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Damson Idris Interview and more · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Don't are just the best of what y'all doing. This platform,
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  Speaker 1: the reach y'all hat that you earned, make space for
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  Speaker 1: somebody like me. You guys have a direct line to
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  Speaker 1: the coaches. Oh my god, I don't want. All I
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  Speaker 1: do is read about the breakfast Club every morning. Good
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  Speaker 1: you guys are trending every you know, I dragged my
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  Speaker 1: house out of that. I'm like, uh, what happened to
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  Speaker 1: the breakfast Club to that? Good morning? USC? Hey, damn,
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  Speaker 1: good morning. It is Thursday. Good morning, good morning, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: good morning. How are you guys feeling? One more day
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  Speaker 1: to the weekend, one more day to the weekend? Crazy?
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  Speaker 1: I am tired. How are you feeling? Um? I feel okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling a little better. Yes, you was beat? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think I just was exhausted. I've been doing too much.
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  Speaker 1: So yesterday, so um, you know, shout out to my wife.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we have a book coming out April nineteenth.
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  Speaker 1: So we're planning and we're setting up a book tour. So,
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  Speaker 1: like I said yesterday, we're traveling to city to city.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to the mom and pop bookstores, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to the major bookstores. We just want to meet and
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  Speaker 1: see the people. It's a relationship book. We break down
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  Speaker 1: everything that we've been through, hopefully to help people out
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  Speaker 1: there that's you know, maybe going through similar problems, similar situations,
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to figure it out, and we just
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  Speaker 1: try to, you know, tell our story and we're just
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  Speaker 1: honest and truthful. So it's it's gonna be some some
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  Speaker 1: crime moments in that book, but it's uh, it was
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  Speaker 1: therapy to me and my wife because we were able
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  Speaker 1: to talk a lot of things out from the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of our relationships and I was pretty cool. So we
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  Speaker 1: were setting that up. So yesterday, you know, I'm into
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  Speaker 1: real estate, so I have a property that's about an
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  Speaker 1: hour away and I went to go check and I
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  Speaker 1: left my laptop there. Now, yes, no, so my laptop
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  Speaker 1: is my everything. So that's where I take no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: When I get out the car and take my laptop,
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  Speaker 1: that's my life. Like, that's how I make my money.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I DJ. No no nudes, but just how
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  Speaker 1: I DJ. So I left the I left yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: I remembered that I left laptop there. So last night
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  Speaker 1: I drove back to the property to go get my laptop.
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  Speaker 1: But they did work on the house. So I was
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  Speaker 1: so impressed with the work that they did in the
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  Speaker 1: house on FaceTime and my wife saying, look, I go
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  Speaker 1: back home. I left the laptop again. What is wrong
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  Speaker 1: with you? Envy? So I had to get up at
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  Speaker 1: three o'clock this morning to drive back to the property
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  Speaker 1: this morning to go get the damn laptop. You are
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  Speaker 1: really did see? I am. I am a blonde. I
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  Speaker 1: am very did see this morning. All right, don't blonde shame,
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  Speaker 1: don't blonde shame. All right, Well, we got a great
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  Speaker 1: show for you today. We have damnson Dress joining us
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  Speaker 1: this morning. And yes, that's from the amazing show Snowfall.
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  Speaker 1: That show is so great. I love man And it's
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  Speaker 1: crazy because you know, the new season started. They did
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  Speaker 1: like two episodes back to back, and I had to
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  Speaker 1: really like go back because I was trying to remember.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like it's so long in between all these shows. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that you gotta like recall what happened. I've heard so
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  Speaker 1: many good things about Snowfall. I just haven't dove into it.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen yet. I just haven't had time rest
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  Speaker 1: season five. You had time to watch The Bachelor, I do,
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  Speaker 1: but I fall asleep on a bachelor. That's well, that's
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  Speaker 1: my wife's show. So you can fall asleep on it's
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  Speaker 1: like you know, you know, can watch a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: like I haven't seen Euphoria. What, No, I haven't seen that,
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  Speaker 1: the Tindless swind Little what's that thing? I haven't seen.
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  Speaker 1: I've only seen like three episodes of that, Like I've
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  Speaker 1: been behind behind So but yeah, he stop it, but damnson,
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  Speaker 1: it just would be joining us and also Erica Alexander
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  Speaker 1: and Rebecca Howard. They have a new podcast called Finding
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  Speaker 1: to Mika that focuses on a disappearance and the disappearance
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  Speaker 1: and murder of Tamika Hudson Houston, Houston. Yeah, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: be kicking in with them in a little bit as well.
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  Speaker 1: So a pact show. And let's get the show cracking
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  Speaker 1: front page news. What we're talking about. Yes, uh, let's
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  Speaker 1: start it off with I mean, you know what we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about Ukraine and Russia and now there is a
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  Speaker 1: bounty on the head of Ladimir Putin. Will tell you
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  Speaker 1: who plays that bounty? Oh my goodness, all right, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, everybody is DJ Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne the
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  Speaker 1: guy we are to breakfast clublet's getting some front page news,
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  Speaker 1: some new news. What we're starting, all right, Well, let's
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  Speaker 1: start with the Russian businessman. He has put a one
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  Speaker 1: million dollar bounty on Vladimir Putin's head. Now, what does
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  Speaker 1: that mean? Not that he went from killed, but he
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  Speaker 1: went him arrested as a war criminal. So this investor
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  Speaker 1: is um saying that he promises to pay one million
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  Speaker 1: dollars to the officer or officers who, complying with their
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  Speaker 1: constitutional duty, arrest Putin as a war criminal under Russian
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  Speaker 1: and international laws. Now, the man who says this is
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  Speaker 1: a crypto investor. His name is Alex Konaikin. I can't
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  Speaker 1: even pronounce his last name, kona Anikin, and he posted
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  Speaker 1: it on Facebook. He said Putin had violated the Russian
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  Speaker 1: constitution by eliminating free elections and murdering his opponent. He said,
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  Speaker 1: as an ethnic Russian and a Russian citizen, I see
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  Speaker 1: it as my moral duty to facilitate the denazification of Russia.
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  Speaker 1: I will continue my assistance to Ukraine and its heroic
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  Speaker 1: efforts to withstand the onslaught of Putin's order, so so
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't want him killed, he just wants to He
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  Speaker 1: went to arrest as a war criminal. Okay, now let's
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  Speaker 1: give you guys some updates. There's another round of talks
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  Speaker 1: that would be taking place today between both delegations for
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine and for Russia. They said the first round on
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  Speaker 1: Monday lasted five hours. Now the mayor of the southern
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  Speaker 1: city of Kashan indicated that they had fallen on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: They said, Ukrainian forces has left, so Russian forces have
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  Speaker 1: taken over. And this follows several days of heavy fighting.
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  Speaker 1: A Western intelligence report indicated that Chinese officials in the
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  Speaker 1: meantime in early February requested that senior Russian officials wait
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  Speaker 1: until after the Beijian Winter Olympics had finished before they
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  Speaker 1: started that invasion of Ukraine. So apparently they knew, but
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  Speaker 1: they were like, let's just wait till after the Olympics
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  Speaker 1: for you got before you guys do this. Yeah, My
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  Speaker 1: only thing is my question is this. You know they
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  Speaker 1: have those conversations. What are they having conversations about? Right,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm Ukraine, what is they to talk about? Why
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  Speaker 1: are you invading my country? Well, you're still wanting to
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  Speaker 1: see if there is any way to get a ceasefire,
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  Speaker 1: and no matter what, you still would like that. Yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: you have to come to the table to try to
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  Speaker 1: see if you can make that happen. In the United
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  Speaker 1: States and every country you're still hoping that it happens.
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  Speaker 1: What do you give up if you're Ukraine, Like what
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  Speaker 1: conversation do you have? And it's not like you'd be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you this if you just stopped shooting at me,
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  Speaker 1: Like what do you have, Like, stop shooting at me,
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  Speaker 1: stop stop dropping bombs at me. You're killing innocent people,
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  Speaker 1: Like well, I don't I don't understand what these conversations.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how they're helping. Now one million people
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  Speaker 1: have left Ukraine in just a week, according to the UN.
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  Speaker 1: I did see on the news some people that were
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  Speaker 1: protesting when the Russian military were coming in. They were
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  Speaker 1: standing there and they were chanting and yelling and they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have any weapons or anything on them. So eventually
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  Speaker 1: the Russians did go past them, but they were standing
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  Speaker 1: outside protesting saying that they didn't have any weapons, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, asking them to please leave, and obviously that
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  Speaker 1: didn't work. Now, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved
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  Speaker 1: a bipartisan resolution Wednesday. That resolution expresses support for the
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  Speaker 1: people of Ukraine. There were only three people who voted
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  Speaker 1: against the resolution. They were all Republicans. One of them
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  Speaker 1: said on Twitter that they said, talk to me when
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  Speaker 1: our border is secure. Another person says that he thought
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  Speaker 1: the resolution was overly broad and that targeting Russia's economy
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  Speaker 1: could backfire and cause further economic stress for low income Americans.
