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FULL SHOW: Stephen A. Smith Apologizes For Comments On Lane Johnson’s Retirement To Focus On Mental Health + John Legend Interview · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Woke up, woke up, wake you up, wake you up,
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  Speaker 1: wake that ass up. Program your alarm to power 105.1
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  Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, USA. Yo, yo.
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  Speaker 3: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 3: Jess Hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: What's that ass up?
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  Speaker 4: Charlamagne's a little late and it's Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: What's up, Jess?
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  Speaker 5: How you feeling?
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  Speaker 3: What's up, shorty?
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  Speaker 2: Hong Kong shorty. How they treating you over there?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, everything is good. I'm not in Hong Kong
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  Speaker 3: right now. I'm in Macau. Macau is like the Vegas
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  Speaker 3: of China. So it's where all the casinos are. It's
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  Speaker 3: where people go to gamble.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: All the expensive luxury stores are. And it's where the
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  Speaker 4: NBA is hosting their second year game. And this year
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  Speaker 4: is the Dallas Mavericks versus the Houston Rockets. So I'm
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  Speaker 4: here for the NBA and doing interviews, doing a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of everything.
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  Speaker 6: DJing, doing a little bit of.
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  Speaker 3: Everything while I'm out here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's up, yo.
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  Speaker 7: So the NBA, they just send them over there just
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  Speaker 7: to play?
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  Speaker 2: That's real expensive.
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  Speaker 7: Why do they go all the way over there to play?
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  Speaker 4: It's an international league. So they're getting... fans from all
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  Speaker 4: over the country so they have games in dubai sometimes
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  Speaker 4: just like the nfl sometimes has games in australia they
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  Speaker 4: have games in brazil right the nba is doing the
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  Speaker 4: same thing so china i think i believe is their
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  Speaker 4: second biggest market so uh they're having a game here
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  Speaker 4: to tomorrow night and sunday night so like i said
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  Speaker 4: i ran into kevin durant i ran into kyrie irving
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  Speaker 4: i seen uh cooper flag i seen uh so many
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  Speaker 4: different people out here and it's just it's just you
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  Speaker 4: know what it is it's the fans here are like
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  Speaker 4: But like this, they have fans waiting outside the hotel
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  Speaker 4: for like two days straight.
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  Speaker 3: 50 fans.
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  Speaker 4: So when I got in last night at like 1,
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  Speaker 4: 2 in the morning, they were out there with jerseys
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  Speaker 4: waiting for their favorite celebrity. Kyrie Irving is a huge,
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  Speaker 4: huge star out here. I spoke to him for a while.
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  Speaker 4: He's so happy.
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  Speaker 1: Kyrie seems.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to get busy if.
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  Speaker 4: The way he is yesterday, if that shows how he's
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  Speaker 4: going to be this season, he was happy and just,
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  Speaker 4: how's your family?
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  Speaker 3: My family's good.
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  Speaker 4: He was just so excited to play. And his sneakers
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  Speaker 4: do well here. He does well here. So he was
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  Speaker 4: super duper excited. So salute to the NBA for having me, man.
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  Speaker 4: I'm super duper excited. It's a lot of fun because
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  Speaker 4: this is where, you know, you don't get to see
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  Speaker 4: the same players. I don't want to say the same players,
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  Speaker 4: but you don't see the same people. So here it's
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  Speaker 4: a lot different because the fans, they don't get to
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  Speaker 4: see this. So they are super duper excited. So again,
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  Speaker 4: salute to everybody I've seen in China. So I'm having
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  Speaker 4: a great time. And they're listening now. It's 6 p.m. here,
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  Speaker 4: 6 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 4: So as soon as I leave there, I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: the bar, then we go into the club, then we
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  Speaker 4: go into the after.
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  Speaker 7: Right, so you had to really stop your day to
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  Speaker 7: come and do radio.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty much.
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  Speaker 7: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Like, pretty much.
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  Speaker 4: I was at the ball arena, you know, interviewing them,
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  Speaker 4: and then had to run.
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  Speaker 3: Back here to start the show. But it's all good.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 7: Ain't nobody asking me over there? Like, we ain't had
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  Speaker 7: no Asians, you know what I'm saying? No Asians running around.
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  Speaker 7: I got a little homeboy named Wong. He used to
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  Speaker 7: live in Baltimore, and I know he moved back to
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  Speaker 7: his country by now.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't nobody come up to you? Where is Jess? Where
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  Speaker 2: is Jess?
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  Speaker 3: Nah, there was nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe?
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  Speaker 5: Nah, nah, nah, nah.
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  Speaker 7: All right, when I get over there, I know they're
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  Speaker 7: going to love me when I get over there.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get the show started then. Let's get the show started.
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  Speaker 3: John Legend will be joining us this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: He has a new album that comes out, I believe,
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  Speaker 4: next week. His album comes out next week. So we're
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  Speaker 4: going to be kicking it with John Legend. He's doing
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  Speaker 4: a listening session tonight at American Dream Mall. And then
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  Speaker 4: he's doing a meet and greet on Sunday. So I'll
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  Speaker 4: give you all the details about that. And we're going
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  Speaker 4: to kick it with John Legend. But let's get the
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  Speaker 4: show started.
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  Speaker 3: Can we start off with Kirk Franklin, please? That's my
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  Speaker 3: favorite joint right now.
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  Speaker 6: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: There we go.
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  Speaker 3: Front page news is next. Get it off your chest.
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  Speaker 1: 800-585-1051.
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  Speaker 3: It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning, y'all.
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  Speaker 5: Morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
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  Speaker 4: We are The Breakfast Club. I'm broadcasting live from China.
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  Speaker 4: I'm super duper excited. I didn't think it was going
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  Speaker 4: to work, but boy, when I say the hotel of St.
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  Speaker 3: Regis, they looked out.
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  Speaker 4: They got me past all the security problems I was
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  Speaker 4: going to have and patched me through.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's up, y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Salute to everybody out there. But let's get into some
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  Speaker 3: front page news.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to be talking about Now, WNBA, the Dream
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  Speaker 4: beat the Liberty 101-98. The Valkyries beat the Aces 83-81. Now,
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  Speaker 4: in baseball, my Yankees got eliminated yesterday. That sucks. The
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  Speaker 4: Rays beat them 4-3. The Guardians beat the White Sox 9-3.
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  Speaker 4: The Dodgers beat the Braves 4-1. And the Brewers beat
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  Speaker 4: the Padres 3-1. Now, tonight and Thursday night football. Them
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  Speaker 4: cowgirls are playing tonight, so they're going to be like,
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  Speaker 4: one and.
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  Speaker 2: Two and one and two and three.
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  Speaker 4: Now the Cowboys take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 8-15.
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  Speaker 3: And Odell Beckham.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody thought his career was over, but he just got
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  Speaker 4: picked up with the Minnesota Vikings today.
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  Speaker 3: So hopefully he makes that team. What's up, Mimi?
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  Speaker 9: Good morning, Envy. Jess, how y'all doing this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Mimi. You in person, girl. In person.
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  Speaker 9: I'm here, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 10: So Front Page News is sponsored by Morgan & Morgan,
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  Speaker 10: America's largest injury law firm. So we start this morning
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  Speaker 10: with newly released documents. Obtained by advocacy group Democracy Forward.
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  Speaker 10: They're giving us a closer look in how the Trump
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  Speaker 10: administration is preparing to monitor the midterm election. So the
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  Speaker 10: Justice Department, they are preparing to send about a thousand
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  Speaker 10: federal election monitors to polling places across the country. The
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  Speaker 10: administration is also digging deeper into claims of widespread voter fraud,
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  Speaker 10: despite the lack of evidence to support those claims. Now,
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  Speaker 10: the documents show ICE has been working with the FBI
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  Speaker 10: and other federal agents to monitor citizens who may have
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  Speaker 10: illegally registered to vote. But as part of that effort,
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  Speaker 10: ICE obtained... So as part of that effort, because we know,
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  Speaker 10: you know, that is.
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  Speaker 9: There's like. 008 % of that.
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  Speaker 10: As part of that effort, ICE obtained more than 48
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  Speaker 10: million records from outside sources, another 50 million voter records
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  Speaker 10: from the Justice Department. And the thing is, though, guys,
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  Speaker 10: they're not just looking at individual voters. They're also investigating
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  Speaker 10: nonprofit groups that help.
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  Speaker 9: People register to vote.
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  Speaker 10: Former Justice Department official Kristen Clark spoke about this on MSNOW.
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  Speaker 10: Let's listen.
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  Speaker 11: And that's why there are lawsuits challenging this threat of
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  Speaker 11: ICE being at our polling sites. It is why the
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  Speaker 11: NAACP is in court right now working to shine a
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  Speaker 11: light on whatever it is that this Justice Department is
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  Speaker 11: doing as they claim that they're going to be deploying
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  Speaker 11: 1,000 people to polling sites across the country.
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  Speaker 2: All of this is part of.
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  Speaker 11: of a coordinated campaign intended to discourage people from exercising
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  Speaker 11: their voice this cycle.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not going to work.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what they're doing. They're trying to disrupt
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  Speaker 1: the midterm elections. OK, they're trying to steal the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 1: We know this already. Why don't why don't people why
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  Speaker 1: can't people just call it thing of things?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but even though we've been saying this for four months, right,
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  Speaker 4: damn near a year. So what what is what do
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  Speaker 4: we do to stop it? Like we keep talking about
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  Speaker 4: what they're doing, but what are the how do we
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  Speaker 4: fix it? How do we turn it around?
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  Speaker 1: Hope and pray. Stop it. That's it. Give the voters
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers when they go out there to vote
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  Speaker 1: in the midterms.
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  Speaker 10: And I think part of it is making sure people
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  Speaker 10: are aware of what's going on and having voters do
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  Speaker 10: need a plan. And a lot of Democrats have been
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  Speaker 10: asking what is or people have been asking, you know,
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  Speaker 10: Democratic leaders on Congress, what is that plan?
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  Speaker 1: Democrats never have a plan when it comes to voter suppression.
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  Speaker 1: Their plan is the same thing my whole life. We
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  Speaker 1: need the largest voter turnout in the history of America.
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  Speaker 1: They've been doing that my whole 48 years of existence.
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  Speaker 3: But that was my point. What's the plan? What's the solution?
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  Speaker 10: Well, we're going to start with giving people the information.
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  Speaker 10: And so with midterms less than a month away, they're
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  Speaker 10: even considering sending undercover agents into those voter registration organizations.
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  Speaker 1: You were with the in-laws last night, Jess?
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  Speaker 2: That's where that came from?
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  Speaker 1: Shut up. I was out of nowhere. Shut up.
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  Speaker 10: And the Trump administration or President Trump, should I say,
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  Speaker 10: is considering getting the FBI involved in the investigation into
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  Speaker 10: Nolan Wells death, even though the FBI previously said it
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  Speaker 10: would not reopen the case. So the 18 year old
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  Speaker 10: was found dead in Mississippi on Mississippi.
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  Speaker 9: Island in July.
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  Speaker 10: His family has been calling for a federal investigation after
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  Speaker 10: a grand jury declined to charge anyone.
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  Speaker 9: Trump was asked about this yesterday at the White House.
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  Speaker 9: Let's listen.
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  Speaker 12: Do you plan to push the FBI to launch an
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  Speaker 12: independent investigation into the death of Nolan Wells?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're looking at that.
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  Speaker 13: Yes, we are.
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  Speaker 9: So he said they are looking at that.
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  Speaker 10: The FBI came out yesterday and said that they were
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  Speaker 10: going to go with what the state of Mississippi found,
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  Speaker 10: which was no, no, no, nothing.
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  Speaker 9: Nefarious happened, basically.
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  Speaker 10: And so the family attorney, Ben Crump, he says that
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  Speaker 10: those comments gave the family renewed help. or hope that
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  Speaker 10: the federal investigators will take another look.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, come on, Ben. Now, you know good damn well
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  Speaker 1: Trump going to try anything before the midterms to get
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  Speaker 1: y'all Negroes on his side, okay? All right? He's not
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  Speaker 1: doing that out of the goodness of his heart, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Cut it out.
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  Speaker 2: All right, y'all.
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  Speaker 10: Well, coming up at 7, a classroom shooting involving a
• 8:48
  Speaker 10: 6-year-old is back in the headlines. We covered it a
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  Speaker 10: lot here, but there's newly released video that is out
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  Speaker 10: this morning. We're going to take a look at it.
