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FULL SHOW: Ye Reconciles With Big Sean At Homecoming Show In Chicago + Dawn Dickson & Russ Interview · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: How y'all feel out there? I feel blessed, black, and
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Speaker 1: highly favored. Happy to be here. Another day to serve
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Speaker 1: our beautiful listeners.
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 6: That's right.
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Speaker 5: The start of a three-day weekend. Of course, Monday we
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Speaker 5: have All for Labor Day. I know a lot of
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Speaker 5: you guys took off today and you're headed to it.
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Speaker 5: Maybe you're going for your last vacay or you're just
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Speaker 5: heading out of town for a couple of days.
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Speaker 6: Yes, the weekend is here. How y'all feeling?
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Speaker 2: How you feeling, Jess?
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Speaker 7: I feel good.
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Speaker 8: I saw my babies yesterday. My daughter ran to me.
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Speaker 8: She was so excited to see me. So, yeah, I
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Speaker 8: came home, cooked dinner.
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Speaker 2: Did she say Olaf?
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Speaker 7: No, she didn't. She said, Mommy.
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Speaker 2: Okay, just ask her.
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Speaker 9: Clown.
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Speaker 8: That shit not going to run up on me like, hello,
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Speaker 8: because that's what Olaf is.
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Speaker 10: Crazy.
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Speaker 6: Okay, all right.
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Speaker 1: Why we don't celebrate the day? Why we don't count
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Speaker 1: the day as one of the days? So it's a
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Speaker 1: four-day weekend.
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Speaker 6: What you mean, don't come to work on Friday?
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Speaker 7: Today is definitely one of them days.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, today's one of them days. Today's Friday, so Friday, Saturday. Really,
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Speaker 2: it's just three, I guess. Sunday. I count the nights.
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Speaker 7: No, it's a four-day weekend. I think it's a four-day.
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Speaker 1: I count the mornings you can sleep in. The mornings
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Speaker 1: you can sleep in are the days I count. So tomorrow, Sunday, Monday.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that's it. Damn, you're right. No, three days.
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Speaker 6: If you take off four days, I mean, if you
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Speaker 6: take off Friday, then yeah.
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Speaker 2: Probably best to take off Friday. if you can if
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Speaker 2: you can if you can yeah it's probably best to
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Speaker 2: take off.
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Speaker 5: Friday yes yes yes so salute to everybody I'm out
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Speaker 5: in Chicago right now I um had to do uh
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Speaker 5: a bunch of stuff in the shot yesterday and yesterday
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Speaker 5: of course was my birthday so I went out to
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Speaker 5: get went out to town to get some nice food
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Speaker 5: we was going to go to the Kanye concert I
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Speaker 5: seen 2 Chainz at the airport so I knew it
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Speaker 5: was going to be lit he's here today and tomorrow
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Speaker 5: but I slept I overslept I didn't even go in
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Speaker 5: front I passed out you.
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Speaker 7: Didn't make the Kanye concert.
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Speaker 5: I did not make that Ye concert I seen about
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Speaker 5: it I seen it online I heard all about it
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Speaker 5: that's what 49 feel like you're supposed.
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Speaker 2: To do at 49 you ain't get no nap during the.
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Speaker 5: Day either nope I was flying you probably ain't get
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Speaker 5: no nap nope and then 8 had one glass of
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Speaker 5: wine and pfft But I had to go to the
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Speaker 5: after function, so I had to DJ after and do
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Speaker 5: some things after. But salute to Kanye. The city was
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Speaker 5: so excited that he was there. Everybody, I mean, there
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Speaker 5: was people flying in all over the place. The airports
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Speaker 5: were packed. Restaurants were packed. The city was excited to
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Speaker 5: see Ye. And this was black people, white people, Asian people.
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Speaker 5: People were excited.
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Speaker 1: I think when you are an artist of a certain age,
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Speaker 1: you shouldn't even have after parties.
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Speaker 2: Like, how old is Kanye?
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Speaker 1: Kanye about 48, 49. What are you doing having an
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Speaker 1: after party?
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: There ain't no need to have no after party for
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Speaker 2: no Kanye West show.
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Speaker 7: Man, he be turned up.
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Speaker 1: The demographic that's at the Kanye West show should be
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Speaker 1: going home to get some rest.
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Speaker 7: And then the concert is the party, kind of, sort of.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: The concert is the party.
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Speaker 9: Okay.
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Speaker 5: But when I asked people what their ages were, I
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Speaker 5: was like, if you're 30 and older, make some noise.
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Speaker 6: It was just like, yeah.
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Speaker 2: If you're 23 and older, ah!
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Speaker 6: I said, yep, yep, yep.
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Speaker 7: It was in there.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: But no, we had a good time, though. So salute
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Speaker 5: to everybody that came out to Laurel Lounge last night.
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Speaker 5: And I can't wait for Lauren to talk about Ye's show,
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Speaker 5: because it was so many people in the building last night.
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Speaker 5: I would love to hear it and hear some audio,
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Speaker 5: because I definitely missed it.
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Speaker 1: So you was DJing for a bunch of 20-something-year-olds last night.
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Speaker 9: 23.
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Speaker 2: 23 to 35, I would say. Yeah, you need to
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Speaker 2: get your life together, then, sound like me. I had fun, actually.
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Speaker 2: I honestly had fun. It was good, though.
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Speaker 5: Test out your arms, see if you can really DJ
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Speaker 5: or not. But I had a great time. Let's get
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Speaker 5: the show cracking. Russ will be joining us this morning.
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Speaker 5: Russ will be here.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he's got a new movie out called Don't Move.
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Speaker 1: It'll be out September 11th in select theaters. And he's
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Speaker 1: going to talk about his upcoming album, The Elephant and
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Speaker 1: the Rider. And I like what Russ is doing. He's
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Speaker 1: putting out a video, I think, or a single every
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Speaker 1: week leading up until September.
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Speaker 2: The album release.
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Speaker 11: Right. Yes.
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Speaker 5: So we're going to be talking to Russ and also
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Speaker 5: Dawn Dixon, entrepreneur Dawn Dixon will be joining us as well.
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Speaker 2: Now, if you remember years ago, I don't remember how
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Speaker 2: many years ago it was.
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Speaker 1: Dawn Dixon came up here and she did crowdfunding for
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Speaker 1: her company, Popcom. And a lot of people invested in
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Speaker 1: Dawn Dixon's company. But, you know, things haven't gone the
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Speaker 1: way the investors would like them to. So, you know, Dawn,
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Speaker 1: you know, ended up under investigation and a whole bunch
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Speaker 1: of other stuff. So if you've been wondering about your
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Speaker 1: Popcom investment. And where Don Dixon has been. She'll be
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Speaker 1: here this morning to talk all about it.
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Speaker 2: To discuss it. That's right.
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Speaker 5: And let's get the show cracking. Of course, we got
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Speaker 5: front page news. And also, you can get it off
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Speaker 5: your chest. 800-585-1051. Today is the Queen's birthday. So it's
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Speaker 5: only right when we start with some Beyonce.
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Speaker 2: Can't be mad at him. It's the Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 6: Good morning. Front page news is next.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody.
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Speaker 6: It's DJ Envy.
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Speaker 2: Just hilarious.
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Speaker 5: Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get
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Speaker 5: in some front page news.
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Speaker 2: What's up, Mimi?
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Speaker 12: Good morning, Envy, Jess, Charlamagne. How y'all doing this morning?
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Speaker 9: Hey, girl.
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Speaker 7: How are you? Tamisha.
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Speaker 3: Good, good morning.
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Speaker 11: So we start this morning with another major development in
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Speaker 11: the fight against mail-in ballots. So the Trump administration went
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Speaker 11: back to the Supreme Court yesterday.
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Speaker 12: asking the justices to step in.
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Speaker 11: Immediately and allow its Postal Service rules to take effect. Now,
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Speaker 11: this is even though a federal judge has already temporarily
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Speaker 11: temporarily blocked them. So we told you about this back
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Speaker 11: and forth earlier this week. It is still going on.
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Speaker 11: These rules would require the Postal Service to make a list.
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Speaker 12: Every voter approved on that list would receive a ballot.
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Speaker 11: But those Ballots would have special barcodes that are scanned
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Speaker 11: and checked against that list.
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Speaker 12: Now, if your name is not on that list, you
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Speaker 12: would not get a ballot. But here's what's new.
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Speaker 11: As mail-in ballots start going out, the Trump administration wants
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Speaker 11: those rules to be in effect now. He does not
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Speaker 11: want to wait. So right now they're on hold while
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Speaker 11: the case plays out in the lower courts. He went
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Speaker 11: back to the Supreme Court saying, no, can we get
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Speaker 11: this done right now? California Congresswoman Norma Torres says the
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Speaker 11: Postal Service, though, needs to do their job.
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Speaker 12: And not the president's bidding.
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Speaker 7: Let's listen.
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Speaker 13: Your goddamn job is to deliver the mail. We pay
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Speaker 13: you to deliver the mail.
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Speaker 14: That is it.
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Speaker 13: We don't pay you to process the Republican agenda or
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Speaker 13: to do Donald Trump's bidding. Your job, every stamp that
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Speaker 13: we put on an envelope is secured by your promise
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Speaker 13: to do your job. I need every postal worker to
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Speaker 13: demand their ability to continue to do their job.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the way we even should
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Speaker 1: discuss it is we should be saying Donald Trump is
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Speaker 1: still trying to steal the midterm elections. Donald Trump is
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Speaker 1: still trying to disrupt the midterm elections. Donald Trump is
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Speaker 1: still trying to make it extremely challenging for people to vote.
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Speaker 1: And I think everyone should just be preparing to show
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Speaker 1: up to the polls. OK, I wouldn't even consider, you know,
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Speaker 1: Maryland voting this year. I think that everybody should just
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Speaker 1: be making a plan now to show up to the
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Speaker 1: polls in person.
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Speaker 14: Absolutely.
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Speaker 11: Because to that point, we talked about this. This is
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Speaker 11: another concern. Those ballots, they're processed in batches. So the
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Speaker 11: way this is set up, if one ballot is missing
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Speaker 11: a required barcode or the name is missing off of
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Speaker 11: that batch, the entire batch of ballots, Again, like 10,000
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Speaker 11: would be sent back instead of mailed, and you would
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Speaker 11: never even know about it. And so the states fighting
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Speaker 11: these rules have until Tuesday to respond. And just a
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Speaker 11: quick note, North Carolina starts sending out some of its
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Speaker 11: mail-in ballots today, September 4th. And that's part of why
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Speaker 11: the administration says the Supreme Court needs to act quickly.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad that the states are fighting. But, you know,
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Speaker 1: once again, I just feel like everybody should be preparing
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Speaker 1: to show up to the polls. You know, I know
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Speaker 1: I know mail in ballots are a matter of convenience
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Speaker 1: for a lot of people. But if you even have
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Speaker 1: elderly people in your neighborhood, you should be thinking about
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Speaker 1: plans now.
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Speaker 2: It's September.
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Speaker 9: Right.
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Speaker 1: November 3rd is when the elections are. You should be
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Speaker 1: thinking about plans to get people to the polls now.
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Speaker 11: Organizing, taking people on buses, carpooling, whatever.
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Speaker 3: You need to do.
8:08
Speaker 11: And if you're a black parent paying for private school
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Speaker 11: or hoping to send your child to a private school,
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Speaker 11: there's a new Trump administration.
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Speaker 12: Proposal that you need to know about.
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Speaker 11: Because this could change how some private schools admit students,
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Speaker 11: hand out scholarships, and run programs created for students of color.
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Speaker 12: So the Trump administration.
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Speaker 11: says if a private school gives a student an advantage
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Speaker 11: because of their race, that school could face a major
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Speaker 11: financial penalty. It could lose its federal tax-exempt status, which
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Speaker 11: for some schools is millions of dollars. And advocates are
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Speaker 11: pointing out what that could look like. They say, think
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Speaker 11: about a private school where there aren't already many students
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Speaker 11: of color. There aren't already many black students. Your child
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Speaker 11: may have the grades, the test scores, everything to get in.
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Speaker 11: But now the school knows that if race plays any
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Speaker 11: role in helping to diversify its student body, millions of
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Speaker 11: dollars could be on the line. And that could make
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Speaker 11: the schools less willing to consider race at all, whether it's,
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Speaker 11: you know, for admissions, scholarships or other opportunities.
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Speaker 12: And the Trump administration, though, they say that's the point.
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Speaker 11: It is saying that giving students opportunities based on race
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Speaker 11: is discrimination. This decision, they say that the decision should
9:21
Speaker 11: be made on merit alone.
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Speaker 12: And this is expected.
9:23
Speaker 11: To affect up to 18,000 private schools and colleges. This
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Speaker 11: is still a proposal, but if it is finalized, it
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Speaker 11: would take effect on May of 2027.
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Speaker 12: So that's.
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Speaker 2: Crazy.
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Speaker 7: Yes, I know.
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Speaker 12: Very, very crazy.
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Speaker 5: And for people that's wondering, I just want to say
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Speaker 5: one thing. Those grants help with enrollment. So the reason
9:44
Speaker 5: they give these grants, because I know people would say
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Speaker 5: the first thing I thought, well, why would they give
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Speaker 5: grants to private schools when they have public schools? But
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Speaker 5: they were saying that the private grants helps overcrowding in
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Speaker 5: public classrooms. Also, it helps low and middle income families
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Speaker 5: afford tuition when they can't afford it when they're trying
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Speaker 5: to do it. And a lot of the schools are closing.
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Speaker 5: So the closest schools, a lot of times are private schools.
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Speaker 5: So that's why the government gives those grants.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 11: And so now, you know, they're just basically saying a
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Speaker 11: lot of that, too, will depend on It could depend
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Speaker 11: on your race.
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Speaker 14: All right, y'all.
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Speaker 11: Well, coming up at 7, there are some things that
10:19
Speaker 11: you may think is harmless, but your partner might disagree.
10:22
Speaker 11: We're going to talk about five things that people... Say
10:25
Speaker 11: cross the line in a relationship. We'll talk about that
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Speaker 11: in the next hour.
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Speaker 2: Hey, what's that damn beeping noise? I keep hearing some
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Speaker 2: beeping noise.
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Speaker 7: No, please relax. Just thank you, Mimi.
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Speaker 5: She didn't put the battery in her alarm. You know
10:36
Speaker 5: how you got the carbon monoxide alarm?
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Speaker 2: There ain't no smoke detector. I know what a smoke
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Speaker 2: detector sounds like.
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Speaker 16: Nigga, what?
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Speaker 7: There ain't no smoke detector, did we?
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Speaker 2: What is it?
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Speaker 7: Continue, continue.
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Speaker 2: It's okay. We want to know what it is.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I said it in the group chat.
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Speaker 2: Yo, it's not for the air, y'all.
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Speaker 8: Like, look down and read.
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Speaker 2: Get it off your chest.
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Speaker 9: 800-585-1051.
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Speaker 6: I got Molly working on the oven.
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Speaker 10: What?
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Speaker 3: What the hell?
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Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
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Speaker 6: Get it off your chest.
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Speaker 2: Call us up right now. Molly got to work on
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Speaker 2: her birthday again.
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Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. It's a new day. This is your time
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Speaker 2: to get it off your chest.
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Speaker 9: Wake up.
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Speaker 2: Whether you're mad or blessed. It's time to get up
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Speaker 2: and get something. Call up now. 800-585-1051. We want to
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Speaker 2: hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this?
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Speaker 1: Are we on?
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Speaker 6: Are we live?
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Speaker 7: What's up?
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Speaker 2: Who's this?
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Speaker 9: What's up? What's up? No, I just wanted to call
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Speaker 9: in real quick because, you know, right now, as somebody
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Speaker 9: who's working 16, 18 hours a day, The government's telling
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Speaker 9: the people. And it's both sides.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they are.
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Speaker 9: I've just seen both sides will strip funding from universities
11:48
Speaker 9: if they boycott a foreign government. And that's both sides.
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Speaker 9: So it's like, it just wouldn't be enough or enough.
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Speaker 9: You know, I'm working, I work a nine to five,
11:56
Speaker 9: but I also work Amazon delivery morning and night. I'm
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Speaker 9: seeing my kids like, this is crazy.
12:02
Speaker 7: This is crazy.
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Speaker 9: Like, we need to be able to call both sides out.
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Speaker 2: Because at this point, they're both selling us. Oh, look,
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Speaker 2: I completely agree. Like, 100%.
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Speaker 9: Like, I want to leave you off with this. Like,
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Speaker 9: I'm glad that you guys call out Trump and his administration.
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Speaker 9: But at the end of the day, the president is
12:19
Speaker 9: really useless if laws don't make it to his desk.
12:23
Speaker 9: So at the end of the day, the biggest culprit
12:28
Speaker 9: of why we're struggling is Congress, both the House and
12:31
Speaker 9: the Senate. And they're not doing anything, either whether they're
12:35
Speaker 9: dominated by the Republicans or whether they're dominated by Democrats.
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Speaker 9: Both of them, for whatever reason, have no problem taking
12:42
Speaker 9: our tax dollars and sending them overseas to other places.
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Speaker 9: Yet we can't get simple things fixed.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's been going on since I'm 48 years old.
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Speaker 2: I was born in 1978. I mean, that's been the
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Speaker 2: argument since I was alive. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 9: I appreciate y'all, though. I love y'all.
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Speaker 2: Keep doing what y'all doing. Thank you, my brother. Hello,
13:01
Speaker 2: who's this?
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Speaker 17: Hey, this is Tasha from Maryland.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Tasha from Maryland.
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Speaker 7: Hey, Tasha from Maryland.
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Speaker 6: Get it off your chest, mama.
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Speaker 17: Hey, y'all, guess what? Yeah, so I'm calling for two
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Speaker 17: blessings this morning. But first of all, thank y'all for
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Speaker 17: all that you do. I don't care what they say
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Speaker 17: about you, Charlamagne.
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Speaker 7: You're dope.
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Speaker 17: Jess, you look amazing.
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Speaker 7: Andy, you're dope.
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Speaker 17: Lauren, you're dope. I really appreciate you all.
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Speaker 7: Thanks, girl.
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Speaker 17: I want to shout out two blessings. First of all,
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Speaker 17: today is my 16-year anniversary with my husband. We met
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Speaker 17: at Morgan State.
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Speaker 2: Hey.
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Speaker 7: Ooh. Congratulations.
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Speaker 12: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Bears in the house.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 17: I would never do life with anybody else but him,
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Speaker 17: so I'm so excited. And the second thing, my friend
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Speaker 17: also from Morgan, she started a business. Y'all, it's so dope.
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Speaker 17: It's called Pen to Perfection. Greeting cards, black on. It
13:47
Speaker 17: says the things that we want to say. It has
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Speaker 17: a QR code on the back of the card that
13:52
Speaker 17: links the music to the card.
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Speaker 10: Dope.
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Speaker 17: Please check her out. I would love to send y'all some.
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Speaker 17: I have a whole bunch of her cards. I would
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Speaker 17: love to send it to y'all. I got some special
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Speaker 17: cards for you, Envy, to give to your wife, Charlamagne.
14:04
Speaker 17: I got some good stuff for all of y'all. So
14:06
Speaker 17: I would love to send it.
14:07
Speaker 6: And tell us how we can buy it. I would
14:09
Speaker 6: love the support, too. How can we buy it? How
14:11
Speaker 6: can we purchase?
14:12
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 17: So it's pen2perfection. com. That's T-E-N-N-E-B-2-T-O-Perfection.com. And you can also follow
14:23
Speaker 17: her at underscore Penta Perfection on Instagram.
14:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not about to lie and tell you. I'm
14:26
Speaker 2: going to buy it until I see it now. I
14:28
Speaker 2: got to see it first. Yeah, I'm looking it up.
14:29
Speaker 17: Yeah, that's why I want to send it.
14:31
Speaker 3: That's all I want to do.
14:32
Speaker 17: I want to send it to y'all. And if you
14:34
Speaker 17: love it, just shout it out.
14:35
Speaker 18: If you don't, don't say nothing.
14:36
Speaker 9: Oh, no.
14:36
Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about it now. Imagine we're going
14:39
Speaker 1: to go to your website right now. PentaPerfection.com.
14:42
Speaker 6: PentaPerfection.com.
14:44
Speaker 17: It says all the things that we want to say. Like,
14:46
Speaker 17: if you want to tell your aunt... But mac and
14:48
Speaker 17: cheese isn't good. It's a card for that. Like, it's dope.
14:51
Speaker 7: Oh, so that's what I'm saying.
14:53
Speaker 2: I like it.
14:54
Speaker 5: I see P-E-N-N-E-D. P-E-N-N-E-D. Yeah, I see one that says,
15:00
Speaker 5: I love you, Pop. I see one that says, forever
15:02
Speaker 5: and always a daddy's girl.
15:03
Speaker 2: I love it.
15:04
Speaker 9: Oh, brilliant.
15:05
Speaker 2: It's a dope line.
15:06
Speaker 17: Check her out, y'all.
15:07
Speaker 7: That's brilliant.
15:08
Speaker 17: And like I said, QR code on the back to
15:10
Speaker 17: put the music to the song. Like, I'm telling you,
15:13
Speaker 17: amazing lines. Shout out to my husband again.