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  Speaker 1: And the third person argued that the US has no
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  Speaker 1: moral obligation to help either side in the conflict. So
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  Speaker 1: those are the three people who voted. The vote was
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  Speaker 1: almost unanimous, four hundred and twenty six to three in
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  Speaker 1: order to support Ukraine. Now, seven Russian banks have been
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  Speaker 1: removed from the Swift network. We told you guys about
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  Speaker 1: that earlier. Those are the banks that are now not
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  Speaker 1: going to be able to send money, and you know, economically,
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  Speaker 1: that's where everybody's hitting them right now with all these
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  Speaker 1: different sanctions. So we'll keep you updated again on what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in Ukraine and Russia as things keep on happening,
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  Speaker 1: and that is your front page news. They are saying
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  Speaker 1: these latest sanctions will in the law term really affect
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  Speaker 1: Russia as people are figuring out ways to get around
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  Speaker 1: the oil and gas issue that we're having now with
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  Speaker 1: the shortage around the world from all these sanctions against Russia. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're saying gas prices are going to be one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and nineteen dollars a barrel, So people like, what does
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  Speaker 1: that mean? Just think about it. Last year it was
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  Speaker 1: around eighty eight dollars a barrel, ninety dollars a barrel.
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  Speaker 1: So the fact that it's going to one nineteen, meaning
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  Speaker 1: gas prices will probably shoot over five dollars, which is
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  Speaker 1: going to be very, very very very difficult. Very people
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  Speaker 1: will be scrambling to try to find alternative supplies. But
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  Speaker 1: in the long term, do you really want to have
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  Speaker 1: to rely on Russia for gas and oil? So now
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  Speaker 1: everybody has to figure out something alternative. Yeah, they're pushing
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  Speaker 1: electric and I know for some people looking at electric cars,
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  Speaker 1: because I've been looking at electric cars the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of days. I know right now, for myself, Tesla looks
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  Speaker 1: good because Tesla has so many charging stations where you
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  Speaker 1: can actually charge, and they have the fast charges, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them are free, and I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these other manufacturers they have electric cars, but you
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  Speaker 1: gotta pay to charge your car, so it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like getting gas. So just do your homework. I'd rather
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  Speaker 1: has an electric car. He's so happy. What kind of car? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: at BMW, I gotta figure it out. I just got
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  Speaker 1: to ask some more questions about it. But anyway, get
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  Speaker 1: it off your chest. Eight undred five eight five one
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  Speaker 1: breakfast Club. I'm telling, I'm telling what call of you
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  Speaker 1: if this is your time to get it off your chest,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eight five
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  Speaker 1: one five one. We want to hear from you on
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  Speaker 1: the breakfast Club. Hello, who's this about? Every yo? Travel?
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  Speaker 1: If I tell you? How many people are really upset
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  Speaker 1: that you always get through Like they're like, how does
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  Speaker 1: travel always? We get tagged in posts like how does
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  Speaker 1: this happen? Oh? Trust you want to tell me? They'd
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  Speaker 1: be all of my DM's like, oh, you need to
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  Speaker 1: get a job. And at the mind that didn't used
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  Speaker 1: to bother me because I used to have a job,
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  Speaker 1: like for nine years now you're like, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. You know I lost my job. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'll be thinking a little bit. Yeah you I have
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  Speaker 1: a while ago. I love my job in December. Ye,
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  Speaker 1: not a while ago. I ain't been jobbing for a while. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you need to get a job. Track, go get a job.
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  Speaker 1: Feel like a long time okay. But God's gods still
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  Speaker 1: been blessed with me because I got food stamp. I'm
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  Speaker 1: on unappointment. God is still blessing. Well he do it.
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  Speaker 1: But now if you got an opportunity, Hey, I'm all here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all here. I know that's right. I'm calling because listen. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: ye I normal way to ask you for something, and
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  Speaker 1: I would ask you like to have your help and
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  Speaker 1: and envy if I'm actually just finished the project that
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing. I've been working on for the last year,
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  Speaker 1: and I have six sentences three am peace. If you
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  Speaker 1: guys could help me with my project? What's your project? Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's a little ep and as well as one of
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  Speaker 1: you guys like to narrate something for me. And I
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  Speaker 1: literally had the six sentences written out and it's only
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  Speaker 1: six sentences. Oh my god, I like that you always
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  Speaker 1: have an easy ask now it's blind Beauty on the project. Yes, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: then yes I'll do it. I don't. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We'll help me. I don't know because I'm charging a
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  Speaker 1: little more. After I did the Queen Naja project. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my my course went up a little bit. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: see you in there. I was definitely in there. Mine
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  Speaker 1: is non profitt and I'm not trying to no money.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just joking. We got you, man, we got you.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see n I didn't see you in there.
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  Speaker 1: I started open, Sure, I start, I started, I start
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  Speaker 1: the video off for no short on. Hello, who's this?
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  Speaker 1: This is Jasmine from the Bronx. But I now live
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  Speaker 1: in Maryland. Jasmine from the Bronx and lives in Maryland.
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  Speaker 1: What I get it off your chest? Okay? I got
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  Speaker 1: to get off my chest. So I was gonna um.
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  Speaker 1: I had talked with a friend. I was gonna go
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  Speaker 1: to New York to watch my god's son, to watch
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  Speaker 1: her son. But I um so that she could go
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  Speaker 1: on a trip on Mother's Day. But I decided to
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  Speaker 1: change my mind and I told her, like, look, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going through stuff mentally. I can't I can't go to
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  Speaker 1: New York, I can't watch him. So long story short,
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  Speaker 1: we basically got into a disagreement about it, and she said,
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  Speaker 1: well I won't. I don't want you watching my son
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  Speaker 1: and you have mental health problems, and that really likes
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  Speaker 1: it just made me realize, like what is it, Like
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  Speaker 1: I've watched him before and I have, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: mental health condition, Like why is it that if I
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  Speaker 1: changed my mind like all of a sudden, I can't
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  Speaker 1: watch him because I have mental health problems. So I
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  Speaker 1: just I don't know, Like I had to get off
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  Speaker 1: my chest because I'm like, it did stigma like do people?
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  Speaker 1: So like if you're going through stuff and you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to like you know, you know, manage your mental health,
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  Speaker 1: like you can't baby fit, Like what is that about? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure she was probably upset because it was Mother's Day,
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  Speaker 1: so she probably made plans in the arrange. Yeah, she
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  Speaker 1: planned the traps. She probably planned the trip or a
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  Speaker 1: date or whatever it was, and then you canceled on
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  Speaker 1: her last minute. So she's probably upset and you know,
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  Speaker 1: hurt people, hurt people. She probably tried to throw a
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  Speaker 1: stab at you to you know, to dig at you back. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I can understand that and I and I do
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  Speaker 1: understand that concept. But I also feel like this, like
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  Speaker 1: I'm a person that she knows my heart, like I
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  Speaker 1: always look out for my gods and when I can,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like I always put I
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  Speaker 1: put a lot of people first. And now that I'm
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  Speaker 1: not putting people first and I'm finally putting myself first,
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  Speaker 1: it's a problem. Well that's gonna happen. And she I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's you know, she had a problem that you
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  Speaker 1: know that you you you still then you did her
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  Speaker 1: dirty and you feel a way. So but aside from
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  Speaker 1: all of that, take care of yourself, you know, take
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  Speaker 1: care take care of yourself. I mean, that's your child,
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  Speaker 1: and she cann make whatever decisions that she wants to make.
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  Speaker 1: But as far as you really take care of yourself, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm working on. I'm just trying to take
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  Speaker 1: care of myself. And you know, I appreciate y'all things
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  Speaker 1: for y'all a rights and hopefully, like I said, like
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  Speaker 1: we got to end this stigma with mental health and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just children in general, because it's okay to
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  Speaker 1: go to stuff and be able to pull back and
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  Speaker 1: say ya, I got to focus on me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and hopefully I will be able to watch him again.
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, I love my GUIDs, like I want
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  Speaker 1: to be able to baby sin and stuff. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do a lot light now. So I just
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  Speaker 1: hope my friend is understanding and we'll see what happened. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: focus on you, like you said, continue to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Put yourself first. You've identified you know that you have
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  Speaker 1: some things you gotta deal with, and so worry about
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  Speaker 1: that right now and deal with that. Get it off
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  Speaker 1: your chests eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
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  Speaker 1: If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's
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  Speaker 1: your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're man,
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  Speaker 1: oh dare you hung up on it? I didn't hang
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  Speaker 1: up on him, Hampton, but definitely check him out and
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: see if they're given scholarships and you need help. Definitely
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: heat up his organization and I'm definitely gonna donate to
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: the organization if they're giving out scholarships to two brothers
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: who need it. Hello, who's this? This is duly Man.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you answered. What's up? What's that? Getting
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: off your chests? Getting love my chairs? I think I'm
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: my love and my best friend that I had, You know,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I had talked about like us pursuing three years ago,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: and then I jumped into a relationship. But I love
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: the guy too, but I'm just sim in love with him.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: I'm loving the best friend. I might have to make
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: this choice, and I am going through like like I
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: guess the spiritually in a hard time. You know, I'm
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: getting hard. But did you just say you're in love
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: with somebody else and with your best friend? You have
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: a boyfriend? Turn your radio down. I do have. I
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: do have a boyfriend end of three years, a great
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: guard and right before I started eating him, you know,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: my boy my best friend, had been a feelings and
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: uh you know, it's always been in back of my
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: mind and like right now since I've been focusing on myself,
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: like stepping back, and I'm just still guilty, you know,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: like you should well you shouldn't feel guilty. But if
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: you're not happy in your relationship, I mean, oh your
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: love with both, I mean I feel you can be
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: like you just did. And I don't know, and I
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: don't know what to do in this situation, but I
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: know that focusing on myself, I guess we wos like
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: you focusing on other people too. I am and maybe
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: taking a step back or hell said, wow, but are
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: you in love? Are you? And lust? I needs because
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: they like the lost just like there's so much more
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: to a connection, you know, like there's so much more
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: to intimacy. And that's what like I've they've been there
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: to the hardest times, you know, like twenty twenty harder
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: and everyone you know, like God bless everybody, like everyone
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: that's gotten some hardships like since. But you know, now
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I'm focusing on myself. And it's like I totally flashed
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: on this guy, like started dating some one the next
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: day and then let me ask you this, does he
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: love you back? Your best friend? He does? And it's
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: just scary though he's a player, he's my best friend,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I know. Have I seen him you know? But have
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: you been sleeping with him already? No? If I hold
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: off on And that's okay, And that's what I respect to.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: You know, I've been I've been asking it from post
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man had sex, So I mean, why don't
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: you just date him both? Just start dating to tell
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: your boyfriend that you just want to date other people
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: at him date other people and didn't feel it out
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: that it might not be your best friend anymore. If
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: you know he's a player and you guys start dating
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: and you start cheating on your man with him. I
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: didn't say cheat, I said open relation, ship, don't cheat.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Have the conversation, to have the conversation, have a real
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: conversation and see where it goes. Okay, you might end
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: up alone, you might have That's what I need. Yeah, maybe, yeah,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: but just be honest so that way you ain't gonna
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: be hiding and running around and doing stuff that's foul.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: So just be honest and you Lets have a blessed morning,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: good luck, Thank you. I don't think it's gonna work
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: out too good for her. Get it off your chests.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Eight hundred five five, one oh five one. We got
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: rooms on the way. Yeah, since we're talking relationships, Kim
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Kardashian is illegally single. We'll tell you all about it,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: all right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Good morning, the breakfast Club. Listen, Oh my gosh, report guys,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: it's breakfast Club. Well this morning on CBS Mornings, you'll
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: get to hear Melinda open Melinda Gates opening up about
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: what led to her divorce from Bill Gates. Now. She
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: sat down with Gil King and she talked about her
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: whole healing journey. Did you have moments where you were
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: just so angry? Did you have moments that you were
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: just in such pain? Well, I think it's really important
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: to say. Look, I had a lot of tears for
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: many days. I mean days where I'm literally laying on
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the floor in the carpet, you know, this close to me,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: thinking how can this be? How can I get up?