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  Speaker 10: So we'll talk about that in the next hour. And
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  Speaker 10: this hour is sponsored by Morgan & Morgan. Injured, know
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 3: And everybody else, get it off your chest.
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  Speaker 14: 800-585-1051.
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  Speaker 4: If you need to vent, call us up right now.
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  Speaker 1: And I am so blessed. I got a flat tire, right?
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  Speaker 1: And so, you know, you would think that's something that
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  Speaker 1: would make you stressed early in the morning. But I
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  Speaker 1: got a flat tire like nine minutes from work. And
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  Speaker 1: when I looked up, the tire center was right there.
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  Speaker 1: I pulled into the tire center parking lot. You can't
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  Speaker 1: tell me God don't love me.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I know I'm one of God's people.
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  Speaker 15: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: So you parked your car and you took an Uber
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  Speaker 4: in because I know you didn't fix no tire.
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  Speaker 3: You were waiting for it to open up. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: know that.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know if I'm going to use that
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  Speaker 1: tire shop, okay?
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  Speaker 2: But you were right there.
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  Speaker 1: But I was right there in front of that tire shop.
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  Speaker 1: I had to Google them, but I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to use them. But I pulled up right
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  Speaker 1: into that tire shop, parked, and my car would be
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  Speaker 1: probably towed around 8, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Get in.
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  Speaker 10: 805-85-1051.
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  Speaker 3: Call us up now.
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  Speaker 1: It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: Wake up, wake up.
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  Speaker 13: Wake your ass up.
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  Speaker 5: This is your time to get it off your chest.
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  Speaker 5: Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from
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  Speaker 5: you on The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, who's this?
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  Speaker 12: Hi, this is Ashley.
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  Speaker 3: Ashley, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Ashley.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Ashley.
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  Speaker 13: Good morning, guys. Hi, Mimi.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Charlamagne.
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  Speaker 7: Hi, Jess.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, girl.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Ashley. Where you calling from?
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  Speaker 12: Good morning. I'm calling from H-Town, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, here we go. What's happening? Yes.
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  Speaker 15: I'm just going to say how blessed I am.
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  Speaker 12: I am a foster-to-adopt mom, single black woman, and here
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  Speaker 12: in the state of Texas, it's really hard for black
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  Speaker 12: women just to adopt naturally. So I had to go
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  Speaker 12: into the fostering to get that 50-50 chance of having
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  Speaker 12: my forever baby. And I am blessed to say I
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  Speaker 12: am adopting my son, who's about to be two next
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  Speaker 12: month on National Adoption Day.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations. Thank God.
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  Speaker 15: Thank God.
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  Speaker 12: And it's crazy because all of this stuff that's happening
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  Speaker 12: to all these children and these mothers and these families,
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  Speaker 12: my child was that child abuse infant living on the
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  Speaker 12: streets in the prostitution ring with his birth parents. And
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  Speaker 12: to sit here and have that opportunity for me to
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  Speaker 12: be that blessing for him, I can't be nothing but blessed.
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  Speaker 12: And I'm so thankful. He's snowing right beside me right.
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  Speaker 13: Now as we speak.
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  Speaker 1: How old is he?
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  Speaker 12: He's about to be two on Halloween.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's up.
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  Speaker 2: Congrats, my man.
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  Speaker 13: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 15: I'm so thankful.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, you guys. And salute to you for being
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  Speaker 1: a blessing, man. It's a blessing for you to be
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  Speaker 1: able to be a blessing. Thank you.
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  Speaker 12: I really, truly appreciate that. It takes a lot of mental, emotional, physical.
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  Speaker 12: It's a heart. but only the strongest ones could do this.
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  Speaker 12: And as a single person, I choose to be single
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  Speaker 12: by myself. So I'm just so thankful for him.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, I respect it, man. You know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people out there. Like, I be hearing people be like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm an adopted pet. Man, go adopt a kid.
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  Speaker 12: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Like, act like an adult.
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  Speaker 1: Go take on some real responsibilities.
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  Speaker 12: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 13: But thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 12: I listen to y'all every morning. I'm actually listening to
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  Speaker 12: y'all right now, looking at y'all on his iPad.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so you watch this on Netflix. You don't listen
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  Speaker 1: on 93.7 The Beat in Houston?
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  Speaker 5: No, I can't.
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  Speaker 12: I can't do the commercials and all the talking. I
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  Speaker 12: want to see y'all behind the scenes. I like when
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  Speaker 12: y'all custom be your natural self.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that. Well, thank you, mama.
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  Speaker 12: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, we're still on radio, too. Jerk, what's wrong
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  Speaker 3: with you?
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: We're still on radio.
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  Speaker 3: Get it off your chest.
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  Speaker 16: 800-585-1051.
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  Speaker 3: If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's
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  Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: This is your time to get it off your chest,
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  Speaker 5: whether you're mad or blessed. 800-585-1051. We want to hear
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  Speaker 5: from you on The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, who's this?
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  Speaker 13: Good morning, it's your boy, Lovey.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: Lovey, your phone going in. I'm glad it is because
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  Speaker 1: you're just calling up here to be nasty.
• 12:52
  Speaker 14: Lovey.
• 12:53
  Speaker 13: No, I'm not calling up to be nasty.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is. You saw Mimi in studio and now
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: you want to call in. Oh, God. You ain't calling
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: here in weeks.
• 12:59
  Speaker 13: Oh, you know my brother. I'm looking forward to Saturday.
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: What happened, Lovey?
• 13:06
  Speaker 13: I said I'm looking forward to Saturday for this mental
• 13:08
  Speaker 13: wealth healing.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir. Mental Wealth Expo man at the Joellen Diane
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: Bloom Wellness and Events Center in Newark, New Jersey. Yes, sir.
• 13:15
  Speaker 13: Yes, I'll be part of your staff this year. I'm
• 13:17
  Speaker 13: looking forward to it. But I really needed one of
• 13:20
  Speaker 13: the young men from my son's football team. Mother tragically
• 13:24
  Speaker 13: passed away from domestic violence. And that's a trigger to me. Wow.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: You bring him out. Why don't you bring him out Saturday?
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: You know, my good brother, Dr. Jay Barnett, he's going
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: to be there, man. You know, he played in the NFL.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: You know, his story is that he tried to complete
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: suicide a couple of times. And, you know, he committed
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: his life to helping, you know, young brothers heal. So
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: why don't you bring him out?
• 13:43
  Speaker 13: Well, yeah, that's what I'm telling him. I sent 10
• 13:46
  Speaker 13: of his team to the Mental Wealth Expo Saturday. I'm
• 13:50
  Speaker 13: looking forward to it. I need this healing personally. And
• 13:53
  Speaker 13: thank you, Charlotte, for putting this on. You don't know
• 13:55
  Speaker 13: what you do. This is definitely needed. I think you
• 13:58
  Speaker 13: need to do this every quarter, but I ain't going
• 14:00
  Speaker 13: to press you.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: No, you know what? No, that's something we've been thinking about.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: You know, me and my good sister, Debbie Brown, we've
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: been thinking about, you know, of course we do the
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: big Mental Wealth Expo on World Mental Health Day, but
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: we've been thinking about doing smaller, you know, type events
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: like this a couple of times a year, a few
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: times a year. We've definitely been.
• 14:16
  Speaker 5: Talking about it.
• 14:18
  Speaker 13: No, I appreciate you. And this year, I want to
• 14:20
  Speaker 13: let you know, I've been inspired by you doing Toy Drive,
• 14:23
  Speaker 13: but not Toy Drive, but your... I'm doing my first
• 14:27
  Speaker 13: Coke giveaway for Why Dads Matter. So hopefully we'll talk
• 14:31
  Speaker 13: about that later. I don't want to talk about that now, but.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: That's going to be my first year doing it. I
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: got you. Tell me what you need. That's easy. I
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: like stuff like that. Tell me what you need, brother.
• 14:39
  Speaker 13: I'm definitely going to end of the month. I want
• 14:41
  Speaker 13: to do a Coke drive, and I'm bringing some of
• 14:44
  Speaker 13: the young men out because they want to meet Envy
• 14:47
  Speaker 13: at the Jersey at the Dream World. So I want
• 14:49
  Speaker 13: to kind of do a comic at the end of
• 14:51
  Speaker 13: the month. But right now, I really need healing for
• 14:53
  Speaker 13: my young man. His name is Four Four. So we'll
• 14:55
  Speaker 13: talk about that, y'all. I was going to pitch that
• 14:57
  Speaker 13: at you at the healing. Doing a web dance, man,
• 15:00
  Speaker 13: at a coat and hat drive at the end of October.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: Well, I can't wait to see y'all on Saturday, man.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Joelle and Diane
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Bloom Wellness and Events Center in Newark, New Jersey. My
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: sixth annual Mental Wealth Expo. in honor of World Mental
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Health Day, man. Just a day of mental health solutions
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: and tools for change. I can't wait. I can't wait.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: I can't wait. Ayanna LaVon Zina is going to be there.
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: Dr.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Rita Walker, Dr. Jay Barnett, Elliot Connie, Kierre Gaines, the
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: good sister Michelle Williams, of course, Debbie Brown, a whole
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: bunch of people, man. So we'll see you this Saturday.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: All right, Lovey.
• 15:34
  Speaker 13: I see you got it.
• 15:35
  Speaker 17: Envy, go Cowboy!
• 15:36
  Speaker 10: Yes, sir!
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: We play tonight!
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, y'all play tonight.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: We play tonight.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: We play Tampa Bay tonight, baby.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: And Lovey, yeah, we're doing a coat drive at the
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: mall in the end of October, too. So if you
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: need jackets or you.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Want to be part of it, I'll get your numbers.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, why don't Lovey just do it in conjunction with you? Yeah,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: we can do that.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, make it easier.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just do that, Lovey. Do that in conjunction with Envy.
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: Get it off your chest.
• 15:58
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• 15:59
  Speaker 3: If you need to vent, you can hit us up
• 16:01
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• 16:04
  Speaker 1: She just walked in the dome. Oh, there she go.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: What's up, baby?
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Yes. Look at Lauren.
• 16:10
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• 16:10
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• 16:12
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• 16:12
  Speaker 5: She look good.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: I like that quote, Lauren.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: What's up, Lo?
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Inspector low inspector low on the case we.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Got the latest below coming up what we talking about.
• 16:24
  Speaker 18: Low we're gonna be talking about rihanna we got a
• 16:27
  Speaker 18: new music update kind of ish we'll talk about.
• 16:31
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• 16:34
  Speaker 1: of all run this by.
• 16:35
  Speaker 18: Yo rihanna speaks for herself okay we just react to.
• 16:38
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• 16:40
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• 16:41
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• 16:42
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• 16:43
  Speaker 1: It's a secret society. It's a secret society. All we
• 16:46
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• 16:49
  Speaker 3: When we come back, we got the latest with Lauren,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: so don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: The latest with Lauren La Rosa.
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  Speaker 19: Because you particularly are bringing the energy to mainstream radio,
• 17:07
  Speaker 19: the black radio.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: That source is trusted.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Did you hear that exclusive?
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Lauren, I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: everything and everything.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Keep you having the latest on things.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: You ask the questions that need to be answered.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: On The Breakfast Club.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Little brown girls look at you and go, I want
• 17:21
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• 17:21
  Speaker 1: LL Cool B. Talk to me.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Good morning, y'all.
• 17:25
  Speaker 14: Hey, girl.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: All right, so look.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 17:27
  Speaker 18: Yesterday good morning envy uh so yesterday uh rihanna's fenty
• 17:31
  Speaker 18: beauty product uh line they did a tiktok live so
• 17:35
  Speaker 18: a lot of brands get on these tiktok lives and
• 17:37
  Speaker 18: it's like a shopping experience and that's what they were
• 17:39
  Speaker 18: doing kind of like qvc but it's like the tiktok
• 17:40
  Speaker 18: version so she was asked while on the live how
• 17:45
  Speaker 18: much music does she currently have that we have not
• 17:48
  Speaker 18: heard let's take a listen to rihanna Let's count these.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, okay.
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: If there are 10 products in a vault, then I
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: have at least, at least 17 vaults.
• 18:03
  Speaker 13: Damn.
• 18:04
  Speaker 9: Come on.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: And you just sitting on them?
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: 17, wait, hold on, you have to math on that.
• 18:12
  Speaker 18: The math on that is 170 songs that are unreleased
• 18:15
  Speaker 18: that we have not heard.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: And we know that Rihanna is working on music.