15:15
Speaker 16: I love y'all.
15:16
Speaker 17: I keep doing what y'all doing.
15:17
Speaker 5: Amazing.
15:18
Speaker 9: I appreciate you all.
15:18
Speaker 2: I'm on your website right now, Lillian. This does look dope.
15:21
Speaker 2: I ain't going front.
15:22
Speaker 6: Now it looks dope. Even the pictures, it looks like us.
15:24
Speaker 6: It's really, really dope.
15:25
Speaker 2: What do you mean it looks like us?
15:26
Speaker 17: How can I send y'all the box? I don't know
15:28
Speaker 17: if I just send it.
15:29
Speaker 6: To the station. We're going to put you on hold
15:32
Speaker 6: and send you our address and everything.
15:34
Speaker 15: Okay, perfect.
15:35
Speaker 17: Thank y'all so much.
15:36
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you.
15:37
Speaker 1: Yes looks like us I'm black ain't no Dominican on
15:40
Speaker 1: here at all I'm not Dominican sir I'm black ain't nothing.
15:43
Speaker 2: But melanated people on this thing.
15:44
Speaker 8: I am black sir I am black I don't think
15:46
Speaker 8: I got yeah I don't think I got any of
15:48
Speaker 8: it to be honest I mean I don't see it.
15:50
Speaker 5: It says penned so it's p-e-n-n-e-d two t-o perfection dot
15:54
Speaker 5: com oh okay okay alright there's another one where it's
15:57
Speaker 5: like a it seems like a son and his father
15:59
Speaker 5: he's looking at his father so he lives a lives
16:01
Speaker 5: through you I love it but.
16:02
Speaker 2: Get it off your chest the father's day stuff look
16:04
Speaker 2: really dope yeah look really good 800-585-1051.
16:07
Speaker 6: If you need to vent, hit us up now.
16:09
Speaker 2: It's The Breakfast Club.
16:10
Speaker 6: Good morning.
16:16
Speaker 2: This is your time to get it off your chest.
16:17
Speaker 2: Whether you're mad or blessed. 800-585-1051. We want to hear
16:22
Speaker 2: from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this?
16:26
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, mama.
16:27
Speaker 6: Get it off your chest.
16:29
Speaker 12: Good morning.
16:29
Speaker 3: Hey, y'all.
16:30
Speaker 17: Good morning, everybody.
16:31
Speaker 4: Good morning, Charlamagne. I'm on the beach, born and raised
16:34
Speaker 4: in South Carolina.
16:35
Speaker 2: 843, what's happening? Yes.
16:38
Speaker 4: I just wanted to give Jess an update. I called
16:41
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago about going to California and
16:45
Speaker 4: where to smoke and all of that. Do you remember
16:47
Speaker 4: that call?
16:48
Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I told you.
16:50
Speaker 2: Yeah.
16:52
Speaker 17: So we got out there.
16:53
Speaker 4: We went to Snoop's dispensary. And the prices are very
16:57
Speaker 4: good out there. I got to give Snoop a shout out.
17:00
Speaker 4: Those prices are very good. We did smoke. We smoked
17:03
Speaker 4: on Venice Beach. And we smoked outside the hotel. But
17:06
Speaker 4: we didn't get nobody bothering us. Everybody was cool.
17:08
Speaker 9: Yeah.
17:08
Speaker 11: Okay. Yeah.
17:09
Speaker 4: It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going
17:11
Speaker 4: to be. How was the Cali weed, though?
17:13
Speaker 7: How was the Cali weed?
17:14
Speaker 5: It was good.
17:14
Speaker 7: How much weed you ever had in your life?
17:16
Speaker 10: It was good.
17:17
Speaker 4: Well, we got pre-rolls to keep, but it was okay.
17:20
Speaker 4: I think North Carolina is better.
17:23
Speaker 7: I ain't never had no weed in North Carolina.
17:25
Speaker 9: You need to.
17:25
Speaker 4: You'll come here again.
17:27
Speaker 7: I didn't know it was.
17:28
Speaker 2: Legal down there. I ain't never had no weed in
17:29
Speaker 2: North Carolina either. What the hell are you talking about?
17:31
Speaker 2: North Carolina weed ain't legal in North Carolina.
17:33
Speaker 7: So I'm like, I don't know.
17:35
Speaker 4: Hey, you got to know the right people.
17:37
Speaker 6: But yeah, it's good.
17:40
Speaker 1: Get drugs anywhere, but you make it sound like y'all
17:42
Speaker 1: got different trees and stuff in North Carolina.
17:43
Speaker 7: Right.
17:44
Speaker 4: We don't, but we got something out here.
17:47
Speaker 17: Y'all got to try it.
17:49
Speaker 4: But if you're ever in North Carolina, just... Are you
17:51
Speaker 4: having any shows in Greensboro?
17:53
Speaker 11: No.
17:53
Speaker 8: I just was in Greensboro earlier this year, but I'll
17:55
Speaker 8: be back next year.
17:56
Speaker 7: I come here every year. Okay, yeah.
18:00
Speaker 8: But I will be in Charleston, but that's South Carolina.
18:04
Speaker 7: Never mind. That's not even near you.
18:06
Speaker 4: And Charlamagne, I just want to tell you, I like
18:09
Speaker 4: everything you're doing for us down in South Carolina. I
18:12
Speaker 4: live in North Carolina, but I am born and raised
18:14
Speaker 4: in South Carolina. Everything you do for South Carolina is appreciated.
18:17
Speaker 4: And the way you shout us out, we appreciate that, too.
18:21
Speaker 2: That's all I know. That's all I know is home.
18:23
Speaker 3: Thank you, mama.
18:24
Speaker 16: Yes.
18:25
Speaker 4: You're welcome.
18:26
Speaker 2: You have a good weekend.
18:27
Speaker 6: Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.
18:29
Speaker 5: If you need to vent, you can hit us up.
18:32
Speaker 5: Now we got the latest with Lauren coming up.
18:33
Speaker 2: Is Lauren there?
18:34
Speaker 14: Yes, I'm here.
18:34
Speaker 15: Good morning, Envy.
18:35
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm here.
18:36
Speaker 14: You didn't make it to the concert, but I made
18:37
Speaker 14: it to work.
18:38
Speaker 2: I made it to work.
18:39
Speaker 14: I was dependent on you, Envy.
18:40
Speaker 4: I got my priorities.
18:41
Speaker 14: No, but I was dependent on you to make it
18:43
Speaker 14: to that concert.
18:44
Speaker 2: You don't got no sources that was there?
18:45
Speaker 19: I do, but it's different with Envy there because I
18:47
Speaker 19: could be like, look at this grab this what about
18:49
Speaker 19: this what's happening right now.
18:52
Speaker 5: It's not well you remember i'm in chicago the whole
18:54
Speaker 5: chicago station's here they all wait i could bring somebody
18:56
Speaker 5: in right now and give you all the details behind the.
18:57
Speaker 19: Scenes okay all right i'll call you all right but
19:00
Speaker 19: yeah we're gonna talk about kanye we talked about the
19:02
Speaker 19: trifecta this morning beyonce she gave us some gifts on
19:05
Speaker 19: her birthday the conversation about jay-z never stopped so we're
19:07
Speaker 19: gonna get into that colin kaepernick entered the chat In Kanye,
19:11
Speaker 19: in Chicago.
19:11
Speaker 14: We're going to get into it.
19:12
Speaker 5: And did Jay perform in London yesterday? I should be
19:15
Speaker 5: asking you. Did Jay perform in London yesterday?
19:17
Speaker 2: Tonight and tomorrow.
19:18
Speaker 6: Tonight and tomorrow, okay.
19:20
Speaker 2: Are you going?
19:20
Speaker 14: No, I'm not going.
19:22
Speaker 6: I didn't know if he was required to go as staff.
19:25
Speaker 14: Yeah, his badge works overseas, but he's just relaxing.
19:29
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I could have went, but, you know,
19:31
Speaker 1: I got a family.
19:33
Speaker 14: You could have took your family.
19:35
Speaker 1: I want to enjoy Labor Day weekend, so. You know,
19:38
Speaker 1: it's not mandatory for Roc Nation employees to be there.
19:41
Speaker 2: I thought all staff had to go.
19:42
Speaker 9: Okay. Not all staff.
19:43
Speaker 14: Not all staff.
19:43
Speaker 2: All right. All right. We got the latest coming up
19:46
Speaker 2: when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club.
19:48
Speaker 6: Good morning.
19:48
Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody. It's the... Envy.
19:51
Speaker 6: Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
19:53
Speaker 5: I just want to say thank you to everybody for
19:55
Speaker 5: all your birthday wishes, the calls, the texts, the social
19:57
Speaker 5: media love. I just want to say thank you. The
20:00
Speaker 5: love was felt. And I'm hugging you guys back.
20:02
Speaker 7: 50 is a big age, yo. That's a big milestone
20:06
Speaker 7: in your life.
20:06
Speaker 5: I'm not 50 yet. I'm not there yet. I'm not
20:09
Speaker 5: there yet. I can't wait till I am, but I'm
20:10
Speaker 5: not there yet. You'll be 40 next year, but let's
20:13
Speaker 5: get to the latest with Lauren.
20:17
Speaker 9: Wow.
20:17
Speaker 2: Lauren LaRosa.
20:19
Speaker 20: Because you particularly are bringing the energy to mainstream radio,
20:22
Speaker 20: the black radio.
20:23
Speaker 2: That source is trusted. Did you hear that exclusive?
20:25
Speaker 21: Lauren.
20:25
Speaker 14: I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
20:27
Speaker 14: and everything.
20:28
Speaker 2: She be having the latest on things.
20:30
Speaker 15: You ask the questions that need to be answered.
20:32
Speaker 2: On The Breakfast Club.
20:34
Speaker 14: Little brown girls look at you and go, I want
20:35
Speaker 14: to be like you.
20:36
Speaker 2: LL Cool B. Talk to me.
20:38
Speaker 14: So it is Beyonce's birthday today.
20:40
Speaker 19: I heard you guys mentioning that earlier this morning and
20:43
Speaker 19: she gave us a few gifts on her birthday. So
20:47
Speaker 19: number one, she dropped a remastered deluxe B-Day album. She
20:51
Speaker 19: celebrated 20 years of that album. But today on her birthday,
20:55
Speaker 19: she dropped the, it's like a different version of it.
20:58
Speaker 19: So there's some new music on there, including Irreplaceable. Now
21:01
Speaker 19: there was always a On the original B-Day album that
21:04
Speaker 19: dropped in 2006, there were Spanish language music on the
21:08
Speaker 19: deluxe side of it.
21:09
Speaker 14: But I don't know if a lot of people knew that.
21:10
Speaker 19: But this time she dropped more Spanish language music and
21:14
Speaker 19: using Selena's vocals in Irreplaceable. It's called Irreplaceable. They used
21:19
Speaker 19: Como La Flor, which was a big Selena song. And
21:21
Speaker 19: this is a big deal because Selena's estate hardly rarely
21:24
Speaker 19: ever allows people to use anything and sample anything. So
21:28
Speaker 19: let's take a listen to Beyonce's Irreplaceable remix.
21:31
Speaker 18: Yo, yo, turn that down.
21:36
Speaker 15: Turn that down.
21:37
Speaker 2: Molly going to wake up going, huh? Mom, are you
21:40
Speaker 2: calling me? Okay, turn that down.
21:44
Speaker 3: Shut up.
21:44
Speaker 2: But you know what?
21:45
Speaker 7: Beyonce sounds so good speaking Spanish. She sounded good.
21:48
Speaker 8: She did a track with J Balvin years ago, and
21:51
Speaker 8: she hopped on a remix of a J Balvin song,
21:54
Speaker 8: and she sounded so good speaking that fluent Spanish.
21:57
Speaker 7: So that sounds good.
21:58
Speaker 3: Shut up for me.
21:58
Speaker 7: Happy birthday.
21:59
Speaker 19: Yeah, she has another song on the album. It's a
22:03
Speaker 19: collab with Maluma, which is their first time collabing as well, too.
22:06
Speaker 19: But she also dropped a ton of different merch on
22:09
Speaker 19: her website. She upgraded some of the videos that she
22:12
Speaker 19: put out originally around this album as well, too.
22:14
Speaker 14: So happy birthday to Beyonce, and thank you, girl. Thank
22:17
Speaker 14: you for the gifts.
22:17
Speaker 2: Happy birthday.
22:18
Speaker 19: Yeah, now moving on over a bit, still in the
22:20
Speaker 19: same crib, Jay-Z. I saw yesterday, and we were talking
22:24
Speaker 19: about this a bit earlier, There were a lot of
22:26
Speaker 19: fans who were upset that Jay-Z had this virtual listening party.
22:30
Speaker 14: Why are they upset for?
22:32
Speaker 19: So he had a virtual listening party on Stationhead and,
22:35
Speaker 19: you know, fans tuned in and he's over in the
22:38
Speaker 19: UK doing his thing and about to perform there. I
22:40
Speaker 19: think people thought, not think, I know people thought new
22:42
Speaker 19: music was coming. They thought that we were going to
22:44
Speaker 19: get on the stream. You were going to hear, you know,
22:46
Speaker 19: the celebration of all the reasonable doubts and everything. blueprint
22:49
Speaker 19: and all the things, but maybe a little hint of
22:51
Speaker 19: new music.
22:52
Speaker 14: And it didn't happen. So people were upset.
22:54
Speaker 1: People be making up stuff about Jay-Z, then get mad
22:56
Speaker 1: at Jay-Z when the stuff they made up isn't true.
23:00
Speaker 1: How you gas yourself up to think that there's new
23:02
Speaker 1: music coming? They never said that.
23:03
Speaker 5: Yeah, they shouldn't be upset. Like, you know, you can
23:07
Speaker 5: want new music. I want new music, but I wasn't upset. Like,
23:09
Speaker 5: damn it, he tricked me again. No, I wasn't upset.
23:11
Speaker 14: I mean, they're not out here, like, marching, but they
23:13
Speaker 14: were disappointed. They felt like... For what?
23:16
Speaker 2: Are you listening to what you're saying?
23:18
Speaker 19: I hear what you're saying. I'm just telling you what...
23:19
Speaker 19: They're not out here marching.
23:21
Speaker 2: Right.
23:22
Speaker 19: Anytime and anything Jay-Z does, they always think... Like, remember
23:25
Speaker 19: they put that September 1st?
23:27
Speaker 14: Stay tuned. And it was just like Jay-Z popping up
23:29
Speaker 14: at the pop-up shops. People thought it was new music.
23:32
Speaker 14: They thought it was another announcement. People just want it.
23:34
Speaker 9: We've heard.
23:34
Speaker 8: Remember when he had that, when he let that little girl,
23:37
Speaker 8: Jazzy interview him again. And he told her people, or
23:40
Speaker 8: maybe he said it to somebody else, but I could
23:41
Speaker 8: have told her just wait, just shut up, sit back
23:45
Speaker 8: and wait. Now he wasn't telling, telling her, he was
23:47
Speaker 8: saying to the people that's like, that's all the speculation
23:50
Speaker 8: and trying to figure out this, trying to figure out
23:52
Speaker 8: that and lying and all of that.
23:54
Speaker 7: Yo, just, just wait, just be patient.
23:56
Speaker 8: Just shut up, man. I, I may have something I
23:58
Speaker 8: may not, but like, just wait, calm down.
24:01
Speaker 9: Yeah.
24:02
Speaker 7: See what comes out. I don't know.
24:03
Speaker 5: It's also a good thing that people, it's a good
24:05
Speaker 5: thing that people want a Jay-Z album and are asking
24:08
Speaker 5: about it. Cause there's a bunch of artists out there
24:10
Speaker 5: that nobody's asking ish about that. They don't care if
24:12
Speaker 5: they got a new record or old record. So the
24:15
Speaker 5: fact that people are still inquisitive about Hov and his
24:17
Speaker 5: new project and what he's talking about, that's.
24:19
Speaker 9: A good thing.
24:19
Speaker 2: That's very true.
24:20
Speaker 4: Yeah.
24:21
Speaker 19: Yeah, well, another conversation that I see circulating around Jay-Z
24:24
Speaker 19: right now is Colin Kaepernick. He's been doing some press
24:27
Speaker 19: because he has a new book that is coming out.
24:30
Speaker 19: And one of the things that people are picking up
24:32
Speaker 19: is a quote that he gave after Jay-Z did the
24:34
Speaker 19: Roots Picnic Freestyle where he addressed having products in Target.
24:39
Speaker 19: So Colin Kaepernick is responding to that. And he says, quote,
24:43
Speaker 19: I just want you to know, one, you're serving the
24:45
Speaker 19: culture up to a bunch of racists. And two, they
24:48
Speaker 19: don't care about you. He said, this is what he's
24:52
Speaker 19: recalling that he says to Jay-Z. He says, you're the
24:54
Speaker 19: music guy to them. They quite literally need a black
24:57
Speaker 19: face and have said as much. So that, yeah.
25:01
Speaker 14: And I saw too that, you know, Colin Kaepernick, there
25:03
Speaker 14: were people.
25:04
Speaker 2: Let me, let me earn my check. He said that
25:06
Speaker 2: Jay-Z is what?
25:08
Speaker 19: He said that Jay-Z is the music guy to them
25:11
Speaker 19: and that they just need a black face.
25:13
Speaker 2: And he's serving up the.
25:15
Speaker 19: He's serving up the culture to a bunch of racists.
25:19
Speaker 14: And they don't care about you. He recalls telling Jay-Z.
25:22
Speaker 2: Okay. That's what he said in his book.
25:25
Speaker 19: No, this is what he said. They were having a
25:27
Speaker 19: conversation following... Well, you know that he did the Roots
25:29
Speaker 19: Picnic freestyle. So Colin Kaepernick is now doing press because
25:32
Speaker 19: he has his book coming. And this is one of
25:34
Speaker 19: the things that he.
25:35
Speaker 2: He said in his book.
25:36
Speaker 11: Oh, okay.
25:37
Speaker 14: Maybe he said in the book. But this article is
25:38
Speaker 14: talking about.
25:39
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm asking you. I don't know.
25:40
Speaker 19: No, a conversation that they had with Colin Kaepernick. He
25:42
Speaker 19: recalled a time where he had that conversation with Jay-Z.
25:44
Speaker 2: Got you, got you, got you, got you.
25:46
Speaker 9: Yes.
25:47
Speaker 18: Now.
25:47
Speaker 7: Oh, he's saying that's what he told Jay-Z.
25:49
Speaker 11: Okay.
25:49
Speaker 19: Yes, he says that he remembers having that conversation with Jay-Z.
25:52
Speaker 19: Did you earn your check?
25:52
Speaker 7: You get.
25:54
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm just listening to the story.
25:55
Speaker 19: Okay.
25:55
Speaker 2: Is there more?
25:57
Speaker 19: I mean, that's the thing from it.
25:59
Speaker 2: Listen, I think I'm going to read Colin's book.
26:00
Speaker 1: I just hope when Colin is out here doing these interviews,
26:03
Speaker 1: I hope someone just ask him a simple question. If
26:06
Speaker 1: you feel this way about the NFL, why have you
26:08
Speaker 1: spent the past decade trying to get back.
26:10
Speaker 2: In the NFL?
26:11
Speaker 1: Like, we've seen him refer to the NFL as a plantation.
26:14
Speaker 1: And that statement, he called them racist. So how come
26:16
Speaker 1: you want to be back in the league so bad?
26:18
Speaker 1: Like just a couple of years ago, he wrote a
26:20
Speaker 1: letter to the New York Jets wanting to be on
26:22
Speaker 1: the practice squad.
26:23
Speaker 2: You know what I think?
26:24
Speaker 1: In 2022, he said he would be willing to be
26:26
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback to get back in the door. So
26:28
Speaker 1: why do you want to be in a league that
26:30
Speaker 1: you consider to be so racist? I don't understand that.
26:32
Speaker 2: Maybe he's going to where his least race is at.
26:36
Speaker 7: I don't know what you're talking about.
26:38
Speaker 1: The whole league is racist. You can't blackball me from
26:41
Speaker 1: a place I don't desire to be.
26:42
Speaker 19: Well, so the conversation to sit down was with NBC's
26:45
Speaker 19: Lester Hall.
26:46
Speaker 17: Right.
26:47
Speaker 19: And there's a bit more. So he says, first and foremost,
26:49
Speaker 19: he's talking about the fact of Jay-Z getting a backlash
26:51
Speaker 19: in Target.
26:52
Speaker 11: Right.
26:52
Speaker 19: And you talk about, you know, people wanting to be
26:54
Speaker 19: places and not want to be places. So Colin Kaepernick
26:56
Speaker 19: says the backlash that Jay-Z received for partnering with the
26:58
Speaker 19: NFL and going to counter to people's interest in 2019
27:02
Speaker 19: was a major problem for him. so much that it's
27:06
Speaker 19: still being brought up in 2026. So he's saying Jay-Z
27:08
Speaker 19: knows that this is an issue for people, and that's
27:10
Speaker 19: why he had to do the freestyle. So he's, honestly,
27:13
Speaker 19: in my opinion, he's saying Jay-Z knows what he's doing,
27:14
Speaker 19: but he just doesn't care.