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: That's part of the grieving process. You're grieving a loss
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: of something you thought you had and thought you had
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: for your lifetime. And at the end of the day, though,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I started on this journey of healing and I feel
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: like I'm starting to get to the other side. I'm
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: actually really excited about what's to come and life I
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: had for me. They were married for twenty seven years,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: and they announced their split in May. They released a
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: joint statement that said, we no longer believe we can
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: grow together as a couple in this next phase of
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: our lives. If you guys recall he had an affair
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: with a staffer twenty years ago, which was confirmed by
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: a spokesperson for him last May as well. Here's what
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Lilinda Gates said about trust. After the news came out,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: it was revealed that Bill Gates admitted that he had
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: had an affair in the marriage. And at that time,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: did you think we're going to work through this? How
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: did you handle something like that? Well? I certainly believe
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: in forgiveness, so I thought we had worked through some
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: of that. It wasn't one moment or one specific thing
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: that happened. There just came a point in time where
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: there was enough there that I realized just wasn't healthy
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: and I couldn't trust what we had. So she forgave that.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: But it was other things that got it to that point. Yeah,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure we'll hear some of those things in
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: that interview this morning. She still worked. She's worth two
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: point full a billion, by the way, But I mean,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that's difficult. You start with somebody twenty years
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and twenty seven years, and gaining that trust back is
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: one of the most difficult things trying to, you know,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: because it's everything, and you disrespect or you cheat, or
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: you you're not honest with You're everything, and then it's
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: hard to get that back. All right. Well, Kim Kardashian
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: is legally single, So congratulations to her. We know that's
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: what she wanted. The judge was like, whoa, Yes, she
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: has been granted her motion seeking the legal status, and
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: they said the case had stalled for several months but
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: there was a lot of progress and he also finalized.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: The judge also finalized dropping West from her name, so
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: she is back to Kim Kardashian no longer Kim Kardashian West. Yeah.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, well, I definitely pray for them. I mean,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: this is what she wanted. Hopefully they both get the
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: healing that they need. But on another note, a Kanye
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: West documentaries are amazing. Yeah, we'll talk about that more too.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I see. Kanye was also hanging out with Tristan Thompson.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: The two of them were dining at the Satay in
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Miami Beach with a few other dinner guests as well,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and that's an interesting hook up. Wouldn't be surprised if
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: he was trying to hit Yeah what amber Rose again too,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: So we shall see. But he also released a music
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: video that was targeting Pete Davidson after his marriage was dissolved,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and that is for that song Easy of Course that
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: he has. Uh if you guys, recall this is the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: song my life was never easy it is. It was
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: just because no love showed the shrug. This is by
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the way. Well. He ended the video with two slides
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: that said everyone lived happily ever after except skeet you
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: know who, and then he said, just kidding, He's fine.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And so I don't understand why Kanye is so mad
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: at that. I was about to say, skeet at Pete Davidson.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: They're not friends. They didn't grow up with each other.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Also in the video, there's a depiction of him bearing
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: a cartoon man that resembles Pete Davidson alive. I don't
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: know why he's so mad with Pete. Like Pete, he's
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: a man. He doesn't know you. He doesn't owe you anything.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: You're having problems with your wife's ex wife now ex wife.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Him and your ex wife got together, and what he
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: doesn't owe you anything. He doesn't owe you loyalty. He's
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: not your friend to grow with you. Yeah, you know.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: A source told Entertainment Tonight that Pete Davidson isn't bothered
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: by Kanye's attacks on him. He said, Pete finds Kanye's
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: lyrics and interviews about him funny and entertaining. He's super
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: chill about the situation and doesn't take it too personally,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: but he hates that Kim has to deal with the drama.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: All right, well, that is your front page news, I
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: mean your rumor reports. All right, you're right, we got
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: front page news. Next, what we're talking about. We are
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: going to talk about the guy who was on the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: subway smearing feces on that woman. He was arrested and
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: he's back on the streets already. We'll tell you what happened.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll get into that next. It's the breakfast club.
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  Speaker 1: DJ Envy Angela, Ye, Charlomagne, the guy we are to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: breakfast club. Let's get in some front page news where
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: we're starting you, Well, the guy who semeared his own
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: feces on a woman's face. Was freed without bail yesterday
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: and he was actually before a judge for the second
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: time in two days, this time on charges that he
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: spat on a Jewish man and chased him down to
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn Street screaming come here, you f and ju I'm
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: going to kill you. According to a criminal complaint, they
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: said that happened September ninth in Crown Heights. So again
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: last week in the Bronx, he was accused of rubbing
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: his excrement in a woman's face. He's now t to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the second degree aggravated harassment as a hate crime, disorderly
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: conduct in two counts of menacing, including one as a
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: hate crime, but they could not set bail on any
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: of those charges because of the state's new bail reform
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: laws that nix the cash option for many charges. So
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: for that reason, Frank A broke up a broke while
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: was released. Yeah, and as they have to fix that,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: and I get it. There's you know, people get arrested
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and they can't afford bailing, and you know, and that's
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: what they did it for. But then there's a loophole
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: like this gentleman has been arrested forty four times, right,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: he has a felony. He had a felony charge. He
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: continues to do this, but because of this new bail,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: he can get arrested and come right back out. So
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: when does it stop? And at first he spit on somebody,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: then he smared pooping somebody's face. What's next? Do you
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: have to wait till somebody gets cut, somebody gets hurt
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: dies before they say, okay, well maybe we should keep
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: him because they that's not right. Yeah, forty four times
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: for forty sometimes that's not right. And I'm sure he
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: feels like he can do whatever he wants with no repercussions. Came,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: yeah he can. He spanned pooping somebody's face and got
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: released the next day. Then he's spitting somebody's face and
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: chasing down the block and got released next day. Like
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: that's not even the next day, the same day, all right? Now,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: a series of unseen sketches by Doctor SEUs will be
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: edited by an inclusive group of writers and artists from
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: quote diverse racial backgrounds before they are published for the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: first time. And some people are upset there, accusing this
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: of being wokewashing, and so Doctor Seus's enterprises, which is
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: a company founded by the family of Doctor SEUs well
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: as putting this together. So this sketches will serve as
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the basis for a new line of books that will
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: be written and illustrated by that group, and it also
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: follows his recent cancelation after six of his books his
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: kid's books were yank from publication because of alleged racist imagery.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Did you read Doctor Seuss books growing up? Of course
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I think every kid did. M I think every kid did. Yeah.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I remember the cat in the hat and green eggs
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: in here. That's only too. I always remember the cat
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: in hand and green eggs in him, and that's crazy.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: That's that's what I read to my kids. You know.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: That's what I read to my kids. Same difference, all right,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: So um, you know they actually President Joe Biden did
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: remove mentions of Doctor SEUs from the read across America
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: day and he is one of the world's most popular
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: children's authors, but his books have come under fire and
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: reaching years for how they portray several minority groups. For instance,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: If I Ran the Zoo has depicted Africans as pot
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: bellied and thick lift, as one biography of SEUs puts it,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: and so That book was first published in nineteen fifty
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and it also described Asian characters as helpers who all
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: wear their eyes at a slant from countries no one
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: can spell. Yeah, I mean, it's it's so crazy. These
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: are what we've been teaching our kids, reading to our
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: kids with this underlying racism in ite. But we just
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: need to create more and we need to push our
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: own I mean, there's a lot of minority books that's
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: written for kids, and we just gotta push them all.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: We just got to get them more out there. Uh.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: And I know sometimes they sent at up here to
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: our kids and I read them to my kids all
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: the time. But we just have to make those popular,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: make those as big as Doctor Seus's books were, you know, man,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I was. You know, I was at the New York
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Public Library UM two days ago and there is when
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I tell you, the books they hadn't there. And there
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: was also a Black History months, so I know they
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: were highlighting a lot of those. I was in the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I was in the teen center and then also for
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the younger kids, and there are some incredible books that
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I wish I would have had. You know, growing up,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: they had Miles Davis book. They actually have a book
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: about Michael B. Jordan as well. Really, but there's so
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: many books. And for one of my friends who just
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: had a kid, I just sent her a whole bunch
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: of books. One of them is about Michelle Obama. It's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: just amazing, like the diversity, and we have to support
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: that too. Yeah, and we just gotta those role models encouraging.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: And what I'm seeing on television and whether it's Nickelodeon,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: whether it's the Disney Channel, what my kids watch, it
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: is working. The other day. A couple of days ago,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I should say, my five year old Brooklyn, I hear
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: her talking to our brother who's seven, and they were
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: talking about Black History Month, and you know, they were talking.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: He was trying to explain to her what Black History
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Month was, and I'm listening because I'm like, this is
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: so cute to me. So she comes in the room
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and she was like, mine, what's Black History Month? So
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: my wife explains, and you know, and all of a sudden,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: she goes, yeah, I'm black, and then she just runs
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: out and then she starts telling everybody what Black History
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Month is. So they are seeing it on Nickelodeon, they're
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: seeing it on Disney World, Disney Channel, and it's it's
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: encouraging to learn more about their history, which is great
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: because if we just explain it, they'd be like, yeah,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: mom and dad. But the fact that it's on their