• 18:19
  Speaker 18: A $ AP Rocky told us she posted like a behind
• 18:21
  Speaker 18: the scenes vlog. of her in the studio, but we
• 18:24
  Speaker 18: still ain't got it yet.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Yo, this might be music.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: This gotta be music from years, like, over the time.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Right, yeah. That's a lot of music. But, you know,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: people gotta excited.
• 18:34
  Speaker 18: Anytime you hear anything Rihanna music, people get excited, but
• 18:37
  Speaker 18: we still ain't got the music yet.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Right, right, right. I mean, why do you need to
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: do music when you got Fenty Beauty and it's a...
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: multi-billion dollar brand let me tell you something and you
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: got your babies that you raising like that's the beautiful
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: thing right when you do things because you want to
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: do things that's actually when you get the best type
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: of music the worst type of music is when people
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: go in the studio because they have to they have
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: to be in the studio they're chasing a hit like
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: they feel like they gotta put this out in order
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: to eat Rihanna been eating okay.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah Yeah, 100%.
• 19:06
  Speaker 18: Well, and let me tell you something. Fenty Beauty Vaults
• 19:09
  Speaker 18: by Fenty Beauty. Great holiday gifts.
• 19:12
  Speaker 13: Yeah. Love them.
• 19:13
  Speaker 18: Yeah, you get all the small lip glosses and different
• 19:14
  Speaker 18: things in it, but yes. So maybe we'll be getting
• 19:16
  Speaker 18: some of that new music at some point when she
• 19:18
  Speaker 18: feels like it. Now moving on a bit, another conversation
• 19:22
  Speaker 18: that was happening yesterday outside of the Rihanna music was
• 19:25
  Speaker 18: Stephen A.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Smith. So Stephen A.
• 19:28
  Speaker 18: Smith is currently under fire right now for some comments
• 19:30
  Speaker 18: he made about Lane Johnson, NFL player Lane Johnson. And
• 19:34
  Speaker 18: a Philadelphia Eagle in his decision to retire because of
• 19:37
  Speaker 18: his mental health. Now, let's take a listen to Stephen A.
• 19:40
  Speaker 18: Smith's original comments that he made about this on first take.
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: Nine starters, you finished the game without.
• 19:47
  Speaker 20: And now the brother sat up there, one of the
• 19:49
  Speaker 20: all-time greats of the offensive line.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: And what did he do, Shaq? What did he do, Jordan?
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: He went like this. You know what?
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: I'm going to call it quits.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Now he calls it quits. Not before season. Not in offseason.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
• 20:00
  Speaker 21: After being subjected to this, he said, life is.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: A little bit too short. I need to focus.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: What did he say?
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: His mental health? Am I making it up? No, you're right.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Did he say that? I'm just being sure. So the brother.
• 20:13
  Speaker 21: four games in to the 2026 season a dude that
• 20:17
  Speaker 21: has been in the league forever sits back and says
• 20:21
  Speaker 21: i need to focus on my mental health and as
• 20:25
  Speaker 21: an offensive tackle.
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: And this brother say hey my life matters it's time
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: i'm gonna call it quits my mental health Yeah.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: That was in very poor taste. You know, I mean,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Lane Johnson has been battling anxiety and depression for years.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Like he was diagnosed with anxiety in college. Like he
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: missed a few games, you know, back in 2021 because
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: he was dealing with withdrawal symptoms from the antidepressant medication
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: that he stopped using.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:54
  Speaker 18: And he also mentioned Lane Johnson in his statement that
• 20:56
  Speaker 18: he posted on his social media about retiring.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: He mentioned his family priorities.
• 21:01
  Speaker 18: And I know that there has been conversation about, you know,
• 21:04
  Speaker 18: some potential illnesses within his family, within his parents. And,
• 21:08
  Speaker 18: you know, the fact that he has to care for
• 21:10
  Speaker 18: some of his family members.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: So, you know, people weren't happy at all with these comments.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Life be life.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: And then people got to take mental breaks. Sometimes, you
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: know what I mean?
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And I think sometimes we confuse a man's ability to
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: function with his ability to cope.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Just because you can go out there on the football
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: field and bang out don't mean that you're not, you know,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: going through it mentally or emotionally.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, 100%. Well, Stephen A.
• 21:34
  Speaker 18: Smith then went to his own show and apologized for
• 21:38
  Speaker 18: his comments.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: Let's take a listen. All right.
• 21:40
  Speaker 20: I'm sorry that when I was on television earlier this
• 21:42
  Speaker 20: morning on First Take, people misconstrued me minimizing mental health.
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: I would never do that. Hell, I had mental health issues.
• 21:49
  Speaker 20: 2017, when my mama passed away, God rest her soul,
• 21:52
  Speaker 20: I spent two years with a level of misery I
• 21:54
  Speaker 20: didn't know existed. I actually sought and endured therapy, which
• 21:58
  Speaker 20: rescued me. And to be honest with you, if it
• 22:00
  Speaker 20: wasn't for that and the existence of my daughters, I
• 22:02
  Speaker 20: don't even know if I'd be here.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: That's how bad I was.
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: I'm not only sensitive to mental health issues.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I'm very aware.
• 22:09
  Speaker 20: But when I was talking about Lane Johnson earlier this morning,
• 22:11
  Speaker 20: I wasn't talking about him and mental health.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I was talking about how the Eagles.
• 22:15
  Speaker 20: And how chaotic this situation is can drive you to it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 20: This is a top three right tackle in the NFL.
• 22:20
  Speaker 20: And yet after week four of this season, this man says,
• 22:23
  Speaker 20: I've had enough. I'm not joking about him. I'm looking
• 22:26
  Speaker 20: at the Eagles because of how chaotic it is.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: But I will tell you this.
• 22:29
  Speaker 20: Congratulations to him on a luscious career. He is a
• 22:32
  Speaker 20: surefire first ballot Hall of Famer.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, the reality is if the Eagles was winning,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Lane Johnson probably would still be going through this. And,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: you know, this isn't about Stephen A. Smith. I don't
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: want y'all to get caught up in the individual. It's
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: about the issue because World Mental Health Day is actually Saturday. So,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like God makes things happen for
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: a reason. So, I mean, this is a great time
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: to have a conversation. a conversation about all of this
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: because the question i have is why is a man
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: considered strong when he sacrifices his mental health for his
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: career but weak when he sacrifices his career for his
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: mental health yeah you know yeah and a man shouldn't
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: have to have a mental breakdown before we take his
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: mental health uh seriously i.
• 23:07
  Speaker 18: Agree with that that's right i agree with that the
• 23:09
  Speaker 18: push through doesn't have to be the norm yes yeah and.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Steven a he's gonna apologize on first take uh again
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: i'm sure Yes.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Which is where the original comments came from.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: That apology was on his podcast.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was on his show separately.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: He needs to do that on first take. Especially being
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: that World Mental Health Day is Saturday. He can really
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: use his platform to shine a light on that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 23:31
  Speaker 18: And I think that that was the biggest thing, too,
• 23:33
  Speaker 18: even not making it about Stephen A. It just was
• 23:35
  Speaker 18: like the way that the world talks about mental health today,
• 23:38
  Speaker 18: that it was just completely off as to where we
• 23:41
  Speaker 18: are today and how we allow people to do what
• 23:43
  Speaker 18: they're going through.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:45
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Well, that was the latest for the hour, guys.
• 23:49
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Lauren. You're welcome.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Now, when we come back, we got front page news,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: so don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Just hilarious. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: some front page news.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: All right, now on Thursday Night Football, the Tampa Bay
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Buccaneers take on the Dallas Cowboys at, or excuse me,
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: the Dallas Cowgirls at 815.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I don't understand why you call them cowgirls because, you know,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: you're actually acting like girls are the problem. Like, you
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: think girls are weak or something?
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: You think girls are soft or something?
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: I just think they're better at cheerleading than actually playing football.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: I just think they're better at cheerleading than playing football.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: That's okay.
• 24:29
  Speaker 13: Wow.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Didn't know you felt like that about women.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: No, I think they'd be better off in Chile.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I didn't know you felt like that about women.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: It's okay.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: I think it'd be better to go D-A-L-L-A-S.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, you don't think women are strong.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I didn't know that.
• 24:44
  Speaker 13: Hello, baby.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Hello, baby.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: How do your daughters feel about that? Okay, guys.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: That's why you didn't do the WNBA scores this morning.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: That's why you didn't shout out the fact that the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Dreams beat the New York Liberty 101-98, and they
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: up 2-0 in their series, and the Valkyries beat the Aces,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and they're up 2-0 in their series as well. That's crazy, Envy.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Learning a lot about you, man.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: No, my mic is a little shaky, but if you
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: would say the first break, I did it the first
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: break with my wife.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Let Mimi get to the damn news.
• 25:12
  Speaker 15: That's crazy.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mimi.
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: Good morning, Jess. I was trying to save you, Envy.
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  Speaker 10: It's the former principal who was on trial because people
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  Speaker 10: and into her chest, but she survived. But now we're
• 25:51
  Speaker 10: seeing police body cam video of what happened when officers
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: entered that classroom moments after the shooting.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Where is the weapon? It's on the floor.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: It's over there.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: If you want a piece of me, come get it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: My mom.
• 26:08
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: I stole that from my mom. If you want a.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Piece of me, come get it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 11: I mean, he does have the gun residue, it looks like.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 26:18
  Speaker 13: Let's just not touch his hands or anything.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I don't care if you call backup. I don't care
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: if I go to jail. Oh, lock baby Tariq ass up.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: That is crazy.
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: Ain't no goddamn way. He said he stole the gun
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: from his mom. Y'all want a piece of me? Like,
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: that is wild, y'all.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: Six years old.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: And he ain't even thinking about the beating he going
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: to get because he probably wasn't getting no beatings. And
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: that's the goddamn problem. Certain people need to get raised
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: like they was in the 90s.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Goddamn right. What the hell?
• 26:46
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 26:47
  Speaker 15: Oh, my God.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: What they going to do with his little ass?
• 26:50
  Speaker 10: Oh, he's back at home. He's with a great grandmother
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: and in a new school.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, Lord.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Let's pray for her. They put him back in a school?
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: They put him in a new school.
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: His mother, she ended up going to jail for two
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: years behind the shooting. And she did 21 months in
• 27:04
  Speaker 10: federal prison on gun-related charges.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: But, yeah, so this is just, we're now just getting
• 27:09
  Speaker 10: a peek into this video. If you remember Parker's criminal charges,
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: they were dismissed. But a jury, they awarded a civil
• 27:15
  Speaker 10: case against her. And they awarded the teacher who he
• 27:17
  Speaker 10: shot $ 10 million.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Thank God she lived.
• 27:21
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: You know, but I wouldn't.
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: I mean, I know we need to learn and all that.
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: But his little ass don't need to be in no school.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: No, but it was how he was raised, though.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: He shouldn't have had access to that gun. And obviously,
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: the way he's talking, he's raised like a vigilante.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: But that's right. He just does whatever the hell he
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: wants to do. He don't even know what a vigilante is.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: He's six years old.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: He probably do.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you do in that situation.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. It's like, what do you do?
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: But I would be afraid to even take him if
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: I'm a new school. It's like, yo, because the gun
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: is the problem, but also his mindset, his little mindset.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: You see?
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: He slapped the teacher.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: He ready for anything.
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: The cops were standing there. They didn't know what to do.
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: Someone asked if they had, like, mini handcuffs.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Could they mace his little ass?
• 28:04
  Speaker 13: I mean, I don't know.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Who started it?
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: He just brought the gun to school.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: You said he slapped the teacher.
• 28:10
  Speaker 10: Because the teacher was trying to calm him down. He
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: was sitting on the teacher's lap in the video. She's
• 28:13
  Speaker 10: trying to calm him down.
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: She's just being a teacher. He turns around and just
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: slaps her. Nothing that I saw, just continuation of that video.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Shut up. Why are you smiling? She's so crazy.
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: I don't even know.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Me neither.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know either. Because I'm just sitting there like,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: do I need to hear both sides of this issue?
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: No, no.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: That's always your go-to.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: You need to hear the other side.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: That's crazy. I really would like somebody to talk to
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the young man. And I want to know what led
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: him to all of this.
• 28:45
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: Well, clearly, I think there was something going on at
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: home because the mother was sitting with him day in,
• 28:51
  Speaker 10: day out at school.
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: And that was the one day she didn't come to
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: school with him.
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: When the gun was brought to school.
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: And the teacher died, right?
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: Damn.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: No, the teacher didn't die. No, no, no.
