artists who believed in me as a writer,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: producer or justin artist. I love y'all for all the
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: love y'all show me And it was a super friendly
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: face off. They showed each other so much respect. Listen
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: to this. I wouldn't want to do this to nobody else.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Did my sister and you've been on each other for
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: only twenty years. We always showed love. We always supported
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: one another, We always told each other down. I got
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: the ultimate respect for you, so always love you. I
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: know we excited. This is a this is for all
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the females and pop. It's all queens and the blue.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: When you you hold your proud, you don't never know delas,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: all right, that's what I'm talking about now. Eva's in London,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: and uh Trina when she had lived yep, I don't
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: know what club she was, don't she was at a
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: club Minami. I don't know if it was lived there,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: all right, So that was pretty dope. And and Trina
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: also played some new music. I don't need no receipt.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I don't need no repeat, I don't need no receipt.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I don't need no I don't need to change. Heye,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: tell them people change. Hey, I don't need to change.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Tell the kicker, I'm gonna tright to get some money.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Hit them all to spend it up all these against
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the window shopping boy, you looking like the froup when
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I stop up in the building, I'm the baddest in
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the club. And I know I got that fire. He
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: tried to hit it without a Hey, bring the rose in,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: bring the bros in. When they come through the bills
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: to bring the holes in black white, Spanish Asian. You
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: ain't welcome to Miami. Let up with the Haitian. Hey, listen,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: you gotta love Versus man nothing in the coach. He
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: gives folks that flowers like Verses because we live in
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: this prison of the moment era. Folks tend to only
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: remember what's happening right now, and Versus showcases catalogs in
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: a way that no other platform does. It takes you
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: down memory lane and reminds you why these people are
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: who they are. So salute to Trina and Eve Legends
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: dropping a post bond for both of them. Okay, well,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the Bills that Trina was in was the same place
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: she recorded Nan and so she said it had a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: special significance for her because that's her. They recorded that
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: video her and she did bring out Trick Daddison and
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: they had over you said to over three hundred fifty
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: thousd people on Instagram hype. Congrats to them. Yeah, very
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: enjoyable to see these women on that stage showing each
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: other love, looking amazing, and a lot of people forgot
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: about all the hits that they had and that they
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: were on all right. Now, Michael Jordan caught a dolphin
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: earlier and he's doing some three point four million dollar
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: fishing tournament in North Carolina. They're competing for that top
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: event prize, and they said so far he caught a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: twenty five pound fish to land on the dolphin category
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: leaderboard early in the contest. This isn't the first time
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: he's done this event. Apparently it's a very well known event.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Last year they got a four hundred and forty two
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: pound blue marlin, the fourth the biggest catch of the day.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Have y'all ever went fishing? Yeah, yeah, I'm going fishing,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: not like like them, though, they're doing some serious fishing.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: He caught a dolphin, what you say, Yeah, he did
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: um And actually, according to a representative, they had to um.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: They had to throw the dolphin back in because the
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: wrong speechies and they released it back into the water.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Dolphins are so cute and so intelligent. That's like kidnapping
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: a kid. I don't think he tried to do it
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: on purpose. They just put the bait out there, you
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like, as soon as you see
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: as a dolphin, you got to make sure that hook
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: gets out of that Dolph got to bring that on
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the boat. Absolutely, and it's big money in fishing. I
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: didn't know that. Even in Mexico they do huge fishing
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: events and people walk away with like millions of dollars.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Just crazy. You're a real psychopath. You out here hunting dolphins, bro,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: you can't do it all. But listen. I was in
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: texting Cake Goos and we went on a fishing boat
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: and I don't I don't think I enjoyed it so much.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I felt bad while they were catching the fish and
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of blood everywhere. I was like, I
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: don't know if I went right back upstairs. I was like,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You don't eat sea food? Right? No?
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: All right, well that is your reports. I mean, ANGELI
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: just has never lived a life. I mean, no Disney World,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: no seafood. What else did she say this week that
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I couldn't believe she never had done. I might be
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: going to Disney World for the first time soon. Well,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I have some fish when you go shrump or something.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: You never seen Lion King. I saw the play on Broadway.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: My goodness. You shouldn't get your dad nothing for Father's Day.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: He didn't do much. I don't know. He was just there.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: No fish, no Disney World Christ All right, front page news,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: that's what we're talking about. I'm glad y'all didn't blame
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: my mom for that. All right, let's talk about the
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Biden put in stammen and some key takeaways from this
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: meeting in Geneva, US and Russia. We'll get to it.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Next is to Breakfast Club. God Morning, So Breakfast Club,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: your morning's will never be the same. Bought to you
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: by the all new season of the FX original comedy Dave,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: based on the life of Dave Bird aka Little Dickey.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Dave drops Wednesday, June sixteenth, at ten nine Central on FXX,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: screaming next day on FX on Hulu Morning, everybody is
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: tj Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news. Now, A
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Hawk speaks to Philadelphia. Seventy six is one or nine
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: one oh six. I turned the game off when I
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: swear Philadelphia was up like twenty points. Yeah, that's why
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I turned on Loki on is Me Plus. But the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Hawks did come back to way. They took Joel and
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: beat out in the third quarter. I think there was
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: like two minutes left. The crown was going crazy. I
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, this is over. I wondered didn't meet
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: h you know, in quable ride back together. I know
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: they rolled to the game together, but I'm sure Miko
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: was talking so crazy. I'm sure stree quarters and then
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the Hawks come back and win the fourth quarter. I
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: don't want to hear that on the way back. That's
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: your own jack h. What else we got you? Well,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Congress is designating post massacre site as a national memorial.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: As you guys recall, this was in Orlando, Florida, five
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: years ago. A gum and killed forty nine people and
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: wounded fifty three people there. The Senate voted final congressional
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: approval of the bill last week and Joe Biden is
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: expected to sign it soon. And that was the deadliest
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: deadliest attack on the LGBTQ community in American history. So
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: they're making that a national memorial. So it's not open anymore.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: You can just I know, you can go outside and
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: they have things that you can sign, but it's not
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: you can't go inside and nothing like that anymore. Right closed, Yeah,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: that site right there is just a memorial site. Gotcha?