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: favorite cartoons and they're breaking it down and they're explaining
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: it and they are giving moments that is wonderful. So
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: shout to whoever's doing that in Nickelodeon and Disney Channel.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I love what you guys are doing. Yeah, I'm looking
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: some of these books a fist for Joe Lewis and me,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Memphis Martin and The Mountaintop and these are kids books
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: out to be wells, you know, above the rim. Just
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: all these different books that you can see that highlight
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of us. It's really dope. All right, Well
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: that is your front page news, all right. When we
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: come back, Damnson it will be joining us. You know,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: he's an actor. You might know him from Snowfall. Recently
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: he was on the Red Carpet and not him, but
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Denzel Washington was on the Red Carpet and the interview Ebbony.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: She asked, you know, you know, what do you know
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: about Damnson? And he didn't had no clue, and it
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: went viral. But he will talk about that, addressed all that,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about Snowfall. I just the breakfast club,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Go Morning, the breakfast clubs DJ Envy Angela Ye, Charlomagne,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the guy. We are the breakfast club. We got a
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: special guest in the building. You know him from Snowfall
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and a host of other things. His birthday is one
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: day before mine. He's a fellow Virgo Damnson. Its welcome
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: something welcome, Sir damn Son. I didn't know. I didn't
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: know your birthday was the first September, your day before.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Oh thud, okay, okay. Buddy of mine is the third
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: two actually, the show runner of Snowfall, Dave and Buzz
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: is the best. You know. Absolutely they had as on
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: New Yes, there you go. Now. The first thing you
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: said was I love New York because I love Jamaican culture. Yeah.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: What do you love so much about Jamaican culture? What
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: what do you love? Obviously the food? Dirt, chicken. Yeah,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I'm an out guy. You both, Yeah, oxtail. Actually, I
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: like to dabble one both. I like to steal food
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: from whoever I'm eating with um plantains, do you guys
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: say plantain? Or planting. I say planting. I feel like
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: that's the right way to say it. Was saying it wrong.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: You had to switch through all different types of ways.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: It's different kinds of ways to say things. So oh yeah, yeah,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: that's that's part of my life, impersonating people. You don't
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: have amazing Jamaican restaurants in London or in LA where
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: your shoot? No, nah, that's no, man, not at all
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: out here. I like missus lilies, missies. Um actually wrote,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: actually wrote on a gramyasells like, oh where could I go?
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: People said, um, footprints? Yes, Like, first of all, the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: best Caribbean food is in Berklen. We got foot prans,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: we got Wade, we got Caribbean social we have this
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: is New York. We have girl. Yes, number one one called.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to try all of it today. That's impossible.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I saw you talking about how John Singleton told you
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: to stay humble though amongst everything different people. I don't
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: know the first time we actually met you. You were
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: up here with John Singleton. Yeah he don't remember you though,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: And remember it's like this is the first time. No, no, no.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: There's a couple of asking guys in a dss. Yes.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: How has that been for you though, because obviously Snowfall
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: is such a huge show. You guys are in the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: fifth season. We've watched Franklin grow up and he has
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: got a lot of big things happening. But in real
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: life you've grown up to and your star has grown
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: up as well. Yeah. Yeah. It's a testament to John Singleton.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: You know. He really believed in me. And although I
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: a thought for the role, like crazy audition like nine times,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: you know, he took me to South Central, opened up
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the car door and said, if you survive, you got
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: the role. And I was like walking around, had to
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: be in character central, bring that experience, man. So I
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: get to John Singleton's office and I think I'm gonna
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: read the I'm gonna audition, right, It's like like audition
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: number eight or something like that. And then he's like, yeah, no,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: we're not gonna read anything. We're just gonna take a
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: walk someone walking around and he's like, don't break character.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: And he's introducing me to people, and you know, Singleton
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: was like god in his community. Like people will be
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: like yo, John, you know, and then they'd come up
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: to me talking to me. They're like Yo, what's up,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: little homie. I'm like, yeah, what's up? So I'm just
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: pretending like that I'm from there. Um. And then his
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: mom came and you know, I'm British. So I'm saying
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: a bunch of British stuff in an American accent. But
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: he didn't know you were British, right, Oh no, he knew,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: like he wanted to make What kind of British stuff
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: were you saying? Like you guys say like elevator? I
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: say lyft? You know you guys say Ben. You guys
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: say trash or say Ben exactly. So I'm talking in
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: an American accident. And his mom comes like, oh, how
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: lovely your hair looks today. I'm just gonna go over
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: there and throw something in the bend. And she looks
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: over John and she's like, John, he ain't from here, huh.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I was like, man, Mom just took this und central.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I was scared. Man. I was with John. You know
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: it was my big brother. You know, that was my
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: big brother. Now I'm miss him greatly. But as far
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: as I get in this, in this industry and on
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: this journey, I'm always gonna on a singleton for being
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: my foundation. Well, let's talk about the new season. So
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: you're also producing. Yeah, on the new season. How did
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: that come about? I forced them to take give me
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: in for de secret no. Um. You know, when you
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: when you've been doing this show for so long, you
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: you pick up different traits at the same time, you
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: want to be challenged. And my circles um are so
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: bossy today that they inspire me to want to be
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: more of a leader. That's the truth. It's like if
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: you hang around with certain types of people having certain
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: types of conversations and they're like, yo, bro, you should
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: go in, and then you ask, and they're like, okay,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you know, I've been watching the a doc you know,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: and Hove is like, you know, clothes mouths don't get fit,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: you know, Like it's true. You know, asking you shall
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: receive and and I asked and they gave it to me.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: And you know, above all things, I'm not I'm not
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: saying my level of producing is at the level of
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: my acting ability. My acting ability is quite horrible. I'm
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: just saying. I'm saying I'm being a sponge and I'm
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: being given an opportunity to learn so that I could
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: use my platform and my brand to create more opportunities.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Now you play a crack cocaine dealer, right, Um, how
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: difficult was that learning that? Because you're young so crack
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: it really affected me and ye our age were growing
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: up a kids. We would see crack pipes everywhere. We
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: would see crack crack pipes and crack viles all over
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: the place in Brooklyn. Not all over the place, no, queen,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: It was all over the place. It was very very big,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: very very affective. I got family members affected by it
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: and all that. So how did you prepare for learning
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: that role? Wow? Well, I'm from Peckham in London, which
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: is the South Central equivalent in my opinion. Um, single
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: you know, single parents, you know, broken homes, that's in jail. Um,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: police brutality, racism and drugs. You know, drugs was a
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: major factor of my upbringing. On my community. Everyone around
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: me was involved, So drugs at all. Um, so everybody
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: so they went, have you ever know? You haven't but
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: no drugs retired police officer, So there was no drugs
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: ever coming in my crib. Okay, okay, he would have
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: been on you. Yeah. So so so basically I just
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: just preparing for the role was interesting. There's so much history,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: you know, on this drug. And the thing I love
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: about the show, particularly season five, is I'm not sure
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: if you guys are aware about the lem Bias case.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I was just reading about that because I didn't know
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: it was a real person. Oh yeah, yeah. So he
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: was a basketballer in Maryland University in nine eighty six
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: and essentially his unfortunate overdose created a snowball effect in
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: America with the Clinton administration is basically how Clinton even
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: became president in the first place. And they introduced mandatory minimums, right,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: so all these mandatory laws of you know them getting
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: caught with it like a gram of a graham of
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: crack was this same as one hundred grams of cocaine.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: And what that essentially did was it broke up the
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: African American household and that's why so many fathers were
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: gone and that's why we see what we see today.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: And the show season five starts with that correlating to
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Franklin having there in one hundred million dollars. Now I'm
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: living the high life. Beautiful place to live, the penthouse.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Jerome and Louis are on horses. Leon's like a Franklin
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: and his own right and my girlfriend exactly loyal. So
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: you're seeing him enjoying this lifestyle like so many people
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: in the eighties did. But then you're seeing the demise
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: of a community. You're seeing people like one the Bell
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: trying to find a sense of redemption after everything that
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: she's been through from being addicted to this drug. Singleton
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: would say, you know that black people will have been
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: affected in many ways, but crack cocaine was the only
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: thing that made black mothers leave their children. Wow, So
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: that it's a deep thing, man. All Right. We got
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: more with Dampson in dress from Snowfall. When we come back.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club the morning putting. Everybody is DJ Envy,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we all to Breakfast Club,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: but still kicking it with Damson Idriss, you know him
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: from Snowfall. Ye. Now, Franklin's trying to go legit, and
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: we know how hard that is to do, especially when
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: you have so many things in your past that are
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: always going to be catching up to you and having
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: a baby on the way too. That's a big deal
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: because you have to do anything you can at all
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: means possible to make sure that you take care of
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: this child that's on the way. You've made a commitment
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: to do that with your girlfriend. I was thinking about
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: this for some reason. I don't really trust her, and
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: I know we're only a few episodes in. He has
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: bad experiences. Yeah yeah, and so for that reason, I'm like,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: what is about to happen? Wow? So my backstory with
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: very Nice's character is essentially this. You remember in season three,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Franklin kind of took the most of these out of
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: that house. Um. He basically kind of corned this old
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: couple out of their Bookstoreum. So he was taken to
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: court and the person that was their representative was very unique,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: and they won that case, and he kind of fell
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: for her and kind of hired her on his team
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: and wanted to build with her. Something led to another