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Speaker 1: I just don't understand how you can be upset with
27:17
Speaker 1: somebody for partnering with the NFL when you've been actively
27:20
Speaker 1: trying to get in the league for a decade. He
27:21
Speaker 1: wrote a letter to the New York Jets asking to
27:24
Speaker 1: be on the practice squad. He said he was willing
27:26
Speaker 1: to be a backup quarterback just to get his foot
27:30
Speaker 1: in the door.
27:30
Speaker 2: These are things that Colin Kaepernick has said. So I just.
27:33
Speaker 1: I just don't understand how one person is considered a
27:37
Speaker 1: sellout for partnering with the NFL, but you've been actively
27:40
Speaker 1: wanting to.
27:40
Speaker 2: Be back in the league for the past decade.
27:42
Speaker 6: It just seems very personal, right?
27:43
Speaker 5: Because when he was trying to get back in the league,
27:45
Speaker 5: to my knowledge, didn't Jay-Z help him to try to
27:48
Speaker 5: get back in the league?
27:48
Speaker 14: He set up that practice, right?
27:50
Speaker 5: He set up practices where he can do it. So
27:52
Speaker 5: this seems more than just a left or right type
27:55
Speaker 5: of thing.
27:55
Speaker 9: It seems personal.
27:55
Speaker 6: It seems like they have their own personal issues.
27:58
Speaker 5: And it's horrible because they're both prominent figures and they
28:01
Speaker 5: both try to help the community and they do it
28:03
Speaker 5: in their own ways. But it just seems like they're
28:05
Speaker 5: not on the page with this. And they just keep
28:07
Speaker 5: throwing shots at each other. I just hate that.
28:09
Speaker 4: Yeah.
28:09
Speaker 2: Black brothers that really try to help.
28:11
Speaker 1: I don't think they've been throwing shots at each other either, though.
28:13
Speaker 1: I think that this has been more of the public talking. Like,
28:16
Speaker 1: you know, Jay-Z did the freestyling and Colin made this statement,
28:19
Speaker 1: but I don't think they've.
28:20
Speaker 7: Been throwing shots at each other.
28:23
Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean, because even in the sit-down, he says, like,
28:25
Speaker 19: Jay-Z has a guilty conscience because now people are realizing
28:28
Speaker 19: that he keeps stepping into these positions. But you don't
28:29
Speaker 19: really hear from Jay-Z much. And Colin Kaepernick, we don't
28:32
Speaker 19: ever hear directly from him.
28:34
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with somebody responding after years
28:37
Speaker 1: and years and years and years of people saying things
28:40
Speaker 1: about him.
28:40
Speaker 5: Hey, they throw shots at each other. That's why I
28:42
Speaker 5: just wish that they would just, you know, they both
28:44
Speaker 5: do things for our community. And the fact that they're
28:46
Speaker 5: not on the same page and they helped each other
28:48
Speaker 5: at one point, I just would love them to get
28:51
Speaker 5: it together somehow, some way.
28:52
Speaker 7: If they could. I don't really like Kat.
28:54
Speaker 2: I don't really like Kat.
28:56
Speaker 1: And people have tried to get them to have conversations.
28:59
Speaker 1: One of the people didn't want to have conversations. And
29:01
Speaker 1: it wasn't Jay-Z.
29:03
Speaker 2: Wow.
29:04
Speaker 6: You putting your Roc Nation jacket on?
29:07
Speaker 2: I'm listening. Hold on.
29:09
Speaker 7: Not the jacket.
29:14
Speaker 2: I'm speaking into my.
29:15
Speaker 7: Maybe don't have a conversation in the future. My wire.
29:18
Speaker 19: We would be in a good place if they could
29:20
Speaker 19: come to the middle and have that conversation, though, right?
29:22
Speaker 2: I just think it would be better for everybody. No,
29:24
Speaker 2: but in all seriousness, though, it is... I don't know.
29:27
Speaker 1: It just seems very hypocritical. Like, I don't see how
29:29
Speaker 1: you could say that he's serving the culture up. to
29:31
Speaker 1: a bunch of racists, but you've been trying to actively
29:34
Speaker 1: get back in the league for 10 years. But I
29:36
Speaker 1: need to read his book, because maybe he talks about
29:38
Speaker 1: his reasons yeah that's what i'm saying maybe i need
29:40
Speaker 1: maybe but i do hope in one of these interviews
29:42
Speaker 1: that he's doing for his book somebody asked him that
29:43
Speaker 1: though because that to me is a very.
29:45
Speaker 2: Obvious question when's the last time you spoke to.
29:48
Speaker 8: Him oh yes yeah out of context yeah out of
29:52
Speaker 8: context oh okay All.
29:55
Speaker 14: Right, y'all.
29:55
Speaker 19: We'll wrap in the latest and we'll get to Kanye
29:57
Speaker 19: in the next latest. I know we didn't get to
29:58
Speaker 19: go through all the concert stuff too, but we'll get to,
30:00
Speaker 19: we have some of the audio from the concert and
30:02
Speaker 19: a big reunion that happened in Chicago for Kanye with
30:05
Speaker 19: an artist that you guys love to see him with.
30:07
Speaker 14: So we'll get into that in the next latest.
30:08
Speaker 2: All right.
30:10
Speaker 5: Front page news is up next. And Charlamagne, your donkey,
30:12
Speaker 5: what you doing today for your donkey?
30:13
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's Friday, so we do the people's donkey.
30:15
Speaker 1: So you can call in 1-800-585-1051 and you can give
30:19
Speaker 1: somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid.
30:21
Speaker 2: That's right.
30:21
Speaker 6: So call us up right now.
30:22
Speaker 2: It's The Breakfast Club.
30:23
Speaker 4: Good morning.
30:23
Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody.
30:24
Speaker 5: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
30:27
Speaker 5: The Breakfast Club. And let's get to some front page news.
30:31
Speaker 6: What's up, Mimi?
30:33
Speaker 12: Good morning, Envy, Jess, Charlamagne.
30:35
Speaker 4: How y'all doing?
30:36
Speaker 3: Peace, Mimi Brown.
30:38
Speaker 11: All right, so we're going to start with a story
30:40
Speaker 11: that we didn't get to in six. The White House
30:43
Speaker 11: has launched a deportation video game.
30:45
Speaker 12: Have you guys heard about this?
30:47
Speaker 9: No.
30:47
Speaker 2: No. Cut it out, Mimi. Why do you like to
30:50
Speaker 2: play so much? What's the name of it? What is
30:53
Speaker 2: it called?
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Speaker 11: It is called Real Run, and it works like the
30:57
Speaker 11: old snake game. Yeah, so you move around the screen
31:01
Speaker 11: collecting people, and every person you collect, it counts as
31:04
Speaker 11: someone deported.
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Speaker 9: Stop.
31:06
Speaker 11: Yes.
31:07
Speaker 9: Yes.
31:07
Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Stupid.
31:09
Speaker 2: Don't play that right at a time like this.
31:13
Speaker 11: Another game is called Build a Wall. So players stack
31:16
Speaker 11: blocks to build a border wall.
31:18
Speaker 2: Now that's just Tetris. Now we're not going to do
31:21
Speaker 2: that now.
31:22
Speaker 12: Listen, this is crazy.
31:23
Speaker 11: While little figures try to get across, if too many
31:25
Speaker 11: people make it through, the screen says border breached. And
31:30
Speaker 11: so all of this is happening on an official.
31:33
Speaker 12: Government website, right? This is not a random campaign.
31:36
Speaker 11: It is called Arcade.gov, the official government federal website. Now,
31:41
Speaker 11: the White House says the games are a way to
31:44
Speaker 11: promote President Trump's agenda and what it calls culture of
31:47
Speaker 11: fun and winning. um that's crazy critics say yep it's
31:51
Speaker 11: it critics are pointing out these are real people's lives
31:54
Speaker 11: and that taxpayers are paying for the government to play
31:57
Speaker 11: video games or host these video games on the website
31:59
Speaker 11: so you know it's so.
32:01
Speaker 1: Crazy not the worst video game out there that's the
32:03
Speaker 1: sad part i'm just saying there's video games out there
32:08
Speaker 1: that have murder and kidnappings and you know a lot
32:11
Speaker 1: of shooting and a lot a lot of killing i'm
32:13
Speaker 1: just saying it's not the worst video game out there
32:15
Speaker 1: I don't know.
32:16
Speaker 3: What that means.
32:16
Speaker 12: I just don't think we expect.
32:18
Speaker 7: That from a federal government.
32:20
Speaker 6: I mean, this is based on real people, though.
32:23
Speaker 7: In real life situations happening in real time right now.
32:25
Speaker 6: You said one was called Run, Nigga, Run, and what
32:27
Speaker 6: was the other one called?
32:28
Speaker 2: It's not Run, Nigga, Run. It's Real Run.
32:31
Speaker 3: I said Real Run.
32:32
Speaker 1: But think about how many years have people been saying
32:36
Speaker 1: things like video games influence kids negatively because a lot.
32:40
Speaker 2: Of these video games are based off real life events.
32:42
Speaker 20: Right.
32:43
Speaker 2: I don't know. This is sad, but it's par for
32:45
Speaker 2: the course in America, goddammit.
32:47
Speaker 7: Definitely sad, but definitely teaching racism in Orlando.
32:51
Speaker 12: Real run and build the wall.
32:53
Speaker 2: Run, nigga, run. You just gave somebody an idea. Envy
32:55
Speaker 2: is an idiot, yo. You just gave somebody up there
33:00
Speaker 2: an idea, okay? You think you can get this off?
33:04
Speaker 11: And Envy, I've been trying to get the story in
33:07
Speaker 11: all week because I do really like what Hampton University
33:10
Speaker 11: is doing with AI. So the HBCU, it just opened
33:14
Speaker 11: an 11,000 square foot AI center. So the idea is
33:18
Speaker 11: to make sure that students and the surrounding community aren't
33:21
Speaker 11: left behind as AI changes the way we work. But
33:24
Speaker 11: we're talking podcasting, music production, fashion design, photography, showing people
33:30
Speaker 11: how AI can actually help.
33:32
Speaker 12: Them in different careers.
33:33
Speaker 11: And what I also really like about this is that
33:35
Speaker 11: you don't have to be a Hampton University student to
33:37
Speaker 11: use it.
33:38
Speaker 12: They say the center is open to entrepreneurs, people in.
33:40
Speaker 11: The community who might not otherwise have access to this
33:43
Speaker 11: kind of technology. And they say you don't need any
33:46
Speaker 11: AI experience to get started. And it's open to the
33:48
Speaker 11: public now that they do ask that you make an appointment.
33:52
Speaker 12: So congratulations.
33:53
Speaker 7: This is amazing. How you feel about it? Big, big stuff.
33:57
Speaker 2: I mean, that's dope.
33:58
Speaker 6: I mean, the president salute to President Williams.
34:00
Speaker 5: He said that he definitely wants to make sure that
34:01
Speaker 5: Hampton University is ahead of the curve, whatever it comes to,
34:04
Speaker 5: especially with technology. But like you said, Mimi, you better
34:07
Speaker 5: make an appointment because they're not going to let you
34:09
Speaker 5: on that campus without making an appointment. I went on
34:12
Speaker 5: that campus, I think, a couple of weeks ago and
34:14
Speaker 5: security was like, nah, we know who you are. I
34:16
Speaker 5: had to call the president to get on the campus.
34:18
Speaker 5: So if you're not going to get on that campus,
34:20
Speaker 5: if you don't make an appointment, so you make sure
34:22
Speaker 5: you make an appointment if you want to go to
34:23
Speaker 5: that facility.
34:25
Speaker 7: Yeah.
34:25
Speaker 12: It's 11,000 square foot. A lot happening there.
34:28
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
34:30
Speaker 12: And lastly, do we have time or are we out?
34:32
Speaker 2: I think we're out.
34:34
Speaker 7: We're out.
34:35
Speaker 3: Okay.
34:35
Speaker 14: Well, we'll save this.
34:37
Speaker 7: I want to hear the last story too.
34:39
Speaker 2: Oh, no, rest and wrap up. Damn.
34:41
Speaker 7: All right. She was about to teach us something about couples.
34:44
Speaker 7: That's hilarious. Just text me. I was. I was.
34:47
Speaker 12: It's okay, Jess. I will save it.
34:48
Speaker 3: That's what you.
34:49
Speaker 1: Get for wasting your time on Hampton stories, Mimi. You
34:51
Speaker 1: should have stuck to your Howard guns. You should have
34:54
Speaker 1: stuck to your Howard guns. All week long, you've been
34:56
Speaker 1: ignoring that story, but you.
34:58
Speaker 2: Decided to do it.
34:58
Speaker 3: That's what I had to do it.
34:59
Speaker 7: That's what you get.
35:00
Speaker 2: That's what you get.
35:01
Speaker 6: Hey, salute to the real H. I'll be on the
35:02
Speaker 6: yard this weekend.
35:03
Speaker 5: I'll be stopping through Hampton University this weekend. I'm going
35:05
Speaker 5: to Cousins Festival, and I will be on the yard.
35:07
Speaker 5: So if you see me on the yard, say what's up.
35:09
Speaker 5: I will be there this weekend.
35:09
Speaker 7: Boy, it sound like y'all going to jail when y'all
35:11
Speaker 7: see me.
35:12
Speaker 11: See, I give you an inch, and you take a mile.
35:14
Speaker 11: There you went with the real H.
35:16
Speaker 12: See, next time I'm going to double think giving you that.
35:19
Speaker 2: I just want you to know. Goodbye, Mimi. Have a
35:22
Speaker 2: great weekend.
35:23
Speaker 1: Make sure you subscribe to Mimi Brown's podcast, the front
35:25
Speaker 1: page news podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network. I'm
35:28
Speaker 1: sure the story that she should have done over the
35:31
Speaker 1: Hampton University story, she's going to do on her podcast.
35:33
Speaker 6: No, representing HBCU is the story she should have done.
35:36
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mimi.
35:36
Speaker 5: Now, when we come back, Russ will be joining us.
35:39
Speaker 5: We're going to talk to Russ. He has a new project.
35:43
Speaker 7: Big Russ.
35:44
Speaker 2: Okay.
35:45
Speaker 4: It's Russ, right?
35:46
Speaker 2: I don't know.
35:47
Speaker 6: Russell will be joining us when we come back.
35:48
Speaker 2: It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.
35:50
Speaker 5: It's DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
35:54
Speaker 5: The Breakfast Club. Lorna Rose is here as well. We
35:57
Speaker 5: got a special guest in the building.
35:59
Speaker 2: Miss Dawn Dixon. Good morning.
36:01
Speaker 3: Good morning, Dawn.
36:02
Speaker 9: How are you? I'm doing great.
36:03
Speaker 2: How's your energy today? I'm feeling good.
36:05
Speaker 14: I'm so happy to see you and.
36:06
Speaker 16: To be here today.
36:08
Speaker 2: Word. What are we here to talk about today? You
36:10
Speaker 2: got so much going on always.
36:12
Speaker 15: Just catching up.
36:13
Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
36:14
Speaker 15: Obviously, last time I was here, five years ago, I think,
36:17
Speaker 15: and so much has changed. Definitely being on this show
36:20
Speaker 15: changed my life. With my crowdfunding campaign, that was, what,
36:23
Speaker 15: six years ago? So, you know, a lot has changed.
36:26
Speaker 22: I think just catching up. You know, I'm in Africa now.
36:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that.
36:29
Speaker 1: You have the real estate development based in a crowd
36:33
Speaker 1: that's still called Pop.
36:35
Speaker 15: Popcom's the business that I had raised money for when
36:37
Speaker 15: I came.
36:37
Speaker 3: Last time.
36:38
Speaker 15: The crowdfunding campaign went crazy.
36:40
Speaker 9: Okay.
36:40
Speaker 22: You know, thank y'all.
36:42
Speaker 9: And.
36:43
Speaker 15: Things happen, you know, with that business. A lot of
36:45
Speaker 15: people invested and over 10,000 investors. This platform was catalyst
36:52
Speaker 15: for that. You know, it was a I raised over
36:54
Speaker 15: a million dollars for the first time. I was the
36:56
Speaker 15: first female founder to do that. And a lot of
36:59
Speaker 15: that came from just being here and reaching the platform
37:02
Speaker 15: that you reach. And, you know, business things happen in business.
37:06
Speaker 15: And a lot of things didn't go as planned with
37:08
Speaker 15: that business. So that's something we definitely could touch on.
37:11
Speaker 15: And then I ended up moving to Ghana and starting
37:13
Speaker 15: a real estate business just out of me trying to
37:16
Speaker 15: find my way. So it's so much happened in five years.
37:19
Speaker 15: I don't even know where to start.
37:21
Speaker 7: You guys.
37:21
Speaker 19: Let's start with, I mean, you mentioned that there was
37:23
Speaker 19: a lot that happened with the popcorn business.
37:25
Speaker 9: Yeah.
37:26
Speaker 19: So let's start there. Like when you said there was
37:28
Speaker 19: a lot that happened, walk us through. So you're here,
37:30
Speaker 19: crowdfunding campaign, there's $ 6 million raised, correct?
37:33
Speaker 3: Yes.
37:33
Speaker 19: $ 6 million raised. And from that, after that step, then
37:37
Speaker 19: what begins to happen for Dawn?
37:39
Speaker 15: What started to happen was we took that money and
37:41
Speaker 15: went right into action and started to scale and started
37:44
Speaker 15: to place. So really quick backstory, Popcom makes software for
37:49
Speaker 15: vending machines to make them smarter. So essentially it's the
37:51
Speaker 15: operating system that allows the vending machines to collect data.
37:54
Speaker 15: Since vending machines are standalone sales units, it collects the
37:58
Speaker 15: data about customers walking by. It collects the data about sales.
38:03
Speaker 15: It was something new in the market. So we had
38:05
Speaker 15: to be a market maker. So I raised the money
38:06
Speaker 15: to develop the platform and raise the money to build
38:09
Speaker 15: the machines, put them in the market, hire a whole staff.
38:14
Speaker 15: And as we're growing so fast, things are happening as
38:19
Speaker 15: far as we're taking off. We're blown up. We have
38:21
Speaker 15: all these customers. But to continue to grow, you still
38:24
Speaker 15: need more money. I was following that playbook of what
38:27
Speaker 15: they teach us as entrepreneurs in the venture capital world.
38:29
Speaker 15: Because I raised over $ 7 million. I raised $ 1. 3 million
38:32
Speaker 15: from venture capital and then $ 6 million from Crowdfunding, which
38:35
Speaker 15: gave everybody a chance to invest.
38:38
Speaker 9: Right.
38:38
Speaker 15: So when it's time to go raise that next round,
38:40
Speaker 15: because after we met all of our milestones with the
38:42
Speaker 15: crowdfunding campaign, that next round was a series A through VC.
38:47
Speaker 15: And that next round collapsed. And that was unexpected, shocking, devastating,
38:52
Speaker 15: because I had an investor commit to funding that round
38:55
Speaker 15: for two point five million as a lead. And then
38:58
Speaker 15: they didn't raise their fund.
39:00
Speaker 22: And a lot of people don't understand how this thing works.
39:02
Speaker 15: Venture capitalists raise money from limited partners, from other people,
39:06
Speaker 15: from family offices. So when they don't close their money,
39:09
Speaker 15: entrepreneurs don't get their money. And so out of nowhere,
39:12
Speaker 15: basically in two months, I go from a business that's booming,
39:17
Speaker 15: we're generating revenue, we're growing to out of money and
39:21
Speaker 15: you need to fire your team, lay off your team.
39:24
Speaker 22: It's like Friday, the board tells me, you gotta.
39:26
Speaker 15: Lay off these people on Monday it was devastating it
39:30
Speaker 15: was never I never saw that coming.
39:32
Speaker 19: Now when you said that there's a lot of things
39:34
Speaker 19: that people don't understand when it comes to like just
39:36
Speaker 19: the different rounds and the raising the money and who
39:39
Speaker 19: gets what and what goes where I was reading an
39:41
Speaker 19: article I watched an article and they quoted some of
39:44
Speaker 19: the different things that concerned people that are looking at
39:48
Speaker 19: your journey from the outside. And they talk about minimal revenue,
39:52
Speaker 19: vanishing assets, not really understanding your operations and the fact
39:56
Speaker 19: that you relocated overseas. So when it comes to those
39:59
Speaker 19: things that people from the outside are flagging, explain to
40:02
Speaker 19: us from the inside, like what happened?
40:04
Speaker 14: So like when a revenue didn't work out.
40:08
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean, we were generating revenue, but in an
40:10
Speaker 15: early stage startup, in the beginning, all the money is
40:13
Speaker 15: going into building the product. So we spent millions on
40:15
Speaker 15: building software, millions on hardware, millions on staffing over six years.
40:21
Speaker 15: And when you start to get into your revenue flow,
40:23
Speaker 15: it takes a few years to really break even, to
40:26
Speaker 15: really get into the red, I mean, into the black out.
40:28
Speaker 7: Of the red.
40:29
Speaker 15: So people just didn't understand that all the development costs
40:33
Speaker 15: that go into building a software platform and hiring staff.
40:37
Speaker 15: So we did have assets, which was crazy because that
40:41
Speaker 15: Watchdog article came out and it made me go under investigation.