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: They said, it's really important for survivors to know we
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: are not going away until the job is done. According
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: to Nancy Pelosi, all right, now, let's talk about Joe
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Biden and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, And they actually
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: had a little less than four hour meeting, and Joe
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Biden said in a news conference after the meeting the
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: tone was good, and he acknowledged that it will take
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: time to know whether there will be any significant progress.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: He wasn't confident that he had done anything to change
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Putin's behavior, but he did discuss some of the issues
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: with cyber capabilities and the violations from Russia. Whether I
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: stopped it from happening it again, he knows, I will
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: take action like we did when this last time out.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: What happened was we in fact made it clear that
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: we were not going to continue to allow us to
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: go on. The end result was we ended up with
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: drawing and they went drawing ambassadors, We closed down some
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: of their facilities in the United State, Age, etc. He
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: knows their consequences. The hypocrisy of the media is hilarious.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: When Biden met with Putin, is it's all good in
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the media. When Trump met with Putin. He got dragged.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: What's the difference. I think this was a this was
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a summit, and so you do still have to meet
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: with leaders, but you can't be trying to like cut
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: deals and secretly have meetings and set things up. Who
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: you know, you got to do. Everything you do is Trump,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Putin Trump, and Putin was out in the open. He
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: got dragged. They said that people were upset that Trump
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: didn't confront Putin about Russ's an interference in the election.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: It's just interesting. It's just interesting how one, you know,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: causes an uproar, but the other is just like, oh,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: it's okay. They had a meeting, like well. I think
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: there were also a lot of issues with Trump's relationship
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: with hut behind the scenes that people didn't know about,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: in certain financial deals that had been made that were
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: that they were discussing, and other people that were having
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: conversations on the side that weren't out in the open.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't see the difference. Okay. And then
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: here is what Putin had to say about their meeting.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I think there were facilities quite the contrary, Army meeting
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: took place. Principally speaking, we don't share the same positions
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: in many areas. But I think that both of these
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: sides showed a willingness to understand one another. It feels
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: like nothing really happened, all right, And a heat wave
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: has been gripping the West in the United States, and
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: people are saying that they're scared this is going to
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: be a new hotter normal. In Phoenix, they've had a
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: record for the second day in a row when it
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: reached one hundred and fifteen degrees yesterday. It's expected to
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: hit one hundred and seventeen degrees for the next two days.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: And scientists who studied drought and climate change see that
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: people living in the American and West can expect to
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: see more of the same in the coming years. Heat
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: waves are getting worse because the soil is so dry
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: from the region's mega drought, and we could have two, three, four,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: or five of these heat waves before the end of
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the summer. All right. Well, they are asking in California
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: to voluntarily conserve pour. They're asking their residence to do
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: that for a few hours Thursday evening because they are
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: anticipating record breaking heat blankets during the West during this week.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: You can't ask me to conserve power. When it's hot
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: as hell, I gotta have the AC. What are we
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: talking about? Yeah, I guess they want to make sure
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: everyone's power doesn't go out and then no one has
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: a c Well, better, get you a good church fan,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: bring back the church fan. I told y'all. Last year
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I ordered me with the last year, maybe it was
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the earlier. This year, I ordered me a bunch of
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: church fans. Get you a good church fan, man, get
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: old school and get the fan and put it in
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the window. Yeah, okay, let that natural ass circulate through
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: your house with that fan. All right, Well, that is
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: your front page news and dramas. What's going on in
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico? I heard they have a rolland power out
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: of you dramas. Shut up. He's Puerto Rican Roland Roland.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Blackouts happening over there. And he just said that you
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: have no details. They use a private company. There's a
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: lot of controversy over the company that they're using. That said,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: they said, I think over three hundred thousand people without power.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: So you got how are you gonna let the Dominican
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: in the room no more about what's going on? You
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: to give you inside a tradeing information? Yes, we do
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: that's why he went to you for Puerto Rican. He
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: just gave it. He literally just gave me that. I
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: don't know the reason. I don't know when to about
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Puerto Rican issues. They've had shaky The power grid has
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: been shaky ever since Hurricane Maria, has never been properly repaired.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: The money has the funds weren't given down there under
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the trumpet, he go dramas. That's what we needed right there.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: All right, you're letting the Dominican in the room have
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: more say so on Puerto Rican. Even give me a
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: damn chance to answer it, thinking jumping down my throat,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: What do you mean, y'all? Kinky already? All right? Wow, okay,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: all right, Well, who's joining us next? Man? My guy,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Craig Melvin. Craig Melvin is the co host of the
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Today Show and he's from Columbia, South Carolina the eight
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: oh three We go way back. He put out a
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: book yesterday on Tuesday, Tuesday called up Pops, Learning to
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Be a Son and a Father, which is a perfect
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Father's Day gift. So let's have some good uh discussions
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: about father hooding in this room this morning. Why not
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: fathers did this weekend all right, we'll get into that.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Next is the breakfast Club come oning the Breakfast Club?
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: That was Jack Malvin? Come on it man, too good
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: to see. I've been a fan fan of the show
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: for a long time, but I've been a fan of
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: this guy even longer. You know what. I'm for a
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: long time away. So tell us well, first of all, Craig,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: if you don't know, of course, he's a news anchor
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: for NBC News Today. Now tell him where you started, though, Craig,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the South, Hey eight O three? What's happening? Wyst? And
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you were at that point? You were at Hot Hot
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: one on three point nine the jam? Yeah, I was
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: at at the Big Dam. Didn't Hot one with three
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: point nine. It wasn't the jam, Craig. It was Hot
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: one of three point nine, that's all. What was the
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: jam is ninety three jams. And Charleston's right, that's why
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I started tell us some stories about Charlemagne that we
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: might not know. Since you guys go down. You don't
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: want to do that. No, I don't want to do it.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: That short destruction. Not doing that, I will say. I
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: will say, um, if you told either one of us
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years ago, that this is where we would be.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I would have laughed. I can't speak for I don't know.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I think people kind of knew it because I remember
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: we got We were in the South Carolina state newspaper
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: in two thousand three or four and they named me
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: and you two of the top ten. I think it
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: was media Personalities under the age of thirty in Columbia Cycline,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: and they did these profiles and I was actually still
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: have my frame and I did I did the Ten
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Commandments of Hip Hop and Craig told a story, but
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I just remember him laying on the grass with a
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: puppy look in his face. Story comes out just saying
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: it was a story. Had a dog back then in trouble.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: They wanted to take a picture of me and my dog,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: and a picture that they happened to snap at the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: time was But the dog didn't usually lick my face,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: didn't sleep in the band kiss. I'm not a dog kisser.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I've never kissed. That dog was definitely kissing you. The
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: dog may have he may have licked me once and again.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: The photographer just timed it perfectly. But I haven't heard
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the end of it. I have that framed. I should
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: have bought it. I'm glad you didn't. I'm glad this
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: before social media. Right, Yeah, So we were get out.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: He would get off the air, I would get off
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the eleven o'clock news, and we would hit the club.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: And when you go with him to the strip clubs,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I've never been we've been to this, I've never. I
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: have never. Never. We would go to regular clubs, regular
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: night clubs. Thing like that life he led back then,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: that would serve him well now like he gives him
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: street crack. That life I led back then. I don't
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: need that. I don't need that life. I would this.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I was with my girl, done that since high school. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: that's a fact. That's we used to go to V twelve.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: V twelve used to be off spoties to be V
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: twelve in the Vista. Goodness be twelve in the Vista.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: But Craig. One thing I can say about Craig. Craig
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: was always focused, you know what I mean? He was
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: always mature. Why did you hang out with him? Then?
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I need a street crack. But he had a lot
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: more fun than I was. Happing, Like, wherever he was,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: that's where the party was. Yes, I do remember one
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: time we was in the VP. Craig is sitting there.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Craig goes, Oh my god, that man wanna I gotta
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: get out of here. Probably that's probably right now, Probably true,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: that is true. We used to have a good time. Well,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: let's sen you know Craig is here, um, because he
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: has a new book out that came out Tuesday. It's
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: called Pops Pops Learning to Be a Son and Father.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: And the reason I loved this book for a number
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: of reasons. I mean, number one, because I know you
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and I just love to hear, you know, backstories of
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: people from South Carolina, because you know, we don't we
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of representation, right. But you address
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: a relationship that will always be complicated, probably the most
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: complicated relationship a man can have, and that's the relationship
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: we have with our father. Yes, what made you address
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: that topic? Well, a couple of things you know and
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I write about in the book. But two years ago,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: my dad, after you know, forty plus years of heavy
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: drinking and gambling addiction and um, he finally decided he
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: was going to get some help. He was sixty seven
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: years old at the time. And of the things of
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: which I'm proud in my life, and there are a lot.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: It's it's top of the list, like my dad deciding
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: late in life that he wanted to live better. It's
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: it is. It was the most cathartic thing I've ever done. Wow. Um,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I wanted to give my father his roses while he's
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: still alive. So it's a love letter to my dad.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: It's a love letter to fatherhood. It's a story of
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: resilience and overcoming addiction. Uh, it's a story of forgiveness
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: as well. You know, my dad, even after he got clean,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: we would talk like this and you know, rarely a
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: conversation would pass where he didn't talk about the guilt
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: that he felt, and he would cry and just talk
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: about how how bad he felt about being absent. And
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: even when he was present, he was you know, drunk,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: hungover or sleeping. Um. But I wanted him to know
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: that we've all forgiven him and and so it's that
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: was that was part of it. Did you forgive him
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: easier when you had kids? Because we talk about this
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: all time, like you're mad at your dad for things
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: you don't understand until you start having your own kids.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Right leaving to my kids, now like, you know, me
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: and my kids go to him. I'm sure my kids
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: say they hate me at times because you're overprotective, right,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: And my dad, being a retired police office, was over protective.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: But now I'm on like that with my kids, and
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I understand completely why my dad wouldn't let me go
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: to certain things and take certain you know, trains, or
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: go to this party. So did you feel that when
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: you started to have kids and be like, I need
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: to patch this up now precisely precisely, you know, here's
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: we're hard in our parents. Yeah, but we're hard because
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: you know, when you're ten, fifteen, twenty, you don't you
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: don't know you had you haven't experienced the world. You
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: don't really have perspective. You just know you want to
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: go out to this party or you want to go
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: see this girl, and you know you want to you
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: want to be what teenagers want to be. And it's
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: it's not until you get older and you have children