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: and then boomed. Now they're together. You know, the show
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: is this drug trade is a tricky thing. Um, loyalty
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: could could go so quickly when your life is on
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: the line, and your life really is on the line.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Twenty four seven, So um yeah, stick with the show man,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: That's all I can say. Don't trust it. I don't
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: know what it is like. Yeah, she's yeah, Keith watching Okay,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: so I might be onto something, you might be onto
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: something you might not, but you're a producer, so you
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: should be able to know what's about to happen. I've
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: seen all. All I can say is I've seen all episodes.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: And then you killed your friend. Yeah. I felt like, okay,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: White rab right, I feel like that wasn't necessary. But
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: why do you think it wasn't necessary because people don't
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: agree with you? I mean, okay, he was a little
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: sloppy and he was telling your business. He told that
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: about the CIA. Yeah, yeah, but he could have. I
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: don't know. That's your friend from like when you were young.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Franklin is in a different place now. You know, he
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: knows what's important. What's important, it's his family and the
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: baby has on the way. And I think a lot
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: of people could relate to that making horrible decisions, killing
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: your best friend. Maybe he's gonna bring down the horse
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: down the empire. Yeah, he would have, he would he
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: would have brought down. And I was gonna ask. You
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: know a lot of times, in real life and not
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: in just movies, you see these drug dealers they make
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: enough where they can get out, but they can never
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: get out. Yeah, yeah, is that what's gonna happen to
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: this character? Like, just never get out because you always
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: want to see you want to see the you know,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: what they do to the community. You see the money
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: that they make, but you kind of want to see
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: them ride off from that white horse. But yeah, it's
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: never that white horse. That's the game, man, that's the game.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: And that's what we're trying to preach to these kids.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: It's not preach, but just let them know, man, it's
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: not worth it. It really isn't worth it. That's that's
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: what this show's teaching me. You know, as if you
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: really look at this season, as much money as Franklin makes,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: he's not happy. But what's the point doing something if
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: you know, I act because it makes me happy. Correct
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: If it didn't make me happy, I wouldn't do it.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: So I think that's hopefully what I hope happens with Franklin,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: as there's a redemptive quality to him. You know, he's
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: done some horrible things. I'm hoping by the end of it,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: he realizes that it wasn't worth it, and hopefully he
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: can redeem himself in some way. I was gonna ask
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: when it comes to American movies, and you know sometimes
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: people feel that, you know, actors that don't live in
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: America and they take these parts that it's a problem.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I know when it just elbow comes up in some
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: past it was like, well, he's not America or yourself.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Do you have a what are your thoughts on those things? Man?
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I think it's a beautiful conversation because I think it's
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: going to push us full and you can't help but
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: acknowledge when a group of people feel the type of way.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: So it's just about listening. Really. I will say, I'm
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: an actor and I make believe for a living. So
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: the very concept of my job is to pretend to
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: be something else. Um well, I do want to see though,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: I want to see more people working in America in
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: the UK. You know, I saw Tessa Thompson playing a
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Britain in the past and that was fire. Denzel just
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: did Tragedy of My Beth and there's examples of people
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: working in the past. So viol is about to do
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: a woman king for us where it could play the idiot.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I mean the Denzel played a Britain for Queen and Country.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: You know, acting is about transformation. I feel like acting,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: who does the best job doesn't matter who you are.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Like people get caught up in you know, let's say
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: you have to pay a handicap person and somebody might say, well,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: there's handicap actors out there that could take that position.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: But in my thing is who does the best job
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: at the part. If they're from Britain, if they're from Africa,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter whoever does the best jot because you're acting.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: It's a part. Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, and you
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: know it's a story. At the end of the day,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: the most important thing is that the story is being told.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Representation is very key. I'm not saying representation isn't key,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: it's very key. But we must realize that so much
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: goes into making movies. This is the movie business. It's
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: not the movie play. You have to make money, you know.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: And and what's happening now is we're giving people opportunities
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: so that they can raise their platform. So say you
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: are a handicap actor or transject the actor or whatever,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: you're able to raise your platform so that you can
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: be in a position to green light movies in the future.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: That's what we're working at today in the industry, which
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: I think is brilliant, but right now, if a movie's
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: ready and a movie's ready to go now and you
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: want to cast someone and John and for Majors isn't available,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: and the Keith Stanfield isn't available, and those guys have
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: green light power, but this brit actor or this an
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: actor has green light power too, and they could get
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: bombs on the seat you're gonna cost that person. That's
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: how That's how it works. At the top. I like
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: to say, we're playing at the NBA level of acting.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: You know, no shade too, you know, smaller projects, but
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: when it gets up there, the field and the net
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: is a lot wider and people are from different places.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: It's the same in sports. You know, that's like saying
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Jannas shouldn't be playing right because he's He's not. Like
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: it's you know, at that level, and you need to
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: work to get to that level. You know, you need
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: to put in the ten thousand hours, and so many
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: actors have. And what I'm realizing is, you know, it's
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: the arrow is being thrown at actors who have found success,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: But the reason they found success because they've been working
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: for so long absolutely behind it, and you know that
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: they're finally at a place where they're able to benefit
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: from it. But with me personally, UM, I'm just here
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: to to to do what makes me happy and to
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: me my mom, I'm proud man and I've done those things.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Everything else a bonus. UM. I always tell people, you know,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: if you if you don't want to watch the Suckers,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: you know, buy tickets for another show. You know, it's
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: no shade. There's millions of people who love what I do. Um,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: there's millions of people who this is a small thing.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: But you know, this guy's in jail who hit me.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, bro, you got me through my sentence.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I'm supposed to stop what I'm doing, which is why
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: you do it. It's exactly why I do it. All right.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: We got more with Damson Dress when we come back,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: you know from Snowfall. And don't forget, Charlomagne's out today.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: So if you want to give donkey to day to
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: somebody eight hundred five eight five one oh five one,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: call us up right now. It's a breakfast club. Good
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: morning e j Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne the guy. We
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: are the breakfast club, still kicking it with Damson address
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: you know him from Snowfall? Ye, I used still take
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: a piano lestands who So let's let's break this down.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Where were you taking pan? Where do we see him
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: playing piano? I don't know, Juliard, No, no playing piano. You.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: I'm just asking. I said you would take a piano
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: lessons or something like that. Oh damn, I did see
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: a video of it. Looked like you were good with
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: your hands. Oh my lord, wow, I don't know. No, no,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: no no, um me and me and that I'm not
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: no no me and that that that queen. Um are
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: just friends. Um. She's a great don't you guys? Were
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: I was asking about the piano lessons? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: she's a great piano player. And and I didn't know
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: she could play piano. I didn't even think the world knew.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, this is cool moment I
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: just posted. But like people ask question, like, you know,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know if angel you could play the piano,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: because I'm not her actually to learn. I don't know
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: if Taylor, who's over here, I producer knows, you know,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know if she could play a piano. So,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: you know, how did you get to Sweetie's house to
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: see that she can actually play the piano. So she's
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: a huge Snowfall fan, right, And that day we were
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: were at lunch, I think, talking about how we could
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: collaborate because we actually wanted to get before. No, it
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: wasn't a days and talking about collaborator. Guys and girls
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: could be friends. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I agree with you.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: That's exactly what me and and DR we were friends. Okay,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: all right, so go ahead. So y'all you're on a
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: day eating oh my god, eating lunch. Yeah. But so
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: we're having lunch, um, and then uh, she wanted to
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: show me her new place because I love CB two
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: and I was going to give us some ideas about
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: furniture and all. And then boom we went and then
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: she was playing piano. That's it. I was in it
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: for like five minutes, and I dipped out, like she's
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: a friend, she's a friend of mine. That I mean.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Of course, you guys knew that was going to make
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: the Internet go crazy though, yeah, like also like they
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: would be such a cute couple, those people cute couple.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: But she she yeah she's but you were in a
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: long term relationship prior to that, right, Yeah, yeah, what
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: happened with that? Oh boy, this is whoa, Oh my god,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: this is what um. Um, we're still really close, really
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: good friends. Um. I was with her for for a
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: very long time. I met her when I was eighteen
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: years old. Um. Who knows, man, who knows what could
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: happen in the future. You know, she's very much still
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: in my life. We talked like every single day. It's
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: so funny. You know, people struggle to um keep relationships
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: with their exes. But I am at a place in
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: my life now where I everyone I meet, I want
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: them to be in my life forever because I realized
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: so many people are coming into my life, taking my energy,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: hearing my dreams, hearing my stories, and then they're gone
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: and now they're telling that to the wall. Um. So
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: I want people to stay in my life so I
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: can keep that loyalty. And I made that decision with her,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: you know, and I know that's a woman that I'm
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: gonna know I'm forever. So regardless of what happens in
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: my love life, every relationship just has to deal with that.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Did she call you and say, hey, oh word, sweeties,
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: piano dot dot dot did you get that text? Yeah?