40:44
Speaker 15: I had a full SEC investigation on me because they said, okay,
40:49
Speaker 15: everything you said and I was cleared. But what did
40:52
Speaker 15: actually happen is the assets didn't get reported on the
40:54
Speaker 15: balance sheet.
40:55
Speaker 22: Like I'll take that one. That was my fault.
40:57
Speaker 15: The assets weren't on the balance sheet at all. When
40:59
Speaker 15: I'm so busy raising money. And when we went to
41:03
Speaker 15: get our financials updated with the SEC, we left out
41:07
Speaker 15: over 800,000 worth of assets that are on the book.
41:10
Speaker 15: So it's actually being updated right now. After me going
41:12
Speaker 15: through eight months of investigation, we did have revenue. We
41:15
Speaker 15: were doing over 35,000 a month in revenue and, But
41:17
Speaker 15: of course, that's not enough to cover operations when your
41:20
Speaker 15: payroll burn and expenses are over 120,000. But when you're
41:24
Speaker 15: building a business to scale, you know you're going to
41:27
Speaker 15: spend more in the early days as you're ramping up.
41:30
Speaker 15: And so we just didn't get a chance to break
41:32
Speaker 15: that threshold of where revenue caught up to expenses.
41:36
Speaker 22: We didn't get to make it.
41:37
Speaker 1: So why did you say the audited financial filing towards
41:40
Speaker 1: zero dollars?
41:41
Speaker 15: Because, no, the audit, so the audit, it wasn't $ 0.
41:44
Speaker 15: We did get audited and our financials and our revenue
41:48
Speaker 15: did match up to what we said. So we were
41:50
Speaker 15: doing about $ 35, 000 a month. So that's an MRR. We
41:53
Speaker 15: launched the product only six months. So the product had
41:55
Speaker 15: only been launched for six months, like ready for market
41:58
Speaker 15: and ready to go out.
41:59
Speaker 14: A real product, though, not a prototype.
42:01
Speaker 15: No, the product. Yeah, we had 15 vending machines around
42:04
Speaker 15: the U.S. and even one in Qatar in Vendo Mall.
42:06
Speaker 15: So the real product, we're working with real brands, real partners.
42:09
Speaker 15: We're generating revenue for six months. But then it's time
42:12
Speaker 15: to really ramp it up. So that's when the next
42:15
Speaker 15: round would have come in and allowed us to continue
42:17
Speaker 15: to scale, put more vending machines in the market, make
42:20
Speaker 15: more revenue, and then catch that revenue number up. But no,
42:23
Speaker 15: the revenue never covered our monthly expenses. So that's where
42:27
Speaker 15: we're burning investment money as we're ramping up. The error
42:32
Speaker 15: that I made was overlooking the assets on the balance sheet.
42:36
Speaker 22: They just got left off.
42:38
Speaker 15: But there was nothing fraudulent that happened. The revenue was reported.
42:43
Speaker 15: But many investors did complain because they believed they were
42:46
Speaker 15: supposed to get a return in two years.
42:49
Speaker 22: They were looking at this investment like.
42:51
Speaker 2: It's the stock market. Yeah, you can't look at no
42:53
Speaker 2: investment like that.
42:53
Speaker 15: An early stage private equity investment usually takes eight to
42:57
Speaker 15: 10 years to get an ROI. But at this time,
43:01
Speaker 15: when I started crowdfunding, it was also the time when
43:02
Speaker 15: everybody started to be able to trade crypto on apps
43:05
Speaker 15: and use apps for like Robinhood. People were confusing investing
43:10
Speaker 15: in my company with investing in Tesla. They're asking me, okay,
43:15
Speaker 15: I invested $ 250 in your business. Why can't I cash
43:18
Speaker 15: out right now? Or why can't I cash out in
43:20
Speaker 15: two years? And I'm like, we're not publicly traded. We're
43:23
Speaker 15: using the money you gave us to build a business.
43:26
Speaker 15: The early investors in Uber and Apple and Microsoft, it
43:29
Speaker 15: took them seven to 12 years to get a return.
43:32
Speaker 22: So why do I have to return your money in
43:34
Speaker 22: two years?
43:36
Speaker 15: And that was just because the education around difference between
43:39
Speaker 15: publicly traded stock and privately held shares, it wasn't there.
43:45
Speaker 15: You know, all of this happened so quickly with the
43:48
Speaker 15: jobs acting, with me being the first to do it.
43:50
Speaker 15: I'm out here promoting my business and showing what I'm doing,
43:54
Speaker 15: but I didn't properly educate people publicly on what it
43:59
Speaker 15: meant to invest in a private company.
44:01
Speaker 22: It didn't mean you're getting your money right back.
44:03
Speaker 19: What do you say to people who like just at
44:04
Speaker 19: a basic scale, because in the article, they also talk
44:08
Speaker 19: about the fact that people that there was complaining that
44:10
Speaker 19: there was like no third party verification, like there were
44:13
Speaker 19: no photos, there were no contractors or different things being
44:16
Speaker 19: provided in the public filing. So it appeared as if
44:19
Speaker 19: you had no paying customers at scale and no visible
44:22
Speaker 19: deployment or like actual footprint of the company.
44:24
Speaker 14: So what do you say to people that bring that up?
44:25
Speaker 15: That's just not true. And I contacted the people with
44:29
Speaker 15: the Watchdog article and I provided all proof and verification
44:32
Speaker 15: that I have been sending updates, that I did have pictures,
44:35
Speaker 15: that I did have those things in the filings. And
44:37
Speaker 15: they said, you know, they're like a clickbait kind of
44:40
Speaker 15: website because they said, we don't talk to founders. We
44:42
Speaker 15: don't give you a chance to tell your side of
44:43
Speaker 15: the story. And we go off of investors. And there
44:46
Speaker 15: was like three investors that you know, not to diminish them.
44:49
Speaker 15: I'm grateful for their investment, but no one invested over
44:52
Speaker 15: $ 500 and they're complaining and said, I stole their money
44:55
Speaker 15: when I have investors who literally put in a half
44:56
Speaker 15: a million and their understanding, like this is what happened
45:00
Speaker 15: with the company.
45:01
Speaker 22: We're still working on it.
45:02
Speaker 15: But the ones that, Maybe didn't have as much understanding
45:06
Speaker 15: of how the system works. They were saying, oh, you
45:09
Speaker 15: didn't update this. But I have a private Facebook group
45:13
Speaker 15: that I started in 2019. I have over 2,800 investors
45:17
Speaker 15: in there and I send regular updates. I also have
45:19
Speaker 15: an email list of over 8,600 investors that get an
45:22
Speaker 15: email from me, but 2,000 unsubscribed. So I'm like, okay.
45:26
Speaker 15: Of my 10,000 plus investors, some of you guys aren't
45:28
Speaker 15: getting updates. Some of you guys may legitimately feel that
45:31
Speaker 15: you don't know what's going on, but it's out there.
45:34
Speaker 22: We have a group.
45:34
Speaker 15: I have a private YouTube page where I do live
45:38
Speaker 15: town halls and let them ask me questions.
45:40
Speaker 22: So all this is documented. I share this with the
45:42
Speaker 22: Watchdog article, but.
45:44
Speaker 2: You said something that's interesting, right?
45:46
Speaker 1: Because, you know, like you said, 10,000 everyday people did
45:49
Speaker 1: invest in Popcom.
45:51
Speaker 2: When you.
45:52
Speaker 1: Take money from just, I guess, regular everyday people as
45:54
Speaker 1: opposed to venture capitalists. Do you believe you owe them
45:57
Speaker 1: a different level of accountability?
45:59
Speaker 7: Absolutely.
46:00
Speaker 15: And that's why I send these updates. That's why I
46:04
Speaker 15: get on these platforms like Now Explaining. That's why I
46:06
Speaker 15: wrote a whole response.
46:07
Speaker 22: It's on my sub stack.
46:09
Speaker 15: Pulled documents and showed everything as evidence to show them
46:13
Speaker 15: that I was a good steward and I am a
46:16
Speaker 15: good steward of their capital.
46:17
Speaker 22: Did things go different than I planned?
46:20
Speaker 15: Yes.
46:21
Speaker 22: Would I do some.
46:22
Speaker 15: Things a little bit differently, especially when it comes to
46:24
Speaker 15: my staffing?
46:25
Speaker 2: Yes.
46:25
Speaker 15: But was anything done illegally, fraudulent, or misleading?
46:29
Speaker 4: No.
46:30
Speaker 15: But the expectation of a return in even two to
46:33
Speaker 15: five years, it just wasn't realistic. But I do have
46:36
Speaker 15: a responsibility. So I try to do as much as
46:39
Speaker 15: I can to educate them. But if I can't force
46:41
Speaker 15: them to read these things, at least once a year,
46:43
Speaker 15: I send a whole breakdown of where the business is at,
46:47
Speaker 15: explaining their stocks and their shares. And even yesterday on
46:50
Speaker 15: my IG Live, somebody got on my IG Live and said,
46:52
Speaker 15: so where's my shares in Popcom? It's like I can't
46:55
Speaker 15: do enough.
46:56
Speaker 17: Yeah.
46:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, listen, I didn't know we
46:59
Speaker 2: was going to get right to it. I was trying
47:00
Speaker 2: to ease into it.
47:01
Speaker 22: She said, so they told me that you was a fraud.
47:04
Speaker 19: You kept bringing up what didn't go well.
47:08
Speaker 22: And I'm like, I mean, that's why I asked you
47:10
Speaker 22: where you wanted to start.
47:11
Speaker 19: But also I think it's a thing of too, is
47:13
Speaker 19: like when you're a woman in tech space and especially
47:15
Speaker 19: a black woman in the tech space, it's a lot
47:17
Speaker 19: of things that like, I remember hearing your story and
47:19
Speaker 19: it was like, she raised this money and like, it
47:21
Speaker 19: was exciting to hear.
47:22
Speaker 14: And I know even what you did right, what you
47:24
Speaker 14: did wrong, you know, whatever.
47:27
Speaker 19: If you're in that space and you are like figuring
47:29
Speaker 19: out and trying to turn the light on, trying to
47:30
Speaker 19: reach that light switch, There's a lot that you're going
47:32
Speaker 19: to learn. And I think that it's something that people
47:34
Speaker 19: don't want to admit when it happens, if things do happen.
47:37
Speaker 1: But the criticism is valid. And I think the thing
47:39
Speaker 1: that sounds the worst is when you think about... How
47:41
Speaker 1: much was raised?
47:42
Speaker 2: Six points?
47:42
Speaker 15: From the public, six million. And from overall, 7.3. Okay.
47:46
Speaker 2: But then it is... To that Watchdog Report Lauren's reading,
47:49
Speaker 2: there is a 2003 filing that shows zero dollars in revenue,
47:52
Speaker 2: zero dollars in cash, and only $ 750 in total assets.
47:56
Speaker 2: So when somebody hears those numbers, what aren't they understanding
47:59
Speaker 2: about where that money went?
48:01
Speaker 22: That is a mistake.
48:03
Speaker 15: That is wrong. Those filings are incorrect and they're being
48:06
Speaker 15: updated right now. I will take full responsibility for that.
48:09
Speaker 15: Those filings got put in in 2025 when I went
48:12
Speaker 15: to refile to be able to relaunch the company. I
48:14
Speaker 15: decided to relaunch because so many brands are reaching out
48:17
Speaker 15: to me.
48:17
Speaker 22: I said, okay, it's time to relaunch.
48:19
Speaker 15: I'm just hurriedly trying to relaunch. So I'm pulling financials
48:22
Speaker 15: and pulling... files from 2022 and 2023, giving them to
48:26
Speaker 15: these guys to do an audit, I will take responsibility
48:29
Speaker 15: that I overlooked that the balance sheet was wrong. The
48:32
Speaker 15: balance sheet is where all the business lies. That is
48:35
Speaker 15: my fault. I'm just moving too fast. Nobody caught it either.
48:40
Speaker 15: The crowdfunding platform didn't catch it. The accountants didn't catch it.
48:43
Speaker 15: I didn't catch it because there's so.
48:44
Speaker 22: Many moving parts.
48:46
Speaker 15: We just we just didn't put the right balance sheet
48:49
Speaker 15: on there. The assets are over a hundred thousand. That's
48:52
Speaker 15: going to be refiled is happening right now. The revenue
48:55
Speaker 15: is negative. We are in the red as a company
48:59
Speaker 15: that's been in business. What is seven years at this point?
49:02
Speaker 15: We had not broke even for cash flow. For us
49:05
Speaker 15: to have positive on the balance sheet. So there's going
49:07
Speaker 15: to show negative cash flow, but there's positive assets. The
49:10
Speaker 15: software is still in GitHub.
49:11
Speaker 22: It's protected.
49:12
Speaker 15: All of the machines we built, which are assets, are
49:14
Speaker 15: still stored and they're safe. But yes, the SEC documents
49:18
Speaker 15: do look bad. It does look bad and it's getting fixed.
49:21
Speaker 2: Why do you think.
49:22
Speaker 1: People connected those things in the first place? Like, was
49:24
Speaker 1: there a transparency problem that allowed that suspicion?
49:27
Speaker 15: No, but if they don't check the emails and read
49:29
Speaker 15: the Popcom Investor Facebook group, they don't know what's going on.
49:31
Speaker 15: And it could look like to the public that that's
49:33
Speaker 15: exactly what happened because I never told the story. I'm,
49:35
Speaker 15: first of all, very private about these things. And second,
49:38
Speaker 15: it's hard to process. Like, It could be embarrassing. It
49:42
Speaker 15: could be like, what did I do wrong? It could
49:44
Speaker 15: be like, you know, I'm a big success story. I'm
49:46
Speaker 15: on this show. I'm on cover of a magazine. I'm
49:48
Speaker 15: in ink and all these. And then it's like, oh,
49:51
Speaker 15: now it's shut down so quick. I had to process that.
49:54
Speaker 15: So maybe I wasn't being as transparent to the public.
49:57
Speaker 15: But I was transparent to my investors. They knew. If
50:01
Speaker 15: they don't read the updates, I.
50:03
Speaker 22: Can't force them. But I never, ever was quiet on them.
50:07
Speaker 15: I always told them everything that I was doing.
50:09
Speaker 4: So.
50:10
Speaker 15: I'm actually, I feel that the investigation was a blessing
50:13
Speaker 15: because during that time from 2020 to 2023, a lot
50:16
Speaker 15: of us got rich, you know, got a lot of
50:19
Speaker 15: money from online something, selling something online, of course, having
50:23
Speaker 15: a company invested in and raising money in which.
50:26
Speaker 22: By the way, I want to say raising money is
50:27
Speaker 22: not what is important.
50:28
Speaker 15: It's making money.
50:30
Speaker 22: I was raising money to get to revenue.
50:31
Speaker 15: I'm not raising money to just say, I raised all
50:33
Speaker 15: this money. You got to give it back. So it's
50:36
Speaker 15: not like, I'm a success because I raise money.
50:38
Speaker 22: But it's because I built something.
50:40
Speaker 15: But at this time, a lot of us were just
50:41
Speaker 15: getting money and a lot of people were scamming and
50:45
Speaker 15: getting scammed. A lot of things happen.
50:46
Speaker 22: Now we're seeing this.
50:48
Speaker 15: And I appreciate that. I got investigated. They find tooth comb,
50:53
Speaker 15: forensically searched to the penny, everything that I did. It
50:57
Speaker 15: was very challenging, but I saved all my records and
51:00
Speaker 15: I was clear of everything. And that is a blessing
51:03
Speaker 15: because I now can stand on something like, Hey, yeah,
51:06
Speaker 15: it does. It, It does look crazy. It could look
51:08
Speaker 15: crazy that you raised $ 7 million and the business is
51:10
Speaker 15: out of business and all these people are like, what happened?
51:13
Speaker 15: And you're like, okay, where's all the money? But I
51:16
Speaker 15: had to account for every penny of that money. Because
51:18
Speaker 15: this is a serious business. Taking people's money under.
51:21
Speaker 22: The SEC, you can go to jail.
51:22
Speaker 15: We've seen people go to jail for the past.
51:24
Speaker 7: Couple of years.
51:25
Speaker 2: And they love to block a black person.
51:27
Speaker 7: We've seen it.
51:28
Speaker 15: So it's like, hey, investigate me. Yes, yes. Let me
51:33
Speaker 15: show you all of my... All of my.
51:36
Speaker 9: Everything.
51:36
Speaker 15: And that's when we really found what happened. The balance
51:39
Speaker 15: sheet from 2023, there was no depreciation recorded over the years.
51:43
Speaker 15: The balance sheet from 2022 and 2023 didn't get translated
51:47
Speaker 15: to 2025 for the filings and it said zero.
51:50
Speaker 22: They didn't pull over the numbers and it looked crazy.
51:54
Speaker 1: There's going to be a lot of crowd, people that
51:56
Speaker 1: participate in the crowdfunding and they're going to be like, well,
51:59
Speaker 1: you're saying, you know, We shouldn't have had to say
52:01
Speaker 1: it because we don't know business, but they're going to say,
52:03
Speaker 1: you didn't even know how to file our paperwork because
52:04
Speaker 1: maybe you don't know business either.
52:05
Speaker 22: Yeah, well, maybe I didn't know that and I learned now.
52:07
Speaker 15: I don't know everything. I'm not going to pretend that
52:09
Speaker 15: I do. Had I ever been, had I ever done
52:11
Speaker 15: SEC filings before 2020?
52:12
Speaker 22: No. Had I ever been audited before 2022? No. A
52:17
Speaker 22: lot of things I've never done in my life.
52:19
Speaker 15: You know, have I ever handled this much cash from investors?
52:22
Speaker 22: Never in my life.
52:23
Speaker 15: My 25 years of entrepreneurship, I've never done these things before.
52:26
Speaker 2: It was overwhelming.
52:26
Speaker 15: So I learned. It's overwhelming.
52:28
Speaker 22: It's so many things to learn.
52:29
Speaker 15: I'm in charge of everything. At the end of the day,
52:31
Speaker 15: it's all on me. Everything's on me. Taking the trash
52:34
Speaker 15: out on me and getting the cold lives on me.
52:37
Speaker 2: And you worked without a salary, right?
52:41
Speaker 15: I worked without a salary from 2022 until we stopped.
52:43
Speaker 15: I just stopped giving myself a salary so I could
52:45
Speaker 15: preserve cash. Because luckily, I have multiple streams of income.
52:50
Speaker 15: I make good investments. I also make great money speaking
52:54
Speaker 15: and other things. So I said, listen, There's no need
52:56
Speaker 15: for me to keep taking money out of Popcom for
52:58
Speaker 15: a salary. I don't have to have it. And as
53:00
Speaker 15: a shareholder, I'll get my money on the back end
53:02
Speaker 15: when I sell the business.
53:04
Speaker 9: I'm not.
53:04
Speaker 2: It's fine.
53:05
Speaker 22: So I just was able.
53:06
Speaker 15: To prolong us not shutting down. I was just using
53:10
Speaker 15: my salary to pay other things, which a lot of
53:12
Speaker 15: us do. And another thing that I had to do
53:15
Speaker 15: was be a personal guarantor for so many things for Popcom.
53:19
Speaker 15: You know, I had to.
53:19
Speaker 2: You went into personal debt, too.
53:21
Speaker 15: Oh, everybody sued me.
53:23
Speaker 9: Oh, wow.
53:24
Speaker 15: Yeah, I went into this, you know, credit 800, commodities
53:27
Speaker 15: credit 500 because they sued me for everything, you know,
53:32
Speaker 15: and that's another thing people need to realize.
53:34
Speaker 22: Yeah, like when you're a CEO of.
53:35
Speaker 15: A company and you're going out and getting lines of credit,
53:38
Speaker 15: getting an office building, getting all these things, I'm signing
53:41
Speaker 15: my name.
53:42
Speaker 22: Next to it because I'm the CEO.
53:45
Speaker 15: Even though I'm not even the majority shareholder because I
53:47
Speaker 15: have all these investors now and I only own like 30%.
53:50
Speaker 15: It's a big company now. It's still on me. So
53:53
Speaker 15: when Popcom had to suddenly leave our office, who got
53:57
Speaker 15: sued for two years rent?
53:58
Speaker 9: Me.
53:59
Speaker 15: When Popcom couldn't pay the cash flow American Express because,
54:03
Speaker 15: you know, we're doing a thing. Using American Express to
54:06
Speaker 15: run through all of our bills through it and then
54:08
Speaker 15: getting the points and using that for, you know, we
54:09
Speaker 15: had the game down. Everybody was playing the game. What
54:12
Speaker 15: happens when you don't pay that bill? They sue me.
54:16
Speaker 15: SBA loan from PayPal. Paycheck protection. They sue me like
54:22
Speaker 15: me myself. And so that's something people don't realize as well.
54:26
Speaker 15: When you're doing these businesses in it, I even thought
54:30
Speaker 15: I'm independent of the business. I'm the CEO, but I'm
54:34
Speaker 15: not responsible for this debt. When the company shut down,
54:37
Speaker 15: they looking for somebody.
54:40
Speaker 2: All people want to know is you're not a scammer.
54:42
Speaker 15: Yeah, exactly.
54:43
Speaker 1: So how do you separate your intentions from your results?