• 28:58
  Speaker 13: She lived.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: She got $ 10 million.
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah, she got $ 10 million.
• 29:00
  Speaker 12: Oh.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I definitely need to hear both sides. No, I
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: thought somebody died.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: No, nobody died, yo.
• 29:04
  Speaker 13: Yo, shut up, man.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: What you mean? I want to hear. I need to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: see more of this discussion. I need to hear talking
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to this young man, man. What's going on, little man?
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: He's nine years old now. I think this happened when
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: he was six. Is that what it said?
• 29:15
  Speaker 13: Yeah, six.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Jesus.
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 29:18
  Speaker 10: And so some backlash this morning. New York City Mayor
• 29:20
  Speaker 10: Zoran Mondani is getting facing backlash over what he said
• 29:23
  Speaker 10: on the third anniversary of the October.
• 29:26
  Speaker 9: 7th Hamas attack on Israel.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: So that was yesterday.
• 29:30
  Speaker 10: That was the day Hamas attacked Israel back in 2023.
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: It killed about 1,200 people and, excuse me, killing people
• 29:36
  Speaker 10: and took 1,200 people hostage. Now, in his anniversary message, Wandani,
• 29:41
  Speaker 10: he called the attack a horrific war crime, but he
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: spent much of his statement criticizing Israel's military response to
• 29:46
  Speaker 10: Gaza and calling it a genocide and saying more than
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: 74,000 Palestinians have been killed. Now, his statement on X
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: has been viewed more than 11 million times. But there's,
• 29:57
  Speaker 10: you know, critics are chiming in, saying that this is
• 30:01
  Speaker 10: the day to remember the Hamas attack, not to focus
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: on Israel's actions. Forward, several New York leaders, including Congressman
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: Dan Goldman, a fellow Democrat, have called the mayor's statement
• 30:11
  Speaker 10: egregious and insulting, saying there are 364 other days to
• 30:13
  Speaker 10: have that conversation.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the problem is everything doesn't need to
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: be politicized. You know, even if you're a politician, you
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: don't have to be on both sides of everything. October
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: 7th was tragic. Send your condolences to the people who
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: got killed. Send your condolences to the people who got
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: kidnapped and became hostages. Leave it at that.
• 30:32
  Speaker 14: That's it.
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: All right, and we have to wrap up. So we
• 30:40
  Speaker 10: will take on a few more of these stories tomorrow.
• 30:42
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• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mimi.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Mimi. Thank you. Now, when we come back,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: John Legend will be joining us.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: He has a new album that comes out next Friday,
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: so we're going to kick it with John Legend when
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: we come back.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club. Law and the Rose is here as well.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: He's back, ladies and gentlemen, John Legend.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, John. I feel like you've got to introduce
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: John as EGOT winner every time. I feel like if
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: you don't, you're doing him a disservice. How many EGOT
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: winners do we know? You're right, you're right. Let me
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: do that right.
• 31:22
  Speaker 13: Three.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Now we have a special guest in the building.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: He's also an EGOT winner.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, he is. Ladies and gentlemen, John Legend.
• 31:29
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: That was better.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: That was better. That was better.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Good morning, John.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: How's everybody?
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Just black and highly favored. The reason I say that
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: is because he's the first black man to ever become
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: an EGOT.
• 31:39
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: So that's black history.
• 31:40
  Speaker 17: I'm still the only black man. To be an EGOT,
• 31:43
  Speaker 17: there's several black women. I'm the only black man.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Congratulations.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Does being an EGOT winner, is it actually good for business?
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Has it been good for the business of John Legend?
• 31:51
  Speaker 17: I mean, it's good for my introductions. You know, I
• 31:57
  Speaker 17: think it just puts an aura of prestige. I'm sure
• 32:01
  Speaker 17: the private gig price was able to go up.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: See, that's what I wanted to know. Did they change
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: your fee?
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yeah.
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: I feel like it just adds, you know, it adds
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: to the price.
• 32:12
  Speaker 17: Yesterday's price is not today's price. New album Muse, October 23rd. Now,
• 32:22
  Speaker 17: is the whole album produced by Pharrell? The entire album,
• 32:25
  Speaker 17: it was his idea. He called me up out of
• 32:28
  Speaker 17: the blue. He lives in Paris.
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: I live in Los Angeles.
• 32:30
  Speaker 17: So he is not always cognizant of the time difference
• 32:35
  Speaker 17: when he calls. He calls you three in the morning.
• 32:36
  Speaker 17: He calls like four in the morning. And so I
• 32:39
  Speaker 17: call him back when I wake up. And he's like,
• 32:42
  Speaker 17: what are you working on? I hadn't spoken to him
• 32:44
  Speaker 17: in a while. I had just done the hook for
• 32:47
  Speaker 17: the clip song, Birds Don't Sing.
• 32:50
  Speaker 13: Yep.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: By the way, you killed that.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Thank you. He produced that and he wrote the hook.
• 32:54
  Speaker 17: And so I think he loved hearing my voice singing
• 32:57
  Speaker 17: what he had written for that track. He was like, man,
• 32:59
  Speaker 17: we should just do a whole album together. And so
• 33:02
  Speaker 17: he was like, when are you coming to Paris next?
• 33:04
  Speaker 17: And I was planning to possibly come that next month
• 33:07
  Speaker 17: for an event. So I was like, I'll do the
• 33:10
  Speaker 17: event and I'll come and we'll do a few days
• 33:13
  Speaker 17: in the studio and see what happens. And we started
• 33:14
  Speaker 17: working on the album. And I loved what we were making.
• 33:17
  Speaker 17: And I was like, let's make the whole album. It
• 33:19
  Speaker 17: really came out beautifully. He had a vision for it
• 33:22
  Speaker 17: from the beginning. He talked about making it cinematic, black
• 33:27
  Speaker 17: James Bond, but with 808 drums. We have orchestras. We
• 33:32
  Speaker 17: have credible horn arrangements, but also hip-hop beats. We made
• 33:36
  Speaker 17: something really beautiful. I'm really proud of it.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: How long did it take?
• 33:39
  Speaker 17: Off and on, a little over a year. And then
• 33:43
  Speaker 17: this year we've been, you know, shooting the videos, doing
• 33:46
  Speaker 17: the photos and all that. And the great thing about
• 33:49
  Speaker 17: working with Pharrell is you're not only getting his music input,
• 33:52
  Speaker 17: but you're getting the visual input. And, you know, he's
• 33:55
  Speaker 17: a creative director, Louis Vuitton. He has such a great
• 33:57
  Speaker 17: creative team around him. They've been helping me with every
• 34:00
  Speaker 17: visual that we've been doing. And it's all coming out
• 34:03
  Speaker 17: just so beautifully.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Did y'all record it?
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Did y'all record it in the Louis Vuitton store?
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Because I've seen the clips recorded parts of theirs in
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: the Louis Vuitton store.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: In the headquarters. In the headquarters, yes.
• 34:12
  Speaker 17: Yeah, so you go to Paris, you know, they have
• 34:16
  Speaker 17: this iconic building that's their headquarters and in the corner
• 34:19
  Speaker 17: office is a studio.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Just for Pharrell? Yeah, they built it for Pharrell.
• 34:23
  Speaker 17: Yeah, he's, you know, and so you walk in and
• 34:28
  Speaker 17: they're designing the outfits for the Met Gala and they're
• 34:32
  Speaker 17: designing the next collection and And then in the corner
• 34:36
  Speaker 17: is a music studio with a piano, and we made
• 34:39
  Speaker 17: the record there. Sometimes I would do remote sessions with them.
• 34:44
  Speaker 17: I had my studio in L.A., and we would Zoom.
• 34:47
  Speaker 17: But a lot of the sessions happened in Paris at
• 34:50
  Speaker 17: that office.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: At this point in your career, what could Pharrell hear
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: in you that maybe you couldn't hear in yourself anymore?
• 34:56
  Speaker 17: I think it's great to work with different producers because
• 34:59
  Speaker 17: like you said, they hear different things in you.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: They bring different things out of you.
• 35:04
  Speaker 17: It's good, I think, especially at this point in my
• 35:09
  Speaker 17: career to shake things up, to challenge myself.
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: And try a new approach. And that's what this album was.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Is it harder to make great music because you have
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: less to prove or easier because you're free from proving anything?
• 35:20
  Speaker 17: I was fortunate, I think, at the very beginning of
• 35:22
  Speaker 17: my career that I came into it with Kanye and
• 35:26
  Speaker 17: he had already succeeded with College Dropout.
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: Um, I got signed right after the success of that album.
• 35:33
  Speaker 17: And so I think, and coming into it with the
• 35:35
  Speaker 17: production company, with the team, the label just trusted us
• 35:39
  Speaker 17: automatically and they didn't try to micromanage.
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: They just let us make the record we wanted to
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: make that worked.
• 35:46
  Speaker 17: And so I think it set a trend with the
• 35:48
  Speaker 17: label that they could trust that.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: We were going to figure things out.
• 35:52
  Speaker 17: And, um, we didn't need a lot of over A &
• 35:55
  Speaker 17: R overhandling by the label.
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: And to let us do our thing.
• 36:00
  Speaker 17: We set that precedent at the beginning and it's just
• 36:02
  Speaker 17: been the way my career's been throughout that we've had
• 36:06
  Speaker 17: enough success that they let me do my thing and
• 36:09
  Speaker 17: trust that I'm going to make the right decisions for
• 36:11
  Speaker 17: my career.
• 36:12
  Speaker 18: And you usually talk about like the ancestors and all
• 36:14
  Speaker 18: these different things that inspired the work. What is inspiring
• 36:17
  Speaker 18: you particularly in this moment from that ancestral background?
• 36:21
  Speaker 17: Well, I think the artists that I love, some of
• 36:25
  Speaker 17: them are ancestors now like Nina Simone and Marvin Gaye and.
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: Nat King Cole. And we talked about them while we
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: were making the album.
• 36:34
  Speaker 17: And when you listen to the album, you hear their
• 36:36
  Speaker 17: influence in the album. And the last song we released,
• 36:42
  Speaker 17: the newest video, is called Fireflies.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: And we talk about our ancestors.
• 36:45
  Speaker 17: Literally the first line in the song is, Ancestors' blood,
• 36:49
  Speaker 17: there's iron in the clay. We trauma bond, survivors' pain.
• 36:53
  Speaker 17: We felt our way through the dark while I was raised.
• 36:56
  Speaker 17: The right moves made you smart where I was raised.
• 36:58
  Speaker 17: And in the bridge, it says, I'm a candle in
• 37:03
  Speaker 17: the dark. And I come from a divine spark. And
• 37:07
  Speaker 17: I'm my ancestors' thoughts and their wildest dreams. And I
• 37:11
  Speaker 17: finish anything that I start. And I hockey stick every chart.
• 37:15
  Speaker 17: And I know it's hard for them to handle that part.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: But look at me. I'm about to get away.
• 37:20
  Speaker 17: It's about aspiration. It's about having a vision to exceed
• 37:32
  Speaker 17: where your ancestors have gone, but to also be grounded
• 37:36
  Speaker 17: in what they did and to carry that legacy forward.
• 37:39
  Speaker 18: Have there been points in your career where you've had
• 37:41
  Speaker 18: to stop and be like, I need to ground myself
• 37:43
  Speaker 18: right now?
• 37:44
  Speaker 14: Really?
• 37:44
  Speaker 17: I feel like I've been pretty grounded and I think
• 37:47
  Speaker 17: I never forgot where I came from.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: I've been pretty focused on the art of it all.
• 37:52
  Speaker 17: Like the reason why I'm here is because I'm an artist,
• 37:56
  Speaker 17: because I'm a singer, because I'm a songwriter.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I'm a musician.
• 38:00
  Speaker 17: As long as I stay focused on that, I think
• 38:04
  Speaker 17: that will keep me grounded, be grounded in the work,
• 38:07
  Speaker 17: be grounded in, you know, Being an artist.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Do you still know when you've made a hit? Or
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: has this new digital world, this screaming world, completely changed
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: where the hit even feels?
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: It's hard to know.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: It's hard to know. You know when it feels great
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: to you. Yeah, yeah.
• 38:25
  Speaker 17: But there's so many other factors that go into making
• 38:28
  Speaker 17: things hits. Some of it's luck, some of it's timing, marketing.
• 38:32
  Speaker 17: You know, there's all kinds of other factors that are involved.