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: and you realize that your primary responsibilities to protect them
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: from the world. And I but I was hard on
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: my dad for for a different reason because back then,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: know the way we view lots of things now, whether
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: it's mental health, but with regards to addiction, back then,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: we didn't view addiction as a sickness. You thought he
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: was being selfish. Yeah, he can't about than us, right,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: if you really wanted to get the monkey off your back,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: you could. But now knowing what we know, having covered
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: so many stories related to addiction, you know, five teen
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: years ago, I started to look at it like like
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: we look at it now, like a disease and illness.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: So I was hard on my dad for that reason.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: So I was angry and resentful, and you know, it
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: just got to a point where I was, you know,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: my firm believer in therapy as well, and my therapist
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago finally after well, I mean
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: had been suggesting it for a number of years, but
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: suggested that I made peace with it and forgive my father,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: not for my father, but but for me um. And
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: so all of that led to this, I too, learned
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: to forgive my father in therapy because I realized that
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: my father was just doing the best he could, and
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: he was working with the tools that he had at
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: the time. Yes, you know, when you're dealing with substance
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: abusing his own mental health issues, he really did a
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: lot for somebody with a lot of those problems, you know.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: And to that point, Charlomagne, my dad and I didn't
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: know this until I was writing the book, And the
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: first line of the book is my dad was born
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: in a federal prison in West Virginia. He didn't even
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: know who his dad was until he was almost a teenager.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: So imagine, imagine growing up not knowing who your your
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: your dad is, having other kids pick at you. They
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: would call him a jail baby and all this stuff,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: and having other kids pick at you. It shapes and
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: molds you in ways that you don't fully appreciate until
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: you're you know, you're much older. So he so he
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: grew up that way. And when he found out who
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: his dad was, it's not like his dad took an
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: active interest. I asked him, and it's in the book.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I asked him. During the interview with Montenna, said, what's
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: the what's the most money you ever wasted without missing
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: and beating? My dad said twenty five dollars dollars on
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: what he's like, that's how much it cost to put
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: my daddy in the ground nineteen eighty six. Yeah, that
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: was my reaction. And he proceeded to explain how his
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: father was a dead beat, like a come back me.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: And so my dad did exponentially better than his fathers.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: And I would say, we're probably doing a little bit
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: better than I dad. That's what it is about the
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: right well back then, especially like black fathers in the South.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: And man, my dad worked third shift at the post
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: office because you make a little little extra money, weekends, holidays,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: no vacations to provide to get us to the middle class, right,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: And I didn't appreciate it and respect it until all
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, we're forced to provide for children. All Right,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: we have more with Craig Melvin. You probably heard him
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: with MSNBC, so don't move. It's to breakfast Club, Good
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and ye Charlemagne, the
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: with Craig Melvin. Charlemagne. You know, you know in the
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: book you talk about how you know your father had
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: a gambling addiction as well as well as liquor. I
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: mean that it's really like mirrors my father, you know.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: But it took a lot of oldgs. Those two things
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: took a lot of oldgs in South Carolina down down
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: a bad path. Do you think they got caught up
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: because it was nothing else to do, right, and especially
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: video poker. People don't a lot of folks outside of
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: South Carolina don't realize the scourge the video poker was
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: back in the eighties and nineties in South Carolina. I
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: mean it was a two billion dollars industry and you
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: go in and you press some buttons and you're playing
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: like poker with a computer. And my dad would go
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: in on a Friday and he like, not an exaggeration,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: he blows whole paycheck. I'm playing like video poker for
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: six hours. You know, tall boy in one hand, video poker,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: but tall boy, you know the tall boy. And it's
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: like what a how many ounces of two? Yeah? Ye
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: still nix selling the pup brown pap paper back man. Yeah,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: well anyway possible. He would have a couple of tall
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: boys and so but no, he and his friends, to
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: your point, like that was it wasn't typically just one addiction.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: It was it was booze and gambling, or booze and women,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: or booze and and and my dad you know, but
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: to his credit, gave up gambling, gave up drinking. In November,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: he was in the hospital for five days. We thought
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: it was COVID. Thankfully it wasn't. He had um bacterial pneumonia.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Doctor comes and miss melting Um. How much do you smoke?
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: That's what he means in a given day? So I'm
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: probably down to a packet day. He'd been packet day
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: smoker for forty years. Doc says, well, smell here, gonna
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: have to have to stop smoking. He said, okay, all right,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: hadn't had a cigarette sense, Wow, will power? Will power?
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't necessarily possess. But yeah, no, he's
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: giving up all of his vices. You know, it just
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: sounds like, you know because when I when I read
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: your book, you know, and it's something I knew, but
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: just the shrine forces it. The thing about our fatherhood
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: is really on the job training, Like do you think
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: it's something you can ever truly learn to do? No, No,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a journey, not a destination. And
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: because the kids are different, Like you know, you've got three,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: your three girls, they're all different. My southern daughters are
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: very different, and as they get older, they present new challenges.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I understand. Um, so it's no. I think I have
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: found though. Um, and this is something I knew our
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: fathers didn't do. You start talking to other fathers, you
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: start talking to other dad You realize no one's doing
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: it right like, no one, no one, no one's mastered
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: us right. Um, But it's I'm a Carson Dally. Uh.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: You know, he's part of the Today's Show, and he
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: gave me some advice a couple of years ago. It's
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: always stayed with me, he said. At some point, you
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: realize that everyone's sacrificing something. You know, either you're sacrificing time,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: you're sacrificing money, You're you're sacrificing something. You make peace
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: with that and you decide you're gonna focus over You're
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: gonna focus on quality over quality. Right. So I'm gonna
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: miss some stuff. I'm not gonna be some literal league games,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: some soccer games. Maybe I'm missed a recital here there
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: because I've got to work. But when we are together,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I'm present. I'm there, not on not on the cell phone. Uh.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: And we're gonna take great trips, great vacations. We're gonna
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: make memories. Uh did last And that's that's always something
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: to stay with me. What did your father learn about
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: you that he didn't know when when when y'all were
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: writing this book doing these interviews, I don't think he knew,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Scratch said, I know he didn't know how angry and
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: resentful I was when I was younger, But he also
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: didn't know how proud I was of what he has
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: overcome and the man he's become. UM. And he didn't
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: know that because I didn't tell him that, UM. And
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons I wanted. I wanted him
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: to read this, read this book, and it's it's a
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: you know, it's a love letter to him. And when
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I went to visit in rehab down in Statesburg, Georgian,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: it gives me this letter. Forty years my father had
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: never written me a letter. It gives me, gives me
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: a letter, and it's it's it's his story. And he
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: had at the beginning of therapy, I guess, decided that
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: he needed to explain himself. And he explained all of it,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: how he came to be the man that he was,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: how he came to be the man that he was
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: not Um. His father talked, wrote about all of it
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: and wanted me to have it, and I keep it
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: in the safe. It's one of the one of my
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: most treasured possessions. Um. But it's it's it's just it's
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: wild to think. And again, you know, part of it
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: is on me. But it's wild to think that someone
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: in their late sixties, who struggled mightily with the addictions
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: that he struggled with, can decide late in life that
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: he wants to to to do better and be better
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: for his kids and for his grandkids primarily. Like I
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: see my dad now with his grandchildren, I'm like, who
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: is that man? Like it's riding bikes and out shooting
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: hoops with my son, Like it's a it's it's the
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: human in spirit. It's something. You know what I love
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: about it. I love the fact that he's doing it
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: because of what's happening here on earth. A lot of
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: people get right at the end of their life because
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: of what they think's gonna happen in the after life.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: But he's like, no, I want to get right because
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: of what's happening here on earth in this moment. Yes,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: that's that is that's a good point. I didn't even
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: hadn't really thought about that. But you're right. He talks
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: about his faith a little bit in the boat. You know,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: we used to go to church. I mean I grew
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: up in the church, and Dad would never go And
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: and I asked him. We talked a fair amount about that,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: and he finally had and it made perfect sense when
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: he when he explained it. He's never had a great
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: deal of patience for hypocrites. And he found in the
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: church a lot of the folks who were there on
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Sunday were the same folks that he was drinking with
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: or shooting crafts with on Saturday. And a lot of
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: the folks who were in the choir or the same
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: folks who are, you know, cheating on their wives. Um.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: And he didn't have patience for that, he just and
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: so it's I get it. Yeah, I got it. I
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: got it. Have you explained it? I didn't get it.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: You know. When I was fifteen, I said, why didn't
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Dad have to go to church three times a week
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: like we do? Um? But it's it's uh, I learned
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: a lot. You describe your father as a ghost. Oh yeah,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: that was a nickname one of my friends gave him.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: I won't, I won't, I won't get I won't say
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: her name because we're still friends. But no, because you know,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: when you're growing up kids, you know, parents are showing
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: up for events, and my mom was always there. Sometimes
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: they're a little too much, but my dad was never there.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: When you started playing video poker, there was a place
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: called Tom's Party Shop where he would usually play with
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: about a mile away from the house. If you were
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: coming to Columbia High School on the school bus, you
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: you could always see what was happening in Tom's Party
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Shop direct. My dad drove a nineteen seventy three penty
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: A Clamans. He was the only person in America probably
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: driving a bright green nineteen seventy three Lamons in nineteen
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: ninety two, and so anytime someone saw the car, they
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: knew it was my dad. So people kids would be
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: coming on the school bus or driving to school and
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: they see, you know, at six thirty or seven in
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: the morning, there's my dad playing video poker, drinking his
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: tall boys the Timas party shop. And so one of
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: my friends one morning it was like, hey, I saw
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: you pops up Tom's Party Shop. He's like a ghost,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: like you know, sometimes you're see him real fast and
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: he's gone blah, blah, man, it's like, I've never seen
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: your dad's face. And she was right, she's telling the truth.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: But she nicknamed the ghost, and it was a nickname
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: that stayed and it came to represent later in life
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: kind of who he was to me, kind of there physically,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: but not really there emotionally or mentally or any other
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: way for that matter. All Right, we don't move from NBC.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: We have Craig Melvin joining us today as the Breakfast Club.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Good morning morning, everybody is cj Envy Angela yee. Charlomagne
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: it with Craig Melvin and Charlomagne. One thing, even reading
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: your book, and I realized with father's it's like, that's
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: what you want from your father, right, Like you want
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: that emotion Like I feel like, for for my life,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: all I got was disciplined, yes from my dad, not
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: real motion, not real love. Yes. Did you do you
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: feel like you're getting that now from him? Now? Okay?
