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The Breakfast Club REWIND (Kerry Washington Interview, Omar Epps Interview, Who Do You Help If Your Baby Daddy and Boyfriend Are Fighting? Dr. Joseph Puma Interview) · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Way way white.
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  Speaker 2: You guys really are like the hip hop early morning
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  Speaker 2: late night talk.
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  Speaker 3: To the Breakfast Club is the most powerful popular urban
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  Speaker 3: radio show. Maybe like from the Black Mothership in New
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  Speaker 3: York City, it's DJ MV and Charlemagne to God.
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  Speaker 4: It's different, you know what I'm saying, Like, y'all know
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  Speaker 4: what y'all talking about.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, y'all be Black five.
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  Speaker 6: I love y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Collectively known as Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 7: So I'm always nervous when I do the Breakfast Club
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  Speaker 7: because sometimes you say stuff and it's just gonna get
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  Speaker 7: you in trouble.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody, what wait, this is your time to get it
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  Speaker 3: off your chest.
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  Speaker 1: She's calling eight hundred and five eighty five one O
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  Speaker 1: five one. You want to hear from you on the
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  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club? Hello? Who's this?
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  Speaker 8: Jay?
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  Speaker 1: Jay?
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  Speaker 2: What up?
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  Speaker 6: Where you calling them from?
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  Speaker 1: Brother?
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  Speaker 9: What's up?
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  Speaker 10: Man?
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  Speaker 9: I'm calling from bloody Mississippi?
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  Speaker 11: Jay?
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  Speaker 1: What's up?
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  Speaker 9: King?
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  Speaker 1: Get it off your chest? Brother?
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  Speaker 9: What's up?
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  Speaker 10: Man?
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  Speaker 9: I'm just calling as I drive truck for a living
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  Speaker 9: and I'm still downtied of traffic, bro, traffic, it's just disrespectful.
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  Speaker 1: Oh there's a lot of traffic in Mississis.
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  Speaker 9: No I run the corridor that I corridor over New
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  Speaker 9: Orleans and uh Houston as well.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you're going to major cities, New Orleans
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  Speaker 2: and Houston. Ain't no jokes, I get it. Just be patient, man,
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  Speaker 2: and don't drive that truck like you're driving a car.
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  Speaker 2: I can't stand when people driving back trucks like they're
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  Speaker 2: driving a little electric car or something, little hondai.
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  Speaker 1: Remember you've got a truck.
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  Speaker 12: I tried.
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  Speaker 9: I tried to drive for myself, for others as well
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  Speaker 9: as myself.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Well, Jay, do me a favor.
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  Speaker 1: What's that blow that had?
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  Speaker 10: Jay?
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  Speaker 1: Come on?
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  Speaker 9: Oh man, I can't do it. I'm in the residential
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  Speaker 9: area right now.
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  Speaker 1: I can't come on, jaim in trouble. Don't you blow
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  Speaker 1: that horn?
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  Speaker 2: JA, don't wake the people up, j don't you do that?
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  Speaker 2: Come on, j J Jay, think about the people. Think
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  Speaker 2: about the people. JA that's sleeping right now.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah. I wouldn't want anybody to do it for me,
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  Speaker 9: so I can't do it.
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  Speaker 10: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: I respect that, Jay, do the right thing, even when
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  Speaker 2: nobody looks not respect that.
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  Speaker 8: Let's make the whole noise with your mount jacobye dam
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  Speaker 8: of course, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: To say that, Yo, this Monday, man, what's up, Mello?
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  Speaker 9: What's up? MV?
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  Speaker 12: I need to bring Charlemagne and you to the front
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  Speaker 12: of the congregation, because never did y'all call us the
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  Speaker 12: king of R and B like Chris browns don't good?
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  Speaker 12: Like are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 1: Chris Brown?
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  Speaker 2: Listen, we salute Chris Brown, but Chris Brown would even
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  Speaker 2: tell you otherwise.
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  Speaker 12: Brother, Yeah, because you gotta say that, you feel me.
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  Speaker 12: You're supposed to train to your idols, become your rifles,
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  Speaker 12: And I'm sorry he's done a passion like that. That's
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  Speaker 12: just not TRUEY won't say I will Chris Brown. Chris
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  Speaker 12: Brown is the king.
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  Speaker 1: Of R and B like respect Chris Brown?
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  Speaker 2: Chris Does Chris Brown have an album as good as
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  Speaker 2: eighty seven oh one? Does he have an album as
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  Speaker 2: good as Confessions?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah?
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  Speaker 13: I'm all right, Confession that was okay? But respectfully, anything
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  Speaker 13: that Breezy got me real. He may have vocal talent
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  Speaker 13: over him, but Breezy got basically everything else. That's the
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  Speaker 13: only thing I could give him.
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  Speaker 1: Mellow, I just disagree, Mellow.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I argue with you this morning, arguing mellow,
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  Speaker 2: And it's not a disrespect to christ Brown.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Brown is great.
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  Speaker 2: We got to start backing like she's just not on
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  Speaker 2: the whole other level.
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  Speaker 1: Than a lot of people. Man, Hello, who's this?
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  Speaker 14: Hi?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, mama, get it off your chest?
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  Speaker 15: Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: I feel blessed.
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  Speaker 15: I just came from the casino, and I came.
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  Speaker 6: What casino?
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  Speaker 1: Where you at?
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  Speaker 12: I'm on Queen's.
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  Speaker 15: I went to the research for pino.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, how much you want congratulate?
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  Speaker 16: Yeah?
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  Speaker 15: As long as I can hold someone to ask you.
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  Speaker 17: Girl, I'll be having it. It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: What you're gonna do with that money? Something? The first
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  Speaker 1: right round the corner, the first, the next.
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  Speaker 8: Week, next week, all right, mama, well enjoy, have a
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  Speaker 8: great week with that bread YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: Bye bye? Now, Hello, who's this? All right?
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  Speaker 6: Get it off your chest?
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  Speaker 8: Eight hundred five eight five one on five one. If
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  Speaker 8: you need the event, hit us up now. It's the
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  Speaker 8: Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 16: Right right, ray, Yo, charlat man, Daffy, what up are
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  Speaker 16: we live?
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  Speaker 1: This is your time to get it off your chest.
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  Speaker 16: I got an indoor pool pool.
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  Speaker 1: We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 16: Get on the phone right now, here to tell you
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  Speaker 16: what it is?
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  Speaker 2: We live?
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  Speaker 1: Hello, who's this? Yeah? There's it going? Man? God, God,
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  Speaker 1: what's up?
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  Speaker 6: Get it off your chest while he sounds some damn.
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  Speaker 14: Brother, No, I ain't dying, just woke up. Man.
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  Speaker 6: By the summer, your Uber ship where you do ber at?
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  Speaker 1: I thought? He said? He smoking. I was like, God, damn,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get your life together, he said, Uber when you.
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  Speaker 6: Do uber at bro in Brooklyn on Brooklyn?
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 8: Is it is it true that Uber takes like what
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  Speaker 8: forty percent of what you make?
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  Speaker 14: No?
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  Speaker 9: I don't think the ride popped up with in screen.
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  Speaker 18: You just accept it and you can get all the money
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  Speaker 18: from the screen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what anybody be complaining about. And we
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you, brother, no doubt.
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  Speaker 9: I appreciate your tea.
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  Speaker 18: But yeah, I just want to let all the drivers
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  Speaker 18: know when they'll be on the road, stop with these
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  Speaker 18: emotional turns. I'ab be making the bike lane is to
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  Speaker 18: the right every time you drive. Every time is a
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  Speaker 18: driver in front of another driver and they're trying to
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  Speaker 18: get around, they always make these emotional turn try to
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  Speaker 18: get around the driver in front of them, And I'm
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  Speaker 18: always to the right. Drivers, We are to your right,
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  Speaker 18: stop with the emotional turns. They're going to hurt somebody. Okay,
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  Speaker 18: all right, Oh thank you man, no doubt, man, I
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  Speaker 18: have a good day.
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  Speaker 1: Bless sir, you too.
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  Speaker 10: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Who's this?
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  Speaker 10: What's your boy?
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  Speaker 9: KP from the blog KP.
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  Speaker 1: For the BX.
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  Speaker 14: What up?
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  Speaker 6: Get it off your chest?
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  Speaker 10: Bro' telling man, listen, I'm calling because I want to
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  Speaker 10: be positive this morning. Like in the next like five
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  Speaker 10: six hours, I'm getting ready to get on the Carnival
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  Speaker 10: cruise and go on this a day trip to turn
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  Speaker 10: Saint Thomas in Puerto Rico.
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  Speaker 2: Sam.
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  Speaker 10: I know it's gonna be a good vibe, right man.
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  Speaker 1: Set the vibes early. I like that. Who you taking
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  Speaker 1: your wife?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 10: I'm going with the fam like I'm going one of
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  Speaker 10: my close best friends and mom, everybody like that, my
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  Speaker 10: extended family.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Joy enjoy that, man.
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  Speaker 2: Put your put your feet again, put your feet in
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  Speaker 2: the saying of turks and kkos.
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  Speaker 1: Man, it's a beautiful place.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah nah. In fact, I've been there one time, but
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  Speaker 10: only when I was younger, So I know it's gonna
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  Speaker 10: be great now that I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 6: Have you been on the cruise before?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah?
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  Speaker 10: Probably, Like nothing. Nothing looks like my ninth time cruise
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  Speaker 10: and I've been on a Carnival, Caribbean Disney.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all things. So you're a professional.
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  Speaker 8: You know where you need to go, what time you
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  Speaker 8: need to go to lunch and dinner, and how to
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  Speaker 8: book all little scourges and all that.
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  Speaker 1: You're pro after.
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  Speaker 10: Nah, that's the shack my grandmother taught me a long
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  Speaker 10: time ago. We've been going on for years, so you know,
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  Speaker 10: she's not with us no more. But it's something I
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  Speaker 10: like to keep doing because you know, it makes me
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  Speaker 10: remember her.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, bro, have a going Hello.
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  Speaker 4: Who's this hey?
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  Speaker 14: Man Jefferson, Man.
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  Speaker 6: Hey Jefferson, good morning. Get it off your chest.
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  Speaker 14: Hey, First of all, shout out all Big nine, one four,
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  Speaker 14: shout out everybody. Shout out with TJ and V Charlamagne.
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  Speaker 14: Everyone there. Look man, black and you're Republican. I don't
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  Speaker 14: think that's a bad thing. I just want to get
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  Speaker 14: that off my chest, that everyone that black does not
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  Speaker 14: have to think democratically or vote democrat. That was it, man.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. I don't. I don't think that.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, just because you're black and your your
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  Speaker 2: you're a black and Republican means that you're a bad person.
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  Speaker 2: But I do feel like, you know, sometimes we vote
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  Speaker 2: against our own interests.
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  Speaker 14: But I don't think the Democrats have the best interest
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  Speaker 14: because I feel like they they're promoting us kind of
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  Speaker 14: to stay in a system that doesn't really benefit us.
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  Speaker 14: In a long call, That's all I'm saying my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not disagreeing with that. Easy. I'm not disagreeing with
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  Speaker 1: that either. I do.
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  Speaker 2: I do think that we're in some very very very
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  Speaker 2: troubling times right now though. And I do see, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one party leaning heavy towards fascism. But everybody, listen, man,
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  Speaker 2: vote your own interest. That's what I tell folks.
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  Speaker 8: Get it off your chest. Eight undrink five eight five
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  Speaker 8: one five one. If you need to vent something on
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  Speaker 8: your mind, call us up right now. Is the Breakfast
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  Speaker 8: Logan Morning, the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 11: Practice. We have offices throughout four of the five boroughs. Generally,
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  Speaker 11: we provide care in underserved communities, whether what often called
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  Speaker 11: health deserts. There's no hospitals or not many physicians around,
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  Speaker 11: and we try and meet patients who need out care
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  Speaker 11: where they live.
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  Speaker 2: And I told y'all, I've had every cardiovascular test there
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  Speaker 2: is to have over the past few months, I had
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  Speaker 2: named some of them that was EKGs.
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  Speaker 1: What is some of the.
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  Speaker 11: Tests I think you had stress tests before you came
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  Speaker 11: to us. You had a calcium score.
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  Speaker 2: Calcium score, and yours absolutely not only was the best,
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  Speaker 2: it's the one that put my mind at ease the most. Well,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, especially after I got thosels back. But why
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  Speaker 2: are the important for people of color to get their
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  Speaker 2: heart tested regularly?