54:45
Speaker 1: Because I'm listening and I'm like, I don't think your
54:47
Speaker 1: intention was to try to.
54:48
Speaker 2: Get over on people.
54:49
Speaker 22: Yeah, and I didn't get over on anybody.
54:50
Speaker 15: I even sold $ 50, 000 of my crypto in 2022 and
54:56
Speaker 15: put it into the business to keep.
54:57
Speaker 7: The business going.
54:58
Speaker 2: So you invested your own money too.
54:59
Speaker 22: A scammer wouldn't do that. Yes, I've invested mine.
55:01
Speaker 15: I have paid all of Popcom's bills. Since 2023 and myself.
55:04
Speaker 2: Important context.
55:05
Speaker 10: Yeah.
55:05
Speaker 15: I've paid the storage bills. I've paid the server bills.
55:09
Speaker 15: I've paid all of the G Suite bills to keep
55:11
Speaker 15: all of our documents stored. I've paid the bills to
55:13
Speaker 15: store the documents in Dropbox.
55:16
Speaker 22: That's a bill.
55:17
Speaker 15: I pay Google to store all of our files. I
55:20
Speaker 15: pay that out of my pocket. A scammer would have
55:23
Speaker 15: took their money and went. But I believe in this
55:25
Speaker 15: business and It's a great business. It's a great product.
55:28
Speaker 15: And people still want it. And I did everything I
55:31
Speaker 15: said I was going to do with the money. But
55:33
Speaker 15: we didn't go to the next step because we still
55:37
Speaker 15: were going. I did not consider how expensive it was
55:42
Speaker 15: going to be to launch that pop shop local program.
55:45
Speaker 15: I didn't budget for it. This is what happened. We
55:48
Speaker 15: didn't budget. It cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars
55:51
Speaker 15: that we never planned to spend.
55:54
Speaker 22: And that's what really took it, you know, over there.
55:56
Speaker 9: But.
55:57
Speaker 19: How is Dawn the person right now? Dawn the person... Like,
56:00
Speaker 19: are you coming up out of all of that?
56:01
Speaker 9: Yeah.
56:02
Speaker 14: Obviously, because you're getting back out here. Yeah.
56:04
Speaker 22: This is my first time out here.
56:05
Speaker 17: Yeah.
56:06
Speaker 15: Yeah.
56:06
Speaker 14: So how... I mean, that's a lot to have to.
56:09
Speaker 7: It is a lot.
56:10
Speaker 15: Especially when, you know, getting called a.
56:11
Speaker 22: Scammer, it was hard for me because I.
56:15
Speaker 22: Never experienced anything like that.
56:17
Speaker 15: I knew that when I opened up my company to
56:20
Speaker 15: let everybody invest, my intentions were so pure. Like now
56:23
Speaker 15: my people can invest, my community can invest. You know,
56:26
Speaker 15: I was so excited on this show talking about how
56:29
Speaker 15: we can create wealth together.
56:31
Speaker 22: So I was hurt.
56:32
Speaker 15: To let them down. You know, like that hurt me
56:34
Speaker 15: so deep because I'm like, we get so disappointed in
56:37
Speaker 15: our community.
56:38
Speaker 22: We always let each other down.
56:39
Speaker 15: We can't trust each other. I don't want to be
56:41
Speaker 15: another person where they like, See, I gave her money
56:43
Speaker 15: and I can't trust her.
56:44
Speaker 22: But I'm also a public lesson.
56:47
Speaker 4: Right.
56:47
Speaker 15: So I'm like, OK, I put myself out there and
56:49
Speaker 15: now they can see what this process looks like. And
56:52
Speaker 15: I just continue to tell the story and tell the truth. Dawn,
56:55
Speaker 15: the person is good now that. I've been investigated and
56:59
Speaker 15: cleared by like, I know you can't say I did
57:02
Speaker 15: nothing wrong because I know I didn't. You know, like
57:04
Speaker 15: even me, I did things wrong. I'll say I did
57:07
Speaker 15: things wrong as far as I could have made better
57:08
Speaker 15: hires and better decisions. But as far as fiscally, as
57:11
Speaker 15: far as legally, as far as like anything that could
57:14
Speaker 15: be in the scam adjacent category.
57:17
Speaker 17: No.
57:18
Speaker 22: But did things go left at times?
57:20
Speaker 11: Yes.
57:21
Speaker 15: So me, after now four years of this, I feel great.
57:26
Speaker 22: Yeah, I feel good.
57:27
Speaker 15: I feel really positive and optimistic also because I was
57:31
Speaker 15: kind of nervous. Like, what if I can't bring this back?
57:35
Speaker 15: But the fact that customers still want it, I just
57:38
Speaker 15: was ahead of my time.
57:39
Speaker 22: So I feel really encouraged.
57:41
Speaker 15: And then the fact that like, honestly, God just gave
57:44
Speaker 15: me this amazing business in Ghana to let me be
57:47
Speaker 15: able to support myself more, to pay popcorn bills. You know,
57:53
Speaker 15: I'm just grateful that Life goes on. And I also
57:56
Speaker 15: have so many other streams of income that I built
57:58
Speaker 15: for myself over the years that I'm not defined by
58:01
Speaker 15: one thing.
58:02
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I don't have no reason not to
58:04
Speaker 1: believe you, but people will say, well, how did you
58:06
Speaker 1: afford to move to Ghana?
58:08
Speaker 2: How did you afford? How are you affording to live
58:10
Speaker 2: if all the money is gone?
58:11
Speaker 15: It's unfortunate because popcorn money is gone, but not Don
58:14
Speaker 15: Dixon's money. I'm a 47 year old adult that's been
58:18
Speaker 15: working since I was 20 years old. I make good
58:21
Speaker 15: investment decisions. I save money. I also get six figures
58:26
Speaker 15: a year from speaking and doing influencer work for tech products.
58:29
Speaker 15: Like people just, I don't talk too much about that.
58:31
Speaker 15: I also have other businesses. I have my real estate
58:34
Speaker 15: business in Ghana, which is under my D1 Consulting. So
58:37
Speaker 15: I've had D1 Consulting since 2005. It's been my own
58:40
Speaker 15: personal business. And I've been generating money for that for years.
58:44
Speaker 15: That's how I could afford to stop paying myself a
58:46
Speaker 15: salary for Popcom. So I think the lesson is also
58:49
Speaker 15: have multiple streams of income and build them over time.
58:51
Speaker 22: Plan for, you know, I have a daughter.
58:54
Speaker 15: She was in college.
58:56
Speaker 22: I could not go broke.
58:57
Speaker 15: I have to support her. So knowing this, I've been investing.
59:02
Speaker 15: I got my first whole life policy when she was
59:05
Speaker 15: a baby. If anybody knows about whole life insurance, it
59:07
Speaker 15: gains cash value over years.
59:08
Speaker 7: My daughter's 22.
59:09
Speaker 22: So if nothing else, that's one place where money's at.
59:13
Speaker 15: So it's just that I didn't need to use pop-com
59:16
Speaker 15: money to make money.
59:18
Speaker 22: I make money myself.
59:20
Speaker 11: Yeah.
59:20
Speaker 2: Well, it's Dawn Dixon. If people want to complain to
59:22
Speaker 2: you directly, who do they, what do they do, Dawn?
59:25
Speaker 9: Hey.
59:25
Speaker 2: What website? Don't follow my Instagram.
59:28
Speaker 15: You know.
59:30
Speaker 15: Popcom.ai is still a business.
59:32
Speaker 9: It's there.
59:33
Speaker 22: DawnDixon.me. Come find me. And Dawn at Popcom.shop.
59:37
Speaker 15: Email me. Investors. If y'all think y'all haven't heard from
59:39
Speaker 15: me in years, that's my email.
59:42
Speaker 7: Hit me up.
59:42
Speaker 14: I just want to say, too, you getting back on
59:44
Speaker 14: the horse, I commend you for that.
59:46
Speaker 19: Because I watched a couple businesses this last year take
59:48
Speaker 19: a break because they couldn't scale. And I know that
59:51
Speaker 19: y'all lives be tied to y'all businesses. So I wish
59:53
Speaker 19: you the best of luck in what you're trying to
59:55
Speaker 19: figure out in this new realm.
59:56
Speaker 11: Thank you.
59:56
Speaker 2: Entrepreneurship is not easy.
59:57
Speaker 16: It's not.
59:58
Speaker 2: It is not. It is not at all. Well, thank you, Dawn.
1:00:01
Speaker 15: Thanks for having me. I just appreciate the opportunity to
1:00:03
Speaker 15: just clear the air to y'all because y'all put me
1:00:05
Speaker 15: out there. So I at least owe it to even
1:00:07
Speaker 15: your audience to be like, hey, this will happen.
1:00:09
Speaker 14: I'm showing up as a first step. Some people don't
1:00:11
Speaker 14: even show up to do that.
1:00:12
Speaker 22: I'm here and I'm open. You got my email, so
1:00:14
Speaker 22: hit me up.
1:00:15
Speaker 2: Absolutely. It's Dawn Dixon. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody.
1:00:18
Speaker 6: We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest
1:00:20
Speaker 6: with Lauren.
1:00:22
Speaker 7: Lauren becoming a straight fact.
1:00:23
Speaker 9: Tell her!
1:00:23
Speaker 2: Tell her! She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.
1:00:27
Speaker 2: She gets the details.
1:00:28
Speaker 14: I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
1:00:31
Speaker 2: She be having the latest on this. The latest with
1:00:35
Speaker 2: Lauren La Rosa.
1:00:36
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
1:00:38
Speaker 1: have a little bit of everything.
1:00:39
Speaker 7: Well, it's the latest.
1:00:40
Speaker 6: Brought to you by Top Dog Law.
1:00:42
Speaker 2: On The Breakfast Club. Talk to me.
1:00:44
Speaker 7: Talk to me.
1:00:45
Speaker 3: Top Dog Law.
1:00:46
Speaker 14: All right, y'all.
1:00:47
Speaker 19: Now, let's head on over to Chicago because last night
1:00:49
Speaker 19: Kanye West kicked off his homecoming show. uh concerts there
1:00:52
Speaker 19: and they're calling it a homecoming because kanye hasn't performed
1:00:54
Speaker 19: in chicago since 2021 um now i heard that there
1:00:58
Speaker 19: was a heat wave but the people did not care
1:00:59
Speaker 19: they were in line for hours waiting to get into
1:01:01
Speaker 19: this concert he sold out the first night also sold
1:01:04
Speaker 19: out tonight that's over 70 000.
1:01:05
Speaker 6: People and he's 72 000 they said.
1:01:07
Speaker 19: Yes he's been doing uh big numbers like uh new
1:01:10
Speaker 19: orleans was big as well too it was like 63
1:01:12
Speaker 19: to 65 000 people sold out as well but this
1:01:13
Speaker 19: is big because it's chicago it's home um but a
1:01:16
Speaker 19: surprise a big surprise happened when Kanye West brought out
1:01:20
Speaker 19: Big Sean and 2 Chainz to do Click.
1:01:23
Speaker 14: Let's take a listen to Big Sean on Click.
1:01:31
Speaker 1: I love to see that because, you know, of all
1:01:33
Speaker 1: the prior issues that Big Sean and Kanye had.
1:01:35
Speaker 2: Remember Kanye crashed out on Sean on Drink Champs?
1:01:37
Speaker 9: Yes.
1:01:37
Speaker 2: Sean went on Drink Champs and replied.
1:01:39
Speaker 14: Yes.
1:01:40
Speaker 2: I love to see them, you know, reconcile.
1:01:42
Speaker 14: Yes.
1:01:43
Speaker 7: I don't even know why I don't remember that.
1:01:45
Speaker 2: No, it was huge. It was huge.
1:01:47
Speaker 6: I think he said Sean was whack or something like that.
1:01:49
Speaker 14: He was upset. He said he should have never signed him.
1:01:52
Speaker 14: He was upset.
1:01:52
Speaker 19: He said that Big Sean and John Legend sided against
1:01:55
Speaker 19: him when he was on his whole little political run
1:01:57
Speaker 19: and that that was some sellout-ish.
1:01:59
Speaker 1: Oh, and also, too, now, the biggest thing, yeah, Big
1:02:03
Speaker 1: Sean said Kanye owed him like $ 6 million.
1:02:05
Speaker 7: Yep.
1:02:05
Speaker 14: There was money disputes as well.
1:02:07
Speaker 5: But Big Sean said they worked it out, though, right?
1:02:09
Speaker 5: He said he got some of it because they did
1:02:10
Speaker 5: say he worked it out.
1:02:11
Speaker 3: I'm sure.
1:02:12
Speaker 2: I'm not showing up on stage with you.
1:02:14
Speaker 3: You owe me six M's.
1:02:16
Speaker 2: I'm sure they reconciled that.
1:02:17
Speaker 7: Well, I'm going to come to collect. Well, Big Sean.
1:02:20
Speaker 9: Finally.
1:02:20
Speaker 19: Big Sean also briefly gave Kanye a bit of flowers,
1:02:23
Speaker 19: which I thought was fire to hear, too.
1:02:24
Speaker 14: Let's take a listen to that.
1:02:31
Speaker 5: I will say this, though, and I don't want to compare,
1:02:33
Speaker 5: but how I felt about when Jay-Z did those concerts
1:02:36
Speaker 5: and how New York was so excited and everybody was
1:02:39
Speaker 5: out and about talking about it. That's how Chicago is.
1:02:41
Speaker 5: I'm in Chicago now. And all day yesterday, people were
1:02:43
Speaker 5: super duper excited. People were flying in. The airports were packed.
1:02:47
Speaker 5: I ran into 2 Chainz yesterday. 2 Chainz said salute
1:02:49
Speaker 5: in Virgo season. But yeah, people were very excited that
1:02:53
Speaker 5: he was saying. They called it a huge homecoming. He
1:02:55
Speaker 5: sold out two shows. So Chicago's excited. Super duper excited
1:02:58
Speaker 5: about that.
1:02:59
Speaker 3: Kanye West.
1:03:00
Speaker 1: The other thing I'm happy about, clearly, Kanye West has
1:03:04
Speaker 1: been doing some type of work on himself. Because there
1:03:06
Speaker 1: haven't been no mental or emotional changes. outbursts we've seen
1:03:11
Speaker 1: in a while. So clearly, clearly he's in a good
1:03:14
Speaker 1: headspace and I think that's the most important thing.
1:03:16
Speaker 2: I hope he stays there.
1:03:18
Speaker 3: Yes.
1:03:18
Speaker 14: Yeah, and a shout out to everybody that took the
1:03:20
Speaker 14: stage with him. Like I said, Twista. Two Chains. Future
1:03:24
Speaker 14: came out as well.
1:03:25
Speaker 2: Your future was there? Yeah.
1:03:26
Speaker 19: Big show. He's taking that globe everywhere. Now shifting gears
1:03:31
Speaker 19: a bit but still talking music.
1:03:32
Speaker 2: Mary J.
1:03:33
Speaker 4: Blige.
1:03:33
Speaker 19: So you guys remember we talked about this Sonal commercial.
1:03:36
Speaker 19: And I told y'all the people were getting upset at
1:03:38
Speaker 19: Mary J. Blige because it appears in the commercial she
1:03:43
Speaker 19: is down with AI and the use of AI to
1:03:46
Speaker 19: create music. Let's take a listen to the original commercial
1:03:48
Speaker 19: because now it's being pulled.
1:03:50
Speaker 7: It is a tool that Hey guys, your voice.
1:03:55
Speaker 16: It's crazy.
1:04:05
Speaker 9: You like it?
1:04:06
Speaker 2: It's dope.
1:04:07
Speaker 6: I just process because I don't know what the hell
1:04:09
Speaker 6: y'all talking about.
1:04:10
Speaker 15: Yeah.
1:04:10
Speaker 2: So I like to learn what you're talking about.
1:04:12
Speaker 9: No, I get it.
1:04:13
Speaker 7: Now it's like, ah, okay, this is pretty dope.
1:04:16
Speaker 6: We can play with it more and learn more.
1:04:18
Speaker 7: Everything that's going on is pretty dope.
1:04:21
Speaker 19: Yeah, so this now is being pulled for several reasons.
1:04:25
Speaker 19: Number one, so there was a statement that was issued.
1:04:27
Speaker 19: And in the statement, they make it clear that Mary J.
1:04:29
Speaker 19: Blige did not approve this at all, like this endorsement.
1:04:34
Speaker 19: They also say that Sono, the company, the reason why
1:04:36
Speaker 19: this was even put out was because they went into
1:04:38
Speaker 19: a deal with a representative that they then found out
1:04:40
Speaker 19: was not an official representative for Mary J.
1:04:42
Speaker 14: Blige. They also mentioned that she was uncomfortable.
1:04:45
Speaker 19: And when they found out that she was uncomfortable with
1:04:47
Speaker 19: this whole thing, they are deciding to pull it.
1:04:49
Speaker 11: So.
1:04:50
Speaker 2: It don't seem like a commercial when you hear it.
1:04:52
Speaker 1: It seemed like somebody was recording some behind-the-scenes footage and
1:04:55
Speaker 1: then they used it for a commercial.
1:04:56
Speaker 2: It don't seem like an actual commercial.
1:04:58
Speaker 6: But it just seems like it's Mary J.
1:04:59
Speaker 9: Blige.
1:05:00
Speaker 6: Like, if a company's that big, there's no way they.
1:05:02
Speaker 5: Would put that out without some type of commission or
1:05:04
Speaker 5: somebody signing off.
1:05:06
Speaker 6: But, It doesn't seem like a commercial.
1:05:07
Speaker 5: Like Charlamagne said, it seems like they had a camera
1:05:09
Speaker 5: behind the scenes and they were just filming as they
1:05:10
Speaker 5: were talking.
1:05:11
Speaker 19: But, I mean, the company ran it. Like, it was
1:05:14
Speaker 19: on their Facebook. It was on their social handles. So,
1:05:16
Speaker 19: even if it is just behind the scenes, nowadays, you
1:05:18
Speaker 19: don't need much to advertise something across social media.
1:05:21
Speaker 6: It worked.
1:05:22
Speaker 14: Like, people.
1:05:23
Speaker 19: I mean, it didn't work well for her, but it
1:05:24
Speaker 19: got some traction to the company. People looked into what
1:05:26
Speaker 19: it was, so.
1:05:27
Speaker 2: I know one thing.
1:05:28
Speaker 1: If it is a real commercial, I'm so sick of
1:05:29
Speaker 1: y'all coming at Mary in her commercials. Mary can't do nothing.
1:05:32
Speaker 1: They endorse me deal without y'all being mad.
1:05:34
Speaker 2: Mary want to sing about chicken? Y'all got backlash. Mary
1:05:38
Speaker 2: in an AI commercial? Y'all got backlash. Can Mary get
1:05:40
Speaker 2: some endorsement money?
1:05:41
Speaker 9: Huh?
1:05:42
Speaker 3: She's worked hard.
1:05:43
Speaker 1: That's why she be on that stage, you know, barely
1:05:45
Speaker 1: wanting to sing for y'all because she.
1:05:47
Speaker 2: Got to do that because y'all won't let her make
1:05:48
Speaker 2: no extra money. Okay? I'm sick of this. Have Mary
1:05:52
Speaker 2: not earned the right? She has.
1:05:53
Speaker 7: I want a chicken wrap right now. You see what
1:05:55
Speaker 7: I'm saying?
1:05:56
Speaker 14: We got the commercial.
1:05:57
Speaker 2: No, don't you dare.
1:05:58
Speaker 3: Don't play that commercial.
1:05:59
Speaker 2: She don't like when y'all play that commercial.
1:06:00
Speaker 3: Y'all stop.
1:06:01
Speaker 19: First of all, y'all made me play it the very
1:06:02
Speaker 19: first time when we talked. What were we talking about?
1:06:04
Speaker 2: I ain't never made you play that Mary.
1:06:05
Speaker 14: We did play it.
1:06:06
Speaker 15: We did play it.
1:06:07
Speaker 8: When you first talked about when she sat down with
1:06:09
Speaker 8: Scott Evans, I think.
1:06:10
Speaker 9: No.
1:06:10
Speaker 14: Don't blame her. She brought it up. And they were pissed.
1:06:13
Speaker 14: It was like, why would y'all play that commercial?
1:06:15
Speaker 7: Y'all know she hates it. She said she hates it.
1:06:17
Speaker 21: She did.
1:06:18
Speaker 14: She said it did not turn out the way that
1:06:19
Speaker 14: it was intended. It was not creative.
1:06:21
Speaker 2: I don't play about Mary J.
1:06:22
Speaker 9: Blige.
1:06:22
Speaker 14: You was up there dancing, talking about me.
1:06:24
Speaker 2: Because I like the commercial. The commercial is dope.
1:06:27
Speaker 14: I like it so much.
1:06:28
Speaker 19: Well, listen, that commercial with Sono is not approved. They're
1:06:32
Speaker 19: pulling it. Now we move on.
1:06:34
Speaker 15: Let Mary J.
1:06:35
Speaker 3: Blige be great.
1:06:35
Speaker 19: Yes, now that was the latest for the hour. It
1:06:37
Speaker 19: was brought to you guys by Top Dog Law. Wait, no,
1:06:40
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1:06:41
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Speaker 14: Their bark is their bite.