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: But to your earlier point, Charlemagne, I mean, that's we
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: got that because that's what they knew. They didn't They
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: weren't capable, they were not capable of being the kind
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: of dads that we wanted him to be, that we
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: that we needed them to be. They just didn't have
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: They didn't have the tools in the toolbox. Um. But
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize that until later in life. Yeah, Um,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: so it's I Yes, I get that now from my dad. Now.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: You know, he'll FaceTime at two in the afternoon. He's retired.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: He'll FaceTime between the afternoon. It's like, oh, what's going
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: on with either I'm I'm I'm at work, pops, I
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: can't you know. But I always answer the call. And
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: he and one thing I love about my dad unlike
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: my mother, who I love. Uh that's a separate book.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: But um, he never keeps you on the phone too long.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Like it's always it's three, three minutes, maybe four minutes.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: If it's something serious, that's it. So that's why I
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: can talk to him every day. Mom calls, you know,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: it's forty minutes. You there's no you can't wrap. So
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: but he calls. It just checks in, uh and always
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: ends with I love you. I love you, man, I
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: love you. I was twenty maybe college graduation before I
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: heard my dad say I love you. I never heard
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: of the kid no evil no, really, then it's you
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: know hugs. Oh man, there was no no hugs like
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: it was. You start hugging like you're going, what's going
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: on with you? Really? No? No, no, no, no, no, no,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: no demonstrations of affection. No, that's not that was not Again.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of it goes back to cultural
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: and generational. But no, my dad, now you know, every
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: time you see him, he's hugging and I mean it's sister,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: it's lu and anyone's capable of it. That's one of
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: the reasons I wanted to write the book like it's
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: and it's also about you know, a lot of times
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: in our families you have people who struggle with things.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: You write them off. Sometimes you do it consciously, sometimes
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: you do it, you know, subconsciously, but you you you
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: you write them off. You kind of put them in
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: a corner. That's just who they are, that's who they're
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: gonna be. You never so deal with them. Uh. And
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: we did that with my dad for twenty years off
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: and on. Uh. And that's that was time that we
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: probably could have could have had back. But you know,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: by the way I watched the show and listen to it,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize how therapeutic it was. And this is
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: this is U conversation. I probably have a good long
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: phone conversations. You could charge people to come in here
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: and against the law, but yeah, this is just what
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: was it like to like really interview your father? And
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: reason I asked that because having real vulnerable conversations with
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: your dad, no matter how old you are, it's so difficult,
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Like it's conversations I don't want to have with my
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: pops right now that I still haven't even you know,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: got the courage to have yet. So how how was
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: it having that real, vulnerable, honest conversation one of one
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: of the highlights of my life. And that's what's gonna
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: be a great gift for my kids and grandchildren and
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: great kids one day. Because we've got like hours of
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: these recordings of me doing what you're doing right now,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: just asking questions. And I had a couple of times
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: I had to remember I was a journalist and take
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: off my son hat I had to work up to
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: the serious stuff. It became apparent after about the first
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: hour he wanted to talk like he had been waiting
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: for years on some of these questions about his relationship
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: with his wife with my mother, how that came to be.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Like there's, for instance, I wrote about in the book,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: there's this picture of me at their wedding reception. I
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: was born in seventy nine, they got married in eighty two,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: and I'm at the wedding reception. I mean a little
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: blue suit. I've always seen this picture. While I was like,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: oh wow, it's part of the big day. I asked
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: my dad about the wedding reception. Of course, the interviews
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: like wedding reception. We didn't have a wedding reception. I
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: was like, no, no, I've seen these pictures. I was there.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: It's like, no, no, no, that was an a wedding reception,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: and proceeds to explain how on their wedding day, my
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: mom wanted a traditional wedding. He didn't want to have
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: anything to do with that, and his cousin had to
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: convince him to go to the party that she threw
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: after like a week or two after they got married
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: at the courthouse. I know any of that. Four to
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: two years old. I never knew my parents origin story
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: and saying, you know it in my mind. You know,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: in our minds we create these stories and then you
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: start talking to Dad, and it's like, oh, I wanted
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: you to dig a little deep on how your your
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: relationship with your father affected your relationship with women. And
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: the reason I say that because my father, you know,
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: infidelity all throughout the match. I remember even approaching my
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: pops one time about cheating on my mom and him
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: saying to me, you only got one woman one day,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: you go understand. So it's just like that's a real mindful.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: So you go from either saying yourself, Okay, I gotta
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: have multiple women because that's what Pop saying. I gotta
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: be the exact opposite of my pops because I don't
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: want to, you know, ruin my family the way my
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: pop's ruined his. So I just wanted, you know, did
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: it he didn't have any impact? It did. And that
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: was actually one of the reasons I started therapy with
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: my twenties was because I was I found myself incapable
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: of having meaningful, substantive relationships, and I started to start
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: talking to a therapist and she quickly helped me realize
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: that one of the major reasons was because, you know,
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: my father. For a variety of reasons, a lot of
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: which related to the to the addiction. He didn't treat
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: my mother very well. But again it goes back to
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: what we were talking about, like he didn't know, he
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: didn't know how to be a good husband. He didn't see,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: you know, he had three siblings. My grandma was you know,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: at one point in her life, was running liquor, running numbers,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: you know, did a couple stints in prison for it.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: And so that's that's what he saw growing up. And
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: so he didn't see his mother treated well. He consequently
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: didn't treat you know, my mother very well. I saw
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: that growing up, and I just came to understand that
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: that's you know, that was the dynamic between husband and wife.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: So that should be the dynamic between you know, boyfriend
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: and girlfriend. Um so I probably owe a number of
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: women from my my twenties, maybe early thirties an apology. Uh,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: what did you what did you fall to say about
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: your relationship when you decided to settle down and get married.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: I remember vividly on my wedding day when you look
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: to your dad for some from some siege wisdom, you know,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: doing your time. I remember being in the bathroom and
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: and I said, I think I maybe even tea him
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: up for it. And I remember him saying vividly, listen,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: you know, we don't do divorce. That was it. That
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: was that was I was. That was um No, but
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: that's one thing about dad, Like, even before I got married,
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: there were a couple of young ladies that I dated
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: seriously and he always remember one you please don't okay, okay,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: h thank you, don't do that vy, don't look over there,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. But he always took to him
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: like he was always far nicer uh to my girlfriends
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: than me, and far nicer than my mother was. Um
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: so no, but it's but you again, when you when
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: you know better, you do better. Um and and we
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: know better and thank God for it. Think about how
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: well adjusted our children are going to be. It'll be
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Father's Day this weekend. So how would you define yourself
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: as a father, mister Melvine? Oh, ain't y'all are good
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: at this question asking thing? I sometimes forget it's and
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: it's also not always fun to be on the other
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: side either, tell you that much conversation. Yeah, but still questions, Um,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: how would I That's a good question, Charlot. Let me
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: let me think, let me let me actually stop and
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: think about my answer before, I just how would I
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: describe myself as a father? Permissive? Perhaps too much so
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: sometimes um fun I get my kids young, so I
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: can you know, we we've a lot of a lot
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: of rolling around the floor, a lot of a lot
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: of wrestling with my son. I'd also like to think
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Charlemagne has a dad. I listen a lot. I engage
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: them in substantive conversations every day, like to to force
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: them to think. And I don't want to be my
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: kid's best friend. I have no interest in that. Nothing
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: good comes from that. Um. But I do want them