• 38:36
  Speaker 17: All you can control is what you do. We want
• 38:38
  Speaker 17: to make the most beautiful song, the most beautiful video,
• 38:41
  Speaker 17: give the record the best chance to succeed. But there's
• 38:45
  Speaker 17: going to be all these other factors that go into
• 38:47
  Speaker 17: whether it's a hit or not.
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: There's so much out there. There's so much music out there.
• 38:52
  Speaker 17: That's the blessing and the curse of this era is
• 38:55
  Speaker 17: that anybody can put out a record. You don't need
• 38:58
  Speaker 17: the label. You don't need the gatekeepers. You can market
• 39:01
  Speaker 17: and promote yourself. You can be independent, all these things.
• 39:04
  Speaker 17: But that just means there's more. There's more of everything.
• 39:08
  Speaker 17: And that means it's harder to break through the noise.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: It's harder to connect, right?
• 39:13
  Speaker 17: Yeah, because people have so much competing for the ear.
• 39:15
  Speaker 17: And you guys are competing for the ear. A podcast
• 39:18
  Speaker 17: is competing for the ear. Them just scrolling down their
• 39:22
  Speaker 17: Instagram feed is competing for their ear. So we're not
• 39:25
  Speaker 17: even just competing with other music. We're competing with every
• 39:28
  Speaker 17: other thing that someone can.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Decide to listen to.
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: I've been listening to you through many different eras, right?
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: Get Lifted, still one.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Of my favorite top albums of all time, right?
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: Now, you said there's no songs that you don't like
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: to perform.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: You love all your music.
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: You had a lot of beef in my house, though.
• 39:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Because it was this one song.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: I had some cheating songs on Get Lifted.
• 39:45
  Speaker 15: Exactly.
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: Because my father used to walk around and tell my mother,
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: you can't say I don't love you.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Just because I cheat on you.
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: And for a while, my mother loved you, but she
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: hated the album. That would ring throughout the house. And
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: are those songs, do you still like to perform those songs?
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 40:05
  Speaker 17: And we did the 20th anniversary of Get Lifted a
• 40:08
  Speaker 17: couple years ago.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, man. I love performing the songs.
• 40:11
  Speaker 17: And, you know, I would say in the show, you know,
• 40:14
  Speaker 17: some of y'all hated that I wrote these cheating songs
• 40:18
  Speaker 17: on Get Lifted.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: But some of y'all loved it.
• 40:20
  Speaker 16: We did.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: And I didn't even know what I was dancing to.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Some of y'all loved it. Those are honest emotions, though. Yeah.
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: And apparently your dad, those were his honest emotions.
• 40:28
  Speaker 15: That's right.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: They divorced now.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: They divorced.
• 40:32
  Speaker 15: She didn't buy it.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: She didn't buy it.
• 40:34
  Speaker 13: She didn't buy it.
• 40:37
  Speaker 17: My parents were going through their second divorce. So they
• 40:40
  Speaker 17: had divorced each other before when I was a kid.
• 40:43
  Speaker 17: And they got back together right after I graduated from college.
• 40:47
  Speaker 17: Then right when I was making Get Lifted, they were
• 40:50
  Speaker 17: getting divorced for the second time. And so when I
• 40:52
  Speaker 17: was writing like Ordinary People and these songs about the
• 40:56
  Speaker 17: ups and downs of relationships, we were going through it
• 40:58
  Speaker 17: in our family right at that time.
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: So, you know, writing about real life. I love it.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: I love it. If 25-year-old John Legend entered the music
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: business now, would he become John Legend? Because, you know,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: the music business is completely different.
• 41:10
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: You came at a time when albums mattered. Yeah. Radio
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: could still break R & B. It's hard to know. Like,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: I truly don't know.
• 41:16
  Speaker 17: Just like I was saying before, it's harder to break
• 41:18
  Speaker 17: through the noise. There's so many things competing for people's ears.
• 41:24
  Speaker 17: The way things are marketed now is just different.
• 41:26
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: I do not know.
• 41:28
  Speaker 17: I'm just grateful that I've already established myself now so
• 41:31
  Speaker 17: that I'm coming from a foundation that I've already created,
• 41:35
  Speaker 17: a relationship that I've already created with my audience.
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: And so it gives me a leg up, but I
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: have no idea.
• 41:42
  Speaker 17: You hope that the music will win regardless. You hope
• 41:45
  Speaker 17: that great songs will win and talented artists will sustain regardless.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: It's a different era. He has a great voice. He
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: can play the piano, but can he go viral? Yeah, exactly.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: You just don't know.
• 41:56
  Speaker 17: But you see artists that are winning that are true,
• 42:00
  Speaker 17: that are real artists that are going to be around
• 42:02
  Speaker 17: for a long time.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Like, you know... Osego.
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Olivia Deen, Ray.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: You're seeing artists.
• 42:12
  Speaker 17: that are great songwriters like SZA, like people that really
• 42:16
  Speaker 17: have a point of view and something to say and
• 42:19
  Speaker 17: they're unique and they're interesting and they're winning. So I
• 42:23
  Speaker 17: feel like it's still possible.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: Now, Black James Bond, that's how you described the album.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Was that intentional?
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was like.
• 42:32
  Speaker 17: When Pharrell called me that first day, he really like
• 42:35
  Speaker 17: laid out a vision and we really.
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: Executed on that vision. And that was part of his vision.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: My black James Bond, what the hell you be doing
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: that we don't know about?
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 42:44
  Speaker 17: I think it was just like the aura of that,
• 42:47
  Speaker 17: making it cinematic, making it intriguing, making it... feel urgent,
• 42:54
  Speaker 17: and all of that. I think all of that was
• 42:56
  Speaker 17: part of the aesthetic of making the album.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: And you let Pharrell write full songs on this.
• 43:03
  Speaker 17: Yeah, some of the songs were fully written by Pharrell.
• 43:06
  Speaker 17: A lot of them were co-writes between us, and we
• 43:09
  Speaker 17: had a couple other co-writers throughout the album. It was
• 43:12
  Speaker 17: cool to allow myself to be produced by someone else,
• 43:15
  Speaker 17: you know what I'm saying? Because I felt like it
• 43:18
  Speaker 17: would create something new and take me out of my
• 43:21
  Speaker 17: comfort zone.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: I saw you say that it required a level of
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: trust between you and Pharrell.
• 43:26
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Is it like playing that game where you fall back
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: and somebody.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Got to catch you?
• 43:30
  Speaker 17: Well, fortunately, he has such a track record. You can
• 43:35
  Speaker 17: trust Pharrell. He's made great records for a long period
• 43:39
  Speaker 17: of time.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: He has great taste.
• 43:41
  Speaker 17: He literally said at the end of our time making
• 43:44
  Speaker 17: the album, thank you for trusting me. It does require
• 43:47
  Speaker 17: trust to go in on a full album with a producer.
• 43:52
  Speaker 17: Because in our business, a lot of times we're just
• 43:54
  Speaker 17: taking tracks, you know, get a track from this producer,
• 43:56
  Speaker 17: get a track from that producer, and then you.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Put the album together.
• 44:00
  Speaker 17: But to go fully in on one vision with one
• 44:03
  Speaker 17: producer does require trust. And I trusted him and I'm
• 44:07
  Speaker 17: glad I did because I think the result is better
• 44:10
  Speaker 17: for it.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: You ever get nervous, you know, because I see what
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: vets in the industry do. A lot of times they
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: don't want to put out new projects because it's a scale, right?
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: You got streaming before you do 150, 200, 300,000 records
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: is easy. Well, I don't say it's easy, but you
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: would see that more often. Now you see a lot
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: of the vets putting up 15,000, 20,000. Everything is monitored.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: It's different.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Did that bother you or make you nervous at all?
• 44:32
  Speaker 17: No, I don't get nervous about numbers. My career, like
• 44:36
  Speaker 17: I never had huge first weeks anyway. It was always
• 44:40
  Speaker 17: like a slower burn. I never had a number one album.
• 44:44
  Speaker 17: Even my top albums, I have one number one song,
• 44:48
  Speaker 17: All of Me. I've never had a number one album
• 44:50
  Speaker 17: on the U.S.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Chart.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Love in the Future was a number one album?
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: No, no, never.
• 44:56
  Speaker 17: And so I guess it never set a standard of like, oh,
• 45:00
  Speaker 17: I have to be number one this week or it's
• 45:03
  Speaker 17: a failure. My albums always took their time to build
• 45:06
  Speaker 17: with people, grew with people, word of mouth. People would
• 45:09
  Speaker 17: listen to the whole album, not just a song. And
• 45:12
  Speaker 17: so I've always had that kind of career. And so
• 45:16
  Speaker 17: the pressure of I got to be number one this
• 45:18
  Speaker 17: week never got to me because I never was.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: I literally never was.
• 45:22
  Speaker 7: But the music is so good thank you and it's
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: so funny that you say that yo I was in
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: a barbershop I was taking my son to get a
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: haircut one day and they had Love in the Future
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: playing in the barbershop and so like you said that
• 45:33
  Speaker 7: word of mouth and just hearing other people listen to
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: it that's how it built up and even the Sounds
• 45:39
  Speaker 7: of Seasons the Christmas album I heard that at my
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: grandpa's I was being played and that's just how it
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: is like people just hear other people listening to it.
• 45:47
  Speaker 17: Yeah and I want the albums to endure I want
• 45:49
  Speaker 17: them to be part of people's lives and uh What
• 45:52
  Speaker 17: all of you guys are telling me is that it's
• 45:54
  Speaker 17: been a part of your life in these different ways.
• 45:57
  Speaker 17: And that's what we want to make is music that
• 45:59
  Speaker 17: lives with people and that is part of their memories
• 46:04
  Speaker 17: and part of their stories and part of their.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Relationships, you know.
• 46:07
  Speaker 17: I haven't had a number one. Hey, I'm always open
• 46:10
  Speaker 17: to the possibility. And maybe this next one will be.
• 46:13
  Speaker 17: I would have lost that bet.
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: But I know I've made an impact. So I'm grateful
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: for that.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Ordinary people only peaked at number 24. Yeah. I feel like.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: I hear that. I used to hear that all the time.
• 46:28
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 46:28
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 46:29
  Speaker 17: Like I said, like I've never been defined by chart success.
• 46:33
  Speaker 17: And so I just focus on making great music that
• 46:37
  Speaker 17: is enduring and that's part of.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: People's lives forever.
• 46:40
  Speaker 18: Is that the artist in you or is that the humility,
• 46:42
  Speaker 18: like the cloth that you're cut from in you? Because
• 46:45
  Speaker 18: you take a lot of time with your music.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: You play instruments, you do all these things. And I
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: don't even care about the number one.
• 46:50
  Speaker 17: Part of it's just the nature of the kind of
• 46:52
  Speaker 17: music I make.
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: Like it wasn't like it was never like the poppiest music.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: It was never. this or that.
• 46:58
  Speaker 17: It was never chasing any particular trend. And I was
• 47:01
  Speaker 17: always unique. I was cool with that. And I knew
• 47:04
  Speaker 17: that I was building my career for the long term.
• 47:07
  Speaker 17: I wasn't trying to be a flash in the pan.
• 47:09
  Speaker 17: I was trying to be an artist that would be
• 47:10
  Speaker 17: able to tour forever. make records forever, and be timeless,
• 47:14
  Speaker 17: that means you may not always be the most poppin',
• 47:17
  Speaker 17: most popular thing, but you're in it for the long haul.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: I want to ask you about politics, right? You know,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: midterms are coming up. And there was a period where
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: it felt like John Legend was one of the loudest artists.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Having fundraisers at the house. And we still are. That's
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: the thing. Don't feel as loud anymore, though.
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: I think, honestly, the biggest difference is I'm not on Twitter.
• 47:40
  Speaker 17: And I feel like IG is not really like the
• 47:43
  Speaker 17: same kind of medium for that kind of conversation. And
• 47:47
  Speaker 17: when I was on Twitter, like I was always saying
• 47:49
  Speaker 17: something and Chrissy was always saying something. And like we
• 47:53
  Speaker 17: just were in conversation with the public more.
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: And we still haven't changed our politics.