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  Speaker 11: Important for people of color to get their heart tested
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  Speaker 11: period and not regularly because one of the challenges is
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  Speaker 11: they're not regularly getting they're heart tested. People of color
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  Speaker 11: have a almost one and a half to two times
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  Speaker 11: the rate of death from heart disease. They get the
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  Speaker 11: risk factors for heart disease high blood pressure. They often
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  Speaker 11: develop high blood pressure at an earlier age it's more
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  Speaker 11: difficult to treat. They have diabetes at a higher rate,
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  Speaker 11: also a risk factor for heart disease. When they have
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  Speaker 11: heart attacks, their outcomes are worse. They have a forty
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  Speaker 11: percent increased chance of dying from a heart attack as
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  Speaker 11: compared to whites in America, and they often have much
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  Speaker 11: higher rates seventy percent higher rates of congestive heart failure,
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  Speaker 11: which is very disabling, and they develop that often at
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  Speaker 11: an earlier age.
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  Speaker 6: Well, how can people get tested? Not how can they
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  Speaker 6: test it?
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  Speaker 8: Of course, but you know they tell you at forty
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  Speaker 8: five years old you get a colonoscopy. They tell you
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  Speaker 8: at this age you do this. At what age should
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  Speaker 8: people be checking their heart? And you know I go
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  Speaker 8: to my doctor, you know, twice a year for checkups,
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  Speaker 8: and that one time has he said, all right, well
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  Speaker 8: you need to check out your heart or there are
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  Speaker 8: certain signs where maybe people say you should check out
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  Speaker 8: your heart, are certain signs where they should do certain
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  Speaker 8: things or should they be at a particular age where
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  Speaker 8: this is where you should start doing it more and
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  Speaker 8: more and more.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, So that's a great question. So the answer to
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  Speaker 11: that question, I think that depends on whether you have
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  Speaker 11: symptoms or no symptoms.
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  Speaker 1: If you have.
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  Speaker 11: Symptoms of discomfort in your chest, shortness of breath, more
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  Speaker 11: easy fatigue, not able to do the usual level of exercise, dizziness, lightheadedness,
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  Speaker 11: doesn't matter what age you are, you should be tested
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  Speaker 11: because let's you remember, heart disease is the number one
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  Speaker 11: killer in America and even though over the last forty
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  Speaker 11: years the rate of death from heart disease has come down.
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  Speaker 11: It has not come down for the black community all
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  Speaker 11: those as have been in the white community. So second,
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  Speaker 11: if you're not necessarily symptomatic, okay, overall, you're working, you
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  Speaker 11: feel good, but you're forty and older as a man
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  Speaker 11: or fifty year older as a woman, and you've smoked,
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  Speaker 11: have a family history of heart disease, have high blood pressure, diabetes,
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  Speaker 11: are high cholesterol, then you should be tested prior to
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  Speaker 11: the sore in heart scan or cat scanning in general
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  Speaker 11: of the heart. The only test we had to determine
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  Speaker 11: if you had heart disease was a stress test, but
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  Speaker 11: that's not nearly as accurate and doesn't define the heart
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  Speaker 11: arteries as Charlemagne. When you came in, we sent you
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  Speaker 11: images of your heart arteries, we gave you a risk assessment,
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  Speaker 11: and it's costly. Stress testing almost ten times the course
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  Speaker 11: of a cat skin. But cat scanning now takes four
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  Speaker 11: minutes or less. If you come into our office less
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  Speaker 11: than fifteen minutes of your total time, and you have
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  Speaker 11: a fully accurate, greater than ninety seven percent accuracy of
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  Speaker 11: your heart anatomy, whether there's blockage, calcium, any any disruption
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  Speaker 11: that could potentially cause a problem later on in life.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I was going to ask.
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  Speaker 8: So you know, you go to the dentists, you have
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  Speaker 8: a cavity, they can fix it right, flaus it whatever,
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  Speaker 8: colonoscope they clean your butt out right, so now they
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  Speaker 8: know you know what he knows what I mean.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they clean it out, they cut off the polyps.
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  Speaker 1: You know what it is.
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  Speaker 8: So if there is a problem with your heart, what
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  Speaker 8: are the procedures to can it be done right then?
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  Speaker 1: And there?
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  Speaker 2: Talk that talk doctor Pumber, This is good. Just just
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  Speaker 2: move me away when you told me that.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, So nationally, Medicare is now approved putting heart stents
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  Speaker 11: right in the office in appropriate facilities. New York State
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  Speaker 11: has not yet approved that, but our center down in
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  Speaker 11: Lower Manhattan is built for that, and we have the
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  Speaker 11: latest technology and cardiac cathorization left where you could have
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  Speaker 11: a stent foot at that time.
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  Speaker 1: Just a stent. A stent is a.
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  Speaker 11: Metal scaffold that when you have a blockage in your
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  Speaker 11: artery through an artery in your wrists, we put a
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  Speaker 11: catheter up into the heart and then over a wire
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  Speaker 11: through the catheter, we can pass a metal stent over
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  Speaker 11: a balloon and dilate it and clear away the blockage, so.
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  Speaker 6: The stent doesn't stay inside of it. Was just it
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  Speaker 6: just cleans out.
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  Speaker 1: It stays inside you.
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  Speaker 11: It does and becomes part of the artery wall.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, so you have a piece of metal in you,
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  Speaker 8: So every time you go through tsa metal detector you.
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  Speaker 1: It won't go off. It doesn't. It doesn't go off.
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  Speaker 11: It's it's very it's very small, three and a half
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  Speaker 11: millimeters usually, but no, it doesn't set off metal detectors.
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  Speaker 1: You can use your microwave.
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  Speaker 11: But it's the most common treatment for blocked arteries in
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  Speaker 11: the world.
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  Speaker 2: Can you explain to people what causes heart attacks and strokes?
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  Speaker 1: Sure, it's a that's a great question.
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  Speaker 11: And I think it's not only a great great question,
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  Speaker 11: great question in general, because it's the leading cause of death,
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  Speaker 11: but in the black community the risk of it is
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  Speaker 11: so much higher. I know, Charlemagne, you're from South Carolina.
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  Speaker 11: I told you my family are raised in North Carolina,
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  Speaker 11: and in that part of the world we call it
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  Speaker 11: the stroke belt from North Carolina down to Alabama, primarily
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  Speaker 11: because black men in particular have high blood pressure at
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  Speaker 11: such an early age, so difficult to control, less likely
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  Speaker 11: for African Americans to control their blood pressure than White
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  Speaker 11: that the risk of stroke from that elevated pressure. Over
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  Speaker 11: time causes either a blood clot in one of the
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  Speaker 11: arteries to the brain or it just ruptures. Same thing
• 14:46
  Speaker 11: with heart attacks or similar At least over time, the
• 14:51
  Speaker 11: body builds up plaque in the arteries. Plaque is just
• 14:54
  Speaker 11: cholesterol and calcium. Some of it's from our diet, some
• 14:58
  Speaker 11: of it's genetic, some is accelerated if you have diabetes.
• 15:03
  Speaker 11: In fact, if you have diabetes, you have a three
• 15:06
  Speaker 11: times higher risk of dying from a heart attack than
• 15:11
  Speaker 11: someone who doesn't have diabetes. So if you have diabetes,
• 15:14
  Speaker 11: that ought to be like a flashing neon sign, I
• 15:17
  Speaker 11: need to see a cardiologist. And in communities of color,
• 15:22
  Speaker 11: when they have high blood pressure and they have diabetes,
• 15:26
  Speaker 11: when they end up with a heart attack or a stroke,
• 15:29
  Speaker 11: they usually have worse outcomes, a higher risk of dying
• 15:32
  Speaker 11: from it, and if they survive, they're more likely to
• 15:35
  Speaker 11: have a lower functional status, to be in congestive heart failure,
• 15:39
  Speaker 11: or to have physical abnormalities that they're not able to
• 15:43
  Speaker 11: do their activities of daily living.
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: We have more with doctor Puma when we come back
• 15:47
  Speaker 8: don't move as to Breakfast Club.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Wining.
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: Everybody is cj NV charlamagnea god. We are to breakfast Club.
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: We're still kicking with doctor Puma.
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  Speaker 8: A lot of people in our community are scared to
• 16:02
  Speaker 8: go to the doctor or can't afford to, don't have insurance.
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: So what are some of the signs that they should
• 16:06
  Speaker 8: look at. Let's go with diabetes. What is a sign
• 16:08
  Speaker 8: of diabetes that people should look out for?
• 16:11
  Speaker 11: First of all, I would say healthcare should not be
• 16:15
  Speaker 11: just for people well off, for people who have insurance.
• 16:18
  Speaker 11: Healthcare should be a right in this country.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: There's no reason, I agree.
• 16:22
  Speaker 11: There's just no reason why we should treat any not
• 16:26
  Speaker 11: treat any human being that needs our help. Right, and
• 16:29
  Speaker 11: if you come to any one of our offices, we
• 16:31
  Speaker 11: take care of everyone, regardless of their ability to pay.
• 16:35
  Speaker 11: So that's number one.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Number two. High blood pressure and diabetes both.
• 16:40
  Speaker 11: When we're in medical school where taught, they're called the
• 16:42
  Speaker 11: silent killers because they often don't have symptoms. Okay, but
• 16:46
  Speaker 11: when they do. If you have high blood pressure, you
• 16:49
  Speaker 11: might feel flushed sometimes during the day in your face,
• 16:52
  Speaker 11: you might get headaches. Okay, you might have chest discomfort,
• 16:56
  Speaker 11: you might get short of breath.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: All right, you don't need to go to a doctor.
• 17:00
  Speaker 11: You can go to any pharmacy even and they have
• 17:02
  Speaker 11: a blood pressure cuff. They're usually and they'll check your
• 17:06
  Speaker 11: blood pressure. So simple screening for that. And remember something
• 17:11
  Speaker 11: blood pressure diagnosis often it peaks in our thirties or
• 17:15
  Speaker 11: in our fifties, So if you're in communities of color
• 17:18
  Speaker 11: and you're in your thirties, you should at least get
• 17:21
  Speaker 11: a screening for blood pressure. Diabetes also very elusive in
• 17:24
  Speaker 11: terms of symptoms. Often the first symptoms a diabetic will
• 17:29
  Speaker 11: feel is that they are very thirsty or they're urinating
• 17:32
  Speaker 11: a lot, and that's because their sugar levels are high
• 17:36
  Speaker 11: and it's making them urinate, which then makes them thirsty.
• 17:39
  Speaker 11: They often feel weak, have a brain fog, they just
• 17:43
  Speaker 11: never feel clear. And again simple pinprick of your finger
• 17:48
  Speaker 11: can tell you if your sugar is high or low
• 17:50
  Speaker 11: that you probably do need to go to a doctor
• 17:53
  Speaker 11: to have that check. Where simple blood tests. But the
• 17:57
  Speaker 11: bigger point is simple screening things just self awareness.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: You bring up fear.
• 18:02
  Speaker 11: Fear is a big issue here is a big, big
• 18:05
  Speaker 11: issue for for many people. People don't come to me.
• 18:10
  Speaker 11: It's it's not like I don't know if you're married
• 18:12
  Speaker 11: or you have kids, but you know you remember when.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: You both married. Yeah, my wife. I can't bring that
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: up again.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: Wow, Carolinas, Okay.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I can't bring that up again.
• 18:24
  Speaker 11: But anyway, but remember like the first time you're pregnant
• 18:28
  Speaker 11: and you go to the doctor, everyone's happy and it's
• 18:30
  Speaker 11: exciting time. When people come to me, they're scared. I'm
• 18:33
  Speaker 11: not sure what's going on. They may not feel well,
• 18:36
  Speaker 11: they may have a family history, so we have we
• 18:38
  Speaker 11: have to deal with that fear. One of the ways
• 18:40
  Speaker 11: you deal with that fear is by bringing health care
• 18:43
  Speaker 11: to them, as opposed to saying, here, I'm in a big,
• 18:46
  Speaker 11: fancy building, come to me. I'm really smart. We go
• 18:50
  Speaker 11: to them, we want to be in their community, and
• 18:53
  Speaker 11: then if there is an issue where they need a test,
• 18:55
  Speaker 11: make it easy for them. Okay, explain talk. You know,
• 19:00
  Speaker 11: people are a lot smarter than sometimes we give them
• 19:02
  Speaker 11: credit for, and understanding where they're from and trying to
• 19:07
  Speaker 11: learn about them and their family can help kind of
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: bring people together and have an honest conversation.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I think people want you to talk to about the
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: You know, when I asked you what causes the heart
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: attacks of scrips. I want you to talk about like
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the blockage and how the plaque breaks off and that stuff.