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: But like like, we know that's she's she's cool. She's
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: an amazing woman. She's cool, she understands. You also talked
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: about that Denzel is your idol as far as acting.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so when you see I don't I don't,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: I don't mess up the young lady's name. But when
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: you see a young lady interview in Denzel and she
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: mentioned your name and he didn't know who you were,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: break that down when you've seen it and how you
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: felt like you watch the TV be like, oh, Denzel
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: and he was like, who that is? And then he
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: asked the white guy guy, Oh, I don't. I don't
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: know who that is. No, it was it was insane.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: I saw I was at home. Um on my phone,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: she's at your house. Wow, at my house? Okay yea,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: so my house by myself, by myself. Yeah, by myself,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: and my phone's like blowing up and it's like a
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: bunch of articles and stuff like that, and people are
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: calling me and I was like yo. Then I was
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: like talking about you. I'm like, oh my god, this
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: is crazy. Like so then, um, yeah, that he didn't
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: know who I was, he couldn't address. But that was
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: funny though. That was funny. But hey, man, like it's
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: a new day. You know, Um, it's a new day,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: and you know you could bash uh, you know, get
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: a notoriety through social media. I'm not gonna lie, like,
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of my kind of existence has been
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: on that through my work and just through just being me. Um.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: And some people from the past still don't respect that. Um,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: But look what social media has done for so many
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: people today. We have to start moving in the direction
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: of the future. But above all things and all of that, noise,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Denzel Washington is my idol. He's like a god to me, UM,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: and I will never have anything bad to ever say
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: about him. Did you ever get up with him after that?
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Did you ever speak? Because I'm sure people tried. I'm
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: sure people try to put your again. I'm sure there's
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: people like he knows that you know there was Like, no,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not I haven't seen him, but I like to
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: fantasize that he's at home watching snowfall. Let me find
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: oh that boy good. Yeah, because of how much people
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: talked about it, I'm sure it made him feel like, damn,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: I should know who he is, hopefully because it was
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: it was crazy. I will say though. You know, to journalists,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: when you present a new actor or a new musician
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: or someone you like, like to some of these these giants,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: please present them in the right way. She presented me
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: like I will all day. I'm in my living room
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: topless like so he's like, social media is cute, but
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: do the work I'm like been doing, but for just
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: just to you know, so he knows. I remember when
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: a little way we're never asking a little Wayne about
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: new artists. A little with Wayne was like, I don't
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: know who that is, and people are getting on him
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: like he's one of the biggest artsts. Little Wyne was like, yo,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: I'm in my own bubble. Yeah, in my own world yea.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: And people got on him and it could be the
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: same thing. He could be in his own world. And
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: like you said, he doesn't know, but I'm sure he
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: knows that. I'm sure after this he did his homework.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: He had to. Yeah, man, I would hope so. And
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: like I said, man, he he is just fantastic. You know.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: He's a great example of class, good taste, prestige. Uh.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: And that's the that's the essence before never met him.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Know what's next for you? What is it? What is
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: some roles that you want to do. Wow, it's something
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: that you like, I would love to do that role. Like,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: that's my dream role? Is it an action figure? Something music?
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: I love playing real people, so I'd love to play
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy, h Sidney Poitier fellow cut Um. I'm actually
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I allowed to say,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: do you know who rich Pool is? Yeah? Yeah, I'm
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: about to play Richpool, really really rich Paul the Agent. Yeah,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: I know who. He has a show something about him
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: coming out or it's in something where Rich Paul is
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: a character. No, does he No? I'm asking you it's
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: something where he's does he No, don't. I don't think
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: he has a show coming out. But he's a really
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: good friend of mine. And there's people behind this window
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: like why did you say that? But he called me.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: He was like, tell the world, and I think we should.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: It's time we start cherishing black moguls and rich is
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: someone that people need to know. This guy has completely
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: changed the game. I'm happy and fortunate to call him
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: a big brother and I can't wait to honor his story.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: That's great. He actually right here approached Lebron in the
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: airport selling Jersey history and that's how they met each other. Yeah. Yeah,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: and he's like and then he's as a black sports agent,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: he gets looked at in a completely different way of
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: the white sports agents were so angry that he was
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: able to come in and get like the biggest NBA player. Yeah. Story,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be amazing, man, And you should start telling
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: the stories now while they were alive. And I just
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: hate sometimes when we wait till somebody passes away to
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: tell that story. Yeah, like you want to give him
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: their flowers now, and what he's done for how he's changed,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: like you said, the NBA and the sports agencies is
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: just really amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Remember they had to make
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: it so that you had to be um like a
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: certain amount of classes. Yeah yeah, yeah, you need because
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: and it was really based on him. Yeah. And with
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: him to have the power, he had completely transformed the game.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: And it's funny. I was at the Super Bowl. I
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: was jumping from sweet to sweet um oh yeah. And
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: I was with him Kevin and Brawn too, And you know,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: I'm just completely inspired by those people. Like I say,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: I'm fortunate to be in some really good circles. Man,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: I'm learning, but Damns has to leave me. Oh man,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: all right. I would try to get a couple of
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: spoilers out of you, but I know you're really good though.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: But I think I did well. But we appreciate you
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: for joining us. Brother. Now we really do yes with everything. Man.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: I love the fact that you're producing. I can't wait
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: to see what else you have coming up, just because
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: we met you so like a few years ago, and
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: I think it's just amazing to see where you are
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: and where the show is now and a large part
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: of that is because of you. Oh man. That means
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: so much. Man, thank you, thank you so much for
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: having me. Well, it's Damson in dress, It's the Breakfast Club.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Whoa. This is the Rule of Report with
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Angela ye Well. Laverne Cox co hosted the e Red
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Carpet ahead of the SAG Awards that happened on Sunday,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: and people were upset about this question that she asked
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith on the Red carpet,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you for all the years of joy you've brought ass.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Thank you. We can't wait for our red table talk
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: and more more entanglements. No, my entanglements, No, my entanglements. Now,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: people were saying that it was tacky that you would
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: ask that on the red carpet and say that to
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: them and tell that type of joke. And here's how
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: she responded on her Instagram Live. So I've been thinking
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: about it, and I've been you know, I'm like, Okay,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: let's if no one is above, no one is above critique.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: I like to hold myself accountable. So the thing is
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: for me. I love red table talk. I love red
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: table talking. I love what the Smiths have done with
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: red table talk. And I think my error is that
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: I had so many things I wanted to say to
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: the Smiths and we didn't have time. There was some
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: probably someone in my ear, saying we needed to wrap
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: you know. My intent was not to mock or make
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: fun of but obviously I understand there's a difference between
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: intent and impact. There's nothing but love, though, So she said,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: it's not an apology. She said, if the Smiths need
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: an apology for me, I'll do it privately. I mean,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: I love I love this. I love when celebrities interview
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: celebrities and they get into this. But what Laverne, why
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: do you love that hey, because what she did wasn't wrong.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: Like she is an interviewing and something popped up and
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: she can talk about it, she can make about it,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: a joke about it. But Laverne Cox also has to
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: understand when people do the same to her. She has
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: to understand where it comes from as well. But I
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: don't see a problem with it she did. I mean
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: it was funny, it got viral. Is nothing wrong with it.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: But we don't know if they were offended by it
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: or not. But I would say Red Carpet is different
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: from other interviews because it is supposed to be all
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: like fun and upbeat as people are going to celebrate.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: They always tell you they don't be negative or don't
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: do anything you know on the Red carpet that could
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: kind of mess up the move. Correct. Yeah, the questions
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: I asked we asked here at the breakfast love is
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: not the same questions you do sit down interview. It's
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: definitely different than being on the Red Carpet. But as
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: a celebrity, when you go to do these interviews, sometimes
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: you never know what somebody's gonna say. And you got accepted.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: You you know, this is your life. You put your
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: life out there, so people the right to ask the joke,
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: to make a funny it doesn't matter. Yeah, but red
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: carpet etiquette is just different than other things. It's quick
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: and it's fun, are all right? Mary J. Blige is
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: executive producing Real Love and to Real Love inspired Lifetime movie,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: So I am so excited for that. So as we
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: all know, Real Love was a song from nineteen ninety two,
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Can you believe it was that long ago? From the
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: What's the four? One one album? One of my favorite
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: songs and according to the Lifetime, the project is a
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: coming of age romantic drama where Kendrick sets off on
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: her own for the first time to a college and
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: upstate New York, determined to focus on her studies, but
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: when she meets her film class partner Ben, she tries
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: her hardest despite disapproving parents' financial hardship and competition for
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: the top spot in class. Can Dre and Ben find
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: themselves falling hard for each other? All right? Ultimately learned
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: the meaning of real Love. I can't wait to see
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: it and shout out to our girl, A Shanna. She's
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: one of the producers for it too. Shout to a Shanna.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Shanna gets busy. He Shanna hit me the other day. Up, Shana,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: did you hit your heart? No deserve it? Now she
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: needed all my kids to do something for Nickelodeon, and
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: she was reaching out to make sure that they were straight.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: So shout to Shanna and Natina. All right, well that
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: is your rumor reports, all right. Now up next, Donkey
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  Speaker 1: the Day up next to the b Everybody saying we
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  Speaker 1: deserve it. I don't know why are we deserving all right?