• 48:00
  Speaker 17: We still do fundraisers at our house. I'm still going
• 48:04
  Speaker 17: to go out and campaign. for candidates in my home
• 48:06
  Speaker 17: state of Ohio. I'm going to go down to Georgia
• 48:10
  Speaker 17: and campaign. I'm still as passionate about it, but I
• 48:14
  Speaker 17: think it just feels less loud because there's no Twitter
• 48:17
  Speaker 17: for me. And that's where I was getting a lot
• 48:20
  Speaker 17: of my thoughts out. What was the decision to get
• 48:21
  Speaker 17: off Twitter? Was it Elon Musk's purchase? Or was it
• 48:23
  Speaker 17: just a negativity? It was Elon Musk and the Nazi
• 48:27
  Speaker 17: of it all. It was too much. I was like,
• 48:30
  Speaker 17: I don't need this in my life. The energy is very,
• 48:33
  Speaker 17: it's really, it got really dark.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: I got off in 2018.
• 48:36
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I got off right around the same time. I
• 48:38
  Speaker 17: don't remember when he bought it, but I got off Twitter.
• 48:42
  Speaker 17: The energy was too dark, too much Nazi nonsense. And
• 48:45
  Speaker 17: I think my life is better for it.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Has the cost of being outspoken changed because you have
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: a president that will target you?
• 48:53
  Speaker 17: He already knows we hate him. We've been his enemies since,
• 48:58
  Speaker 17: you know, since the first term. I don't feel like
• 49:02
  Speaker 17: there's anything to be gained by us laying off of him.
• 49:05
  Speaker 17: When I do talk about politics on Instagram, I call
• 49:09
  Speaker 17: him out. I talk shit about him. My wife does.
• 49:13
  Speaker 17: We know who he is. We've seen who he was
• 49:16
  Speaker 17: from the beginning. We saw it you know living in
• 49:18
  Speaker 17: new york and and knowing he was on some then
• 49:21
  Speaker 17: uh and so you know none of that has changed
• 49:25
  Speaker 17: but i just think our where we say it has
• 49:28
  Speaker 17: changed and i think not being on twitter it just
• 49:31
  Speaker 17: makes it seem like we're less involved in the conversation
• 49:35
  Speaker 17: when in our minds we're not.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: And it feels like, you know, even though I know
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: your heart is in the right place, celebrity political activism
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: seems less effective because people, for whatever reason, see celebrities
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: as a part of the same elite establishment that they're
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: mad at.
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there's definitely some of that. There's definitely
• 49:51
  Speaker 6: some of that.
• 49:52
  Speaker 17: I still think my voice matters because people know that
• 49:55
  Speaker 17: I'm coming to it from an authentic place and a
• 49:58
  Speaker 17: truthful place.
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: I am not, like, new to this.
• 50:02
  Speaker 13: Like, I.
• 50:03
  Speaker 17: I study these issues. I pay attention to them. And
• 50:06
  Speaker 17: when I speak out, I do it from an informed perspective.
• 50:10
  Speaker 17: I'm not just saying shit. I'm saying it because I've
• 50:13
  Speaker 17: actually really looked into it. And my activism is very intentional.
• 50:19
  Speaker 17: We're doing things behind the scenes all the time. And
• 50:22
  Speaker 17: sometimes we do them in public. Like we were walking
• 50:25
  Speaker 17: the streets of Philadelphia recently with the mayor because I
• 50:28
  Speaker 17: have an organization called Human Level that is working.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: In the cities all the time.
• 50:33
  Speaker 17: Like we were funding fellows who are working for mayor's offices,
• 50:38
  Speaker 17: promoting equity, promoting affordable housing, promoting equal access to housing.
• 50:43
  Speaker 17: quality health care and groceries and all these things. We're
• 50:45
  Speaker 17: doing that literally all the time. And it may not
• 50:50
  Speaker 17: get the headlines all the time, but these are things
• 50:52
  Speaker 17: that are happening locally all the time. And so what
• 50:56
  Speaker 17: I encourage people to do, especially when we don't have
• 50:58
  Speaker 17: someone in federal office that is considering our needs and
• 51:04
  Speaker 17: doing what we need him to do, focus on what
• 51:08
  Speaker 17: you can control, which a lot of times is local
• 51:11
  Speaker 17: and state. And so we've been very involved on that
• 51:13
  Speaker 17: level consistently. And it's a little bit under the radar,
• 51:17
  Speaker 17: but it's happening and it's actually affecting people's lives.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: Have you seen retaliation because of that? You going at
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: the president?
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: You know, he went after Chrissy when she called him a.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: bitch. That's crazy. That's definitely Chrissy, though.
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, like, oh, they're just going to preach.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: We haven't had any, like, legal repercussions, no.
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: But I think.
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: What was his response when she called him a bitch?
• 51:44
  Speaker 17: He kind of was a bitch about it because he
• 51:48
  Speaker 17: tried to get it, like, he tried to get Twitter
• 51:51
  Speaker 17: to take it down.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: She should have said, grab him by the.
• 51:57
  Speaker 17: And then he tried to get Twitter to take it
• 51:59
  Speaker 17: down and Twitter censored it as a trending topic because
• 52:05
  Speaker 17: of that.
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: Or maybe the profanity made them censor it.
• 52:08
  Speaker 17: But one way or another, they wanted to squash it
• 52:12
  Speaker 17: because he was really embarrassed that it was trending on Twitter.
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: She called him that.
• 52:19
  Speaker 17: The wildest thing about that was that was in response
• 52:22
  Speaker 17: to some of the other work that I do, which
• 52:23
  Speaker 17: is on... ending mass incarceration. We were literally at a
• 52:27
  Speaker 17: prison in Sing Sing, upstate New York. And we did
• 52:33
  Speaker 17: a special with Lester Holt. He was apparently watching MSNBC
• 52:39
  Speaker 17: on a Sunday night.
• 52:40
  Speaker 13: Why?
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 52:42
  Speaker 17: But he was so upset that he didn't get enough
• 52:45
  Speaker 17: love and credit because he passed that one criminal justice
• 52:49
  Speaker 17: reform bill.
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: The first step back? Yeah, the first step back.
• 52:53
  Speaker 17: He was so mad that we didn't talk about him
• 52:55
  Speaker 17: and show him enough love in that special that he
• 52:59
  Speaker 17: called me out, threw Chrissy astray, and she wasn't even
• 53:02
  Speaker 17: on the special.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: And then Chrissy said, you p * * *. Bitch,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: why didn't you at me?
• 53:07
  Speaker 17: And they literally they literally try to censor it from
• 53:12
  Speaker 17: Twitter because he was so like upset.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: That it was it was it was trending so bad.
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: I also got to let you guys know that John
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: Legend is actually going to be at American Dream Mall
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: this weekend. So Thursday they're doing a listening session and
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: some lucky winners will actually get a chance to meet him.
• 53:45
  Speaker 17: And he's having a pop-up store there as well? Yeah,
• 53:47
  Speaker 17: we're actually, you know, focusing on physical product. Which is
• 53:51
  Speaker 17: a little bit antiquated, but people are going back to vinyl.
• 53:55
  Speaker 17: People are going back to having something tangible they can hold.
• 53:59
  Speaker 17: And so as we're doing As we're doing throughout the country,
• 54:02
  Speaker 17: we're going to focus on the physical product, bring people
• 54:05
  Speaker 17: out in real life to get back together.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: And we're doing some in-stores.
• 54:10
  Speaker 17: It feels very old school, but I love it because
• 54:13
  Speaker 17: people need that connection and they need something tangible. And
• 54:17
  Speaker 17: I think we've had enough. of everything being online. We
• 54:20
  Speaker 17: need like in real life.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: Interaction.
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: Well, artists got to be willing to do it too.
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: Because a lot of artists feel like they can go
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: online and stream and that's it. But the fact that
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: artists are actually coming out, meeting people, signing autographs again.
• 54:32
  Speaker 15: It matters.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: That's the main thing.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: It matters. So make sure you head out there.
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: It's a VIP listening party, and some lucky winners will
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: get the album and also get to meet John Legend.
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: So if you haven't got it, definitely get your VIP tickets.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Mules will be out October 23rd.
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: It's The Breakfast Club.
• 54:47
  Speaker 8: Good morning.
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: Morning, everybody. We are The Breakfast Club.
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: If you are watching on Netflix, you was missing a
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: very interesting story. Jess was telling us how he was
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: teaching her son how to kick it to girls.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: I was, yo.
• 55:01
  Speaker 7: And he was saying, I was like, yo, because in
• 55:03
  Speaker 7: high school, I'm like, how you pick up the girls?
• 55:04
  Speaker 7: And he was like, I go up to her like,
• 55:05
  Speaker 7: you know, how you doing? You know, do you got
• 55:07
  Speaker 7: a man?
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what I see, do you got a man?
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, cool.
• 55:11
  Speaker 7: That's the first question. He was like, yeah, because, you know,
• 55:13
  Speaker 7: I don't want to take nobody girl or whatever. You know,
• 55:15
  Speaker 7: high school is different, mom. I'm like, yeah, I've been there.
• 55:17
  Speaker 7: So he was like, yeah, I'd just be like, what's
• 55:20
  Speaker 7: your Instagram? I said, your Instagram, you don't ask for
• 55:23
  Speaker 7: the number? And he was like, nah, nah, nah, because,
• 55:25
  Speaker 7: you know, the Instagram, you get to see everything, you know,
• 55:28
  Speaker 7: because what I see in person might be different.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: You know, she might look different on Instagram.
• 55:32
  Speaker 7: I'm like, no, that's completely backwards.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: These kids are cooked. That's what he said.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Why you didn't give him no game, though? I did.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: I did. I was just trying to see if he
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: had game first. And then I did give him the game.
• 55:42
  Speaker 7: But it's not because I like girls. I just know
• 55:44
  Speaker 7: what we want to hear.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: No, I said you used to holler at girls. Yeah,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: I used to.
• 55:46
  Speaker 7: I ain't never really had to say nothing, though.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: Ash also real cool. Sometimes I do it. You don't
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: have to say too much. He get that from me.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: Just cool, too, though.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Just real cool.
• 55:55
  Speaker 7: But I ain't have to say nothing. I ain't have
• 55:58
  Speaker 7: to say nothing. They would say something to me.
• 56:00
  Speaker 16: Period.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Let's get to the latest.
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: Let's get to the latest.
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: The latest with Lauren LaRosa.
• 56:06
  Speaker 22: Because you particularly are bringing the energy to mainstream radio,
• 56:09
  Speaker 22: the black radio.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: That source is trusted. Did you hear that exclusive?
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: Lauren, I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: everything and everything.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: She be having the latest on things.
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: You ask the questions that need to be answered.
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: On The Breakfast Club.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: If little brown girls look at you and go, I
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: want to be like you.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: LL Cool B. Talk to me.
• 56:26
  Speaker 18: So Miss Felicia Rashad and Miss Debbie Allen sat down
• 56:29
  Speaker 18: with Michelle Obama and her brother, Craig Robinson, for their
• 56:33
  Speaker 18: In My Opinion podcast. And they had a conversation about
• 56:37
  Speaker 18: a bunch of different things. But one of the things
• 56:39
  Speaker 18: that they talked about was the fact that there was like,
• 56:43
  Speaker 18: I wouldn't even call it a jealousy, but like Felicia,
• 56:45
  Speaker 18: Miss Felicia Rashad didn't feel like she was beautiful at
• 56:47
  Speaker 18: one point because of her color, her skin color. Let's
• 56:50
  Speaker 18: take a listen to them talking about not feeling beautiful
• 56:53
  Speaker 18: because of colorism.
• 56:54
  Speaker 23: I always felt that Debbie was beautiful and that I
• 56:57
  Speaker 23: was not. So it wasn't until we were college graduates
• 57:01
  Speaker 23: and we were living together in an apartment on 84th
• 57:04
  Speaker 23: Street and it's Christmas. And we had secretly gone in
• 57:09
  Speaker 23: to buy gifts for each other. And we're sitting there
• 57:11
  Speaker 23: and I, okay, well, I have something for you.
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, I have something for you too. And we opened
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: them up.
• 57:18
  Speaker 23: And it was then I said to Debra that I
• 57:21
  Speaker 23: had always wanted to be beautiful like her.
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: And she looks at me, she said, but you're the
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: beautiful one.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: You know, we grew up with.
• 57:28
  Speaker 16: That foolishness, that colorism foolishness.
• 57:33
  Speaker 24: Because, you know, that brown paper bag foolishness. And I
• 57:37
  Speaker 24: remember one time Felicia loved chocolate milk. And we were
• 57:41
  Speaker 24: drinking chocolate milk and my uncle said to her, girl,
• 57:44
  Speaker 24: you better drink all the white milk you can.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: And wow, that was so ugly. Anybody who ever thought
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: Felicia Rashad wasn't beautiful, your taste can never be trusted.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Google young Felicia Rashad and find comfort in the joy
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: you feel. What? Just call Google right now. Felicia Rashad
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: right now. You're talking about cognac.