1:06:46
Speaker 1: The fact that you're not even reading this off paper,
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Speaker 1: the fact that you just got these off the top
1:06:49
Speaker 1: of your head, Top Dog Law.
1:06:51
Speaker 2: Has done a number on you, man.
1:06:52
Speaker 14: Speaking of commercials.
1:06:53
Speaker 2: That's right. Now let's jump into Charlemagne's donkey.
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Speaker 16: All right, man.
1:06:59
Speaker 2: Slide on in. Before after the hour, man, it's the
1:07:01
Speaker 2: People's Donkey, okay? 1-800-585-1051. Everybody get in.
1:07:05
Speaker 1: You can call up and get somebody's credit. They deserve
1:07:08
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Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 2: It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own.
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Speaker 9: 800-585-1051.
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Speaker 1: Donkey of the Day for Friday, September 4th. Beyonce's Born
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Speaker 1: Day is the people's donkey. That's when we allow you,
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Speaker 1: the people, to call in and give somebody the credit
1:07:33
Speaker 1: they deserve for being stupid.
1:07:36
Speaker 2: So 1-800-585-1051. Good morning. Who's this?
1:07:38
Speaker 15: Hey, this is JB.
1:07:39
Speaker 5: How y'all doing?
1:07:40
Speaker 2: What's up, JB? How are you?
1:07:42
Speaker 4: Good.
1:07:43
Speaker 2: Who you want to give the biggest hee-haw to, JB?
1:07:45
Speaker 4: Giving the biggest donkey of the day to Johnny.
1:07:49
Speaker 6: Who's Johnny?
1:07:50
Speaker 18: We're friends, but somebody, you know, that I'm cool with.
1:07:54
Speaker 17: Dealing with whatever.
1:07:55
Speaker 2: Where you from?
1:07:56
Speaker 9: Atlanta.
1:07:57
Speaker 2: You let him hit raw, and he ain't called you since.
1:07:59
Speaker 2: What happened?
1:08:00
Speaker 7: Oh, my God.
1:08:01
Speaker 18: Don't do that.
1:08:02
Speaker 2: Don't do that. But I know that's what happened.
1:08:05
Speaker 18: No, that's not the case.
1:08:06
Speaker 15: He's just playing crackhead games and too much, doing too much.
1:08:12
Speaker 1: Now you're a crackhead. He wasn't a crackhead when you
1:08:14
Speaker 1: was butt naked. When you was butt naked with him
1:08:16
Speaker 1: on top of you, breathing hard.
1:08:18
Speaker 2: Now you're a crackhead.
1:08:19
Speaker 18: No, no, no.
1:08:21
Speaker 2: This is not right.
1:08:23
Speaker 17: No, he's a fool.
1:08:24
Speaker 2: Okay. What happened, though? What did he do to you?
1:08:27
Speaker 15: He just don't ever want to tell the truth.
1:08:30
Speaker 18: He's just playing with bums.
1:08:32
Speaker 15: Like, I'm about to get my degree, class of 2027, and,
1:08:36
Speaker 15: you know, we just hit a donkey the other day.
1:08:38
Speaker 17: So, sorry, boo.
1:08:39
Speaker 2: Is he playing with bums?
1:08:41
Speaker 8: No.
1:08:41
Speaker 15: No, playing with bums.
1:08:43
Speaker 2: With bums? Bums? Yeah, bums.
1:08:46
Speaker 18: B-U-M-S.
1:08:46
Speaker 3: Oh, bums, bums, bums, bums, bums, bums.
1:08:50
Speaker 2: So, you're not his only woman. You want to be
1:08:52
Speaker 2: his only woman, but you're not.
1:08:54
Speaker 15: No, it's not even, no, I don't even want to
1:08:55
Speaker 15: be the only one.
1:08:56
Speaker 18: I'm just listening. I did what I needed to do.
1:08:58
Speaker 10: I'm good.
1:08:58
Speaker 2: What did you need? Tell me what you needed.
1:08:59
Speaker 4: To do.
1:09:02
Speaker 18: You heard me. I'm class of 2027, graduating from Georgia State,
1:09:05
Speaker 18: getting my bachelor's. So you know what time it is, Charlamagne.
1:09:09
Speaker 2: I know. I'm happy for you, and I'm glad you graduated.
1:09:11
Speaker 2: Thank you.
1:09:12
Speaker 13: Salute to you.
1:09:12
Speaker 1: You are super successful. Well, boy, you're going to miss
1:09:15
Speaker 1: that man making your toes curl. And it's okay. It's okay.
1:09:19
Speaker 1: I know what you're doing right now. You're just trying
1:09:21
Speaker 1: to get it out your system, and it's okay. I'm
1:09:23
Speaker 1: here for you. I'm here for you to allow you
1:09:25
Speaker 1: to vent.
1:09:26
Speaker 2: I get it.
1:09:27
Speaker 18: Oh, please, Charlie. No, I'm good. I promise you, I'm good.
1:09:30
Speaker 15: I'm good.
1:09:30
Speaker 3: All right.
1:09:31
Speaker 2: I believe you.
1:09:32
Speaker 18: All right, thank you.
1:09:33
Speaker 2: All right, peace. Good morning. Who's this?
1:09:35
Speaker 10: Lala.
1:09:36
Speaker 3: Hey, Lala.
1:09:37
Speaker 18: Hey. Okay, so I've been trying to get on for.
1:09:40
Speaker 4: A long time.
1:09:41
Speaker 9: Right.
1:09:42
Speaker 18: Um, let me tell you, I want to give my baby... Hey, um,
1:09:44
Speaker 18: Jess with the mess.
1:09:45
Speaker 7: Hey, boo.
1:09:46
Speaker 17: Okay, so I want to give my baby daddy donkey
1:09:49
Speaker 17: of the day.
1:09:49
Speaker 2: Oh, how many baby daddies you got?
1:09:51
Speaker 16: One.
1:09:52
Speaker 2: Okay, you said daddy, so I didn't know. What's his name?
1:09:54
Speaker 18: His name, I'm going to give his whole name.
1:09:56
Speaker 17: His name is Ricky.
1:09:59
Speaker 18: He work at home in Miami.
1:10:01
Speaker 3: Damn.
1:10:05
Speaker 17: Let me tell you what he did.
1:10:06
Speaker 18: So he started talking to this young girl.
1:10:08
Speaker 17: They call him a pedophile.
1:10:09
Speaker 9: No.
1:10:09
Speaker 2: All right. Come on now.
1:10:12
Speaker 17: Let me tell you.
1:10:13
Speaker 18: The young girl tried to talk to his son. Both
1:10:17
Speaker 18: his sons. Both of his sons. And guess what? The
1:10:22
Speaker 18: girl was his daughter's friend. He kicked his daughter out
1:10:25
Speaker 18: just so the girl and her daughter could move in.
1:10:28
Speaker 2: How old is Ricky?
1:10:30
Speaker 18: Ricky is 45 years old.
1:10:32
Speaker 2: How old is the girl?
1:10:34
Speaker 18: Early 20s.
1:10:35
Speaker 2: How y'all calling the man a pedophile?
1:10:37
Speaker 7: I mean, she is young. That is crazy.
1:10:40
Speaker 1: I don't agree with the age difference, but he's not
1:10:43
Speaker 1: a pedophile.
1:10:44
Speaker 18: He's 45 years old and don't date nobody over 21.
1:10:47
Speaker 17: He's a pedophile.
1:10:49
Speaker 18: That was his daughter's friend. They actually hung out together.
1:10:52
Speaker 18: His daughter was going to fight her because she started
1:10:55
Speaker 18: dating his daddies.
1:10:56
Speaker 2: Very uncouth. Very uncouth.
1:10:59
Speaker 1: I wouldn't encourage no older man to do that, but
1:11:01
Speaker 1: he's not a pedophile.
1:11:03
Speaker 18: That's the moment. That's the point. Let me tell you
1:11:05
Speaker 18: why he gets dunked the other day.
1:11:07
Speaker 2: Okay.
1:11:07
Speaker 18: So he has a son with me. My son is
1:11:10
Speaker 18: 12 years old now. He was not doing anything for
1:11:14
Speaker 18: my son.
1:11:14
Speaker 2: Nothing.
1:11:15
Speaker 18: And I never actually asked him for money in my hand.
1:11:18
Speaker 18: I just tell him to do for my son. He
1:11:20
Speaker 18: stopped doing it for my son, right, because I put
1:11:22
Speaker 18: him on child support. Child support was $ 4.
1:11:28
Speaker 9: 29.
1:11:28
Speaker 2: $ 4.
1:11:28
Speaker 9: 29.
1:11:29
Speaker 18: Once the child support got the $ 4. 29, he said he
1:11:34
Speaker 18: no longer wants to do it for my son. The
1:11:36
Speaker 18: school principal called him, and he told the principal, what
1:11:39
Speaker 18: you calling me for?
1:11:40
Speaker 2: Hey, that $ 0. 29 broke him, man. That $ 0. 29, that's a
1:11:42
Speaker 2: good time.
1:11:42
Speaker 1: $ 4, yo, $ 4. 29. $ 4. 29.
1:11:48
Speaker 18: When it was his time to get my son, because
1:11:51
Speaker 18: we had a court order, when it was his time
1:11:53
Speaker 18: to get my son, guess what he did?
1:11:54
Speaker 2: What'd he do?
1:11:55
Speaker 18: He called the police. He called the police on his
1:11:59
Speaker 18: 12-year-old son and told the police that he don't want him.
1:12:02
Speaker 9: Dang. This is a piece of shit. Damn.
1:12:07
Speaker 2: Then guess what?
1:12:09
Speaker 18: He ride around the hood. He ride around the hood
1:12:11
Speaker 18: on the little moped.
1:12:12
Speaker 1: The little moped.
1:12:15
Speaker 18: And then when everybody, like when everybody asked for his son,
1:12:19
Speaker 18: he's 12. He stopped being in his son's life at
1:12:22
Speaker 18: seven years old.
1:12:23
Speaker 9: Okay.
1:12:24
Speaker 18: So when everybody asks for his son, he tells everybody
1:12:27
Speaker 18: that I don't allow him to see the son. When
1:12:29
Speaker 18: we went back to court for child support, he told
1:12:31
Speaker 18: the judge that I don't let him see the son.
1:12:34
Speaker 18: But every time it's time for him to get the baby,
1:12:36
Speaker 18: he called the police on me. Listen, he took the
1:12:39
Speaker 18: girlfriend's daughter to Disney World for her birthday, which is
1:12:44
Speaker 18: his stepdaughter. Guess what he did for his son?
1:12:47
Speaker 9: Nothing.
1:12:48
Speaker 18: Didn't call to say him happy birthday. Didn't nothing, nothing, nothing.
1:12:52
Speaker 18: I tried to put him in the Miami Times as
1:12:54
Speaker 18: a deadbeat, but they won that beat.
1:12:58
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for calling, ma'am. I hope that y'all
1:13:01
Speaker 1: figure it out. I hope y'all work it out at least.
1:13:03
Speaker 2: For the young man. You know what I mean?
1:13:05
Speaker 18: Don't wreck it down. Every time he see him or
1:13:07
Speaker 18: he is talking, get him. He called the police on him.
1:13:10
Speaker 18: They're still working it out.
1:13:11
Speaker 1: Well, maybe I need to meet your son because I
1:13:13
Speaker 1: need to know why he keep getting the police called
1:13:15
Speaker 1: on him every time he come around. He wanted him
1:13:17
Speaker 1: for the boy. How long is his dreadlock? He got
1:13:20
Speaker 1: a mouth full of gold. I'm trying to figure out.
1:13:22
Speaker 1: She said he 10.
1:13:24
Speaker 2: 12, 12.
1:13:24
Speaker 18: Don't do that. Don't do that.
1:13:26
Speaker 7: He don't have no clothes.
1:13:27
Speaker 18: They don't even pass his shoulder.
1:13:30
Speaker 2: Oh, okay. I'm just saying, you know what I mean?
1:13:32
Speaker 18: Don't get suspended. Don't get kicked out and never went
1:13:35
Speaker 18: to the J.
1:13:35
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about.
1:13:38
Speaker 1: He need to treat his little J better, man.
1:13:40
Speaker 7: Exactly.
1:13:40
Speaker 17: He's a piece of shit.
1:13:42
Speaker 18: He's a pedophile. So whoever listening to this, everybody know
1:13:45
Speaker 18: that Ricky is a pedophile.
1:13:48
Speaker 14: And he's a piece of shit.
1:13:50
Speaker 1: You have to stop saying that because that's defamation.
1:13:54
Speaker 2: You can't say that.
1:13:55
Speaker 8: So if you see him riding in the hood on
1:13:57
Speaker 8: the moped.
1:13:57
Speaker 2: The little moped. The little one.
1:14:00
Speaker 18: And he was already in his late 30s.
1:14:02
Speaker 2: He what?
1:14:03
Speaker 18: He's a pedophile.
1:14:04
Speaker 2: He did what now?
1:14:05
Speaker 18: When I was 20 years old and he was already
1:14:07
Speaker 18: in his late 30s.
1:14:08
Speaker 2: That don't make you a pedophile if you was late.
1:14:11
Speaker 2: You said you were in your 20s.
1:14:13
Speaker 6: Pedophile is under 16 and under, I believe.
1:14:16
Speaker 9: Huh?
1:14:16
Speaker 18: Would you talk to your daughter for it?
1:14:18
Speaker 2: Hell no. But that don't mean that.
1:14:20
Speaker 18: Exactly.
1:14:20
Speaker 2: She talk.
1:14:20
Speaker 18: Doesn't matter.
1:14:21
Speaker 7: No, he would.
1:14:22
Speaker 8: What Charlamagne's saying, he's legally not a pedophile.
1:14:27
Speaker 2: But it's still bad.
1:14:28
Speaker 7: Morally, that's horrible.
1:14:30
Speaker 18: Charlamagne, one more question.
1:14:31
Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
1:14:32
Speaker 18: What you think about Vaughn Miller?
1:14:35
Speaker 2: We going to the Super Bowl, baby. Cowboys going to
1:14:38
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl.
1:14:39
Speaker 4: Let's go.
1:14:40
Speaker 2: Yes.
1:14:41
Speaker 9: Yes.
1:14:41
Speaker 3: We need that.
1:14:42
Speaker 2: We need that.
1:14:43
Speaker 3: I was with her.
1:14:44
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
1:14:46
Speaker 9: Thank you.
1:14:46
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. This is what we forgot just now.
1:14:49
Speaker 1: what we was talking to somebody from florida okay the.
1:14:52
Speaker 2: Craziest people in america come from the bronx and all
1:14:54
Speaker 2: of florida we i don't even know why we even
1:14:57
Speaker 2: tried to engage with her with any rationality or any
1:15:00
Speaker 2: type of logic all right you gotta let them people
1:15:02
Speaker 2: from florida just cook okay i.
1:15:04
Speaker 8: Thought maybe she ain't know that though like that's why
1:15:06
Speaker 8: you was trying to teach him but she was just
1:15:07
Speaker 8: so mad at her baby daddy.
1:15:09
Speaker 2: I know i know he's so mad.
1:15:12
Speaker 7: You had to tell us that he'd be riding around
1:15:14
Speaker 7: in the hood on the moped.
1:15:15
Speaker 2: It ain't got nothing to do with the story.
1:15:16
Speaker 1: But I know he's so mad because he's riding around
1:15:18
Speaker 1: on his scooter talking about, he's calling me a pedophile.
1:15:23
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. All right.
1:15:25
Speaker 9: Damn, yo.
1:15:25
Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
1:15:27
Speaker 1: Look at that peddling pedophile on that goddamn scooter.
1:15:30
Speaker 2: On the moped.
1:15:31
Speaker 3: On the moped.
1:15:32
Speaker 16: Damn.
1:15:33
Speaker 2: Oh, my God, man. We do that every Friday, the
1:15:35
Speaker 2: People's Donkey.
1:15:36
Speaker 21: 1-800-585-1051.
1:15:38
Speaker 1: You can call up and give anybody you want the
1:15:40
Speaker 1: credit they deserve for being stupid.
1:15:42
Speaker 2: Morning, everybody.
1:15:43
Speaker 5: It's DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
1:15:47
Speaker 5: The Breakfast Club. Lorna Rose is here as well. We
1:15:50
Speaker 5: got a special guest in the building.
1:15:51
Speaker 1: You know him as one of the biggest independent artists out,
1:15:54
Speaker 1: if not the biggest, but now he's about to be
1:15:56
Speaker 1: a movie star.
1:15:57
Speaker 2: Come on. Russ, what's up, my brother? What up, man?
1:16:01
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny.
1:16:01
Speaker 1: You've spent like a whole career building a system where
1:16:05
Speaker 1: you're the boss. So what's it like walking on a
1:16:07
Speaker 1: movie set where nobody gives a damn that you rushed?
1:16:09
Speaker 2: OK, you got a director. You got to hurry up
1:16:11
Speaker 2: and wait. You got to hit line. Somebody else wrote it.
1:16:13
Speaker 2: You got to surrender complete control.
1:16:15
Speaker 3: Surprisingly, it was one of the most just fulfilling experiences
1:16:20
Speaker 3: because because of all those things you said, like it
1:16:23
Speaker 3: wasn't all on me.
1:16:24
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
1:16:24
Speaker 3: I got to finally sort of just show up on
1:16:27
Speaker 3: X marks the spot and just do your part. And
1:16:30
Speaker 3: everyone else is handling like the logistics. And it was nice, man.
1:16:33
Speaker 3: And just to be part of a community, it gave
1:16:36
Speaker 3: me such a contrast with my music career. And it
1:16:38
Speaker 3: made me realize how lonely my music career has been.
1:16:41
Speaker 3: And just how like isolated I've been in my music career.
1:16:45
Speaker 3: And it was, man, I was sending voice memos at
1:16:47
Speaker 3: the end of it, like bawling my eyes out to
1:16:49
Speaker 3: the director and the cast. Some people responded, some people
1:16:51
Speaker 3: did not.
1:16:52
Speaker 10: But uh that's interesting you said you felt isolated as
1:16:57
Speaker 10: an artist well yeah you gotta think right it's like
1:16:59
Speaker 10: i go downstairs in my house in my studio and
1:17:02
Speaker 10: sit there by myself and make a lot of songs
1:17:04
Speaker 10: right and it's awesome and i love it.
1:17:06
Speaker 3: Granted like earlier on i was maybe you know in
1:17:09
Speaker 3: the studio with more people because my boy boogus was
1:17:11
Speaker 3: in his house but For the most part of the
1:17:14
Speaker 3: last five, six years, it's just been me, Dolo, in
1:17:16
Speaker 3: the basement in the studio, and it's been great. But
1:17:19
Speaker 3: going on a movie set, and it's 100 people, and
1:17:21
Speaker 3: we're all here to do this one thing.
1:17:24
Speaker 7: Sense of community.
1:17:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so incredible, because you know you're not
1:17:27
Speaker 3: by yourself in this thing. It's not just you going
1:17:30
Speaker 3: through what you're going through. You guys are all kind
1:17:32
Speaker 3: of going through the same quote-unquote... It was just so beautiful.
1:17:35
Speaker 7: A lot of support.
1:17:36
Speaker 6: Yeah.
1:17:36
Speaker 3: And I was like, wow, I need to create this
1:17:39
Speaker 3: in my music career.
1:17:41
Speaker 1: I wonder if you being independent caused that. Because you
1:17:43
Speaker 1: see a lot of these guys that signed to majors.
1:17:45
Speaker 1: It seems like it's a lot of camaraderie. Maybe because
1:17:48
Speaker 1: you're independent, they're like, you know what, let's keep him
1:17:50
Speaker 1: over there.
1:17:50
Speaker 3: No, it was personal choice.
1:17:52
Speaker 2: Okay, okay. Yeah, it was user error. You just don't
1:17:54
Speaker 2: like him. Well, no, it was just like, * * * *.
1:17:57
Speaker 3: No, it was just what it was was, well, I
1:18:00
Speaker 3: don't need anyone to make a song. So I'll just
1:18:03
Speaker 3: make the songs by myself. You know what I mean?
1:18:05
Speaker 3: I didn't understand the value really of collaboration, I guess,
1:18:10
Speaker 3: in a sense. Like, it's not that I haven't collaborated
1:18:12
Speaker 3: with people, but a studio session to me is so
1:18:15
Speaker 3: spiritual and private and vulnerable. I love that. That I
1:18:18
Speaker 3: don't want people around. Like, don't watch me while I'm recording. Like,
1:18:21
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? So for me, that was
1:18:24
Speaker 3: kind of the mindset. But after doing the movie, I'm
1:18:26
Speaker 3: Way more open to, you know, getting in the studio
1:18:29
Speaker 3: with people and just having fun doing and trying to
1:18:32
Speaker 3: make one thing with a bunch of people.
1:18:34
Speaker 7: Why the name The Elephant and the Rider?
1:18:36
Speaker 3: So it comes from this psychology term, The Elephant and
1:18:39
Speaker 3: the Rider. I got introduced to it via therapy. And
1:18:42
Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys are familiar with it,
1:18:43
Speaker 3: but it's incredible, man. It just like kind of just
1:18:46
Speaker 3: explains the relationship between your conscious system. which is the rider,
1:18:51
Speaker 3: kind of like your brain, and then your automatic system,
1:18:54
Speaker 3: the elephant.