• 19:22
  Speaker 11: Yeah, so in the carnery artery, so for strokes, if
• 19:26
  Speaker 11: you have high blood pressure, just the high blood pressure, right,
• 19:29
  Speaker 11: It's the same as if you have high blood pressure
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: in your water heater at home. If it gets to
• 19:33
  Speaker 11: a certain level, boom, it just pops. But in the
• 19:36
  Speaker 11: hard arteries. You can even have a mild to moderate
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: plaque in your arteries and then some stressor you're smoking
• 19:44
  Speaker 11: a cigarette one day, you're in an argument with someone,
• 19:47
  Speaker 11: you're having stressful time at work, it can cause that
• 19:50
  Speaker 11: plaque to rupture and then causes a blood clot And
• 19:53
  Speaker 11: that's a big challenge. The reason when when you ask
• 19:58
  Speaker 11: DJ Envy about who should have the scan or you know,
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: and we said, even in people who are not symptomatic,
• 20:04
  Speaker 11: if they have risk factors, they should have a scan.
• 20:07
  Speaker 11: Because one in three people that have a heart attack
• 20:10
  Speaker 11: find out they're having they have heart disease the day
• 20:13
  Speaker 11: they have their heart attack, and out of those, one
• 20:15
  Speaker 11: in three die.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: The day they have their heart attack.
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: So it's it's often unpredictable. So unless you know you
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: have some plaque. Then there are strategies, as we discussed,
• 20:27
  Speaker 11: whether it's statin medications, aspirin counseling to help you maybe
• 20:32
  Speaker 11: stop smoking if you smoke, weight reduction, things of that
• 20:38
  Speaker 11: nature that can help. But heart attacks are I like
• 20:42
  Speaker 11: to think of it this way. You know, if you're
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: having if you're lucky enough to have symptoms, it's kind
• 20:49
  Speaker 11: of like when you're driving your car and the little
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: light goes on, says the tires run and low.
• 20:53
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 20:54
  Speaker 11: Usually if you're having symptoms or you see that light,
• 20:56
  Speaker 11: you'll attend to it correct so that you don't end
• 20:58
  Speaker 11: up with a blowout, let's say on the highway.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: That's like a heart attack.
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: But many people don't have symptoms until the day they
• 21:06
  Speaker 11: have their heart attack.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: And I want to read my results that doctor Saren
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: sent me, because y'all send five things after you have
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: the test. It's to images of your coronary heart arteries,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: your heartflow analysis of the arteries.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Right, what is that exactly?
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: So the heartflow analysis is if there is any plaque
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: in the artery, it's a Heartflow is a company based
• 21:26
  Speaker 11: in California that has proprietary AI software that can actually
• 21:31
  Speaker 11: assess the flow to determine if that plaque, that blockage
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: is obstructive needs to be treated with a stent or bypassed,
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: or non obstructive needs aggressive medical therapy. It's amazing software.
• 21:45
  Speaker 11: We use it on all our patients. And it's that alone,
• 21:50
  Speaker 11: that software alone has been proven to make you to
• 21:53
  Speaker 11: reduce mortality, increases survival by having.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: The sore and hearts scan with heartflow.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: And so y'all and y'all send the soaring heart scan
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: final report, you send your blood work report. And finally,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: which I really loved, the ten year risk of cardiovascular
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: events which is heart attack, stroke of death. Now this
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: is what put my mind at ease. Overall, your results
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: are excellent. Despite a high calcium score for your age,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: there's only minimal plaque in your heart arteries.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Furthermore, your lipid cholesterol profile, Yeah.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Your cholesterol profile is excellent and well below goal on
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: your current statum medication and aspirin, which I would continue.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Your blood pressure and heart rate are those of a
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: man twenty years younger. All these factors contribute to a
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: very low ten year cardiovascular risk of only three point
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: five percent optimal for men of your age. Would be
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: three percent, so you are in very good shape. That
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: put my mind at my heart within the next fifteen
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: and I think I got those results the next day.
• 22:46
  Speaker 11: That's correct, think, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's correct.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: So I would flip it back to you.
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: I would definitely like to sign up because I definitely
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: would like to make sure that I'm here for my kids.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: I have six kids, so I want to make sure
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: I'm here for my kids.
• 22:57
  Speaker 11: You'd be welcome to come and yeah, and I just
• 23:00
  Speaker 11: think the access making it easy, right, you know, you
• 23:05
  Speaker 11: all are people of means and you know, but it's
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: for everybody, and you can and you can really make
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: a great impact for people who may have some fear,
• 23:15
  Speaker 11: arensure what the entry point is, aren't sure what to do.
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: So I appreciate you inviting me. I appreciate you taking
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: the time and talking about it, and I hope we
• 23:27
  Speaker 11: can help some people.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: And where can they get more information? I'll reach you directly.
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: On our website so or in medical ny dot com.
• 23:35
  Speaker 11: We're on Instagram. I've never been on any of these things.
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: I've been practicing for over thirty years, but in the
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: past year, all the young folks in our practice have
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: us on Instagram and on the website now and they
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: can call the office or send us an email. As
• 23:53
  Speaker 11: you saw, we respond right away. We get you in
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: right away, and we give you comprehensive results, and if
• 23:59
  Speaker 11: we think there's something more, we make sure that we
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: shepherd you through your health care journey to good health.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Everybody needs to go do this.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Man, I've had too many friends you know, either having
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: heart attacks or having strokes over the past few years.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Are dying of heart attacks and strokes.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: So you should definitely go to us soron medical and
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: get the soaring hearts can. Absolutely, I'm going as soon
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: as I can, and I appreciate you so much for
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: joining us.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Thank you very much, Doctor Joseph Pumer.
• 24:23
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  Speaker 1: It's topic time.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Eight hundred five five one five one to join in
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: to the discussion with the Breakfast Club.
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: Morning Everybody, It's DJ NV Charlamagne the gud we are
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: the Breakfast Club of course just hilarious is here and
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: she came up with this topic right here.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: She says, not based on the true story though you just.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Him, Yes, we are Jesus.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: So the question is she's almost going into the bushes.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: So if your baby daddy and your boyfriend is fighting,
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: who do you help?
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: And do you feel bad?
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: You said you're helping your baby daddy.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have to said.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Because you can't fight.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Yes, Damn, Rome is my guy, like I have to
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: help him now.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Byre gonna feel about this when he hears this later.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Lord, have mercy, Just you're making your
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: life difficult.
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: For no, because no, y'all turned the question back on me.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: This is for them out there.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: You don't have to answer.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: You gonna let it go.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: My god, who you're helping? If your boyfriend and baby
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: daddy fighting?
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: And John hypothetically, man.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: What about you?
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: Who you.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Let Hey? John? Good morning?
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: Now John, If you're your baby daddy and your boyfriend
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: started fighting, what you're gonna do?
• 26:03
  Speaker 14: I don't have a baby daddy.
• 26:04
  Speaker 13: I had a baby, mama, and uh, my girl was
• 26:08
  Speaker 13: fighting and I helped that my girl.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you out with your girl?
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: They said it happened.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well them, Jeff, what that baby?
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: How you doing? You said you're helping you? You helped
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: your girl.
• 26:18
  Speaker 14: I didn't.
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: I didn't help my girl, but I let her get
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: her left.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I think you should help who? Uh whoo?
• 26:25
  Speaker 13: Who?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Who loves your child? I think you should help who
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: your child would want you to help. Yeah, and by
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: the way, I don't think you gotta help any You
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: just don't let them fight.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: You get in between them. Like yo, y'all ain't fighting.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: So who would you have shelman?
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I would if if they needed help, I would help
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: the person. I know my child would want me to help.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: I would help the person. If my child was standing there,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: my child would try to interview.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: No, come on, come on with my child standing there.
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: No, because you nobody gonna be fighting in front of chaild.
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: No now, And they pulled up. If your boyfriend and
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: your baby father got into it, who are you out?
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Who are you grabbing first?
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Between both of them?
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: You get in between but wow, whoa No, don't ever
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: get him between them?
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, I'm breaking.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Them up, But it just depends I would just stopover
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: getting the asking whoever getting a cool put them off
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: from or.
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: Something right right, Because to be honest with you know,
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: I would help Rome, but Rome would be the reason
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: to fight.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: It happened because Rome antagonizes.
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: Chris is not going to he just going he's gonna fight,
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: but Rome is gonna start it.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: But I still have to help because Rome has this.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: And I think, I mean, mouf, I think when we
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: mean help, we don't mean we're not helping to fight.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: We just gonna break it up, right, that's what.
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: You Because if you help your if you help your
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: baby daddy or your baby mama, you still gotta go
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: home with your boyfriend and girl for later on.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: And then they're gonna say, you know what, why why
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: you punch me too?
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Or it's just a boyfriend and girlfriend. That's all y'all said,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: boyfriend and girlfriend? How serious is it?
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: I'm just as he keeps trying to change the story.
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: Hello club, now.
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: Jack, Jack, what you do?
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: I'm fighting, I'm kicking it off.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: You owe me shock support?
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: We fighting, dang, I know that's right, Okay.
• 28:07
  Speaker 10: And then I'm going back.
• 28:09
  Speaker 15: I'm going back home to my baby, and I'm being like, Yo, did.
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: You hear what happens to your Daddy's tragic?
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: But I started it. I'm fighting Jesus you know about
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: this man?
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: A lot of these women want their boyfriends to beat
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: up baby.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: It sounds like yeah, yeah, definitely, Oh my god.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: Christian text me, Hey, good morning baby, good morning.
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: Here, good morning, good morning morning.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm good darmer peez, what's happening?
• 28:37
  Speaker 15: What's happening?
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: Your baby daddy and your boyfriend get into a fight?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Who you helping?
• 28:42
  Speaker 15: I'm jumping my baby daddy is all about the kids. Yeah,
• 28:46
  Speaker 15: any time. I got to deal with my baby daddy
• 28:49
  Speaker 15: for the rest of my life. Okay, we're jumping at anything.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Do you like your boy you want them? Do you
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: like your boyfriend?
• 29:00
  Speaker 15: It's only the baby daddy for me. That's why I
• 29:01
  Speaker 15: got to deal.
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: With Okay, calm in.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Good morning.
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: How you feeling.
• 29:10
  Speaker 15: I'm feeling pretty good. Now.
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: Your baby daddy and your boyfriend get into a fight.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Who you helping?
• 29:16
  Speaker 15: I gotta I gotta fight both of them.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: So you're gonna We're gonna bunch.
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: You're gonna punch both of them.
• 29:20
  Speaker 16: Yes.
• 29:21
  Speaker 15: For so I'm gonna help my baby daddy because you know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 15: we got kids, you know what I'm saying. But then
• 29:25
  Speaker 15: I'm gonna help my man because that's my man, everybody,
• 29:29
  Speaker 15: and figure out the details later, you know what I'm saying.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: So you just hitting both of them at.
• 29:34
  Speaker 15: This point, because why y'all even got me in this situation?
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: That's hilarious.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Hello, who's this?
• 29:45
  Speaker 16: Hey?
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: What's up this?
• 29:46
  Speaker 14: Crystal?
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Hey?
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: Crystal, good morning, Good morning.
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: You know we're having an intellectually calm, intellectual conversation about
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: baby daddy and boyfriends?
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: Which one you help it if they fight?
• 29:55
  Speaker 15: Okay? So I'm gonna be honest, it gotta be. It's
• 29:58
  Speaker 15: two things. It's how long I been with this my boyfriend,
• 30:02
  Speaker 15: and who started Now me personally, I got a petty
• 30:05
  Speaker 15: baby daddy. I got petty baby daddy and me my
• 30:09
  Speaker 15: my guy. I've been with him for three and a
• 30:10
  Speaker 15: half years. So he's not I don't know, drama stuff,
• 30:14
  Speaker 15: no messy stuff, you know what I'm saying. So I'm
• 30:16
  Speaker 15: a just on my baby daddy started it. So I'm
• 30:20
  Speaker 15: gonna side with my because we don't we don't do
• 30:23
  Speaker 15: that drama with his baby mama, my baby day. We
• 30:26
  Speaker 15: don't do that, so I just a frips. Don't know
• 30:28
  Speaker 15: what's my baby daddy, So I'm sided with my always.