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: to think that I should be the first call or
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: text um when something's wrong or if if if if
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: someone has hurt them or they're scared, or if they're
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: word I want I want to have that kind of
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: relationship with my children, um that we didn't have where
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: they can come to me first and not go out
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: into the world first. UM. So that's I think that's
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: the that's the at least that's the kind of dad
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to be. Some days I'm better out than others,
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: you know, I answer you yeah, And I actually think
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: you know the definition will change. You know, It's true,
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: it's gonna change. You got young kids, it's gonna change.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: And they're getting the team. It's gonna you know what
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna constantly change, it's gonna constantly evolve.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: So and my dad always say fun, firm and fair.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: That's good. That's that's that. That's what you said. He says,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: I'm fun dad, I'm firm, but I'm fair. But I'm fair,
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: and that's what I try to be on my kids.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: I think it's a great book. So go get my
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: man Craig Melbourne's book, Pops Learning to Be a Son
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: and a Father. It is the perfect Father's Day gift.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: This should be. And everybody's about to say Father's Day stockings.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: It's no father days. There should be though, there should
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: be Father's Day stock so we should start that. That's right.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: It's a great Father's Day gift for the weekend. Man,
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: go get that. And what was the dog's name that
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: kissed you in your trouble? God dressed it. So it's
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your morning's
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: will never be the same. All right, Well, let's get
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: to the room. It's it's the Breakfast Club, Good morning.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Let's talk big soldier it's about report. This is the
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: report Angela on the Breakfast Club. Well, Soldier Boy tell
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: them had issues with Charlotmagne. And this is all from
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: the Meghos interview when they were talking about the Mount
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: Rushmore of Atlanta and NBA suggested that Soldier Boys should
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: be on there. And here's what happened. What us, I
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: don't care, hold on what else? What we got? You
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: gotta put a little John on it. Crunk snapped. That's
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: all John, and he's still getting money right, yeah? And
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: d Soldier Boy on, no, start it, don't start, don't
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: you start it. I'm gonna be honest. I had no ideas.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: I had no idea soldiers from Atlanta. When I think
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: of Soldier Boy, I think in the anody dude, I
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: think of the Internet. I'm serious and my mind Soldier
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: Boy was born online. Well, dun't get him started again
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: because he definitely went off playing with me, Charlotta Magne
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: the God Breakfast Club. Could you talk about him? Not
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: from Nigga my phone? No? What the do you think
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: I shot crank that at? What do you think I
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: went to school that? What do you think I grew
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: up at? What the do you think I was jumping
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: to martail that West play? You don't made me call
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: my mother, MoMA, bro be glad, I can't find my
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: phone moment. If you watch it on your phone and
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: listen to me, bro don't never play with my motherfucking
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: ain't God, God damn for the West Side zone went
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: so swrong. That's a problem. We can see that my mama, dracole.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: God damn it. Don't let him call his mind wizard phone.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: You want your phone, soldier, God damn right, soldier point
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: he even played enough what had a lot of things
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: go down in Atlanta said we want to make sure
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: we get to that because he has a lot of memories.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: You can't do that, not on public gas platform with
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: millions of folks seeing it. We're gonna dress this. Y'all
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: want me to come up to the breakfast club? Cool?
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: I beat up? You know it's our little this little
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: I losharler man. Don't get it twisted. They ain't no smoke.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: It ain't nothing like that. I losh aller man. I
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: love as y'all love these if ivery, I salute you.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: And because you're the one who said soldier doesn't need
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: to be on the Mount Rushmore. Y'all know what I
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: did for your pop. I don't know why they played
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: on my name. I don't give I got my money
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: in the don't I told them Soldier, they don't be
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: listening to me. Soldier told them the blogs are hell too.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: They literally played the clip of Soldier boys w w
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: E promo curssing me out and whatever, but didn't play
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: the part of him saying he loves me and love
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. I love Big Draco too. Okay, when
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Soldier come to New York, I'm gonna take him to
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: go do some meditation, teach him some breathing exercises so
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: he can calm down. Even though I love when he's
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: turned up. Now play some more pay. I do love
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: when Big Draco is turned up. Well. He also had
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: some messes with hit Maker because Okaymaker was in the
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: comments section and he was putting the laughing emojis, and
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: you know you can't do that at a BA serious topic.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Young bird, you is a bitch boy. Go get your
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: chain back then I'll take your chain. A long time ago.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: That transform a chain. You won't ever get it back
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: when you always getting robbed and punched and beat up,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: and you don't never be on the nope comments on
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: the academics post leaven Nope, laughing emotives. You lame, stick
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: the stealing beats. You don't make beats for real, stick
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: and get to make the beats for you, and you
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: sell them to other artists and act like you made it.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Big Drake, it was so dip. You want the clues
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: Bob's Big Drake. You know what I love about Big
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: Drake over. I like when he starts off just regularly,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: and then it just goes up and up and up
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: and uhing nothing nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing nothing. Where's my phone?
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Sold you on your phone? He might have another. I
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: can't do it right right, nobody, nobody can do it
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: like Big d Okay, and by the way, Soldier Boddy
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: know exactly what he's doing. There's nobody better at that
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: internet thing. Then sold your boy. Tell him okay, so
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: he got he got two songs out right now and
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: make him clap. You got the Rick Mordy record, both
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: buzzing crazy and he's doing he's he's he's pushing those records.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not mad at it. Scared who you well, I
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: wouldn't not be scared of Big Draco as long as
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: you know, Holy y'all should be afraid of Big Drake.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Come on, I said, put him on the Mount Russell.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Big Draco should put fear in all y'all goddamn hearts. Okay, right,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: that's right. Soon as you speak, you see, soon as
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: you speak, Soldier bore name, everybody like yo, Calm down, now,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: let's not do that. Let's not do that. Let's not
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: go there. Okay with Big Draco. Big Draco be up
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: here soon. He'll be up here soon. I'm sure now
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: he'll be up here soon. All right, Well that was
• 1:01:39
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  Speaker 1: I was in Miami last weekend just watching the local
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: news and laughing and shaking my head. Very hard to
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: avoid the crazy that exist in Florida. You know, every
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: day of our lives, we wake up and we attempt
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  Speaker 1: to avoid crazy. It's hard to avoid crazy in Florida.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: It's like a full time job to avoid crazy in Florida.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: Because in Florida, you don't have to find crazy. Crazy
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: will find you. And that's exactly what happened in this
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: situation involving the sister Alexus Tally now Alexis Tally was
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: arrested for domestic battery after putting hands on her girlfriend. Now,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: the other day, I told y'all on this radio, how
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: I had a dream. No, let me rephrase. I had
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: a nightmare that I was cheating on my wife, and
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: in the nightmare, I felt the guilt, so I stopped.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: And then when I woke up the next morning, my
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: wife said to me that she had a dream that
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: I cheated on her and she woke up wanting to
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: ff me up. When you got a soul tied with
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: a person, y'all are really connected SYNCD up like your
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: smartphone with a bluetooth. That's me and my wife. Well,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: my wife said she felt like she wanted to ff
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: me up because of her dream. Alexis Tally actually fed
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: her girlfriend up because of the dream. Okay, because of
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: the dream her girlfriend was having. Oh how I wish
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: there was a news report for this one, but allow
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: me to read you the details off the smoking gun.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: Police responded the calls from a neighbor who said they
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: could hear a fight taking place. When authorities arrived at
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: the scene, the twenty one year old victim said she
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: was awoken after Alexis Tally claimed to hear her sleep
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  Speaker 1: talking about an X. I'm not making this up. Okay.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: If you're thinking, what the f please think what the
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: Florida Alexis Tally started beating on her girlfriend and her
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: sleep because she thought she heard her girlfriend sleep talking
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: about an X. A call to the arrest report, Alexis
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: started punching the victim in the face after waking her,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: and cops noted that she had a visible swelling to
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: the right side of her face. Now, when they say
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: Alexis woke her up, was it what the punch are before?