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  Speaker 1: It's time for Donkey the Day. I'm a big boy.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: I could take it if you feel I deserve it.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: Ain't no big deal, I know. Charlotte MANI guys go
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: out and funny sleep. You gotta say something you may
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: not agree with doesn't mean I need we're getting that donkey,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: that donkey that don't don't don't don't donkey other day
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: right there, the breakfast club bitches, you can call me
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: the donkey of the day, but like I mean, no harm. Hello,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: who's this this? Leturally? How are yo? Hey? Leslie? Good morning?
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: Who's yes, ma'am? Well, I'm sorry, but I want to
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: give the Breakfast Club the donkey of the day. Well,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: yea gave us a donkey of the day. What we
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: do because y'all try to sift that family up that
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: five thousand dollars for that change for change. Oh see,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: this is the thing I've seen that yesterday. I had
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: no idea what they'll talk about. So I guess they
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: don't change for change. Let me explain how change for change.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: I'll take the donkey. I mean, I'll work for the station,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: so we'll do the change for change. So change for change.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: People call up and they ask, you know, they submit
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: why they want, you know, why they need help. And
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: then the people not the Recklace Club, people that work
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: here at my heart, they go through each one and
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: they find out the different people that they want to
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: give money to it. I believe that guy was picking
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: was chose to give five thousand dollars correct, yes, right,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: And I guess he was chosen and he never got
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: his five thousand dollars. You was mitche to edge, I know,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: but I don't know what happened. I'm hearing this, yeah,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: so yeah, no, I don't know. I'll take a deep
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: dive and find out where that man's five thousand dollars is.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: He got it? Oh so I don't because he had
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: to get the news station on, y'all. That's why that's crazy.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: But you know, well, that's embarrassing. Had nothing to do
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: with it. It's very embarrassing. But I'm glad he did
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: get that. We don't even touch that money. We don't
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: even touch it's not like we get the money that
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: we break it down. No, that goals corporate. But I
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: love y'all anywhere. I listened to y'all every morning that
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: somebody hit me yester. I had no idea what they
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: were talking about. Listen. All I know is and he
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: probably bought a house with that somewhere. You know, we
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: didn't get that money. Google it, so look up. Everybody
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: was like, yo, I flip that money. Hello? Who's this? Hello? Hey?
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: Good morning? Who's this? Good morning? Yes, I'm calling me.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: Give donkey to day? Yes man, who you wanna give
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: donkey today too? Unfortunately, Envy, I gotta give donkey to
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: to day to you? And give Louie? Why why is
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: it louiyee biggie? Who's lou yee? Little? Okay, okay, why
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: do you wanna give us donkey? Mama? Okay, I'm sorry, Angela,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go for you. I love you guys. First off,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: let me get that out there. I would listen to
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: you every day. But Angela white boy rob had to
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: go one um now for you are heartless, so you
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: would kill your friend from childhood childhood friend, the boy
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: turned into a cracking but he's selling crack. Do whatever
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: he was doing. He was ahead, he was a fiend,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: but black. Imagine Franklin out here heading up the largest
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: crack cocaine distribution, and you're gonna kill your friend for
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: getting hooked on the same stuff you're selling because he's
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: gonna bring us down. He's gonna bring us down. He's
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: got to go because he's gonna choose that over me.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. You are hurtless and ruthless.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: I'm giving you Donkey of the day. No, no, noake
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: my donkey the next donkey DJ. I'm sorry I have
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: to run with Charlomagne on it. That was some bag
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: Boogie is talking about all. My dad's a police officer.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not around any of that drugs. No, I said,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: my dad's a police officer. I never sold drugs. I
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: never sold little drugs. That's even better reason to sell drugs,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: you said, Go back to the take. You said, I
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: was never really around on your back. That wasn't the point?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Is my dad in the area I live in. My
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: dad was one of the first black police offices in
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: our neighborhood. We have a lot of credibility, yes, I
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: know what. However, in our family, my dad didn't allow it.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: Thing went down, probably because he was a pretty police
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: officer to make it right. But I probably a being
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: the youngest, I probably saw more stuff than I was
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: supposed to because my dad was I just wanted to
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: put that out here. But I do love you guys,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: I love you too. Now I'm just saying my dad's
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: a police officers. So my dad used to check my drawers,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: He used to check my under the bed, my cars. Well,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: you should have had a stash back to put it in.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: You would have got up your dad police. That's even
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: a better reason you and your dad could You and
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: your dad could have been just because nobody's coming to
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: look over here, right, You could have been running it's
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: with your dad and Queen's. My dad wasn't playing that.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: My dad would have locked me up if I was
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: selling drugs. You could have been the kingpin, of course,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: of course, thank you so much. All right, all right,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: don't here today five one. I'm watching this seven or
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: you bess you're calling I'm watching this seven on your side. WHOA.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: I'm glad he got his money, though they had nothing
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: to do with me. They said they tried to contact
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: him three times. M don't do to day both things.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: Eight hundred five eight five one on five one. When
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: we come back, Erica Alexander and Rebecca Howard will be
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: joining us. They have a new podcast, Finding Tamika to
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: tell us all about it. It's The Breakfast Club. Good Morning,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Usually we
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: do ask ye here, but today we got some special
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: guests joining us. We have Erica Alexander and Rebecca Howard.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: Now they have a new podcast called Finding to Mika out.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning ladies, Good morning, morning morning. What I love
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: about Erica is that you're doing big things, but you
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: came in and congratulate us and what we have going on. Absolutely,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to keep up with y'all setting the world
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: on fire all the things that you've accomplished. But also
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: you know, being in the Hall of Fame the radio,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: that's a big deal. And to have done it so
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: young and keep doing things, especially for the community and
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: all that you represent. I say thank you because it's
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: really a phenomenal thing to watch. Thank you and us
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: being young as subjective. You know, Hey, it's all good
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: and you guys are healthy, so that's good. Well, y'all
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: are here to talk finding Tamika. Yeah, what what is?
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: What is Finding Tamika? When we have the great Rebecca
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: Howard here and she'll tell you why Finding Tamika matters.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: But Finding Tamika is an audible original series produced by
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: SBH Productions. That's you and Kevin Hart and Color Farm Media,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: that's me and Rebecca and David Persons, Ben Arnon and
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: Molten Hearts, James T. Green. It's about Tamika Houston. Tamika
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  Speaker 1: Houston went missing in Spartanburg, South Carolina in two thousand
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: and four. She was nearly twenty five years old. What's
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: unique about her story is she became the poster child
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: for what Gweneifel calls missing White Women's syndrome. Why because
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: at the time, Rebecca Howard, who is her aunt and
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: also has a background and skill set in publicity, could
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: not get the national publicity that she deserved for her
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: her niece, and she made stink about it. And she
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: basically also the two women who started the Black and
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: Missing Foundation, one of them came from Spartanburgh, and so
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: she became not only the poster child, but I think
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: the reason why things started to change on what the
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: black community could do about it. Yeah, I readiness that
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: and it was nuts to meet Rebecca and you can
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: speak to it is that thirty percent of people missing
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: are of color, and only seven percent received media coverage. Yeah,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: it's it's incredible. It's like if you were to just
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: watch the coverage that we've seen over the years, you
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: would think there was like an epidemic of missing, young,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: missing white women in this country. And I think a
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: number of years, they, particularly the cable networks, they found
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: a formula that worked and they saw when they covered
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: these cases like a Natalie Holloway or Alaci Peterson, and
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: we saw it really recently with Gabby Petito, when they
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: covered these cases like they were soap operas with constant
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: updates and little twists and turns, they saw, you know,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: people were engaging online, people were tuning into these stories.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: So that worked for them and they kept doing it,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: which is you know, I always say those women, their
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: families miss them and love them just as much as
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: I love Tamica. They certainly deserved their stories to be told,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: but not to the exclusion of my niece and other
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: women and girls who looked like Tamica. And that's the
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: roadblock that I, you know, ran into. And I think
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: there was a naivete on my part where my beautiful
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: niece went missing. And I knew that my background is
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: in PR, I had the media contacts, I had the
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: skill set, I knew what to do, but I was
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: met with silence and I wasn't getting any phone calls back,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: Like I was shocked again. I think I was naive
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: and thinking like, hey, I see these stories out here.
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  Speaker 1: Surely my nieces, you know, to mek a story is
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: just as engaging and people will care. But they did not.