• 30:33
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: It feels like the baby daddy is more permanent in
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: your life than a boyfriend, though, because you don't know
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: unless that boyfriend proposes, becomes your becomes your husband.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: It feel like the baby daddy is who you should
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: really be.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: But like she said, it, yeah, like it just depends
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: like that.
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: The only reason I'm helping Room is because I cannot
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: see him get beat up, not because because of the kids,
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: because as gonna be like, Dad, you knew you couldn't fight,
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: Like you know what I'm saying.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: It's not that why doing that? But but seriously, you're
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: gonna make.
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: Room slap something tomorrow, Like you're gonna go ou He's
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: just gonna slap somebody.
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: Just difficult. You say he can't fight, and you will
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: get messed up.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Dam calls problems in Baltimore all day years say you
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: can't fight.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not her breakfast.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: She said, you can't fight.
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: We do not somebody thank you.
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, your baby daddy and your boyfriend fighting.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Who you helping?
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: I would watch everything and reported, Oh, so you're gonna
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: sit back and world start boom.
• 31:35
  Speaker 15: Yup, world star all day, scream yell, eat some popcorn
• 31:40
  Speaker 15: at the same time.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Who would you want to win?
• 31:42
  Speaker 15: Honestly, my boyfriend, baby daddy.
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: Got no love.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: That's right, baby daddy needs it.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: Girl, I know that's right.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: What's the moral of the story.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: If there's a moral of the story, yes.
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: Don't jump in, don't jump in, the moral of the
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: stories they shouldn't be fighting.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: That they shouldn't be fighting. And if they do, do
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: not just call the police.
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: Call the police, not even want to both get locked up.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: One might have a warrant.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: Now they get now they get arrested.
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Just
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: don't fight. But I don't think the woman should jump in.
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: Don't help even if you up.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I can't fight.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: No, don't jump in.
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: You keep saying that man, no, because I seen who
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: came late.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: I'd be grown up before. Yes, and in the younger days.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: But he didn't get you back.
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: I'm sure yes, going at it is man room used
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: to get damn with the get down. I told you he
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: was cheating on me before you met me so Yeah,
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: that that's that.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Just explained creative. You're trying to fight back and you're
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: getting beat up.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Yes, like real big, like wrong, you can't pick me up.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: That ain't funny, but it's funny.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: It's like when we have pictures. I'm an interview him.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: We gonna interview him. Let's go and you're gonna see
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: my god man tell you the truth.
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: Yes, she beat me up a couple of times, but
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: a couple of times because I let her put me
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: in a headline one time.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe tap out.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and she's small, real little.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Take that little.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: Now, sain't that little? She was big enough to put
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: me in the headline right.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Than what she is? He is little? She ain't that little?
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Yes she is.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: Actually, I don't move.
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: It's to the breakfast lug aboard it the breakfast Club.
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: Morning, everybody in stej n V.
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: Charlamagne to God. We are the breakfast Club. We have
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: Laura Luosa our guest host. And we got a special
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: guest in the building, ladies, Kerry Washington.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: That's right, welcome Washington.
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: Book out Thicker than Water. Congratulations, learned so much about you,
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: uh with this book. First, Maybe it's just me being stupid.
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: I didn't know you were from the Bronx.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Really, I did not know that. I didn't know you
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: were from the bron born and raised.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: You know what I say?
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: I say, the craziest people in America come from the
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Bronx and all of Florida.
• 33:59
  Speaker 19: Why what why I agree on Florida, but why the Bronx.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: One of the most talented people that come from the Bronx.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: That is very true too. Now, how did you know
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: now the time to write, dickn It was so.
• 34:14
  Speaker 19: What I write about in the book is that a
• 34:16
  Speaker 19: handful of like five years ago, my parents sat me
• 34:18
  Speaker 19: down and shared with me some new information about myself
• 34:23
  Speaker 19: that really kind of challenged the way that I thought
• 34:26
  Speaker 19: about myself, that I thought about my family, turned my
• 34:28
  Speaker 19: world upside down. And at the time, I had actually
• 34:31
  Speaker 19: sold another book, Idea, which was based kind of inspired
• 34:34
  Speaker 19: by the show that I was on, Scandal, and it
• 34:35
  Speaker 19: was like, these are the ten things that I learned
• 34:38
  Speaker 19: from Olivia Pope. But every time I sat down to
• 34:40
  Speaker 19: write that book, all I could think about was this
• 34:42
  Speaker 19: new information I'd been given and how it impacted my
• 34:44
  Speaker 19: family and my sense of self. And so I wasn't
• 34:46
  Speaker 19: going to write a book at all. I tried to
• 34:48
  Speaker 19: give the publisher their money back, but they wouldn't take it.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 34:51
  Speaker 19: And then a few years later I was like, I
• 34:53
  Speaker 19: think I have to at least try to write this.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Book because you said your parents didn't want you to
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: reveal benefit. Yeah.
• 34:58
  Speaker 19: Yeah, So my parents told me that they were sort
• 35:01
  Speaker 19: of forced to tell me that my dad is not
• 35:04
  Speaker 19: my biological father.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: How did that affect you? Because I mean, he still
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: your dad at the end of the day. We've seen
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: the picture you know, had.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: Had chokes on Instagram?
• 35:13
  Speaker 8: Yea, yeah, yeah, So how did that affect anything after
• 35:15
  Speaker 8: you were told?
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: So?
• 35:16
  Speaker 19: I think immediately when they told me it was weird,
• 35:20
  Speaker 19: to be totally honest with you, I felt like excited.
• 35:24
  Speaker 19: I felt excited and grateful because I had always felt
• 35:29
  Speaker 19: like there was something going on in my family that
• 35:31
  Speaker 19: I couldn't put my finger on. But it was like
• 35:33
  Speaker 19: a dynamic of distance or like there was I just.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: Knew that I didn't know what.
• 35:37
  Speaker 19: I didn't know, but I knew that that there was
• 35:39
  Speaker 19: something between my parents and I, And because I didn't
• 35:42
  Speaker 19: know what it was, a lot of times I blamed
• 35:44
  Speaker 19: myself for that, or maybe thought I was crazy for
• 35:47
  Speaker 19: thinking it. Maybe thought maybe I'm just not open enough,
• 35:50
  Speaker 19: like I was always trying to figure it out.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: So when they.
• 35:52
  Speaker 19: Told me, it felt like, I don't know, it felt
• 35:55
  Speaker 19: like I could breathe. It felt like, oh, this is
• 35:57
  Speaker 19: this is a real opportunity for me to jump into
• 35:59
  Speaker 19: this new kind of understanding of myself and my life.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: And you know, it was really exciting.
• 36:07
  Speaker 17: When you would ask questions about like just different things, like, hey,
• 36:12
  Speaker 17: you go to the doctors and they say, you know
• 36:13
  Speaker 17: what illnesses are on your mom, So your dad, you
• 36:15
  Speaker 17: would ask your dad your mom those questions?
• 36:18
  Speaker 19: How would they answer it? As if my dad was
• 36:20
  Speaker 19: my father? They were going to take this to their grave,
• 36:24
  Speaker 19: And I get it. I totally understand, right, Like, yeah,
• 36:29
  Speaker 19: I think they they felt like, well, first of all,
• 36:32
  Speaker 19: let me just say this, my parents are renegades, right,
• 36:35
  Speaker 19: Like a lot of us now we know people who
• 36:37
  Speaker 19: go to sperm donor sperm banks. Right, It's like very
• 36:39
  Speaker 19: common relatively now, and you get a whole catalog. You
• 36:43
  Speaker 19: can pick the color of the eyes and what Ivy
• 36:45
  Speaker 19: League university they went to. But when my parents did
• 36:48
  Speaker 19: this in the mid seventies, nobody was doing this this
• 36:51
  Speaker 19: was highly experimental, highly secretive. It was a big risk
• 36:54
  Speaker 19: they were taking. It wasn't like they had complete health
• 36:57
  Speaker 19: screenings for the donor. They had no idea who the
• 36:58
  Speaker 19: donor was. They said, we asked two things. Let them
• 37:01
  Speaker 19: be healthy. Who knows what that means at the time, right,
• 37:03
  Speaker 19: but like we want them to be healthy, and we
• 37:04
  Speaker 19: want them to be black.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Because they wanted this to be a secret.
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: So, yeah, you know, you talk about your eating disorder
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: and dealing with how you felt about your body and
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: your looks.
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: I wanted to know what got you in that point.
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: And the reason I ask is I have four daughters.
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: Charlemagne has four daughters, and I always want to make
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: sure I try my hardest to give my daughter as
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: many compliments as possible, right, because you never want them
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: to feel that way.
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: But sometimes I don't think that matters because it's.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Also how they look at themselves.
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: So what got you to that point where you didn't
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: like what you've seen in a mirror or something that
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: you weren't happy about.
• 37:36
  Speaker 19: It's such a good question. I have daughters too, right,
• 37:38
  Speaker 19: So it's something that I think about a lot. I
• 37:42
  Speaker 19: think that the food, it's like any other kind of
• 37:45
  Speaker 19: addictive behavior. It's not about the drug, it's not really
• 37:49
  Speaker 19: about the food or even really about the relationship with body.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Came out from a compulsion.
• 37:54
  Speaker 19: Of trying to escape the feelings I was having or
• 37:58
  Speaker 19: numb them. And so I think for me, it was
• 38:02
  Speaker 19: this sense that I write about in the book of
• 38:04
  Speaker 19: feeling like I had to be perfect, like I had
• 38:07
  Speaker 19: to be better.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: Than who I was, in order to be deserving of love.
• 38:13
  Speaker 19: And some of that came from like what why do
• 38:16
  Speaker 19: I have this weird dynamic with my parents?
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: Like what's going on?
• 38:19
  Speaker 19: Maybe if I was better, prettier, smarter, thinner, then I
• 38:24
  Speaker 19: might be more lovable.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: So I don't even you know.
• 38:26
  Speaker 19: I mean, I do think it's important to teach our
• 38:29
  Speaker 19: kids to make healthy choices when it comes to exercise,
• 38:32
  Speaker 19: to make healthy choices when it comes to food, to
• 38:34
  Speaker 19: teach them about nutrition, about how food works in the body.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: All that's important.
• 38:38
  Speaker 19: But I think helping a kid to feel unconditionally loved,
• 38:43
  Speaker 19: to feel safe, those are the things that I think
• 38:46
  Speaker 19: help us have the tools to live in life on
• 38:49
  Speaker 19: life's terms, as opposed to grabbing at addictive behaviors to
• 38:53
  Speaker 19: escape life.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Now I'm jumping all around because I want people to
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: read the book Thinking of Water. But you talked about,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: you know, always grabbing for perfection. Yeah, but you said,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Jamie Fox thought you a very valuable lesson.
• 39:05
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Can you explain what that was?
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Jamie. I mean, I've been really lucky.
• 39:09
  Speaker 19: I've been lucky enough to work with Jamie twice on
• 39:12
  Speaker 19: Ray and Janego Unchained.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Classics by the way.
• 39:16
  Speaker 19: Yeah, truly, he's He's the best. And Jamie's taught me
• 39:20
  Speaker 19: a lot about a lot of things. But one of
• 39:23
  Speaker 19: the things is in my work as an actor, to
• 39:25
  Speaker 19: you have to let go of that perfection idea.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Because we were doing a scene together in Ray.
• 39:30
  Speaker 19: It was the scene where I find speaking of drugs,
• 39:32
  Speaker 19: where I find all his heroin works the first time
• 39:36
  Speaker 19: as his wife, and you know, we had done it
• 39:38
  Speaker 19: in the morning. We had hit it out of the
• 39:40
  Speaker 19: park and I was like, oh, we are on fire.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: This is incredible.
• 39:43
  Speaker 19: And then as the day went on, I kept trying
• 39:45
  Speaker 19: to do it exactly the way we had done it
• 39:47
  Speaker 19: earlier that morning, so that it would be in that
• 39:50
  Speaker 19: perfect place that felt so good. And that's the beginning
• 39:54
  Speaker 19: of death. As an actor, like you, you can't try
• 39:57
  Speaker 19: to recreate magic. You have to keep cultivating new magic, right, Like,
• 40:01
  Speaker 19: you have to truly be in the moment. And Jamie
• 40:04
  Speaker 19: really helped me to realize I was frustrated in the scene,
• 40:06
  Speaker 19: and he was like, you got to you gotta keep digging,
• 40:09
  Speaker 19: you gotta let go of this morning. And that was
• 40:11
  Speaker 19: a really powerful lesson.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Why was it easier to find that in acting as
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: opposed to real life?