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna shoot Alexis a little bell that slang.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: By the way, I'm not giving her no money towards
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: the bell. I'm just talking about a hypothetical about the situation.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: I'm almost positive that if I mentioned another woman that
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: I was involved with while I was in a deep slumber,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: I too would get punched in the face. What about you, envy,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: I concur not justifying what alex did, just saying that
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: as Florida as this sounds, this might garner the same
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: reaction in any state. I mean, my wife woke up
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: wanting to f me up because of a dream she
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: had that I was doing something. Imagine, and she would
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: have woke up to me calling out the name of
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: some other woman I dealt with, my god, jee. This
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: is why hot gritz used to get thrown on brothers
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: in the sixties and seventies. Okay, yeah, Granddaddy got a
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: scar right now on his back from that hot grits
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: because he too was saying somebody else's name in his sleep. Okay.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali once said, if you even dream of beating me,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: you'd better wake up and apologize. Same rules apply with
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: your significant other. Okay, just change beating the cheating. If
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: you even dream of cheating on your girl, you better
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: wake up and apologize now. Alexis was arrested for domestic
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: battery and has maintained that their argument was only verbal,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: verbal rather than physical. She told the officers. She told
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: the officers that the mark on her girlfriend's face was
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: from a previous fight. That's not funny. It's not funny.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: But it's Florida. It's Florida, Okay, she told the police.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: Not the fight that was reported to the police. That
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: was last week. It was from another fight. Its basically
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: been the officer of That mark on her face wasn't
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: from when I beat her this time. That was from
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: the last time we fought. Boy, don't have anything else here, okay,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: Please give Alexis Tally the sweet sound of the hamiltones.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, you are dokee o the day, oh the day. Ye.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: How would you react if you heard your manum saying
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: the name of an X in his sleep? Um, I
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: don't know. That's a tough one. I don't know what
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: I would do. We'd have a conversation. Okay, we'd have
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: a conversation. It might not go well, we might not
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: talk for a couple of weeks. You don't think we
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: will resort to violence, though, you're not. I'm not a
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: violent person. Yeah, you know. I don't believe in putting
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: my hands on people. Kay, I think we should play
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: a game. You think we should play a game? I'm curious?
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: Really really? Yes? Okay, what was the name? What was
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: the name of the X? I need to know? Say
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: the name of the X? They say the name of
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: the right? Well, okay, since anydy wants to play, I
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: guess it's time for a game of guess why what race? Alright,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: what's the clues now? Alexis Tally. Alexis from Florida, Florida.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: She was sleep they both will sleep with her girlfriend
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: and her girlfriend was sleep talking and said the name
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: of her exo. Alexis swung on her Guess what race?
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: She isnt? Go Latina? Damn it? Man? Okay, okay, ANGELI
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: said Latina? Why are you say Latina? Angelie? I don't know.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: I just felt like it. Okay, Okay, dj Enva. Alexis
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: Tally from Florida. Okay. She was with her girlfriend. Her
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: girlfriend was talking in her sleep, and her girlfriend said
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: a ex's name, alleged Lisa Alexis got up and swung
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: on her. Joss, what race she is? All right? The
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: name Alexis makes me feel black. But I'm going Puerto Rican,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: dare you. I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: know what Alexis Sally is. I'm looking play game. Don't
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: know what she looked like. And he asked to play.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Let me see, let me see. I'm
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: just always down for the game. It's just a good
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: guessing game. She might be Portoici might be, but then
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: she might be black. She might be she makes she
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: might be happy. It looks like you, Daniel, Well, it's
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Alexis Sally black. She looked Puerto Rican. What she looked like,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: definitely Puerto Rican. Sometimes you can't look at a person Intel.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: You can't look at a person Intel, you definitely can't.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: All right, pointless game wanted to play? Thought you knew
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: the answer. We'll find out on social media later. I'm
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: sure I'm sure somebody all right, thank you for that
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: dog to day up next ask ye eight hundred five
• 1:09:46
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• 1:09:49
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• 1:09:51
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• 1:09:56
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• 1:10:11
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• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: is dj Envy, Angela, Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. It's time for asking Ye. Hello, who's
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: this helloing from Miami? Hey, what's your question for you? Okay, Angela?
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: I need because Okay, so my home girl and I
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: have been investing for like ten years, right, her and
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: her boyfriends have been together for around that same time,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: like ten years. Now, tell me why her boyfriend started
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: messaging me like what person? At first, like innocent, like
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna count him. So he asked me like all
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: kind of like money investing, all kind of things like that,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: which is fine, But then I started getting instead of soul,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: what are you doing tonight? So? How are you like
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: getting more personal and I shut it down like I'm like, nah,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: you ain't talk to me like that. Did you ever
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: tell your friend too? Okay? So I told her right,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: but I used to held the whole story. I was
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: just like, hey, you know, he's a messaging me. But
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: it's the fact that it's like, dang, I should go
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: her everything like him trying to link up himself. You
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: should tell her? Ain't that your friend? Wait? But now
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: it's getting even worse because out of nowhere, his best
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: friend started messaging me like, oh, you should pull up
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: on us, like we never see you no more? Your
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: written and I just feel like his best friend is
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: trying to get me and my best friends boyfriend together.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: His best friend is trying to get oh okay, so
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: they're trying to hook it up because he likes you. Listen,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: this is your best friend. That's how I feel like.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: That comes before everything. I don't even know why this
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: is a question for you. Do you like him or something?
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: I think I do like you. Oh girl, I'm really
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: calling because I'm in a position where I'm like, listen,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: let me just lay it all out on the table. Hey, no,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: you're my friend, I say, But I know right from all, Yes,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: it's off limits. If that's your best friends man, and
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: he's messaging you and saying inappropriate things and trying to
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: link up, and other people are now involved, that's all
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: gonna come out. Number one. Number two, you should not
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: be attracted to your best friends man. Would you be
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice your relationship with your best friend? Not
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: at all? Like, that's why I told her half the story.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: But I feel horrible because now I'm like, I should
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: have told her everything from the zoom. Yeah, I imagine
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: she'd go through. Imagine she'd go through his phone and
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: see those messages that you didn't tell her about. Lord,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: I go, but I don't know why I like him now,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: Like I feel like he and I have so much
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: of a collection, and I'm just like, I should not
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: be telling let me tell you something he ain't and
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: neither are you right now? Don't pull me that for you.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: I'm just keeping it real. How would you feel if
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: it was the other way around? Yeah, I feel like
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: you know this, like there's no kind of loyalty. You
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: don't come and trust Listen. I would hate to have
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: to question my best friend like this, and you Okay, Well,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: I just I feel like I needed to get cursed
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: out and yeah, you're moving real questionable. So you gotta
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: look at yourself and be like, is this the person
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: who I am? Right? Is this the best friend who
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: I am? Oh? But some guy who ain't that's probably
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: trying to kick it to mad the chicks too. Don't think,
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: don't think. Don't think you the only one. That's all
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Okay, you I got it now. It's like
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: in my head, I got it, all right, do the
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: right thing, all right? Ask ye eight, don't drink five
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• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: here now it's the breakfast club. I'm gonna keep there's
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: some real advice with angels. Ask ye. I want to
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: get everybody you stj Envy and Jela Yee, Charlomagne, the
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: guy we are the breakfast club with in the middle
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: of ask yee. Hello, who's this? Maya's Bossbury. I'm from
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: Houston Takes. Hey, what's your question for you? Okay, So
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: I'm twenty three years old. I'm very successful. I'm a teacher,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: but I'm having a hard time, you know, finding a
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: significant other. I don't know if they're intimidated by me
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: because I'm successful, but I'm having a hard time. All right,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: So what are you what are you doing to try
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: to actually find somebody that you want to be with? Well,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: I'm like on dating apps, but they're not really accurate
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: all the time because some man, these guys don't really
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: have jobs there with their moms. So what dating apps
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: are you want? There's this one on Facebook, and there's
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: one like called bumble, and then there's pins. I don't
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: want a lot, all right, Yeah, I enjoy Bumbo and
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: I enjoy Facebook. I actually use bumbo is And I
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: want to say a couple of things. Do you go
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: out in person to ever meet people? As well? Um,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: not lately because it doesn't really like nobody wants to
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: go on a date. But you don't have to go
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: on a date. But do you go out, like, do
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: you have friends who you go out with sometimes in
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: a casual environment and group settings? Do your friends know
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: you're looking? Are they trying to hook you up with
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: some of their friends? Yeah? They know. I have had
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: a friend trying to feel with someone before. Because sometimes
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: you have to be open to things, like you have
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: to be out there. You have to start conversations with people.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: You have to be in places where it's a social atmosphere.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: Sometimes even just going out and taking a class and
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: something that interests you. In moving out of your comfort zone.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: I think it's really important when it comes to dating.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: A lot of times we get comfortable with just swiping
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: and we're not out there living our life. And sometimes
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: when you take some classes, or you go certain places,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: or you do certain things, you meet people who have
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: similar interest too. So like what would you say, a
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: good meet a good guy. I think if you go