• 58:04
  Speaker 13: That's right.
• 58:05
  Speaker 10: Shit.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: And they both look beautiful.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: Was Rashad 78?
• 58:10
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: God, she ain't that old, is she?
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: I thought Miss Debbie Allen was 76, no?
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: Felicia Rashad ain't no 78.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Give me a glass of that old wine.
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: Felicia Rashad is 78 years old.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 58:24
  Speaker 18: I didn't know she was 78. But it's different though
• 58:27
  Speaker 18: when it's not even other people that think that she's
• 58:29
  Speaker 18: not beautiful.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: She was saying she didn't feel beautiful. That was a crazy.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Person to me. I'm taking that bottle of 1948 wine
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: right now. Pour me a glass of that 1948. Drop
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: on the clues box, Felicia Rashad.
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: And drop a bomb for Debbie Allen. See, you still
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: on the dark skin, light skin stuff. They're both beautiful.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: It was about Felicia.
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: But they're both beautiful.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: That's what we were saying. Are you listening to the story?
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: What we were saying, they're both beautiful.
• 58:53
  Speaker 18: Well, they also talked about, you know, aging and the
• 58:56
  Speaker 18: conversation around that that they've experienced.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to that.
• 58:59
  Speaker 16: I want to talk a bit about aging gracefully. Untouched, unpulled, unplugged, unfilled.
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: How do you all think about it?
• 59:08
  Speaker 24: When I first got to high school, the man that
• 59:11
  Speaker 24: was managing me wanted me to go and get my
• 59:14
  Speaker 24: lips reduced.
• 59:15
  Speaker 5: I said, why?
• 59:15
  Speaker 7: He said, well, you know, it would make them smaller.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: I said, why do I want them to be small?
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: They look like my daddy's lips.
• 59:20
  Speaker 24: This perception of beauty has to start within. When I
• 59:24
  Speaker 24: took over a different world, one of the first things
• 59:26
  Speaker 24: I did was take everybody's fingernails off, took off their weave.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: I said, who are you really? Be comfortable in your skin.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: God made you. You're beautiful.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: Aging gracefully.
• 59:36
  Speaker 24: It's the first thing is to be able to even
• 59:38
  Speaker 24: admit your age. Like, I like the little lines in
• 59:41
  Speaker 24: my face. And this is the problem is in our
• 59:44
  Speaker 24: industry is so critical.
• 59:45
  Speaker 7: They'll take your picture in any of these magazines. But
• 59:48
  Speaker 7: this is what she looked like at 25.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 59:50
  Speaker 24: And it's just like a horror.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: It's like a horror movie. I mean, we have no
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: idea what those sisters went through, man. You know what
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: I'm saying? You already have to deal with everything they're
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: talking about in society. But imagine having to deal with
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: that in society and in Hollywood.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: Right, right, right.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: 100%.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 18: Well, speaking of Hollywood in a different world, they also
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 18: talked about the fact that a different world had to.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: Change from season one to season two. Let's get into that.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: I remember when.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 16: It changed because it didn't feel authentic. So can you
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 16: talk about that and how you knew a different world
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 16: needed a little special sauce that it wasn't getting?
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: Hot sauce.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 23: It's a hot sauce. I was looking at it through
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 23: a lens of professionalism. That's where you're going to present
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 23: what's authentic. So here I go to do an episode,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 23: and I just noticed little things about the productions. And
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 23: I said, this is not the way we do things.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 23: If you're talking about an academic environment. Yes, you're going
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 23: to certainly look at the behavior of young people, but
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 23: you're not going to leave out academia. If you're not
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 23: talking about that, you're not talking about the truth of
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 23: the HBCU experience. You're not, because scholarship is at the
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 23: heart of it. That's the heart of it that's there
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 23: for the service to whom?
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: The students.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that. And you had to get rid
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: of Maria Tomei. You know, the one white girl that
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: kind of threw it off, too. Let's be honest, all right?
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: She did.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 5: She did.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: It's still good, but everything they said about the academia
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: as well, but also the one white girl being the
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: star of the show, that threw it off.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: I saw some.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 18: TV reviews, too, that were saying that the first season,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 18: because I didn't remember the first season enough to understand
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 18: when she was.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: Talking about a change.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, I definitely didn't.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 18: But they were saying that it mirrored the Cosby show
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 18: too much so it didn't feel authentic because they were
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 18: trying to make things seem so perfect.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: I don't remember the first season either. Oh, I definitely
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: remember the first season.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: The first season was really focused on Denise.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Denise, yeah. Denise went to Hillman.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 18: Yeah, and then remember she got pregnant in real life
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 18: so then she left the show because they didn't want
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 18: her on the show being pregnant and being.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: Like a single mom.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's why she left. I didn't know that.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Because Jasmine Guy wasn't on the first season. I don't remember.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: But she hurt.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: But it was Denise, it was Dwayne, it was Don Lewis'
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: character and Maria Tomei's character.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 16: Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 18: But that was a, that was a great conversation. There's
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 18: a lot more here. Like I could only get to
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 18: those clips today, but that was a great conversation. Um,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 18: Make sure you guys go check it out. That was,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 18: in my opinion, with Ms. Michelle Obama and her brother,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 18: Craig Robinson. So, yeah, go take a listen.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: And they said in season one, they said Clay Huxtable
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: visited Hillman and visited the campus.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because her daughter was going there.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: I don't remember.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: I remember that part. Jasmine was on the first season
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: of Different Worlds.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 18: But her big storyline, not storyline, but like she rolls
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 18: as like this big character in the second season because
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 18: it switched from a single focus on like one main
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 18: person to like a bigger cast.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: And, you know, yeah.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 18: But yeah shout out to A Different World and it
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 18: still being so relevant today season 2 of A Different
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 18: World the sequel is coming we talked about that a
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 18: bit and it's.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 7: Making people go back to watch the original as well
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 7: yes yep.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: The first season was good though I mean the first
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: season of A Different World.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: Was I can't remember I just can't remember it alright.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 22: How you don't remember the white girl it's like I
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 22: remember bits and pieces but I remember it in depth
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 22: but also shout out to the fact that we have
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 22: them here to talk us through the things that happened
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 22: then as we're watching it now that.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 18: Also is amazing as well speaking of aging and life
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 18: But yes, that was the latest for the hour, y'all.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Charlamagne, who you giving that donkey to?
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Her name was Maggie, too. God damn. What a name.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 5: What a white name.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: What a white name. Maggie. That's so crazy. Well, Maggie
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: and Rahm will just shut up. Listen, four after the hour.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: for after the hour man let's talk about men's mental
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: health man okay can we can we why do we
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: keep telling men to prioritize their mental health but when
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: they actually do we question their decisions we'll discuss more
• 1:03:42
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• 1:03:42
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• 1:03:52
  Speaker 13: Thing that he all he all a bunch of donkeys around.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 5: Here it's time for donkey of the day and we're
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 5: They made me the donkey of the day by the.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: Things that I said.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 5: Damn, Charlamagne. Some donkey of the days just saw themselves.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: It was you. What accountability are you taking?
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 5: I made dunk of the day on The Breakfast Club.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: That being said, I want to start off with this
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: donkey right here. Yes, donkey of the day. Oh, donkey
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: of the day for Thursday, October 8th goes to everybody
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: out there who claims to care about men's mental health
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: until a man actually starts prioritizing it. Now, this has
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: been sparked because of the conversation surrounding Stephen A. Smith
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: and the backlash to his comments earlier. toward Philadelphia Eagles
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: offensive lineman Lane Johnson. Let's listen to Stephen A's comments.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 20: Nine starters, you finished the game without. And now the
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 20: brother sat up there, one of the all-time greats of
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 20: the offensive line.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: And what did he do, Shaq? What did he do, Jordan?
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 5: He went like this.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 8: I'm going to call it quits.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 6: Now he calls it quits.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: Not fourth season. Not offseason.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 21: After being subjected to this, he said, life is.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: A little bit too short. I need to focus. What
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: did he say? His mental health?
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 5: Am I making it up?
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 12: No, you're right.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: Did he say that? I'm just being short.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: So the brother.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 21: Four games in to the 2026 season, a dude that
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 21: has been in the league forever sits back and says,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 21: I need to focus on my mental health and as
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 21: an offensive tackle.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 8: And this brother say, hey, my life matters. It's time.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 8: I'm going to call it quits. My mental health.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: Now, Stephen A. has since clarified his comments and apologized.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: Let's listen to those. I'm sorry that when I.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 20: Was on television earlier this morning on First Take, people
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 20: misconstrued me minimizing mental health.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 8: I would never do that. Hell, I had mental health issues.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 20: 2017, when my mama passed away, God rest her soul,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 20: I spent two years with a level of misery I
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 20: didn't know existed. I actually sought and endured therapy, which
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 20: rescued me. And to be honest with you, if it
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 20: wasn't for that and the existence of my daughters, I
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 20: don't even know if I'd be here.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: That's how bad I was.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 20: I'm not only sensitive to mental health issues, I'm very
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 20: aware of it. When I was talking about Lane Johnson
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 20: earlier this morning, I wasn't talking about him and mental health.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 20: I was talking about how the Eagles and how chaotic
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 20: this situation is can drive you to it. This is
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 20: a top three right tackle in the NFL. And yet
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 20: after week four of this season, this man says I've
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 20: had enough.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not joking about him.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 20: I'm looking at the Eagles because of how chaotic it is.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: But I will tell you this.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 20: Congratulations to him on an illustrious career. He is a
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 20: surefire first ballot.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: Hall of famer.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: Now, this is bigger than Stephen A.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 16: Smith.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: OK, I tell you all the time I like to
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: talk about issues, not individuals. If I say I'm giving
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith donkey today, y'all start telling me all
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: the reasons you don't like Stephen A. Smith instead of
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: focusing on the actual issues. And World Mental Health Day
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: is Saturday. God has given us an amazing opportunity to
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: teach and learn with this discussion. So let's not sit
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: around arguing about whether or not you like Stephen A.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: I don't want us to miss the point here. And
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: the point is this. Why do we keep telling men
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: to prioritize their mental health? But when they actually do,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: we question their decisions. OK, let me tell you something
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: about Lane Johnson. This man played 14 seasons in the NFL.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: Six-time Pro Bowler, two-time Super Bowl champion, one of the
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: greatest offensive linemen of his generation. But what you might
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: not know is that Lane Johnson has been battling anxiety
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: and depression for years. Okay, just like I have, just
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: like so many of us do. Okay, he was diagnosed
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: with anxiety while he was in college at Oklahoma in 2021.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: He missed three games because he was dealing with severe
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: withdrawal symptoms after stopping antidepressant medication. You don't need to
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: hear from me. We have Lane Johnson talking about it himself.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: Let's listen.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 14: I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in college. The
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 14: monster kept building and building and building. It finally came
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 14: to a point where I said, I'm not going to
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 14: take it no more. This is the first time anybody's
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 14: seen you publicly speak since you've come back to the Eagles.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 5: What happened that day?
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 14: The first game against Atlanta, I told my mom, I said,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 14: something's really, really wrong with me. I don't know exactly
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 14: what it is. I said, I'm miserable. I know my
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 14: mind isn't right. I know my body isn't right. So
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 14: I left, went back home. I didn't have any communication
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 14: with the Eagles.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 22: Johnson wrote that he has secretly been battling depression and
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 22: anxiety for a long time.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 14: Trying to describe that to people that have no clue
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 14: or what it's like, it's very difficult. You lose touch
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 14: of your sense of self. You lose touch of what's
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  Speaker 14: really going.
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  Speaker 5: On around you.
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  Speaker 14: And what we really tend to do is lock up,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 14: not want to say anything. I felt bad for my team,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 14: but there were signs that this wasn't something that was
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 14: new to spur the moment. This was going on for months.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: Lane Johnson admitted he'd been hiding his struggles with anxiety
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: and depression from his friends and family because he was ashamed.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: My brothers, I know we all can relate, but when
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: you see a man who makes his living standing in
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: front of 300-pound defensive linemen, the epitome of what this
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: society would call masculine, when this man isn't comfortable telling
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: his people closest to him that he's struggling mentally, we
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: know we got a serious issue. Lane Johnson wasn't afraid
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: to get hit by some of the biggest, strongest men
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: on the planet, but he was afraid of being judged
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  Speaker 1: for admitting he needed help.