• 40:17
  Speaker 19: Well, I guess I hadn't learned how to apply that
• 40:19
  Speaker 19: to the rest of my world. You know, there was
• 40:20
  Speaker 19: like it was in a vacuum, was isolated kind of moment.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: But it's a good question.
• 40:25
  Speaker 19: I mean, that is the lesson though, right is that,
• 40:27
  Speaker 19: like the answer is never about perfection, It's always about like,
• 40:32
  Speaker 19: what's the best possible version of my life in this
• 40:35
  Speaker 19: moment of me in this moment.
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: Now, you did say something I heard you say that
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: parents do the best that they can and then it's
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: up to us to parent ourselves after that.
• 40:44
  Speaker 19: Explain that, well, I think like one of the things
• 40:47
  Speaker 19: that I've truly come to terms with in writing this
• 40:49
  Speaker 19: book is that my every choice my parents made was
• 40:51
  Speaker 19: out of love. They weren't trying to be cruel. They
• 40:54
  Speaker 19: weren't trying to hurt me. They really thought that this
• 40:57
  Speaker 19: was the best choice. And by the way doctors back
• 40:59
  Speaker 19: then said it, artificial examination was so new. They would say,
• 41:03
  Speaker 19: do this thing and then you go home and have sex,
• 41:04
  Speaker 19: and then you have plausible deniability. And nobody knew forty
• 41:07
  Speaker 19: years ago there would be these home tests twenty three
• 41:09
  Speaker 19: in ancestry.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: You had no idea. So they were like, go home
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: and have sex.
• 41:14
  Speaker 19: Then the kid's yours, end of story, nothing to talk about, right,
• 41:17
  Speaker 19: And so I think my parents didn't want me to
• 41:20
  Speaker 19: feel different.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: They didn't want me to feel weird.
• 41:22
  Speaker 19: They didn't want me ironically, they didn't want me to
• 41:25
  Speaker 19: feel distance from them, even though that's what wound up happening.
• 41:29
  Speaker 19: So I know that they made loving choices or choices
• 41:31
  Speaker 19: out of love, even if they didn't feel loving to me.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: But I think we have to for me and my journey.
• 41:38
  Speaker 19: It's been like it's been good to understand who they were,
• 41:41
  Speaker 19: to have compassion for their choices. But I can't blame
• 41:44
  Speaker 19: them for where I am now, Like now that I
• 41:46
  Speaker 19: have awareness, I have to say, like, Okay, they gave
• 41:48
  Speaker 19: me everything they could with as much love as they could.
• 41:52
  Speaker 19: How do I now close the gap between what they
• 41:54
  Speaker 19: gave me and what I need. That's my responsibility as
• 41:57
  Speaker 19: an adult. If I just sit here and continue to
• 41:59
  Speaker 19: complain about what they didn't give me, that I'm keeping
• 42:01
  Speaker 19: myself a child.
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: Hi, we got more with Kerrie Washington. When we come back,
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: don't move.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: It's to Breakfast Club.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: Good morning Borning.
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: Everybody is ej NV Charlamagna. God we are to Breakfast Club,
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: especially with guest co host Laura la Rossa is here
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: and we're still kicking away. Carrie Washington, Lauren.
• 42:17
  Speaker 20: What's the conversation like with your kids?
• 42:18
  Speaker 17: Like once you decided to take this world to your
• 42:21
  Speaker 17: kids and even deciding to write the book, and now
• 42:23
  Speaker 17: you're you know, because your kids, I'm sure they're friends
• 42:25
  Speaker 17: and everybody knows who you are, So how do you
• 42:27
  Speaker 17: have that conversation with them and kind of how are
• 42:29
  Speaker 17: they responding to things?
• 42:30
  Speaker 19: You know, It's funny, like I was saying before, this
• 42:32
  Speaker 19: is so common now, like it's not news to my kids.
• 42:36
  Speaker 19: They were so unimpressed, Like you know, they're in their classes.
• 42:41
  Speaker 19: They have kids with two dads and two moms, so
• 42:43
  Speaker 19: they have friends from sperm donors, friends from egg donors,
• 42:45
  Speaker 19: friends who are adopted, friends who were born from surrogates.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: Like they also like we're a.
• 42:50
  Speaker 19: Blended family, right, They're big sister, you know when we
• 42:53
  Speaker 19: look at the three of them, their big sister has
• 42:55
  Speaker 19: four parents. Like having me having another parental figure in
• 42:59
  Speaker 19: my story, it's not weird to them. For my parents,
• 43:02
  Speaker 19: they came from a world where what makes a family
• 43:06
  Speaker 19: was very different, but the ideas of what makes a
• 43:08
  Speaker 19: family now is much more open. So you know, they
• 43:11
  Speaker 19: they know obviously the conversation I have with my seventeen
• 43:14
  Speaker 19: year old is very different than the conversation I have
• 43:15
  Speaker 19: with my six year old, right, But I want to
• 43:18
  Speaker 19: be a home where we're open and honest and where
• 43:20
  Speaker 19: they feel like they can ask anything.
• 43:23
  Speaker 17: What about when you decided to because I know in
• 43:25
  Speaker 17: this book you talk about the abortion that you had
• 43:27
  Speaker 17: at twenty. Yeah, that is something that is like in
• 43:30
  Speaker 17: your twentieth But I mean it's around Saved the Last
• 43:32
  Speaker 17: Dance time, right, so you were, you know, highly successful
• 43:37
  Speaker 17: at this time.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: I know. But it's in a chapter that I call
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: black famous because I was.
• 43:41
  Speaker 19: I mean, you know how we are like white people
• 43:44
  Speaker 19: didn't necessarily know that the girl from Saved the last
• 43:46
  Speaker 19: dance was the same girl from Ray was the same
• 43:48
  Speaker 19: girl from Last Kame of Scotland. So we knew, I,
• 43:50
  Speaker 19: you know, but so yes, I was my star was
• 43:53
  Speaker 19: on the rise.
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: But it wasn't. I wasn't like I could still go
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: to the grocery store and it was all good.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: I love yourself awareness. Did you realize you.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Were black famous when you were black famous or with
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: that in hindsight, No.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: In the moment, because I knew, you know.
• 44:07
  Speaker 19: It was like I knew I could walk down the
• 44:10
  Speaker 19: street on fifty seventh in Madison and be fine, but
• 44:14
  Speaker 19: if I was in the Bronx, it was like, oh
• 44:16
  Speaker 19: my god. Or like at the time, I was a
• 44:21
  Speaker 19: substitute teacher in New York City public schools. That was
• 44:23
  Speaker 19: one of my many side hustles when I was trying
• 44:26
  Speaker 19: to make a living as an actor. And it was
• 44:28
  Speaker 19: funny because I would get hired into the school and
• 44:30
  Speaker 19: the principals who were white, you know, the principal's vice principals,
• 44:34
  Speaker 19: they would be like, so nice to meet you.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: Great, they bring me to the classroom. They had no
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: idea who I was.
• 44:38
  Speaker 19: But then I would be asked to leave a school
• 44:40
  Speaker 19: because By the second day, all the kids were cutting
• 44:43
  Speaker 19: class to see Chaneil from Save the Last Dance because
• 44:45
  Speaker 19: they knew who I was because I was substitute teaching
• 44:48
  Speaker 19: in Harlem. So it was like that dynamic. I understood
• 44:51
  Speaker 19: that certain people knew who I was and other people didn't.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: What's more fulfilling being black famous or white famous.
• 44:55
  Speaker 19: I think you have to have both. That was one
• 44:58
  Speaker 19: of the things that that Chris rocked, like, you can
• 45:01
  Speaker 19: never ever forget your core original first audience. You cannot
• 45:07
  Speaker 19: because that other audience will come and go, they'll be
• 45:10
  Speaker 19: ebbs and flows. But black people will hold you up throughout.
• 45:13
  Speaker 19: If you stay with us, we stay with you.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's what made Scandal Is such a hit.
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 45:19
  Speaker 19: I mean, we were part of the birth of black
• 45:21
  Speaker 19: Twitter at the time. So I one of my best
• 45:24
  Speaker 19: friends from high school. She's a brilliant social media person,
• 45:27
  Speaker 19: Alison Peters. She actually convinced me to go on Twitter
• 45:30
  Speaker 19: and I was like, what why, I don't know, and
• 45:32
  Speaker 19: she was like she had come out of viacom and
• 45:34
  Speaker 19: was like, it's really important, you need to do this.
• 45:36
  Speaker 19: And she and I kind of talked Shonda Rhimes into
• 45:40
  Speaker 19: talking the cast into being on Twitter, and we were
• 45:43
  Speaker 19: one of the first shows to do live tweeting and
• 45:45
  Speaker 19: to really have event television at a time where people
• 45:48
  Speaker 19: were no longer watching shows in real time unless it
• 45:51
  Speaker 19: was like a basketball game. And so that conversation around
• 45:55
  Speaker 19: the show was our grassroots movement, Like we had black
• 46:00
  Speaker 19: Twitter on fire. People like Oprah eventually were like, I
• 46:02
  Speaker 19: only started watching Scandal because it's the only thing people
• 46:05
  Speaker 19: talked about on Thursday nights on Twitter.
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: So yes, in.
• 46:08
  Speaker 19: That first season, it was absolutely because black audiences. You
• 46:13
  Speaker 19: know how culture follows us, so black audiences made it
• 46:16
  Speaker 19: that you had to be there to tune in, and
• 46:18
  Speaker 19: suddenly it trickled out into the rest of the world.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Often do people come up to you to streak.
• 46:27
  Speaker 19: All the time, all the time and to be honest
• 46:30
  Speaker 19: because the show was inspired by a real woman, Judy Smith,
• 46:34
  Speaker 19: who's a real DC fixer who never slept with the president,
• 46:37
  Speaker 19: but was a real fixer. And I have her on
• 46:39
  Speaker 19: speed dial, so people also will come to me to
• 46:42
  Speaker 19: get to her.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: Because they know she is truly able to fix down.
• 46:47
  Speaker 19: Have you needed I haven't needed her, but I've sent
• 46:50
  Speaker 19: other people to her. Yes, but I've talked to her.
• 46:52
  Speaker 19: I mean, like not on Like I'm in jail. It's
• 46:55
  Speaker 19: two Am helped me out. But like, you know, if
• 46:57
  Speaker 19: there's a rollout of a movie and I'm like, I
• 46:59
  Speaker 19: don't know, Oh, this directory is a little bit of
• 47:01
  Speaker 19: a problem. What do you think you know I've done.
• 47:03
  Speaker 19: I've had those kind of conversations with her. Yeah, but people,
• 47:06
  Speaker 19: do you know? It's funny, like it'll happen in political moments.
• 47:11
  Speaker 19: Like a lot of my political work now is inspired
• 47:13
  Speaker 19: by the fact that in twenty sixteen, the morning after
• 47:16
  Speaker 19: the election, when that awful, rapist, racist person was elected,
• 47:20
  Speaker 19: that when I woke up all over social media people
• 47:24
  Speaker 19: were like, you have.
• 47:25
  Speaker 20: To save us.
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: What are you gonna do? Please Olivia Pope?
• 47:30
  Speaker 19: And it was funny for a minute, and then I
• 47:33
  Speaker 19: was like, we have a real problem in our culture
• 47:35
  Speaker 19: because we don't realize that Olivia Pope is an imaginary
• 47:39
  Speaker 19: character on a television show, and that every single person
• 47:42
  Speaker 19: who wrote one of those tweets they have more power
• 47:45
  Speaker 19: than Olivia Pope because she can't vote, she can't register voters,
• 47:48
  Speaker 19: she can't volunteer, she can't knock on doors. But it's
• 47:50
  Speaker 19: like we've given our power over to imaginary people because
• 47:54
  Speaker 19: we have this hero worship, right, So we're not stepping
• 47:56
  Speaker 19: into our power because we're looking for somebody else to
• 47:59
  Speaker 19: solve our problems for us.
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: So a lot of the work.