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: to like certain like mixers, if there's any events that
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: you can go to, or some type of after work
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: social activities, things like that are really good. I try
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: to make sure that I speak to people wherever I go,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: like if I'm at home depot, if I'm in the
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: Apple store. You know, just be friendly. And sometimes just
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: even having that type of persona brings more energy to you. Okay, well,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: I always trying to like to be like to let
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: them come to me. But it's not even about being thirsty,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. That's the issue, Like you
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: don't have to look at everybody as your potential mate.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you just have to go out and enjoy meeting
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: people and knowing people. They could be a friend, you
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: could never see them again. But you don't have to
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: put so much pressure on yourself to find your significant other.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: What you're trying to do is meet people who could
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: play some type of part in your life or maybe
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: just you know, have a nice social interaction. But it
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be is that person going to be
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: the one? Right? Well, I'll try to thank you who.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: I love ya, you guys, So it's amazing every morning.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: You guys are awesome. All right. I feel good about
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: it done, and I'm happy for you that you are
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: such a self sufficient person. But I do feel like,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes we have to get out of our
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: own way. Sometimes it's also the energy that we're putting
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: out there. So just go out there, don't put so
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: much pressure on yourself. You're still really young and you
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: have time and things can change in one day. You
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: never know what can happen. So yeah, shout out to
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: all the young bosses. I just bought a house and
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: I'm getting my man. Yeah, all right, and don't let
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: nobody use your credit okay, right, okay, all right, thank
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: you mama? All right, ask ye eight hundred five eighty five,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: one oh five one. Now you got rumors on the way, Yes,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: and I can't I wait to see this documentary. There's
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: a new documentary out and this is about an artist
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: who actually threw cocaine on the desk, snorted it, jumped
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: on top of the desk, took out his penis and
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: shoved it in the presidents of the label's face. We'll
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: tell you who it is what, all right, we'll get
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: into that next. It's the Breakfast Club, Go Morning, the
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club's team. This is the Rumor Report with Angela
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: Yee on the Breakfast Club. All right. Well, this new
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: documentary that's coming looks like it's going to be amazing
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: and it is about Rick James, is revealed by his
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: former manager Kerry Gordy. It's a new documentary called Bitching,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: The Sound and Fury of Rick James and premiere Tuesday
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: night at the Tribeca Film Festival. It is available to
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: stream on Trybeck at home starting now. You gotta pay
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: for it, but it'll be on showtime later on in
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: September just at FYI if you want to wait for that.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: But it sounds too amazing, I might have to pay
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: for this one and watch it and not wait till
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: September third on Showtime. But some of the things that
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: is revealed in the documentary, they said that actually Rick
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: James really helped Lionel Richie's career and the reason why
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: this happened is because Rick James was frustrated by disappointing
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: sales for his album Throwing Down that came out in
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two and the tour, so he went into
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: the office of then Motown president Jay Lasker. He was
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: delivering his next album, and he started to pour coke
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: onto the desk. He snorted it, jumped on top of
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: the desk, took out his penis and shoved it in
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: Lasker's face while yelling, sell my goddamn record. You know
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: what's crazy? That story sounds nuts until you say it's
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: Rick James. And when you tease it earlier, I was
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: like what. But when you say it's Rick James, I'm like, okay,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: de ventures are Rick James. That's Rick James. Now. Just
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  Speaker 1: so you know this, Kerry Gordy is the eldest son
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: of Barry Gordy who founded Motown, so he's the person
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  Speaker 1: who's announcing all of this and kind of making sure
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: that we get all of these amazing stories. There's one
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: surprise that comes early in the movie. It's revealed that
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: in the beginning of his music career, he fled to
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  Speaker 1: Toronto to a escape the navy, and he went by
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  Speaker 1: the name of Ricky Matthews. So he was an abandon
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: with Neil Young back then in the sixties band until
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: their manager actually dimed him out for deserting it and
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: he ended up in trouble for that. Now here's the
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  Speaker 1: trailer for that documentary. He found Parliament, Bootsie, all these people.
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  Speaker 1: They were kind of looking at Rick sideways because he
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: had learned how to craft pop with funk, and so
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: he hit the big time faster than they did. Rick
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  Speaker 1: was the smartest one out of all of us. He
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: sold a lot of records. People came to the concerts,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he used to talk about, Yeah, I'm
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: sello more records, and y'all, I think George took offense
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: a little bit, but all was fair and funk and
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: war man. He sounds like a character. And if you
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: hear some of these stories, and you know, that's what
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: made Lionel Richie as big as he did because the
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: label decided to push Lionel Richie after Rick James did
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: that stump with the cocaine and taking out his penis.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: They said the president was just like O Richie. That's
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: all he said when he left the office. In other words,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: that's who we're going to be concerned about now. They
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: also said that even though he was a very freaky guy,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: he had his own limits. His sexual exploit to him.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: More you do that to that person, let me watch,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: I want to orchestrate. According to his ex wife, he
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: wasn't personally involved. He was not that kind of super freak.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: He didn't let people touch him. He wasn't like in
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: the Orgy. He would watch the Origin. He's a director. Yeah,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: more like that. Yeah. By the way, Showtime be getting
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: all the great docs from all of the black legends.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: You know, they got as Teddy pendagrass. They got a
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: degregory documentary coming as well too. So flew to Showtime.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: All right. Now, Wendy Williams is talking about the Foxy
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: Brown book, and she's spilling some tea that we don't
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: know is really true. Now, my girl kime out. Sorry,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: I was writing Foxy Brown's memoir and can't wait to
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: read it. Yes, that memoir is coming out in December.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: Here is what Wendy Williams said. I remember when Foxy
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: and jay Z had um I'll be okay. Foxy was
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: the star of that. Jay Z was standing in the
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: corner ringing his hands, talking about okay, all right, what
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: do I do next? And then you know this was
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: allegedly a romantical thing. It's it's all right, I'll say alleged,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: but we know, we know, yeah she hit it before.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: Beyonce aged you can't yeah, oh she added the allegedly.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: I was like, you cannot just say that, Yeah, you
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: can't not alleged you was dead and you saw off
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: for yourself. If not, you got to say allegedly, because
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: you know, that's that's definitely not all of its defamation.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: But it's definitely how liable for that because it's not
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: true about Foxy Brown's hair loss, because she started talking
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: hearing loss, because she started talking about how she wants
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: her to um, how how she's going to figure out
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: how to do an audio version of the memoir. That's
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: not cool. Oh my god, I can't wait to read
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: the book. Though, because I'm sure Foxy got a great
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: story and she got the legendary Kimmel Sorry right and
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: if with her two for her oh Man. Randomly, when
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: I was at Carolines that night where Wendy and Miss
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: Jones are there, Chemosario was with me also that night,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: coy ran into her. All right now. Paris Jackson was
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: on Red Table Talk and she did sit down an
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: interview with just Willow Smith and she was talking about
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of different things. She was talking about her
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: past attempts to end her own life and what helped
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: her break out of that mentality, and the two of
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: them just really had a really great, in depth conversation.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: She talked about her PTSD from paparazzi, experienced audio hallucinations
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: sometimes with Chemera clicks and severe paranoia, and have been
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: going to therapy for a lot of things, but that
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: included and I've started I'll hear like a trash bag
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: rustling and I like flinch and panic. Is that from
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: the paparazzi? Yeah, I think it's just like just standard PTSD.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: That's awful. She also talked about her field suicide attempts.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: Here's what she said, Well, do you feel regret when
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: they try and attempt suicide, like a last minute regret.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: There have been times where I did and times when
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: I didn't, where I was upset that it didn't work. Yeah,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: but I can't say, like several years later that like
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: I'm really grateful that it didn't. Lord definitely sending healing
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: Paris jack Absolutely. She said every day people told her
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: to kill herself. What do you mean? And social media? Yeah,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: all right. In addition to that, she talked about how
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: she feels like her dad, Michael Jackson, would be proud.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: I just feel like you've done such a beautiful and
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: graceful job of doing your own thing. Because kids like
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: us do we feel like we have to live up
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: to this certain standard. I feel like it's still probably
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: there somewhere in the back of my head. But the
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: louder thing that competes is that I feel like my
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: dad would be proud. Yeah, I'm sure you wouldn't be.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: Thank God for therapy. I hope that she's, you know,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: doing the work to get a handle on all of
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: that type of all that trauma she's dealing with. Well,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: at the end of this Paris Jackson and Billis Smith
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: actually went to the studio and did some music together.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: You saw they talked about they said, let's go do
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: some music. Should we just go to the studio, And
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: then they were pictures of them together in the studio.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: But she did say the music does help her, all right,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: And that is your rumor report, all right. Shout out
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: to revolt everybody else to mixes up next. Today is
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  Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar's birthday, so let's get on legend, the leader
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  Speaker 1: of the New School last decade. So we'll get on
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  Speaker 1: some Kendrick. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, So Breakfast Club,
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  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the line
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: this morning, a couple of brothers. We have Thomas George Junior.