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  Speaker 1: And it really wasn't until you know, several months of me,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: you know, doing this and doing this, and I think
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: the only responses that I was getting was from black media.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the time rustpar Mourning Show, and these are
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: people because I had relationships without that Time Joiner, Black
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: America Webb, you know, like they they were they were
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: covering it. But beyond that, outside of our community, I
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: couldn't get anything. But would the policing, because I always
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: hear stories about had They're like, oh, well maybe she
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: ran away or maybe this, Yeah right, I know that's
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: that's very common that I think that happens a lot,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: particularly more so in the black community. I think that
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: there is unfortunately with police oftentimes there is some sort
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: of preconceived notion that they've you know, they may be
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: involved in criminal activity or you know, certainly is like
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: runaway problem. I would say, I think I was fortunate
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: with the police in Spartanburg. After initially I would say
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: maybe the first couple of phone calls, there was kind
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: of that hesitancy. But I got on a plane. I
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: live in Miami. I got in a plane, flew to
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: South Carolina, and I went and sat in their office.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not leaving until I get a
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: media release put out by you all. Because the media,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: even local media, didn't want to hear it from me.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: They wanted to make sure that it was an act
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: of police investigation. So I was fortunate in that my
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: persistence I think paid off. But also just I think
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: I was blessed with investigators who were sympathetic to this
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: case and did do right by us in Tamika, in
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: our family. And that's not, I know, always the case.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: I know you said black media played a big role.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: I was reading that MSNBC's Tiffany Cross played a big
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: role as well. It's wild because again, America's Most Wanted
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: was one of my first targets, and I was writing,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: I wasn't even faxing this is about you know, this
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: is two thousand and four, We're still using fax machines.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: I'm faxing not getting anywhere with the executive producer of
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: the show. And somehow or another, I didn't know Tiffany,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: but it came across you know, her desk, and it
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: resonated with her. Again. Tiffany will say, you know, Tamka,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: I look at her picture. She looks like me. She
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: looks you know, she could be me. She could be
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: one of my cousins. And that's another thing why representation
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: and media is so important. And she told, you know,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: her producer, senior producer, Hey, this story matters. Let me
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: do this story. Let me go to Spartanburg, let me,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: you know, tell tomka story. And she did. And you know,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: she was a young field producer at the time, and
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: I really was thankful for her because actually getting Tamka's
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: case on America's Most One it led to one of
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: the biggest breaks that we had in the case. We
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: got a phone call in from a young woman who
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: happened to see it and she could describe the room
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: in which to make it was was killed. Yeah, she
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: was like put two and two together. She had you know,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: been in that space and she called to tell them
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: that they had dressed it roll. Yeah, it wasn't like
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: that at all. Really, yes, yeah, she's basically like, yeah,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: the way you looked out, yeah in the that series.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: She's also fifteen years old, so yeah yeah, why would
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: she know? Yeah, So it matters. It's not just the face,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: it's not as loved ones of the missing. We just
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: I don't want a tension on myself. I don't. You know.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: This is not anything that you'd wish on your worst enemy.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: But it matters because these not only do you get,
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: you may get tips that we got. Um. It also
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: puts pressure on the police who are investigating. If you
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: have CNN, MSNBC calling, if you have national reporters calling
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: you to ask where the where the status is on
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: that case. Not only in the investigators. The investigators feel
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: the pressure, but their bosses, you know, the chief of
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: the police department. There is pressure put you know, brought
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: to bear, and we've seen that recently in many cases.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: You know, when some media gets involved and there's you know,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: now with social media, if if if people care and
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: they feel as though they have something greater to answer to,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: it matters. That's one of the reasons why social media
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: has been a benefit. I would say it's level of
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: the playing field. Somewhere. I do think so I didn't
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: have that, you know, in two thousand and four, we weren't.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: We had none of that. But I absolutely agree. It's
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: so much easier, I think, to kind of get traction,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: you know nowadays. Yeah, that stuff is kind of a
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: narcotic you think about it. There are people who dig,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: you know, the blood and guts of this type of thing.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: But if you put a white, blonde face on it,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: especially young, like they did with John Bana Ramsey. Twenty
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: years we've been dealing with that addiction to that little
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: girl's death. But that's just a sympt of a larger problem,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: you know, the damns on distress and people who are vulnerable,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: the most vulnerable are not often portrayed as black or
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: people of color, and you're seeing that with the indigenous people.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: That's a that's a huge issue. All Right. We got
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: more with Erica Alexander and Rebecca Howard when we come back.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: Is the Breakfast Club, Good Morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: We're still kicking it with Erica Alexander and Rebecca Howard.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: They have a new podcast called Finding Tamika. It focuses
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: on the disappearance and murder of Tamika Houston. What are
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: the positive emotions that a project like this does get
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: to be on the Breakfast club and talk to a
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: whole mess of people who this has probably happened to.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: And I know there's been a lot of talking projects
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: lately about it, and I'm glad for it. There can't
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: be enough of them. The truth is there are a
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: lot of people out there suffering that don't know what
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: to do, and they need to know that they're not
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: only not alone. If there are ore foundations now and
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: resources in place, and they're getting better at it, but
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: we all need to support it. That's one thing to
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: talk about. The other thing is it tells on us.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: It's a warning for us all. If we don't do
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: anything about this, all of us, everyone that's not a
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: white and black thing, that's not a gender thing, we're doomed.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: Because I believe great civilizations are. I think how you're
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: judge is your ability to protect the most vulnerable, and
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: that's often women and children, but that's also trans it's
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: anybody that's vulnerable, and if you don't doesn't mean that
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: you're just under distress. I think your demise and your
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: destruction is near. If you cannot do that, then you
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: cannot be a so called empire. How the project, which
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: a positive emotion just brings out of you. One of
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: the things we talk about in the series is to
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: make us presence is still around, it's still felt, and
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: it's very much that, you know the case. And I
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: think through doing this it made me feel her again
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: in a way that I don't think that I felt
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: that presence probably from you know, around the time she
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: was you know, when she was still missing. It was
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: a fifteen month long period, and then she was very
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: present shortly thereafter, like I became pregnant with twins, and
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: she was very much like present then. So, but it
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: had been very several years kind of since I felt that,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: and I felt it again and that felt good, you know,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: because I think over time, you know, memories start to
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: fade a little bit, or it just becomes, you know,
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: more and more distant when you lose someone like that.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: But it just felt good to have her kind of
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: like around again. That's how Tamika is. She's very present
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: and she kind of I feel like she straddles between
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: these worlds and with messages with but she very much
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: had her hand. I think on this project almost definitely
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: that Unfortunately, that scared the living daylights out of me. Well,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: I'm listen, my father was a preacher. I'm not particularly
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: religious myself, and very spiritual. I believe that there are
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: many things you cannot explain, and after we did the interviews,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: I was frightened to death, not only with the overwhelming issue. Well,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: I wanted to be responsible toward the family, and when
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: you really have empathy for somebody, you want to make
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: sure you do it right. You don't you say all
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: the whatever's happened, and you realize that you're stepping into
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: something that's not just a bunch of interviews, and you're
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: gathering things. You're now part of it, and you're accepting
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: that burden. And to accept it means to also acknowledge that.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: I could feel the presence of Tamika still in this space.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: But I asked her. I said, look, you're probably here
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: and that's fine. Please don't reveal any more of yourself
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: to me, because I've got a job to do and
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: I can't be overwhelmed with that. Because I'm a person
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: who that will distract. And I was just telling her
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: that I had a limit, and I think that we
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: had a cool thing. I mean, yeah, I went and
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: got some crystals. I called Reverend Barber. I said, Reverend Barber,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling a certain kind of way. He counseled me.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: He told me what he thought about this and how
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: to handle it. And then James T. Green, who was
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: the sound and executive producer on this and the co writer,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: he said sometimes he would feel Tamika's hands on his shoulder,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: just on his shoulder. He happened to have a cousin, Genisia,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: who passed away I wouldn't say passed away, disappeared, And
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: so he was doing it for to say her name.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: But he said, Erica, I sometimes feel Tamika on my shoulder.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: But he was all right with that. I said, I
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: know she could be there, but please don't put don't
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: massage me. And I'm good, you know, And truly she
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: was a ghost that was talking to these people and
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: telling them things. Well, I would have to assume, Rebecca,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: she's done that for you as well. Like a lot
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: of times, when you know you decided to pick up
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: the phone to call certain people, you might have about
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: the guiding forces. It's interesting because Tamika actually sometimes I
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: don't know if some people are more receptive to receiving
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: those types of messages because I feel things, but I
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: think I'm very a rational like thinker, and I doubt
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: it a lot. So i may hear something in my head,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: but I'm like, maybe that's me willing. You know, I'm
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: trying to make a conversation happen, so I'm less inclined
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: to believe that it's actually her. Tamika actually took and
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: we talked about this in the series, took to getting
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: messages through to a complete stranger, an older, retired woman
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: in you know, South Carolina, never met her in her life.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: She started giving this woman messages not only for the
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: police to help with the investigation, but eventually after we
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: found Tamika, and you know, I think like the case
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: was getting her murderer was getting ready to go to trial,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: she started giving me personal messages about my solve about
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: you know, my pregnancy was a difficult pregnancy, and so forth.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: It messages that no one would have the you know, no,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: this woman was a stranger, had no reasons. Now, so
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: I think she she'll get through to you the way
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: that she can get through to you, so because it
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: wasn't coming through directly, so you know if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: So it's interesting, Yeah, she did, and she had something
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  Speaker 1: more to say. It wasn't about the murder and the death.
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  Speaker 1: It was about her life, which is really what this is.
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  Speaker 1: brown were always trying to find the best picture because
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  Speaker 1: three dimensional, but I also can I think she wanted
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  Speaker 1: to on Real Housewives of Atlanta. Now, Jennifer Hudson is
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. She said, I've experienced so much in my life.
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  Speaker 1: the court case, all the artists, how they broke their artists,
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  Speaker 1: Imagine me inviting my ex that was my wedding. No,
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  Speaker 1: that would be foul. So so the dresses for your
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  Speaker 1: Because I don't like sending stuff to my home because
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just come and take it. It makes sense.
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