• 48:01
  Speaker 19: That I've been doing has been trying to figure out
• 48:03
  Speaker 19: how to turn the spotlight that's on me onto those
• 48:06
  Speaker 19: grassroots organizations and people who are really doing the work.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: But when people saw you with the Vice President the
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: other day.
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she's back, she's the White House. Yeah.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: I want to ask a more question about your father.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: How did finding out your father wasn't your biological father
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: changed your views on parenthood? Oh?
• 48:24
  Speaker 19: Man, Well, one thing I say in the book is,
• 48:27
  Speaker 19: and it's what I feel, is that in our community,
• 48:30
  Speaker 19: where people have historically had such difficult relationships, right where
• 48:35
  Speaker 19: there's this history of dad's maybe not being present, you know,
• 48:38
  Speaker 19: in the neighborhood that I grew up in, I grew
• 48:39
  Speaker 19: up in one of the few households where the dad
• 48:42
  Speaker 19: was around, and you know, my parents were still married.
• 48:45
  Speaker 19: And the fact looking back that that my dad really
• 48:48
  Speaker 19: did choose me, that he was there, He's been there
• 48:51
  Speaker 19: for me the whole time that he's been this you know,
• 48:54
  Speaker 19: parental force in my life, that he's my dad, that
• 48:57
  Speaker 19: he chose me, that I belonged to him and he
• 48:59
  Speaker 19: belongs to me. It almost meant more than it ever
• 49:03
  Speaker 19: did before. And I feel really grateful.
• 49:09
  Speaker 6: You know now you contemplated suicide at one point, Yeah,
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: what got you there? First of all? And then how
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: did you get through it?
• 49:15
  Speaker 8: Because I'm sure there's people listening now that might be
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: in that same zone and trying to work themselves through
• 49:20
  Speaker 8: it every day. So what got you to that point
• 49:22
  Speaker 8: where you felt that way? And then how did you
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: get over that obstacle?
• 49:25
  Speaker 19: When you say there might be people listening who feel
• 49:28
  Speaker 19: that way, it's like my heart breaks because I just
• 49:32
  Speaker 19: know how hard it is to feel that alone and
• 49:37
  Speaker 19: that hopeless. So if anybody's listening and is feeling that way,
• 49:41
  Speaker 19: the one thing I would say is to ask for help,
• 49:45
  Speaker 19: you know, is to really ask for help because you
• 49:48
  Speaker 19: are you feel alone, but I guarantee you you are
• 49:51
  Speaker 19: not alone. And for me, that was the big thing
• 49:55
  Speaker 19: was I mean number one was the first time that
• 49:57
  Speaker 19: I truly got on my knees and talked to God
• 50:00
  Speaker 19: and was like I need help, like I don't I
• 50:04
  Speaker 19: because I felt like I really don't have any tools.
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: I don't I don't know what to do.
• 50:08
  Speaker 19: So it was the first time that I think I
• 50:10
  Speaker 19: humbled myself enough to feel like there's got to be
• 50:12
  Speaker 19: something bigger than me that points me in the direction
• 50:15
  Speaker 19: of healing, and I started reaching out. I went to
• 50:17
  Speaker 19: therapy for the first time, group therapy, one on one,
• 50:20
  Speaker 19: Like I just really started committing to trying to walk
• 50:23
  Speaker 19: this road of healing.
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: I swear by, Yeah, Hi, we got more with Kerry
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: Washington when we come back, don't move.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: It's to Breakfast Club.
• 50:30
  Speaker 8: Good morning, everybody's DJ Envy Charlemagne to God.
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: We are to Breakfast Club.
• 50:35
  Speaker 8: Our special guest co host Laura La Rosa is here
• 50:38
  Speaker 8: and we're still kicking it with Carrie Washington.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Charlemagne, did you're talking about traveling in the Black Famous chapter,
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: you talk about going to Africa?
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, to become African? How did that trip change?
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: So?
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: I was filming Last King of Scotland.
• 50:50
  Speaker 19: That was my first time on the continent and it
• 50:51
  Speaker 19: was great because I do feel like sometimes as black
• 50:54
  Speaker 19: people in America, we go to Africa with all these
• 50:56
  Speaker 19: like do I belong here?
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: Do I feel at home?
• 50:58
  Speaker 10: Like?
• 50:58
  Speaker 19: What is my relationship here? And I just had to
• 51:01
  Speaker 19: put all of that aside because my focus was on
• 51:04
  Speaker 19: just kind of dropping in and becoming a Ugandan woman.
• 51:07
  Speaker 19: And I I really did feel at home there.
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 51:11
  Speaker 19: I felt so lucky to be able to be so
• 51:13
  Speaker 19: immersed in the culture that I wasn't there like you know,
• 51:16
  Speaker 19: as a tourist, and I took it when I was there.
• 51:19
  Speaker 19: I don't know if you've heard about this experience. It's
• 51:22
  Speaker 19: not in the book, but we were hiking in the
• 51:24
  Speaker 19: ruin Zori Mountains, which are the mountains that border Rwanda
• 51:27
  Speaker 19: and Uganda, and it's where the only wild gorillas live.
• 51:32
  Speaker 19: And you can go out with a gorilla trucker and
• 51:35
  Speaker 19: find the gorillas in the jungle and spend time with them.
• 51:38
  Speaker 19: You go with like a tour guide and these truckers
• 51:40
  Speaker 19: and these guys with AK forty Seven's just in case
• 51:50
  Speaker 19: if people travel from all over the world to have
• 51:52
  Speaker 19: this experience, because it is one of the most intense
• 51:55
  Speaker 19: spiritual experiences I've ever had. The second one is my
• 51:58
  Speaker 19: experience with the whales that are write about at the
• 51:59
  Speaker 19: end to the book. But it was like to be
• 52:02
  Speaker 19: in the jungle, to be with these creatures and you
• 52:04
  Speaker 19: realize we really do share like ninety seven ninety eight
• 52:07
  Speaker 19: percent of our DNA with these animals, and they are
• 52:10
  Speaker 19: you start to think like, oh, they're so human, but no,
• 52:13
  Speaker 19: like we are so gorilla. And the craziest thing that
• 52:16
  Speaker 19: happened was when they give you this orientation in the morning.
• 52:18
  Speaker 19: They're like, if a gorilla gets close to you and
• 52:20
  Speaker 19: is looking at you, the most important thing to do
• 52:22
  Speaker 19: is not run. You have to to feel safe, act
• 52:25
  Speaker 19: like a gorilla.
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: So I was like, waited, I was.
• 52:31
  Speaker 19: Gonna say, I didn't hear it through that lens because
• 52:35
  Speaker 19: for me, I was like a young actor who had
• 52:37
  Speaker 19: done animal exercises at school, like this was my opportunity
• 52:40
  Speaker 19: for this was my Meryl Street mode.
• 52:42
  Speaker 11: Wow.
• 52:42
  Speaker 17: So when the gorilla case from the tree, I was like,
• 52:45
  Speaker 17: I squat down.
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, everybody in my group was like, what is she?
• 52:48
  Speaker 19: When I tell you that is the best performance of
• 52:51
  Speaker 19: my life, I was.
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: I was the gorilla, the gorilla was me.
• 52:55
  Speaker 19: I started, I picked off a leaf, started chewing on it,
• 52:58
  Speaker 19: and we had the most incredible experience because it's golla.
• 53:00
  Speaker 19: Gorilla kept getting closer and closer to us, and this
• 53:03
  Speaker 19: little baby gorilla, she was so curious, she was like, what,
• 53:06
  Speaker 19: we've never seen a human like this.
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: She was like, this one's one of us.
• 53:13
  Speaker 16: But close.
• 53:15
  Speaker 19: They just they got closer, the trekker said, than they'd
• 53:17
  Speaker 19: ever had a gorilla get to a group before. I mean,
• 53:20
  Speaker 19: the guy with the AK forty seven came right next
• 53:22
  Speaker 19: to me because they were terrified.
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: But I was like, don't stop, don't stop. Yeah, it
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: was incredible.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't tell you that just because.
• 53:31
  Speaker 19: The experience that we got out of it. I mean
• 53:34
  Speaker 19: they said it to everybody in the group, but I
• 53:36
  Speaker 19: was the best actor in the Wow.
• 53:39
  Speaker 17: Yeah, when all of this is done, like everybody gets
• 53:41
  Speaker 17: the book, they get to read it.
• 53:42
  Speaker 19: Everybody should get the book, read the audio book.
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: It's me and my own words. So that's fun.
• 53:48
  Speaker 17: What is the like, the the hug or the message
• 53:51
  Speaker 17: that you want people to get from this book?
• 53:54
  Speaker 19: I think, and this is something that I've written in
• 53:57
  Speaker 19: the book, but there's a saying I heard a long
• 53:59
  Speaker 19: time ago that I really love that we are as
• 54:01
  Speaker 19: sick as our secrets. Sure, and that when I think,
• 54:05
  Speaker 19: when we can let go of the things that keep
• 54:10
  Speaker 19: our true selves hidden, we can let go of our shame.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: You know, I knew when my parents told me.
• 54:16
  Speaker 19: I realized that they had been living under this lie
• 54:20
  Speaker 19: for so long that every time I had said I
• 54:22
  Speaker 19: love you to my dad, whether it was conscious or unconscious,
• 54:25
  Speaker 19: there must have been a part of him that thought,
• 54:28
  Speaker 19: she loves me because she thinks I am her father.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 54:31
  Speaker 19: And there must have been a part of him that thought,
• 54:33
  Speaker 19: if she knew I wasn't her father, maybe she won't
• 54:36
  Speaker 19: love me. That's part of why they didn't tell me.
• 54:39
  Speaker 19: And so I had the opportunity, once they gave me
• 54:42
  Speaker 19: that truth, to actually, for the first time, love my
• 54:46
  Speaker 19: father unconditionally. And that's what we all deserve. That's what
• 54:51
  Speaker 19: we all want. We want to know that, no matter
• 54:54
  Speaker 19: what we do, or how we act, or what we've
• 54:56
  Speaker 19: done in the past, that we're lovable and that we're loved.
• 55:00
  Speaker 19: And I feel like my family's in that place now.
• 55:02
  Speaker 19: But you only get there when you expose your truth,
• 55:04
  Speaker 19: when you're vulnerable enough to show people who you are
• 55:07
  Speaker 19: and they love you anyway, then you know that you
• 55:10
  Speaker 19: are worthy of unconditional love.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: But I think your father proved that. You know, just
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: because somebody provibes Ferm doesn't meet them. He's an actual.
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a big essing to be learned. That's right,
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: that's right.
• 55:22
  Speaker 19: And it's even like people will say like, well, do
• 55:24
  Speaker 19: you know who your biological father is? And I'm still
• 55:26
  Speaker 19: wrapping my head honestly around that language.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Like do you want to know who the donor is?
• 55:30
  Speaker 20: I was literally about to do.
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: I'm searching.
• 55:32
  Speaker 19: I'm looking, and again not because I need a daddy,
• 55:35
  Speaker 19: right Like, I'm not looking for an emotional connection. I'm
• 55:39
  Speaker 19: really open. I mean I say that now, who knows?
• 55:42
  Speaker 19: Once you never know, Like you could walk in the
• 55:43
  Speaker 19: room and I can be like, ah, But I think
• 55:47
  Speaker 19: I'm just really curious about that fifty percent of me,
• 55:50
  Speaker 19: that genetic fifty percent of me.
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: I think there is a question. I know what I've
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: gotten from my dad.
• 55:55
  Speaker 19: I know from my dad I've gotten my sense of humor,
• 55:58
  Speaker 19: my imagination and my belief in the impossible, my ability
• 56:03
  Speaker 19: to tell a story. I know what I've gotten from
• 56:05
  Speaker 19: my mom, my intellect, my intellectual curiosity, my grace, my compassion.
• 56:12
  Speaker 19: I don't know what I've gotten from the donor. I'm
• 56:14
  Speaker 19: curious what part comes from him. And I'm curious just
• 56:17
  Speaker 19: in terms of my medical history. I feel like I
• 56:19
  Speaker 19: owe that to my kids that they should know where
• 56:21
  Speaker 19: they come from. But the emotional part of it, I'm
• 56:23
  Speaker 19: open to let it be what it's going to be.