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  Speaker 1: He's the chairman of the board for one hundred Black
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: men of America Incorporated. And also we have oldest threat
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  Speaker 1: joining us this morning. Good morning, guys, Good morning. How's everything.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: That's mamas, it's a wonderful sunny day here in Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: No complaints now for people that don't know what is
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: the organization? One hundred Black Men of America, and y'all
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: got way more than a hundred Black men. So let's
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: bread around and let's break down the name of what
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: your brothers do for the community. Well, we have thousands
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: of members. We actually got our start our first chapter
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: in New York nineteen sixty three, founded by the late
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson, the late mayor David Dinkins Edison Wingate. But
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: the key is they came together in sixty three dealing
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: with some of the same missus we're dealing with today,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: and it was dealing with public safety. And at that
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: time sixty three, black police officers could not arrest white
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: citizens unless they had a white police officer with them.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: And on this particular day at sixty three, one of
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: our brothers was at the scene of the crime arrested
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: the white citizen. And there was the level or the department,
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: and so all of these men came together. They changed
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: the paradigm in the Public Safety Department in New York.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: And at the end of the year, the question was
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: what we stayed together? They said yes. So the next
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: courtion was what shall we call ourselves? And David Dinkins said,
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: we'll call ourselves who we are? One hundred black men.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: That gave rise to one hundred Black men incorporated in
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: New York. And in nineteen eighty six, with nine chapters,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: we came together and created one hundred Black Men of America.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: Today we have one hundred and three chapters. We're in Africa, England,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: the Caribbean Islands, over one hundred and twenty five thousand
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: young people that are mentoring program at about eight thousand
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: members who make a difference. And so what we do
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: is our whole motto is what they see is what
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: they'll be. And we're real men given real time, and
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: of course we have what is for for the future.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: Everything we do must fit in those four categories education, mentoring,
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: health and wellness, and economic empowerment with an overlay of
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: leadership development. And the organization is moving and we are
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: really real men who are investing the time all over.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: We got everybody from professional athletes, retired to athletes, corporate execs,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: you know, Kim Chernald, all of these people have been
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: a part of this great organization making a difference. So
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: what's the overall theme this year's conference. Well, the thing
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: for this year's conference, oldis why don't you just lay
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: that on this year's time to act. We didn't come
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: to see you here. It's time to act, adapt again,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: challenge and triumph. And that basically is that we can't
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: be sitting on the sidelines. Those who have not been
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: to sit on the sideline and just watch what's going on.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: They've got to be engaged, got to be inbobed. We
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: got to fight to win. And then of course we've
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: got to challenge those issues, even as we did when
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: the previous president wanted to divide this name and the
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: issue of racism, we were right there dealing with it then.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: And the last thing that is that whole issue on
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: COVID nineteen and with this challenge, is that we cannot
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: continue to spread the myths. I got my second vaccine
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: shot four months ago, fights and no side effects. But
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: if you've had almost six hundred thousand people to die
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: from this virus, why would you be afraid of maybe
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: two days of discomfort if you have two days understanding
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: because you're black. And that's the other myth black people
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: don't get. Don't get COVID nineteen. Look at how many
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: of our people have died. We've been leading the number
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: of deaths in this nation a lot because of precondition.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: But the key for us is that we've got to
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: step up. We got to stand up and we got
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: to act. Just as we also have to deal with
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: the whole political arena while we are in the impartisan.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: If you look at the efforts that took place and
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: right here in Georgia, the one hundred was engaged with
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: the Divine Nine, engaged with NACP and everybody, and we
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: delivered like never before on the elections for the first
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: African American US Senator. And of course we made the
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: cat the decisive of votes that helped us to get
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: this country back on track. I was gonna ask, you know,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: the conference is virtual, why is it still virtual? Now?
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: The world's over? Back up now? And then you are
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and Atlanta has been open for a long time.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: Now people are still dying, and so dj MB to
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: say it's over, you know, for example, here in Georgia,
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: we've only had forty of our population to get the vaccine.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: And I hear black folks talking about why I prayed
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: to God, God's gonna protect me. I said, God sent
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: you the vaccine, why don't you go ahead and take it.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: People are still being infected, people are still dying. Black
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: folks still having the big parties with three and four
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: and five hundred people in them with no mask on
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: and not taking the vaccine. And all of my children
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: have had the vaccine. Three of my grandchildren have had it,
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: and my others are about to get it now that
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: they've lured the age. So the reality is not over yet.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: And so we're gonna error on the car being cautious.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: Were expect to be back next year, but until we do,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: we're gonna go virtual. This last time. We decided in
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: March we would not do it in person because you know,
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: some of our members are older, and so we're working
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: to get people to get the vaccine. But next year
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: we'll be ready, but we're not gonna rush to kill
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: anybody infect anybody with us happening. You laying down that
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: great entertainment On Friday last year, we had over eleven
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: thousand on line with us for the conference and we're
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: going to try and meet or exceed that this year.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: But the bottom line is we'd rather be safe and
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: we'll get back together when we get this totally under control.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: How did they sign up? My brother? You can go
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: one hundred black Man dot org. Designer for the conference
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: one hundred blackman dot org and there's a landing page
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: to the conference. As chairman Deutsch, Mitchell will be partying
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: with DJ Eavy on Friday night, so forward to that.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: And it's free. And you know, freedom isn't free, but
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: this conference is free. But we appreciate you brothers for
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: joining in and keep doing the work. And anytime you
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: need us, just give us a ring. We're here for you, brothers,
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: and look we're looking far to having you in as
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: part of the one hundred family and that's coming very soon.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: But thank you for all that you do. Thank go
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: for of you for the Breakfast Club. And tell Angela
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: you know, thank you. There we go all right, well,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: appreciate you brothers, and we'll see you this weekend. It's
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Good morning, brothers. Thank you so much, guys,
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you now Charlemagne ain't positive, no, brother. Well,
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: first of all, man, you know, um, I want to
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: salute my man Craig Melviourne for coming today. Craig Melvine
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: has a book out right now called Pops Learning to
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: Be a Son and a Father that came out on Tuesday,
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: so you know, go grab it. That the co host
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: of the Today Show, Craig Melvine. It's a great father
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: as they give and I got a salute. You know.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: The Megos once again. You know, we had them on
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: yesterday and if you saw you know the video on
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: YouTube or heard it on the radio, you saw that
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: we celebrated them. You know what I mean. They've been
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: the most impactful rap group for the past decade. You know,
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of people ate off the Megos flow. So
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: we just wanted to celebrate Quevo takeoff and offset. So
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: we had a whole set up here for them. You know.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: We had the balloons and the balloons with courtesy of
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: Blond Saloon in New York City. We had food. Food
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: came from Melbourne's restaurant in Harlem. We had flowers from
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: the Flower Puff and Elizabeth, New Jersey. We had a
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: cake from Doc's Cake shop in Brooklyn. We had marijuana
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: courtesy of my man Whax with with with whose Whax,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: And we had tequila from Casca Dragona. Salute to my my,
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: my partner Teal at Casca Dragona's Tequila. Thank you all
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: for providing providing us with the necessary tools the properly
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: celebrate the me goals. Yes, and y'all know I'm in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: This is my first time in Nashville. But we are
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: doing the National Museum of African American Music gala. You know,
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: it's the grand opening, and so tonight they're gonna be
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: actually celebrating Quincy Jones, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, and the
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: Fisk Jubilee Singers. It's the museum seventh Annual Celebration of
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: Legends benefit concert that is happening tonight and I'm hosting.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: So I'm really excited to be here. Everybody keeps telling
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: me I gotta get out here and eat in Nashville
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: and how amazing it is. So I'm gonna explore a
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: little bit today before the gala. All right, now, Scheloman,
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: you got a positive note, Yes, I do. And it's simple.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: It goes back to what I was saying about celebrating
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: the me goals. Man, celebrate the success of buzzes as
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: you would want others to celebrate yours. Because what goes
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: around absolutely positively comes around. Breakfast Club, y'all finish for
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: y'alld up.