1:18:55
Speaker 2: Is that when they chained the elephant? When the elephant
1:18:57
Speaker 2: was chained?
1:18:58
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't think so. But it's basically
1:19:01
Speaker 3: like the world teaches the elephant, the elephant adapts, and
1:19:06
Speaker 3: then the rider inherits the consequences. You know what I mean?
1:19:11
Speaker 3: So for me, an example is like, okay, well, earlier
1:19:14
Speaker 3: on in my childhood, my system learned to like scan
1:19:18
Speaker 3: for threats and watch everything super closely. And, you know,
1:19:22
Speaker 3: because it's like, we need to be aware of any
1:19:25
Speaker 3: trouble that's on the way. In order to feel safe.
1:19:28
Speaker 3: But like 30 years later, the rider in my adult
1:19:31
Speaker 3: brain is like, why can't you relax? And the elephant
1:19:35
Speaker 3: is like, because I'm doing the job that you needed
1:19:36
Speaker 3: me to do all those years ago. So it's like
1:19:39
Speaker 3: the goal to me is integration. It's not like control.
1:19:42
Speaker 3: It's not, you know, your brain or the rider telling
1:19:45
Speaker 3: the elephant, do as I say. It's more so understanding like, okay,
1:19:49
Speaker 3: what is happening right now? And is this from before
1:19:53
Speaker 3: or is it right now? You know what I mean?
1:19:55
Speaker 3: If what I'm feeling is actually just decades old of information,
1:20:00
Speaker 3: then I need to understand that instead of like, running
1:20:03
Speaker 3: around in present day time trying to make sense of
1:20:07
Speaker 3: what my body's feeling when my body's really reacting to
1:20:10
Speaker 3: something from 30 years ago. It's thinking that that's happening
1:20:12
Speaker 3: right now.
1:20:13
Speaker 14: It's like how people deal with traumatic experiences.
1:20:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's somatic. It's in your body.
1:20:16
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:20:17
Speaker 19: It's interesting to hear you say that because I've watched
1:20:19
Speaker 19: a lot of your interviews where you talk about like
1:20:20
Speaker 19: your process with music and just throwing things out there
1:20:22
Speaker 19: and almost not needing approval by people, just letting things
1:20:25
Speaker 19: just do what it wants to do. It sounds like
1:20:27
Speaker 19: you're almost working backwards from that now and kind of
1:20:30
Speaker 19: releasing control a little bit, even though you've always seemed
1:20:32
Speaker 19: a little free.
1:20:34
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:20:34
Speaker 14: It seems like a different era of like you're kind
1:20:36
Speaker 14: of open a little bit more.
1:20:37
Speaker 3: Well, I think I'm confronting things I never was willing
1:20:40
Speaker 3: to confront. And I think to be honest, I think
1:20:43
Speaker 3: as much as I wanted to believe I wasn't chasing
1:20:45
Speaker 3: the approval of people, I was. I kind of grew
1:20:49
Speaker 3: up with my dad being the authority. And then I
1:20:52
Speaker 3: outsourced the authority to the public.
1:20:54
Speaker 16: Oh, wow, okay.
1:20:55
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
1:20:56
Speaker 14: I could see that.
1:20:57
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:20:57
Speaker 2: You cared about what your dad thought, but now you
1:20:59
Speaker 2: care about what the public thinks.
1:21:00
Speaker 3: Well, and I was scared of getting in trouble with
1:21:03
Speaker 3: my dad. Scared of making a mistake to my dad.
1:21:08
Speaker 3: Now I'm scared of making a mistake to the public
1:21:11
Speaker 3: and getting in trouble by the public. It's like I've
1:21:13
Speaker 3: made the public the authority, which makes sense because as
1:21:16
Speaker 3: a musician, you do, unfortunately, from an economic standpoint, live
1:21:21
Speaker 3: and die by do people like you or not.
1:21:24
Speaker 7: Yeah, validation.
1:21:25
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Like, I've always said with sports,
1:21:27
Speaker 3: it's so finite. It's like, you can hate that NBA player,
1:21:30
Speaker 3: but if he averages 20 and 10, it doesn't matter.
1:21:34
Speaker 3: He's still going to get a job. You know what
1:21:37
Speaker 3: I mean? You're not affecting his finances, but as a
1:21:41
Speaker 3: musician or public figure, it's like, If the public says
1:21:44
Speaker 3: we don't like you, it kind of gets a little sketchy.
1:21:47
Speaker 2: What did acting expose that music allowed you to hide?
1:21:51
Speaker 3: Wow. Acting requires you to have immediate access to things
1:21:56
Speaker 3: that you're not immediately feeling.
1:21:59
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
1:22:00
Speaker 3: With music, I'm only going to record this emotional song
1:22:05
Speaker 3: because I'm experiencing these emotions right now. So I'm not
1:22:08
Speaker 3: trying to perform it. Acting is like, be sad now.
1:22:11
Speaker 9: It's like, uh.
1:22:13
Speaker 3: To answer your question, it required me to have more
1:22:15
Speaker 3: empathy because I had to have empathy for what the
1:22:18
Speaker 3: character was going through. It didn't matter if I, Russell Vitale,
1:22:21
Speaker 3: was scared in the moment. It's like the character and
1:22:24
Speaker 3: how can you empathize with where the character is in
1:22:27
Speaker 3: his story and all that. So all the acting class
1:22:29
Speaker 3: I was taking, they were just emphasizing empathy is a huge,
1:22:32
Speaker 3: huge part of it.
1:22:33
Speaker 7: What shocked you the most about yourself in this role?
1:22:37
Speaker 3: I went in there so fast.
1:22:38
Speaker 9: Nervous.
1:22:39
Speaker 3: So nervous. That wasn't what shocked me because I was
1:22:41
Speaker 3: so nervous. I didn't think I was going to do
1:22:44
Speaker 3: that great. And as we kept filming, I felt like
1:22:48
Speaker 3: I did pretty well, especially there was just, there was
1:22:51
Speaker 3: moments on set where I was like, I know I
1:22:53
Speaker 3: killed that. And, um, I remember just being so nervous
1:22:56
Speaker 3: and talking with my therapist about it. And I would like,
1:22:59
Speaker 3: this is what I do. I don't know if anyone
1:23:00
Speaker 3: else does this, but I would oscillate between two extremes
1:23:04
Speaker 3: of I have to be perfect and kill it and like,
1:23:07
Speaker 3: oh my God, and start to spiral. And then why
1:23:10
Speaker 3: do I even care about this anyway? You know what
1:23:13
Speaker 3: I mean?
1:23:13
Speaker 9: Yeah.
1:23:14
Speaker 3: It's like, how about the middle?
1:23:16
Speaker 2: My daddy used to always say to me growing up,
1:23:18
Speaker 2: you're never as good as they are. You're never as
1:23:20
Speaker 2: good as they say you are. And you're never as
1:23:22
Speaker 2: bad as they say you are. Yeah. And that's always
1:23:24
Speaker 2: kept me in that gray area. I can't operate with extremes.
1:23:26
Speaker 3: You know what helped me? So going into it, my
1:23:29
Speaker 3: therapist was like, how about going into it as a beginner?
1:23:33
Speaker 9: The truth.
1:23:33
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh. I didn't realize that that
1:23:37
Speaker 3: was accessible.
1:23:38
Speaker 4: Yeah.
1:23:38
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
1:23:39
Speaker 3: Because it was like, oh, wow. They're not expecting me
1:23:41
Speaker 3: to come on set and be Brad Pitt. They know
1:23:43
Speaker 3: this is my first role, but I'm going in there
1:23:45
Speaker 3: with those expectations of myself just because of who I
1:23:48
Speaker 3: am and how I'm wired. But when I walked in
1:23:51
Speaker 3: as like, okay, I am a beginner. Ask questions. Own it.
1:23:55
Speaker 3: And do your best every time. And take it serious.
1:23:57
Speaker 3: And honor the opportunity. Meaning... Take the acting classes. Stay
1:24:01
Speaker 3: reading the script. Don't mess your lines up. And like
1:24:03
Speaker 3: I was dialed in. I was super, super dialed in.
1:24:06
Speaker 3: I took it serious. I honored the craft of it
1:24:09
Speaker 3: and the respect of it. And I didn't want to
1:24:11
Speaker 3: like be the guy there who's just trying to wing it.
1:24:13
Speaker 3: And like, of course, you're winging it because you're not
1:24:15
Speaker 3: even really an actor. It's like, no, I really took
1:24:17
Speaker 3: it serious. But I think going into it with that
1:24:20
Speaker 3: beginner mindset allowed me. To be a sponge. And it
1:24:23
Speaker 3: also allowed me to, you know, a little bit more
1:24:27
Speaker 3: liberty to make mistakes.
1:24:29
Speaker 1: Do you remember that period when it felt like the
1:24:31
Speaker 1: internet genuinely enjoyed.
1:24:33
Speaker 2: F * * * ing with you?
1:24:34
Speaker 9: Yeah.
1:24:34
Speaker 20: They did not. There was an anti-Russ campaign. My boy
1:24:37
Speaker 20: was just telling me like, I think it was 2018.
1:24:39
Speaker 20: He reminded me. He was like, there was a list
1:24:42
Speaker 20: that came out. I don't remember the list, but he
1:24:44
Speaker 20: was telling me yesterday. Of most hated people in the world.
1:24:47
Speaker 20: And it was like an end of year list.
1:24:49
Speaker 3: Trump was number one. I think Logan Paul was number
1:24:51
Speaker 3: two for like the Forrest thing. And then me. And
1:24:56
Speaker 3: then Kim Jong-un.
1:24:57
Speaker 2: And then Kim Jong-un.
1:24:58
Speaker 3: I think KD was number three because he went to
1:25:00
Speaker 3: the Warriors. And then me and then Kim Jong-un. It's like, what?
1:25:04
Speaker 3: It's nuts. But I remember that time vividly. Vividly.
1:25:08
Speaker 1: What part of that criticism was unfair? And what part
1:25:11
Speaker 1: did you eventually realize, you know what, I might have
1:25:13
Speaker 1: earned it?
1:25:13
Speaker 3: The delivery of my message was harsh, but I stand
1:25:16
Speaker 3: by my message. I was just calling out glorification of
1:25:20
Speaker 3: substance abuse. That was a crazy time in rap where
1:25:23
Speaker 3: it was just like it felt like everyone was glorifying
1:25:27
Speaker 3: just hard drugs and being on them. You know what
1:25:30
Speaker 3: I mean?
1:25:31
Speaker 11: Yeah.
1:25:31
Speaker 2: You completely won that argument.
1:25:34
Speaker 15: 100%.
1:25:34
Speaker 1: When you look back in hindsight and look at all
1:25:36
Speaker 1: the people we've lost, you completely won that argument.
1:25:39
Speaker 2: Because it wasn't nothing to be debated.
1:25:41
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, again, me and my friends always talk
1:25:42
Speaker 3: about it. It's like, you know there's something backwards going
1:25:45
Speaker 3: on in society. If you come out and say, like,
1:25:48
Speaker 3: stop doing all these drugs and promoting them, and you're
1:25:52
Speaker 3: the bad guy.
1:25:52
Speaker 2: Like, I'm the bad guy.
1:25:54
Speaker 3: It's like, got it. Okay. But again, to me, that
1:25:57
Speaker 3: was counterculture. Culture was not Trying to hear that. It
1:26:01
Speaker 3: was counterculture to come out and be like, Xanax and
1:26:03
Speaker 3: lean is done. And you guys are losers. I was
1:26:06
Speaker 3: really talking to white kids too. Cause I was that,
1:26:08
Speaker 3: I was that like young white kid who wanted to
1:26:10
Speaker 3: try lean because I heard it in a rap song.
1:26:12
Speaker 3: I was talking to them cause I grew up with them.
1:26:14
Speaker 3: I'm like, you guys are losers. Like I know.
1:26:16
Speaker 2: Cause I was one, you know what I mean? People
1:26:19
Speaker 2: don't put you in the white rapper category.
1:26:20
Speaker 3: They don't think that I'm white.
1:26:21
Speaker 2: Y'all do rush white? I did.
1:26:23
Speaker 7: No, I don't think so.
1:26:25
Speaker 14: I had to look up like, because you're like Italian
1:26:28
Speaker 14: and Sicilian. I had to look that up because I was.
1:26:30
Speaker 7: Like, Italian and Sicilian.
1:26:31
Speaker 14: Y'all not white.
1:26:32
Speaker 3: Y'all like off white. Y'all use seasonings. I'm not like
1:26:35
Speaker 3: Virginia white.
1:26:37
Speaker 19: But see, but that's what made me look because I'm like,
1:26:39
Speaker 19: you white, but you're not Virginia white.
1:26:41
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
1:26:42
Speaker 14: It's categories of white. And I was like, well, why?
1:26:44
Speaker 19: Where is the flavor he trying to f * * *? Like, Brad,
1:26:47
Speaker 19: where'd that come from? So I looked it up and
1:26:48
Speaker 19: I was like.
1:26:49
Speaker 7: Oh, okay.
1:26:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't put me in that. It's strange.
1:26:52
Speaker 2: Never.
1:26:54
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's cool, though. Yeah, I mean, just in some
1:26:57
Speaker 3: gray area.
1:26:58
Speaker 7: Can you cook?
1:26:59
Speaker 3: No, not at all.
1:27:00
Speaker 7: Yeah, you white.
1:27:01
Speaker 3: No, I'm joking.
1:27:03
Speaker 2: I'm joking. Okay, everybody, Nick is Italian.
1:27:05
Speaker 7: Yeah, but he cook, though.
1:27:06
Speaker 3: I can make a pasta. Yeah, he cook down. You're Italian?
1:27:09
Speaker 14: I mean, he literally will like... Oh, you're Sicilian? Pasta's
1:27:12
Speaker 14: from scratch.
1:27:12
Speaker 2: Sure is.
1:27:13
Speaker 14: Sauce is from scratch.
1:27:14
Speaker 9: For real?
1:27:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just.
1:27:15
Speaker 7: No.
1:27:16
Speaker 11: Rapping.
1:27:16
Speaker 3: I got money and got a chef.
1:27:17
Speaker 4: I know.
1:27:18
Speaker 15: That's right.
1:27:19
Speaker 2: That's right.
1:27:20
Speaker 3: That's right.
1:27:20
Speaker 2: Do you still need people to doubt you to motivate you?
1:27:23
Speaker 9: No.
1:27:24
Speaker 3: Not at all.
1:27:25
Speaker 9: No.
1:27:26
Speaker 3: That just doesn't even do anything for me anymore. I think, well,
1:27:29
Speaker 3: that's not true. That's not all the way true. Strangers
1:27:32
Speaker 3: doubting me doesn't do anything for me. You know what
1:27:34
Speaker 3: I mean? If there's people around me, if there's any
1:27:36
Speaker 3: sort of betrayal in my life that feels like It's
1:27:40
Speaker 3: based in you not believing in me anymore. That fuels
1:27:43
Speaker 3: me for sure.
1:27:44
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:27:45
Speaker 3: You know when you feel like people who are around you,
1:27:47
Speaker 3: they just like, they all of a sudden take your
1:27:50
Speaker 3: association for granted. And it's clear it's because, oh, you
1:27:53
Speaker 3: don't believe in this anymore. That fuels me. That's a
1:27:56
Speaker 3: little bit more intimate.
1:27:58
Speaker 2: Is that healthy? I don't know.
1:28:00
Speaker 16: No.
1:28:01
Speaker 9: I don't know.
1:28:01
Speaker 7: People don't know.
1:28:02
Speaker 3: No, it's not healthy. But whatever.
1:28:05
Speaker 2: Do you get rid of those people when you start
1:28:07
Speaker 2: saying that? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:28:08
Speaker 7: You say you don't have no friends?
1:28:10
Speaker 5: Get the f * *.
1:28:10
Speaker 2: * out of here.
1:28:11
Speaker 7: Okay, cool.
1:28:12
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:28:12
Speaker 7: What is that?
1:28:12
Speaker 14: You said you don't have no friends.
1:28:13
Speaker 3: You tried to find friends. No, I didn't say that.
1:28:15
Speaker 7: I didn't say I don't have no friends.
1:28:16
Speaker 3: He said he don't have people in the studio with him.
1:28:19
Speaker 1: I feel like if this movie is successful, I see
1:28:22
Speaker 1: Russ starting to invest in film.
1:28:24
Speaker 3: I'm working on mine next. Oh, that's what's up.
1:28:27
Speaker 2: Like your biopic?
1:28:29
Speaker 3: Yeah.
1:28:29
Speaker 9: Yeah.
1:28:30
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:28:30
Speaker 3: Not like the full life story, but like, you know,
1:28:32
Speaker 3: the juiciest part, like the come up.
1:28:34
Speaker 2: So, yeah.
1:28:36
Speaker 1: Dope yeah well listen Russ man always a pleasure the
1:28:39
Speaker 1: new movie Don't Move it's out what September.
1:28:41
Speaker 7: September 11th in theaters nationwide yeah.
1:28:44
Speaker 2: Okay salute to the Murray what's my guy name Murray
1:28:47
Speaker 2: James Murray James Murray salute to my guy James Murray
1:28:50
Speaker 2: and when the album's coming Elephant and the Rider I.
1:28:53
Speaker 3: Don't know I thought it was done and then I
1:28:55
Speaker 3: realized it wasn't because there's just so much more going
1:28:57
Speaker 3: on internally than I anticipated period.
1:29:00
Speaker 2: You unpacking a lot, man. I can tell.
1:29:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting. It's like Santiago was
1:29:04
Speaker 3: this excavation album, the start of it. And then Wild,
1:29:07
Speaker 3: my last one from last year, was sort of this
1:29:09
Speaker 3: like reconciling with myself by saying, you know what? I
1:29:13
Speaker 3: understand I've been keeping myself locked in this cage because
1:29:16
Speaker 3: I'm scared of the unknown. I'm scared to get hit again.
1:29:18
Speaker 3: I got hit by the world. And now I'm scared
1:29:20
Speaker 3: to go out there again. So let me unlock myself
1:29:23
Speaker 3: from that. Let me go out here. And now the
1:29:24
Speaker 3: elephant in the rider is like, okay, well, it's one
1:29:26
Speaker 3: thing to unlock yourself from the cage and go back
1:29:28
Speaker 3: out into the unknown. It's a whole other thing to
1:29:30
Speaker 3: feel okay while you're back out there. So I didn't
1:29:34
Speaker 3: anticipate not feeling okay.
1:29:36
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
1:29:38
Speaker 9: Yeah.
1:29:38
Speaker 3: But that's what inevitably is going to come with like, okay,
1:29:41
Speaker 3: you're going back out into the unknown knowing it's scary
1:29:45
Speaker 3: and all these things. So you're naturally not going to
1:29:47
Speaker 3: feel okay about it, but you have to do it anyway.
1:29:49
Speaker 3: But let's unpack why you don't feel okay.
1:29:51
Speaker 2: That's the other thing.
1:29:52
Speaker 1: So there's a point where constantly creating prevents you from
1:29:56
Speaker 1: actually sitting with yourself.
1:29:57
Speaker 9: Yeah. Wow.
1:29:58
Speaker 3: Yeah.
1:29:59
Speaker 2: So how do you distinguish productivity from avoidance?
1:30:02
Speaker 3: Making sure that when I'm making songs, it's, to put
1:30:06
Speaker 3: it simply, therapy exercises. You know what I mean? Like,
1:30:09
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to just be down there. Like, every
1:30:11
Speaker 3: once in a while, like, you know, you just make
1:30:13
Speaker 3: some kind of mindless... But I'm trying to really use
1:30:16
Speaker 3: the music as the place to make sense of all
1:30:19
Speaker 3: of this and get it out. Because I know I'm
1:30:21
Speaker 3: not the only one dealing with it. I also think
1:30:23
Speaker 3: there needs to be this kind of content in the landscape.
1:30:28
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Well, it's Rush, ladies and gentlemen.
1:30:31
Speaker 2: Don't Move in Theater, September 11th. Thank you for joining us, bro.
1:30:33
Speaker 3: Thank you.
1:30:34
Speaker 2: Yes, sir. It's the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.
1:30:36
Speaker 5: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
1:30:39
Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to Pastor Ox.
1:30:43
Speaker 2: Big Nyla, NYLA, young 1990 now.
1:30:46
Speaker 5: They call her Sugar White because she got a whole
1:30:50
Speaker 5: album dropping.
1:30:51
Speaker 18: Sugar White?
1:30:52
Speaker 2: Oh, Sugar Night.
1:30:55
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
1:30:55
Speaker 2: I was thinking about Alex. I always call Alex Sugar White.
1:31:09
Speaker 7: White just threw me off.
1:31:12
Speaker 2: Just took over Atlanta. What's up? You ain't taking over
1:31:16
Speaker 2: nobody's city, man.
1:31:17
Speaker 14: We did a Buckhead Theater.
1:31:21
Speaker 1: I don't want you to get that New York mentality
1:31:23
Speaker 1: where they think they're coming to people's cities taking over
1:31:25
Speaker 1: and then they.