• 56:25
  Speaker 19: Maybe it'll feel like I have additional family. Maybe it'll
• 56:29
  Speaker 19: just feel like I have additional information. I feel good
• 56:32
  Speaker 19: either way.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: Can we with something you said in the epilogue and
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: I feel like it can relate to so many people.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: You say, my life is not about my donor, nor
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: about my parents. My life is my own. What does
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: that mean to you? And what could that mean to others?
• 56:45
  Speaker 19: Yeah, So when my parents told me this information, I realized,
• 56:50
  Speaker 19: because they had built this narrative, this false narrative about
• 56:54
  Speaker 19: where I came from, I realized that in many ways
• 56:57
  Speaker 19: I had been the supporting care character in their story
• 57:02
  Speaker 19: right like they were living this life. They were Earl
• 57:05
  Speaker 19: and Valerie, parents of this beautiful child, successful middle class
• 57:08
  Speaker 19: black family, like I was the supporting character in that fable.
• 57:13
  Speaker 19: And when they gave me the truth, I felt like
• 57:18
  Speaker 19: part of why I wanted to write the book was
• 57:20
  Speaker 19: that it was time for me to step into being
• 57:22
  Speaker 19: the lead character in the story of my life, to
• 57:25
  Speaker 19: not let my life belong to them, to say, like
• 57:28
  Speaker 19: I deserve to be on this journey, this quest because
• 57:31
  Speaker 19: I have my own story. Like, I get it, you
• 57:33
  Speaker 19: had four decades of living this your way. But it's
• 57:36
  Speaker 19: my turn to kind of take this narrative and figure
• 57:38
  Speaker 19: out what my life means for me. So I love
• 57:41
  Speaker 19: my parents. I do love being a supporting character in
• 57:44
  Speaker 19: their life, but that has to be a choice. I
• 57:46
  Speaker 19: have to know that fundamentally my life is my own
• 57:50
  Speaker 19: and that they Because I have the most incredible parents,
• 57:54
  Speaker 19: they now have the opportunity and have allowed themselves to
• 57:58
  Speaker 19: be supporting characters in my set. And a lot of
• 58:01
  Speaker 19: what I've learned about parenting has been about that choice
• 58:04
  Speaker 19: on their part, because they have allowed themselves to be
• 58:07
  Speaker 19: supporting characters for me in this moment, which is humbling
• 58:11
  Speaker 19: for all of us, with them in particular. Right and
• 58:14
  Speaker 19: as I look forward at my kids, I realize this
• 58:16
  Speaker 19: is my moment. Like this book, I am the protagonist
• 58:19
  Speaker 19: of this book, but I'm also the supporting character in
• 58:21
  Speaker 19: the story of my kids, and I want them to
• 58:24
  Speaker 19: know that I have their back and that they have
• 58:26
  Speaker 19: to live their own life. They shouldn't be living in
• 58:28
  Speaker 19: the ways that make me comfortable. They shouldn't be making
• 58:31
  Speaker 19: choices that are for my own good. They have to
• 58:33
  Speaker 19: make the right choices for them in the way that
• 58:35
  Speaker 19: I'm making the right choices for me.
• 58:37
  Speaker 8: Now, well, we appreciate you for joining us this morning, Thick,
• 58:40
  Speaker 8: because when water is out right now, Yes.
• 58:42
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• 58:44
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• 58:48
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• 58:52
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• 58:53
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• 58:55
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• 58:57
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• 59:02
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  Speaker 2: The craziest people in America come from the Bronx in
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• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, you are a donkey.
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  Speaker 21: He says he rigs the Dolord to his home in
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  Speaker 22: know why y'all keep you letting him get y'all like, well, do.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: All this your own people, Okay, donkey today goes the
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: Renee don Scotland. I know I pronounced their last time. Okay,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: but Renee is from Florida, ladies and gettlemen. And what
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: does your uncle Shala always say about the great state
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: of Florida. The craziest people in America come from the
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Bronx and all of Florida, and today is no exception.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: Renee is thirty years old and she will spend two
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: years under community control which is a form of house arrest,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: eight years on probation, and will have to pay a
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: fine of more than seventeen grand And personally, I don't
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: think that is enough. In fact, I think she should
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: get actual prison time. Why Uncle Shawla, why are you
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: wishing prison time on this woman.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: Well, let's go to Fox thirteen Tampa for the report. Please.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 21: South Dakota resident Rede Skogland is far from home and
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 21: illegal hot water that even surprised the judge.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: This is really unbelievable.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 21: Skogland's trail of lies started well, she decided to come
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 21: to Tampa Bay and cheat on her husband.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 19: That she felt guilty about this due to her marital status,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 19: and she wanted to get checked her sexual transmitted diseases, but.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 21: She wanted to get tested for free, so she decided
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 21: to call nine on Cogland made up a story about
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 21: having car trouble and pulling over on the side of
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 21: the road.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 20: Owed an unknown milk approached her.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 21: Because her face was covered, she couldn't describe her attacker.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 21: When police checked her cell phone and found this Walmart
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 21: surveillance video, Scogland find the rope herself. She confessed to
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 21: making the whole thing up. She was charged with making
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 21: a false police report and decided to take a plea deal.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: She not even from Florida. She from South Dakota, came
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: to Florida and became a Florida fool. Because it was
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: in the water all right, this woman made up a
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: false rape report in Florida to get a free STD test.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: Let's just sit here for a second and take that
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: in you, like my Paula Santo, Just think about.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: That Renee made up a false rape report.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: In Florida to get a free STD test.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: Huh believe all women? Huh define all?
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's what we should have asked when that foolish
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: ass slogan became part of all lexicon.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: What do you mean by all?
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: Because women like Renee can't possibly be under the umbrella
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: all correct?
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: I have so many questions. Why didn't she just go
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: to the clinic? Okay?
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: I did some research, and by research I mean Google,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: and all I did was type in free STD testing
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: in Florida. It's a whole website called safe for STD
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: testing dot com. It tells you all the clinics that
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: are near you. It says right here if you're looking
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: for cheap STD testing clinics in the state of Florida
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: to get an HIV, herpes, committee, a gonnery, a syphilis,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: or a hepatitis screening for yourself or your partner, you can
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: get tested today by selecting an option below to find
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: an affordable STD test clinic near you. Same day STD
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: testing locations also available with results in one to two days.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: Why didn't you just go to a free clinic? Now?
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: Renee at the time was married and she lied about
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: this sexual assault in attempt to get a free STD
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: test after she had a one night stand in Tampa,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: so she cheated on her husband, felt guilty about it,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: so she decided to go get checked out for a
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: STD and instead of just going to a doctor or clinic,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: she decided to lie about being a rape so she
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: could get a free STD test.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: Renee, what was your plan? B? Okay?
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: If that was plan A? What was planned B? This
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: couldn't have been the only plan. Not to mention, you
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: lied about a rape claim so you could get a
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: free SDD test. So clearly you hard.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: On money, but you had money to buy rope.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: We looked it up. The hollow braided rope that she
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: bought is twenty two dollars.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: How much is an STD test in Florida? According to Google,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: the cost of STD tests will vary by location and
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: test type. Some clinics, usually community or nonprofit clinics, are
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: for free. Are low cost testing labs clinics and at
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: home testing companies may accept insurance to cover a lower
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: your cost of testing and lab testing fees ranged from
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: eight dollars to one hundred and fifty dollars. You had
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: money for an STD test, Okay, I saw other sources
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: say that the STD test in Florida it's fifty five dollars.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: The test covered syphilis and HIV, commydia goneria. Herpe's test
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: forty five dollars. All I'm saying is if you had
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: money for ROPE, you could have gotten some money for
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: STD test. Hell, you had money to travel from South
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: Dakota to Tampa to Creep in the first place. Okay, Renee,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: what about condoms? But you too can get free from
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: the clinic? All right, two words for you, Renee, planned parenthood.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: They can help you get condoms and other birth control
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: methods for free. If that ware inflation is taking us
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: now where people can't even afford to cheat, what happened
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: to the good old day when you know you got
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: an STD and blamed it on your significant other. We
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: used to be a country. We are getting away from
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: traditional values. Not to mention you, nasty, Renee, Not only
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: are you a despicable human who would lie about being raped.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: You slept with your little side piece unprotected, bad back. Shimmy,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: shimmy yah, shimmy, Yeah, shimmy yan. You fought bad knuckle
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: in the club and thought you lost. That's why you
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: went to go get in that detest. Okay, lock this
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: woman up, all right, put her under the jail. There's
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: too many women out here who are real victims, who
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: actually are dealing with the real trauma of being sexually assaulted.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: And you out here lying simply because you cheated on
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: your husband and did the raw Dog.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Roulette with another man.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: Huh.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: Please give Renee Dawn starglawn biggest sea haft.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: What a world we live in? Man?
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 6: Mm hmmm wild.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: You want to play a game? I do? All right,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: Let's play a game of guess what race is?
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: Don Goglawn from South Dakota traveled all the way to Temple, Florida,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: so she could do the raw Dog Roulette with a
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: side piece. Thought she called an STD, so she lied
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: about being raped so she could get a free STD test. Mona,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: guess what race is?
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: She is a Caucasian from the Coffeest Mountain.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: One of your Coop's finest creations.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: Mona says, Jesus, okay, dj NB, well don't call me
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: white girl. And dj NB, yes, sir, you're both correct.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: Renee is cau. She got made by y'all. Cool on
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: her ass.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: She jesus right, what did I win? Nothing? Nothing? Anyway nothing.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 6: Club owning everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne, the gud. We
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 6: are the Breakfast Club. Laura La Ross is our special guests,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 6: and we have Omar Epp said, but also ebonie K
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 6: Williams will be joining us next hour, and we talked
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 6: about some statements that she said, and Laura La Ross
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 6: was talking about a lot of people were very passionate.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 8: So she's here to discuss. So if you want to
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 8: talk to Ebonie K Williams, she's going to be joining us,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 8: you could get on the phone lines right now eight
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 8: hundred five eight five, one oh five to one. But
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 8: right now, let's get back into our conversation with Omar Epps.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: All right, Charlomagne, you know I love what you just
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: said about the movies because I think about it even
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: with a series like this, because I saw you said
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: you wish this book existed when you were a child.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know when the series is going to end,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: but endings are very important because I think a lot
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: of times in this art we talk about the problems,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: but we never talk about the solutions, and it never
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: seems to be a happy ending.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: Whether it's Ben Into.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: Society, Boys in the Hood, whatever it was, Juice, there's
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: really no happy ending.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: Well, I think maybe because they're trying to teach a
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: certain lesson, a certain angle of the lesson, you know,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: and then that's making me think about certain songs where like, yeah,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: they're not showing the glamorous part, they showing the other part,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: Like we used to seeing the rich and poles and
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: all of them and all of that fly stuff, but
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: they're not showing you the heartache that comes along.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 5: And so I think things are necessary.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: With Nubia, I do have the ending, but it also
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: is an entry way into film, television, animation, everything you
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: could think of.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 5: I have story points that we want to hit.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: So it's essentially I've created my own universe that hopefully
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: one day can be akin to like Marvel.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: That's what pains me about the Nubia series, though, because
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: I love science fiction and I do feel like it
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: needs to be a film, a TV show. I don't
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: know if Hollywood will ever make a real investment into
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: Side far I led by black people.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not waiting on Hollywood. Okay.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: If I was waiting on Hollywood, the book would have
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: never been written. Absolutely, So we're gonna We're gonna do
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: what we do, which is find a way. You know, hey,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: we made a delicacy out of the scraps, meaning they
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: threw us big intestines and we made.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: And we made them so good?
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 4: Did you make me a plate?
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: This is what we do, so hopefully it is in
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: my lifetime. I mean, this is what I'm doing it for.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: But you know, there's when I say there's more of us,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: I'm not talking about a color.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: I mean like minded. They're more like minded.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: People than what we see portrayed in the news and
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: the blogs and stuff like that.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 5: So when people put their money where their mouth is
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 5: and really.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: Support one another, then it enables us to go to
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: those next levels to where we don't have to be
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: fully dependent on other systems.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 20: Now, the three main characters of the book, I don't
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 20: want to say their names wrong and bery thank you.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 20: So they are of.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 17: This first generation to discover these powers. Yes, when I
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 17: read about that part of it, it made me think
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 17: about like just being first generation coming from certain like
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 17: you know, like I'm first generation college student or whatever,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 17: and you realize that you really can be put in
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 17: a dark room and find the light.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 20: What is the message in this book to.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 17: The first generation of anything, like the students, the kids,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 17: the you know, I'm first generation to go to college
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 17: and first generation to buy a house.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: What messages millionaires?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 20: Yeah, like what do they take away from this from
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 20: this book?