1:31:25
Speaker 2: Were in love.
1:31:28
Speaker 15: I knew what you meant.
1:31:30
Speaker 2: I knew what you meant.
1:31:31
Speaker 14: Buckhead Theater was super dope. We had a really great turnout.
1:31:33
Speaker 2: Congratulations.
1:31:34
Speaker 7: Thank you, man.
1:31:35
Speaker 2: We had the honor roll there.
1:31:36
Speaker 21: I had the honor roll there. And I will say, like,
1:31:39
Speaker 21: it was just really nice to be supported. Like, I
1:31:42
Speaker 21: really like Atlanta because everybody pulls out. Like, people from
1:31:45
Speaker 21: different labels, different managers, even the radio stations.
1:31:48
Speaker 2: Men don't pull out in other cities.
1:31:50
Speaker 9: Huh?
1:31:50
Speaker 2: You said everybody pulls out.
1:31:52
Speaker 9: Wow.
1:31:52
Speaker 2: That's what she said.
1:31:53
Speaker 7: I thought of her.
1:31:54
Speaker 2: I thought of her. thought i heard he pulls out.
1:31:56
Speaker 8: Like pull up yo like come out he was trying
1:32:00
Speaker 8: to say come out and pull up but you combined
1:32:02
Speaker 8: it and said everybody pull.
1:32:03
Speaker 2: Out like damn did i say that yeah it's okay
1:32:06
Speaker 2: i'm like damn.
1:32:07
Speaker 23: They don't pull out another city that's crazy anyways yeah
1:32:12
Speaker 23: bucket theater was a movie if you guys want to
1:32:14
Speaker 23: check it out uh make sure you see it on
1:32:16
Speaker 23: my Instagram but then also we went to Morehouse which
1:32:18
Speaker 23: is a really.
1:32:19
Speaker 21: Cool activation are y'all gonna go back to the HBCUs
1:32:21
Speaker 21: for sure yeah we got like a whole.
1:32:22
Speaker 5: Tour coming up or something yeah we're gonna be doing
1:32:24
Speaker 5: something well I know Lauren and myself we do it
1:32:26
Speaker 5: we go through during homecoming season but I think as
1:32:29
Speaker 5: the crew the whole breakfast club I think we're gonna
1:32:31
Speaker 5: do something on the calendar we're working.
1:32:32
Speaker 1: On but here's the thing you had the honor roll
1:32:35
Speaker 1: out there last Friday I think that we haven't been
1:32:37
Speaker 1: stressing enough that Nyla Simone has an.
1:32:40
Speaker 2: Album coming out.
1:32:41
Speaker 1: We haven't put together an album. And it features some
1:32:47
Speaker 1: of the dopest new artists in hip hop today.
1:32:49
Speaker 21: Yeah, I'm really excited about it. Our Posse Cut was
1:32:52
Speaker 21: the first single that we dropped, R2-D2, that featured everybody
1:32:56
Speaker 21: on there. And it showed the range and flows, people
1:32:58
Speaker 21: from different places, Atlanta, Charlotte, Portland, New Jersey, New York.
1:33:03
Speaker 15: You know Brooklyn I feel like I gotta.
1:33:04
Speaker 21: Say Brooklyn differently but our newest single we just dropped
1:33:07
Speaker 21: a new single this week on Tuesday called Need You
1:33:11
Speaker 21: it's really sticky it's really catchy and we shot this
1:33:14
Speaker 21: music video which kind of plays a nostalgia off of
1:33:17
Speaker 21: the movie The Wood so like that dance scene.
1:33:19
Speaker 8: I love that that's your thing you love that I
1:33:23
Speaker 8: love that to be honest it wasn't even my idea
1:33:26
Speaker 8: this was Suave's.
1:33:26
Speaker 2: Idea Salute to Suave. You know what I mean? I
1:33:29
Speaker 2: write a lot of his music.
1:33:30
Speaker 11: Why?
1:33:31
Speaker 1: He's an amazing producer, one of the dopest new artists
1:33:34
Speaker 1: out today. He just needs to give me more credit.
1:33:36
Speaker 21: And y'all deal with this every day, these natural lies
1:33:38
Speaker 21: that come out.
1:33:39
Speaker 9: We ignore him.
1:33:40
Speaker 2: Suave from Monk's Corner, too, by the way. He got
1:33:43
Speaker 2: roots in Monk's Corner.
1:33:43
Speaker 15: He actually is from Monk's Corner.
1:33:45
Speaker 21: I thought that was crazy, because you're the only person
1:33:47
Speaker 21: I know from Monk's Corner.
1:33:48
Speaker 11: Only one.
1:33:48
Speaker 2: Only one.
1:33:49
Speaker 14: Only person I know. Yeah, I used to.
1:33:51
Speaker 7: Live right on the roof.
1:33:52
Speaker 2: So who's on this song?
1:33:54
Speaker 21: So this song has Ben Reilly on the hook, first
1:33:56
Speaker 21: verse is Ruben Vincent, and then second verse is Suave.
1:33:59
Speaker 2: And it's produced by Ruben too, right?
1:34:01
Speaker 14: Yeah, and it's produced by Ruben.
1:34:02
Speaker 2: I had to convince Suave to rap over somebody else's production.
1:34:05
Speaker 8: Come on, we're going to get to the song.
1:34:08
Speaker 9: Let's listen to it.
1:34:09
Speaker 2: Hit it! That's all. Big Nyla. You can stream that.
1:34:20
Speaker 17: Right now, right?
1:34:21
Speaker 21: You can stream that right now.
1:34:23
Speaker 15: Go stream it right now.
1:34:24
Speaker 2: Thank you.
1:34:25
Speaker 9: What is that?
1:34:25
Speaker 15: Full album dropping?
1:34:26
Speaker 21: Full album is dropping soon.
1:34:30
Speaker 14: No, we have a date.
1:34:31
Speaker 6: You don't want to say the date?
1:34:32
Speaker 2: Okay, you want to... You got to roll out.
1:34:34
Speaker 7: You got to roll out. I got to roll out.
1:34:35
Speaker 9: No, it's fine.
1:34:36
Speaker 2: I saw you announce that it was a Gangsta Girls, though.
1:34:38
Speaker 14: It is a Gangsta Girls.
1:34:40
Speaker 2: It's about DJ Drama. Yeah.
1:34:41
Speaker 11: Mr.
1:34:41
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving.
1:34:42
Speaker 3: Yes, girl!
1:34:43
Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, it's really dope.
1:34:44
Speaker 21: And it's such a big co-song, you know, being that
1:34:47
Speaker 21: drama going to be able to talk his shit about
1:34:49
Speaker 21: the next generation of rappers.
1:34:51
Speaker 15: And, yeah, man, I'm excited.
1:34:52
Speaker 21: And that's really, like, the only girl record that's a single,
1:34:55
Speaker 21: and I just really wanted to make sure I get
1:34:57
Speaker 21: it out because... During the studio sessions, the guys like
1:35:00
Speaker 21: tried to trap it out. So every room I went in,
1:35:02
Speaker 21: it was just really hard. I'm like, can y'all like
1:35:04
Speaker 21: slow it down and.
1:35:05
Speaker 6: Do something for the ladies?
1:35:06
Speaker 15: Please, for me, like something.
1:35:08
Speaker 21: But I'm excited about this one and the next ones too,
1:35:12
Speaker 21: because the next one, I mean, we got some songs
1:35:14
Speaker 21: no hook.
1:35:14
Speaker 15: But the pins are pinning.
1:35:17
Speaker 21: You know what I'm saying? Like it's just real lyricism.
1:35:19
Speaker 21: And I know it's not like the most popular thing, but.
1:35:21
Speaker 2: Of course it is.
1:35:22
Speaker 7: No, it's not.
1:35:23
Speaker 21: People do not appreciate lyricism.
1:35:25
Speaker 2: You say that, but then the biggest rappers of the
1:35:27
Speaker 2: last 15 years have all been lyricists. Kendrick's a lyricist.
1:35:30
Speaker 2: Cole's a lyricist. Drake's a lyricist. Wiley's a lyricist. You
1:35:33
Speaker 2: said Drake's a lyricist?
1:35:33
Speaker 9: Wow.
1:35:34
Speaker 7: I get what you're saying, though.
1:35:35
Speaker 11: Huh?
1:35:36
Speaker 2: You said Drake's a lyricist?
1:35:37
Speaker 3: Wow.
1:35:37
Speaker 2: He's a cult, too, didn't he?
1:35:39
Speaker 14: Did you say cult?
1:35:40
Speaker 1: We gotta stop acting like people... The pins haven't been
1:35:43
Speaker 1: the ones that actually have the most success.
1:35:46
Speaker 21: That's true, but that's like old regime, and they came
1:35:49
Speaker 21: in a system before social media.
1:35:51
Speaker 2: They've been dominating for the last 15 years. That's the
1:35:53
Speaker 2: regime that's been there.
1:35:54
Speaker 16: The last 15 years.
1:35:54
Speaker 15: But that's my point.
1:35:56
Speaker 21: It's been like the past 20 years, the same guys.
1:35:58
Speaker 14: I've been listening to those guys.
1:35:59
Speaker 15: Since I was in ninth grade.
1:36:01
Speaker 7: I'm with that, but guess what?
1:36:02
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you why the pin is important.
1:36:04
Speaker 1: That's why Jay-Z is still around. That's why Nas is
1:36:06
Speaker 1: still around. That's why Scarface is still around. That's why
1:36:08
Speaker 1: Bun B.
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Speaker 2: Is still around.
1:36:09
Speaker 14: That's why Common is still around.
1:36:10
Speaker 15: But do you think they were only able.
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Speaker 2: Jim and Mike, T.I.
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Speaker 21: I feel like they were only able to break through
1:36:16
Speaker 21: with the pen because it wasn't so much noise. Like,
1:36:18
Speaker 21: now it's like, you got to be click-baity. You got
1:36:21
Speaker 21: to have something viral.
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Speaker 7: It's very oversaturated with a lot of BS.
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Speaker 21: Who has just recently broken through because of their pen?
1:36:26
Speaker 2: Y'all think noise... is actual motion, and it's not. It's
1:36:31
Speaker 2: just noise. Noise has always existed. You think it wasn't corny-ass,
1:36:34
Speaker 2: goofy-ass rappers when all of those people I just.
1:36:36
Speaker 3: Named were rappers?
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Speaker 6: The Dalmatians?
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Speaker 2: They cut through everything. The cream always rises to the top.
1:36:42
Speaker 6: And you don't hate none of those goofy-ass rappers anymore.
1:36:44
Speaker 2: None of them.
1:36:45
Speaker 1: Shout out to everybody you got on your tape, Marco +.
1:36:47
Speaker 1: You know, Ruben, you know, Suave, Kai Cash. Them guys
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Speaker 1: get busy. They ain't going to be around.
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Speaker 7: I get what you're saying. You're saying the penmanship earns
1:36:56
Speaker 7: you longevity.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 9: Yes.
1:36:58
Speaker 7: Okay.
1:36:58
Speaker 11: Yes.
1:36:58
Speaker 21: Okay.
1:36:59
Speaker 3: All right.
1:36:59
Speaker 6: Well, definitely stream it now. And we appreciate you.
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Speaker 9: Yes.
1:37:02
Speaker 12: Thank you, guys.
1:37:03
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
1:37:04
Speaker 7: I'm so proud of you, girl.
1:37:05
Speaker 9: All right.
1:37:05
Speaker 6: Well, let's get to the mix. We throw it back
1:37:07
Speaker 6: on a Friday. It's the People's Choice Mix.
1:37:08
Speaker 2: It's the Breakfast Club. Come on. Morning, everybody.
1:37:10
Speaker 5: It's DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
1:37:13
Speaker 2: We are The Breakfast Club.
1:37:14
Speaker 5: Again, salute to everybody in the 757. I'll be out
1:37:18
Speaker 5: there for Cousins Festival. Salute to Pusha T. Salute to Antonio.
1:37:22
Speaker 5: Salute to family, Malice. Those are my family out there.
1:37:26
Speaker 5: They support me in everything that I do. So, you
1:37:28
Speaker 5: know I got to go out to VA and support them. Hampton,
1:37:32
Speaker 5: Norfolk State, Old Dominion. I will be on your yards
1:37:35
Speaker 5: this weekend. So if y'all see me, shout me a holler.
1:37:38
Speaker 5: And I'll see y'all this weekend out in the 757.
1:37:40
Speaker 5: And also, Marley. It's Marley's birthday this weekend. She's going
1:37:44
Speaker 5: to be celebrating her birthday.
1:37:44
Speaker 2: Marley already had a birthday. Well, she's celebrating this weekend.
1:37:47
Speaker 8: She has to celebrate this weekend because her original poll
1:37:51
Speaker 8: party was rescheduled. due to weather and thunderstorms and stuff
1:37:55
Speaker 8: like that. So I'm here in Maryland celebrating my baby's
1:37:58
Speaker 8: birthday over again. We're going to do a redo for
1:38:01
Speaker 8: this baby shark pool party. And next weekend, Baltimore City,
1:38:05
Speaker 8: the homecoming shows. I will be there at Baltimore Comedy
1:38:08
Speaker 8: Factory Thursday to Sunday. Y'all get six shows out of me,
1:38:11
Speaker 8: all right? So get your tickets now, justhilariousofficial.com. And then Saturday,
1:38:16
Speaker 8: September 12th, I will be at Barnes & Noble's to
1:38:18
Speaker 8: do a book signing for Till Death Do We Parent,
1:38:21
Speaker 8: my co-parenting memoir. So I'm bringing the book to the city, y'all.
1:38:24
Speaker 8: Everything y'all ask will be granted. I love y'all so much.
1:38:27
Speaker 8: Can't wait to see y'all. 410-JustAlarisOfficial.com for the tickets.
1:38:30
Speaker 2: And Rome will be there. Rome will be.
1:38:33
Speaker 7: There as well, Charlotte. Thank you so much. Rome going
1:38:36
Speaker 7: to be in the building at.
1:38:36
Speaker 8: Barnes & Noble's on Saturday. So y'all going to ask
1:38:38
Speaker 8: him some questions too.
1:38:40
Speaker 2: Yes. Big, big Rome. The reason for the book. Okay?
1:38:43
Speaker 2: There would be no parenting if it wasn't for big Rome. Sweetie,
1:38:47
Speaker 2: you need to relax.
1:38:48
Speaker 3: No, it's true though.
1:38:49
Speaker 2: Rome took you through there. Took you through there. And
1:38:52
Speaker 2: now you got a story.
1:38:52
Speaker 7: He most definitely took me through there.
1:38:54
Speaker 2: Yeah. And that's why I'm resilient.
1:38:57
Speaker 3: Because of Jerome.
1:39:00
Speaker 5: I want to shout out to Sprayground, Sprayground Backpacks, who
1:39:04
Speaker 5: does heavy support and heavy community give back when it
1:39:07
Speaker 5: comes to backpacks and the kids love them. They supply
1:39:10
Speaker 5: so many backpacks to people that can't afford backpacks, but
1:39:12
Speaker 5: they're doing something special in the city the next couple
1:39:15
Speaker 5: of days. One, they're doing something at the post office,
1:39:17
Speaker 5: the big post office in the city. They have like
1:39:18
Speaker 5: a display of all their backpacks and they have an
1:39:20
Speaker 5: exclusive collection of backpacks that people could come pick up.
1:39:23
Speaker 5: And also they have a gold helicopter, I guess, landing
1:39:28
Speaker 5: or flying over Times Square, dropping off backpacks is weird.
1:39:31
Speaker 5: But salute to Spriggan. I just want to say salute
1:39:33
Speaker 5: to James and everything that they do because. They really
1:39:35
Speaker 5: support the community out there. And I've known James a
1:39:38
Speaker 5: long time. If you know James from Jersey, his nickname
1:39:40
Speaker 5: is Buddha, but he's been, uh, running spray ground for
1:39:43
Speaker 5: a while and i just want to say salute to
1:39:45
Speaker 5: james well i don't i don't know james but i
1:39:47
Speaker 5: need to know james but salute to spray ground because
1:39:50
Speaker 5: uh you know um i did my my annual backpack
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Speaker 5: giveaway in my hometown amongst corner south carolina and they
1:39:56
Speaker 5: gave me a great deal on backpacks you know what
1:39:58
Speaker 5: i'm saying i just i just dm'd them i reached
1:40:00
Speaker 5: out to them on instagram yeah yeah yeah and they
1:40:03
Speaker 5: gave me um they gave me a great deal on
1:40:05
Speaker 5: backpacks so salute to spray ground i'll connect you with
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Speaker 5: james he's a good dude What if he don't want
1:40:10
Speaker 5: to be known as Buddha no more, yo?
1:40:12
Speaker 7: Why you just put his old alias out there like that?
1:40:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, Buddha definitely sound like he owe somebody some money
1:40:16
Speaker 2: in Jersey.
1:40:16
Speaker 7: Right now to this day. Don't remind him that he
1:40:20
Speaker 7: was Buddha.
1:40:20
Speaker 2: You know that Buddha done came up on Backpack? That
1:40:24
Speaker 2: Buddha selling Backpack.
1:40:26
Speaker 7: You still owe me some money?
1:40:27
Speaker 2: I need to get in touch with Buddha. All right. Well,
1:40:32
Speaker 2: you got a positive note?
1:40:33
Speaker 1: I do, but I first want to tell people, man,
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Speaker 1: my sixth annual Mental Wealth Expo is happening Saturday, October
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Speaker 1: 10th at the Joelle and Diane Bloom Wellness and Event
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Speaker 1: Center in Newark, New Jersey at the New Jersey Institute
1:40:45
Speaker 1: of Technology. Doors open at 1030 a.m. Salute to my
1:40:49
Speaker 1: good sister, Debbie Brown. She is curating the whole event
1:40:51
Speaker 1: this year. We have Dr. Mark Brackett is going to
1:40:55
Speaker 1: be there doing an emotional regulation and emotional intelligence panel.
1:40:59
Speaker 1: Jovian Zane, Koya Webb, and Michelle Williams. Yes, Michelle Williams
1:41:04
Speaker 1: from Destiny's Child. They will be doing a healing processes
1:41:07
Speaker 1: and nervous system regulation panel. Kier Gaines, the good brother
1:41:10
Speaker 1: Kier Gaines, will be there doing a mental wealth workshop.
1:41:13
Speaker 2: Dr. Jay Barnett will be there doing a healing the
1:41:16
Speaker 2: inner child panel.
1:41:18
Speaker 1: My man Elliot Connie and Dr. Jay Barnett and Dr.
1:41:21
Speaker 1: Rita Walker will be doing an exploring mental illness and
1:41:23
Speaker 1: personality disorder panel. And you know, this year we're focusing
1:41:27
Speaker 1: on nothing but but solutions.
1:41:29
Speaker 2: Okay. Nothing but solutions.
1:41:31
Speaker 1: So we'll see you October 10th at the Joel and
1:41:34
Speaker 1: Diane Bloom wellness and events center in Newark, New Jersey.
1:41:37
Speaker 2: It is a free event, free, free, free, free, free.
1:41:40
Speaker 1: All you got to do is go to mentalwealthexpo.com and
1:41:43
Speaker 1: RSVP to be there.
1:41:44
Speaker 2: And we'll see you on October the 10th. Now, hold on,
1:41:47
Speaker 2: hold on.
1:41:47
Speaker 6: Let me ask you a question.
1:41:49
Speaker 5: I think maybe next year you should do a panel
1:41:52
Speaker 5: and it's called black men love each other. And, We
1:41:55
Speaker 5: should go on stage and look at other black men
1:41:58
Speaker 5: in the eyes and just tell them I love you, brother.
1:42:00
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, you could do that during Pride Month, too. Like,
1:42:02
Speaker 2: you DJ a lot of Pride Month.
1:42:04
Speaker 7: But why would Envy set it up like that? What
1:42:06
Speaker 7: are you talking about?
1:42:07
Speaker 6: Because we should be able to say to each other
1:42:09
Speaker 6: we love each other.
1:42:10
Speaker 2: For sure.
1:42:11
Speaker 8: But why you got to walk up to them and
1:42:12
Speaker 8: look them in the eye and be like, I love you, brother?
1:42:15
Speaker 7: Like, why you got to do that?
1:42:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, do that during Pride Month. Forget y'all. Forget y'all. Yes,
1:42:20
Speaker 2: but the positive note is simply this.
1:42:22
Speaker 7: I love you, Buddha. My bad, Sean. Go ahead.
1:42:26
Speaker 2: Accountability, man.
1:42:28
Speaker 1: Accountability is a word that people like to say, but
1:42:30
Speaker 1: they don't practice it. Accountability is essential to personal growth,
1:42:35
Speaker 1: as well as team growth.
1:42:37
Speaker 2: How can you improve if you're never wrong?
1:42:39
Speaker 9: Huh?
1:42:40
Speaker 1: If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it,
1:42:43
Speaker 1: you're bound to make the same one again.
1:42:46
Speaker 2: So accountability, it's not just a word. It should be
1:42:49
Speaker 2: an action. Have a great day. Breakfast Club, bitches! You
1:42:52
Speaker 2: all finished or you all done? Woke up, woke up,
1:42:54
Speaker 2: wake you up. Wake that ass up. Program your alarm
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