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: I mean there's a lot of things that takes I
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: think the one of the main themes for me is
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: the idea of unity.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 5: You know, cats ull spend twenty.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: Five hundred dollars on a belt because it has a
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: certain name on it. But if envy shirt kings or
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: like food bing them back in the day, supreme in
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: them back in the day, they say, Yo, the belts
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: five hundred dollars, we like.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 4: From you your brand, Right, I'm.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: Gonna go spend triple over there, same quality, right, And
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: then you elevate and you be like, oh, they make
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: all of these bags and stuff in the same factories,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: same material, same everything. But because we're blinded by a name,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: which comes with a perception, we don't know how to
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: stand for. I was like, no, we have the spending dollars,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: so we're gonna spend here. It really matters. And let
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: as killer Mike's loop always talks about keeping a dollar
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: circulating amongst us first before it goes out right. So
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: the theme of unity on every level. And the other
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: thing I really want the young reader to take away
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: is all the answers are already inside of you. I
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: think we're born into this world in perfect harmony and
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: in perfect balance. Like if we look at the creation,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: the world as we know it, everything that's alive is
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: like an instrument, and it's this magnificent symphony, and everything
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: plays apart, from an aunt to an elephant to a tree.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: Everything plays apart. The only thing that seems to be
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: playing out of tune is human beings. We're the ones
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: playing out to playing the wrong notes. So I say
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: that to say that the answers are already inside right,
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 3: They already are permeating through you physiologically and spiritually. Part
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: of the conundrum of life is to then you sort
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: of unlearn what is innately in you product of environment
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: schooling all of these things, and then you.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 5: Spend your latter life unlearning that to get back.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: To the source.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: So I imagine a world where right now college is a
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: four year process. What if one day college is a
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: year process. What could that person do with that other
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: three years in terms of being productive? And if you
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: put a bunch of those type of people together, I mean,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 3: we're still modeling over I don't know, Twitter and Facebook.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 5: It's like I ain't caring cancer though, you know what
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: I mean.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: What happened?
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 5: What do we do in a world where like thailandov
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 5: do you cancer? Nont matter what kind? Oh just go
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 5: to pharmacy. That's fot dollars, ain't nothing.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: Imagine how much more productive we could be as a species.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: Like the fact that we're in twoenty twenty four and
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: people still hung up on skin color. And again I
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: don't mean white black, this is light skinned dolphins stuff.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: Oh that's some licenseduff. You know, Me and Moly did
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: with that.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 5: And all the time you call.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 20: It here it is.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 4: His fault. And every time.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 16: Ever give you.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 8: Charlamage does the same thing, And I say his complexion.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 8: They attacked me, but he called me beige, rage, beige, beige,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 8: everything under the suns because of you.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 6: But if I say black anything to him, yeah.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: You can't do it.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 6: Why I'm black, but what you are black exactly? So
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 6: what's the problem.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: But this is what I'm talking about, the.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 6: Fact that even a Dominican, I'm not Dominican.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: Stop it, better stop claim stop it. Charla Mane, I
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: gotta s here.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 5: You look more Dominican than thank you. You've been to
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 5: Washington Heights Lanting.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: What Omar said is so true, and it's amazing to
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: me that most things that are man made take you
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: out of alignment.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 3: And I don't understand that. I mean, it makes sense though, right,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: it does make sense. That's why when people get caught
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: up in this AI, I'm like, it's been made so
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 3: the flaws in it, we just can't see it.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: Yet. It ain't nothing to trip over, you know what
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: I mean. And it's about.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: Being in tune with who we are and who we're
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: here to be and what is our purpose? And our
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: purpose is to spread love and spread positive energy. And
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: you get to a point where we all are we
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: still have ambition, We still have drive, but we pushing.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 3: It's a hell of a thing to be pushing for
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 3: yourself and then push for others. When you're pushing for others,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: now you're really serving your purpose. And it's a really
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: it's a fulfillment that no dollar amount could fill. When
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: just passing off the information or the knowledge to someone
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: and then go and see them walk, run and then fly.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: It's just a feeling that to me, this is what
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: life is about. One of the grand themes that life
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: is about.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, I get the less I want.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: Here you go, you know, because things that I actually
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: want money can't buy or not superficially, you go in
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: shape or form.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 8: All right, we got more with Omar Epps. When we
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 8: come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, the Breakfast.
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  Speaker 8: Club, puting everybody. It's DJ n V, Charlamagne, the Gods.
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  Speaker 8: We are the Breakfast Club. We have Laura la Rossa here,
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  Speaker 8: our special guest host. Still kicking with Omar Epps. But
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  Speaker 8: you having three kids, would you want your three kids
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  Speaker 8: to be in the industry acting or music? Would you
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  Speaker 8: want them seeing what you've seen? Because you've seen behind
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  Speaker 8: the scenes, you pull the curtain back, So would you want.
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  Speaker 1: Them to do that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm human, so I think whatever whatever it is,
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  Speaker 3: I don't care if you race car drive them Mechannon
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  Speaker 3: must drought like we all want our kids to do
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  Speaker 3: something other than what be great, Yeah, I mean, be
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  Speaker 3: great at that thing. But underneath it all, I just
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  Speaker 3: want them to follow their passion, you know, whatever brings
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  Speaker 3: them joy. If it's you know, our youngest daughter, she's
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  Speaker 3: a singer songwriter, that's her gift. But she's putting in
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  Speaker 3: the work for it. And that's the main thing. You know,
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  Speaker 3: nothing's gonna come to you easy. But if you putting
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  Speaker 3: in the work for it and that's your passion, I'm
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  Speaker 3: behind it.
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  Speaker 1: See. It's good.
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  Speaker 8: It's good in situations like that because mom and dad
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  Speaker 8: have been there, so you can guide where maybe you
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  Speaker 8: didn't have that guy because maybe your mom didn't know
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  Speaker 8: how to look at contracts and look know what to
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  Speaker 8: look for, you know. I mean, so it's good that
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  Speaker 8: you're there, but it's just, you know, it's it's a
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  Speaker 8: difficult thing because you're like, damn distressed that I went
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  Speaker 8: through dealing with this in the industry.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what, what you're saying is right
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  Speaker 3: in that sense, but realistically it's a totally different world
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  Speaker 3: because this is a completely different universe from selling a
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  Speaker 3: physical record to a stream and the business in between that. Correct,
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  Speaker 3: it's a whole different world. So it's like, yeah, your
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  Speaker 3: moms did that, but not like this is.
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  Speaker 20: She like, are you guys like managing?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Like you A mom's not right here.
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  Speaker 3: She's a heavy handed advisor. That's what's your.
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  Speaker 1: Favorite method of storytelling is the TV, the films, books.
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  Speaker 3: It depends on the story, you know, Like like when
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking of Nubia, I saw film, I saw television,
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  Speaker 3: I saw all these things, but I knew that's not
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  Speaker 3: the delivery system. Right now, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna have to crawl through this process. Crawl and
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  Speaker 3: meaning a good thing. Like there's just so much story
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  Speaker 3: this that the depth of the story can only be
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  Speaker 3: done in book form in its initial phase. Once that's
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  Speaker 3: established to an audience and they're familiar with, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's the blah blah blah, then we can take it
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  Speaker 3: other places. And so we're still in this is phase one,
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  Speaker 3: if you will. But other than that, I just love
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  Speaker 3: art man. It doesn't matter. Like I said earlier, I
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  Speaker 3: think there's an art to cook, and there's an art
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  Speaker 3: to everything.
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  Speaker 5: There's a art to business.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: It just depends on you know, what you connect to
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  Speaker 5: and what makes you happy.
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  Speaker 3: And for me, the prime goal is to is is
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  Speaker 3: like I've realized the weight of everything that I'm a
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  Speaker 3: part of is gonna outlast me. So why am I
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  Speaker 3: really doing this? Who am I doing it with? It's
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  Speaker 3: not just a self fulfilling thing anymore, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean. Like the greatest compliments to this day, the
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  Speaker 3: greatest compliments that I received was when people come up
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  Speaker 3: to me and say something that I was.
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  Speaker 5: In, you know, helped them through or inspired them to
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  Speaker 5: I had a young.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor come up to me and was talking about a
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  Speaker 3: show that I was on, medical shows on and they
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  Speaker 3: were just like the portrayal of that character helped them
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  Speaker 3: through a tough time while they were in med school
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  Speaker 3: ready to give up. And to me, that was like
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  Speaker 3: getting a million dollar check because I'm like, this is
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  Speaker 3: exactly what I do it for, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Like to be able to pass on what was passed
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  Speaker 1: on to me.
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  Speaker 2: I really didn't want to know how you wrap your
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  Speaker 2: mind around what's going on in twenty ninety eight.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's to me, it's simple.
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  Speaker 3: I think humans are going to human and then geographically
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  Speaker 3: like again, whatever happens in the next twenty thirty years.
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  Speaker 5: There's going to be a world after that. So that's
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  Speaker 5: creative license.
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  Speaker 3: Well it kind of looking at I mean, sadly, if
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  Speaker 3: we take a cue from what happened with Sandy, the
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  Speaker 3: lower part of the city would be underwater, and then
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  Speaker 3: same rules apply.
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  Speaker 1: Where's all the money at now uptown?
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  Speaker 5: All right, let's ramp that up a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: More humans are fused with technology. Let's you know, you
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  Speaker 3: get to take creative license.
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  Speaker 5: But the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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  Speaker 1: Man, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Like in the hood, everybody want to talk about new
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  Speaker 3: world or order. No, it's one world order. That's the
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  Speaker 3: actual term. And that's been for thousands of years. There's
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  Speaker 3: always going to be a group of few that try
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  Speaker 3: to control the many. It ain't nothing new. There's no conspiracy.
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  Speaker 3: It's right there, dead in front of your face. It's
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  Speaker 3: just how you perceive it, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: But there's something to perceive as well, is that the
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  Speaker 3: victory's already won, and whether the listeners, whether you're a
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  Speaker 3: believer or not. I'm not, you know, putting my beliefs
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  Speaker 3: on anyone. I'm a believer. And the victory's already won.
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  Speaker 3: The table of victory with the most beneficent is already set.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a part of us that we're gone through
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  Speaker 3: the motions. Choose your side, choose wisely, and live your life.
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  Speaker 3: And your character is.
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  Speaker 1: Determined by your actions period, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, hopefully when it's my time, my actions
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  Speaker 3: will be met by the eternal glory.
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  Speaker 8: You play so many iconic roles, does it ever body
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  Speaker 8: with Somebody calls you wanted the names from the iconic role,
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  Speaker 8: like I'm.
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  Speaker 6: Sure you walk down the horns like you.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. No, no, no, that doesn't bother me
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  Speaker 1: at all.
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  Speaker 5: I'm when people call me like yo, Mac, I'm like, that's.
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  Speaker 4: My man's and all that.
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  Speaker 22: But I know we look alike, they say, but come on,
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  Speaker 22: bron like Mike, Like Mike, that's correct.
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  Speaker 20: Well I'm like, come on, yo, Like that's the like,
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  Speaker 20: where is this happening?
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  Speaker 1: Like it's just random?
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  Speaker 3: Like sometimes I wonder if people are just It's like
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  Speaker 3: if someone saw you, and they're like.
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  Speaker 16: Oh, I know that.
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  Speaker 6: Somebody Marschner, but nobody have heard. Mars Chestner said that.
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  Speaker 5: You know what the chess and I said, somebody called
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  Speaker 5: him Charlamage on JENNI budget.
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  Speaker 1: So you said he gets mistaken for me?
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  Speaker 6: That's God, damn lie.
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  Speaker 20: Do you see tell me?
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  Speaker 1: God?
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  Speaker 20: Why are you upset if you signed Dominican in him?
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  Speaker 2: Do you see it?
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  Speaker 1: Knock it off? Definitely? Yeah. I gotta take him up
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  Speaker 1: to Washingtonians. Gotta go.
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  Speaker 2: Now we demate about who your favorite, who the best
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  Speaker 2: character was? I think your best role with Jay Reed
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  Speaker 2: and Too Deep. I think that's a very slept on roll.
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  Speaker 2: How about I haven't done it yet?
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, well there you have it. It's Omar.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely appreciate you for joining us.
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