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  Speaker 5: Help.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: OK, how many men out there listening to the sound
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: of my voice can relate to that? How many of
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: y'all are going to work right now, taking care of
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: your families, paying bills, showing up for everybody else? But
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: mentally and emotionally, you're not doing well. And because you're
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: still getting things done, everybody assumes you're fine. OK, we've
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: confused the man's ability to function with his ability to cope. Oh,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: and let's not factor in that he was an NFL player, okay?
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: He's made over $ 186 million in his career. I know
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: what y'all thinking. He's fine. Listen, just because somebody is
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: successful doesn't mean they're happy, okay? It don't matter what's
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: in his bank account, what's going on in his head
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: and heart. Just because they're making money doesn't mean they're
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: mentally healthy. And just because they're strong enough to carry
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: everybody else's problems doesn't mean the weight isn't crushing them. OK,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: now here's what makes Lane Johnson's story so important. This
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: is why you have to use opportunities like this to teach.
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  Speaker 1: When he stepped away from football in 2021, he went
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: and got help. OK, and as you just heard, he
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: returned to the NFL and continued playing at an elite level.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: He didn't give up on himself. He took care of himself.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: So now, years later, after 14 seasons, two Super Bowl
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: championships and everything he's accomplished, he's making another decision to
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: put his mental health and his family first. Drop one
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: of Clues bombs for Lane Johnson, man.
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  Speaker 5: What a man.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, what a strong human. I respect it. And that's
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: something that people should not feel the need to question.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: I know Stephen A. talked about the Eagles doing so terrible,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: but I think if they were undefeated, Lane would have
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: still walked away because it's not about what's happening on
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: the field. Once again, it's about what's happening in his
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: head and heart. Lane Johnson has nothing else to prove.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: At what point has a man done enough to earn
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: the right to say he's had enough? And I'm not
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: saying people can't discuss what his decision means. For the
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 5: That's sports.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: OK, that's what sports commentators do. But there's a difference
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: between discussing how losing Lane Johnson affects the Eagles and
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: questioning whether his mental health is the legitimate reason to
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: walk away, especially when this man has been telling us
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: for years what he's been dealing with. OK, that's what
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: Stephen A fell short. And I'm glad he apologized. And
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: I know he's going to apologize. Again, on First Take
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: Today as well. But this is bigger than Stephen A.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: Let's not focus on the individual. This is bigger than football.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: That's not even the issue. The issue is that after
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: all these years of conversations around mental health and people
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: speaking out about their mental health, we still have a
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: strange relationship with men in suffering. Okay, we admire the
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: man who pushes through pain. We celebrate the man who
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: never takes a day off. The man who puts everybody
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: else's needs before his own. The man who's exhausted but
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: keeps going because people depend on him. We call that
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: man strong. But when a man recognizes that something is
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: hurting him and decides to make a change, suddenly we
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: start questioning his toughness. Why is a man considered strong
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: when he sacrifices his mental health for his career? but
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: weak when he sacrifices his career for his mental health.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: Please make that make sense for your Uncle Sharla. You
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: know I'm a little slow. Okay, my head bad. I
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: failed one of those standardized tests when I was young,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: and they had me in LD classes for a while.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: You know I'm not the highest grade of weed in
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: the dispensary, so this don't make sense to me. And
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: I know some of y'all are also thinking, well, everybody
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: can't just quit their job because they're stressed. Of course not.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: We all have responsibilities. Bills don't stop coming because you're
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: having a bad day. Your kids eat. You know, life
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: doesn't stop because you're struggling. Well, your kids need to eat. OK,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: and life doesn't stop because you're struggling and I don't
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: want you to stop your life because you're struggling. But
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: taking care of your mental health doesn't always mean quitting
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: your job. Sometimes it just means going to therapy. Sometimes
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: it means taking some time off. Sometimes it means having
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: an uncomfortable conversation with somebody you love. Sometimes it just
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: means admitting you need help. And sometimes it means walking
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: away from something that's no longer good for you. The
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: problem is we've taught so many men that their value
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: is based on what they provide. Okay. That they, that
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: they don't even know. A lot of men don't even
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: know who they are when they're not providing something. And
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: that my brothers is a terrible way to live. Okay.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: Because being dependable doesn't mean you're indestructible. And I want
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: people to understand something else. A man shouldn't have to
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: have a mental breakdown before we take his mental health seriously.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: Why can't we respect somebody for recognizing the warning signs
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: before everything falls apart? That's what we're supposed to want
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: people to do. And I think a lot of people
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: love the idea of mental health awareness more than they
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: love the reality of it because awareness isn't easy, okay?
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: You can post a quote. I see y'all all the
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: time telling people to check on their strong friends, but
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: actually supporting somebody's mental health might require you to accept
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: the decision that inconveniences you. And that's when we find
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: out how much you and society really care now let
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: me land this okay this saturday october 10th is world
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  Speaker 1: mental health day and i think that's important because mental
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: health shouldn't only become a conversation when somebody has a
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: breakdown when somebody dies by suicide or when a celebrity
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: publicly tells us they're struggling we should be paying attention
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: to our mental health every single day And that's exactly
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: why I'm having my Mental Wealth Expo this Saturday. OK,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: that's not a shameless plug. It's a plug. All right.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: I have absolutely no shame in telling you about my
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: sixth annual Mental Wealth Expo. It is a completely free
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: event open to all ages at the Joelle and Diane
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: Bloom Wellness and Event Center in Newark, New Jersey, from
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is my sixth year
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  Speaker 1: doing it. Why? Because I don't just want us talking
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: about mental health. I want us doing something about it. OK,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: I want people to have access to information, resources and
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: conversations that can help them understand themselves and the people
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: they love. Okay, salute to Lane Johnson for continuing to
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: be open about his struggles. You never know how many
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: other men might hear his story and finally decide to
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: get help themselves. And to everybody who claims they care
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: about men's mental health, I want you to ask yourself
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: one question. Do you really want the men in your
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: life to be mentally healthy? Or do you just want
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: them mentally healthy enough to keep doing whatever it is
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: you need them to do? Because there's a difference.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: Please give everybody who only cares about men's mental health
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: when it's convenient the biggest hee-haw. I'm sorry. I could
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: be long-winded about that topic.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 6: No, it's all good, but I ain't gonna lie.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: I thought Stephen A.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: Smith needed it. Okay, well, give Stephen A. Smith the donkey.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: Give him the biggest hand. But I don't want people
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: to focus on the individual.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: But people are going to do that anyway. You know
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: what I mean?
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  Speaker 7: Whether you give him donkey or whether they already eating
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 7: him up in the comments.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: But he can handle it.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: He's going to apologize.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he can handle it.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 7: And he is the person who also accepts, you know,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 7: the consequences for actions like that as well.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's in one of the intros. For the donkey? Yes,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: he's the one that says, I'm a big boy. You
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: give me donkey today, I know I can handle it.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: I've given Stephen A donkey today plenty of times. But
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: I just don't want people to focus on the individual.
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  Speaker 2: I got you.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 3: It's a little bit of both, though. It's a little
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: bit of both, though.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: With Stephen A, he's such a Giants fan that the
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 4: Eagles losing, that was his way of stabbing the Eagles.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: You see how we talking too much about Stephen A
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: right now? You see how that happens? It's just that fact.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: That's what I be talking about. He's talking about Giants.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying?
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: Listen, if there's one thing I know, It's Edwards. Yeah. Okay?
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: We can't, we be, stay on the road. Let's stay
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: on the road. Okay?
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 7: But the way he was like mocking it, you know, yesterday,
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 7: I just, he got a little carried away.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: I get it. You know what I mean?
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: So that's why I was like, that's what it was.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: It was more about that.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: Yep. He was just focusing on him. That's all. The issue,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: men's mental health. Do you really want the men in
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: your life to be mentally healthy or do you just
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: want them mentally healthy enough to keep doing whatever it
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: is you need them to do?
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: I see Charlamagne's blood pressure rising, so let's keep it moving.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: All right, now when we come back, Jess Fix My Mess, 800-585-1051.
• 1:17:01
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• 1:17:06
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  Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
• 1:17:27
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  Speaker 22: Hey, this Shay.
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  Speaker 13: Hey, Shay.
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  Speaker 3: What's your question for Jess?
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  Speaker 15: So, I wanted to know, I'm in a situation where
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 15: I got my baby daddy that cheated on me had
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 15: a baby by someone else. And They went and took
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 15: maternity pictures, and he included our daughter.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: What the hell? I don't... Yeah.
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  Speaker 15: So, I'm... We've been broke up for a year, and
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 15: it's like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay, okay. All right, so you're not with him
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  Speaker 2: no more.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, got you. Now, hold up. Let me
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: understand it before you proceed.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, so.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 7: You got a baby daddy who cheated on you, had
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 7: another baby. You then left him. And now he took
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 7: family photos with his kids and the mother of the
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 7: girl that he, I mean, the mother of the other baby, right?
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: Now are they together?
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  Speaker 15: Um, yeah, they're together.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So now go ahead.
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  Speaker 15: So I just don't feel like he didn't tell me
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 15: that that's what they were doing, that they were taking pictures.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 15: So now my child is in the, maternity pictures with
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 15: his girlfriend without my consent and.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 7: The maternity so she's pregnant again so his girlfriend.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 15: Is pregnant but me and him have a child.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 7: So right um oh okay okay okay now now all
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  Speaker 7: right so just i'm just gonna repeat it blatantly so
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  Speaker 7: the girl that he cheated on you with he is
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 7: now with her she is pregnant yes did you did
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 7: you leave him or he left you he left you
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  Speaker 7: for someone that he was already cheating on you with
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  Speaker 7: or you found out and you.
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  Speaker 2: Left no you found out he didn't left him Right.
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  Speaker 13: Got it.
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  Speaker 2: Got it.
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  Speaker 7: So the fact that, you know, although it's messy how
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 7: this happened and it's very unfortunate, you know, for you
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 7: how this happened, that is technically his relationship in his
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 7: new family.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like his family. So, I
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: get you want it. It's just a communication factor. Is
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: it still the.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 7: Fact that you feel you still got a lot of
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 7: animosity built up toward both of them?
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: Because it's like, yo, you cheated on me with her.
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  Speaker 7: And now, y'all together, and you have a family, and
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 7: you didn't communicate about these family maternity pictures or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And my child is there.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 15: I think that's my thing is the fact that you
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 15: didn't communicate about with with me about what's going on
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 15: and my child came back and told me how old
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 15: is your child oh mommy she's.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 7: Seven okay go ahead but.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 15: She came back and was like mama we took pictures
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 15: and i was in you know one of the pictures
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 15: with daddy and like kissing the belly and with daddy
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 15: and his girlfriend she.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 19: Was kissing the belly jesus christ right oh my god
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 19: you know okay so she said she was in one
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 19: of the pictures yes okay now listen this is what
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 19: i think that that may have happened right because listen
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 19: you will not believe this this actually happened to a
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 19: cousin of mine right okay.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: All right, so he had his child there.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 7: He had baby girl there, y'all's daughter, and probably didn't
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 7: want her to feel left out. And so he told
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 7: her she can get in one of the pictures or whatever.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 7: You know what I mean? And your baby girl probably
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 7: don't have a problem with the other mother, like, you know,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 7: the girlfriend. You know, she probably is building that relationship
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 7: with your child because that is a part of your.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: She's a part of your.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: X.
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  Speaker 3: That's the package.
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  Speaker 7: He already come with a kid. So she know that
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 7: she got to be, you know what I'm saying? I'm sorry, step-mommy.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: He could have called first and said that.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: No, he definitely could have.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: Took that picture out.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 7: Outside of the communication, I feel as though he did
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 7: nothing wrong. Outside of communication, this is just how they
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 7: ended up. No, seriously, outside of not communicating, I don't
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 7: feel like he did anything wrong.
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  Speaker 2: His daughter was there. He didn't want her to feel
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: left out. I guarantee you that's what it was.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 3: You don't kiss the new mom on the stomach?
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: Are you crazy? No, no, no.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: The pose is a little crazy.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: It's outlandish. Outright heinous a little bit, if you will.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: Kissing the stomach of another mother?
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 6: Like, that's your mother?
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 7: But I'm telling you, it's because that was the woman
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 7: that he cheated on her mother with.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: That's what's making it so... You know what I'm saying?
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: Even if it wasn't cheating, you gonna kiss the next chick?
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 7: I'm telling you, she would not have a problem with it.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 7: She would not have a problem with it if he
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 7: had communicated it to her and if they got together
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 7: another way. If they were, if they had separated differently
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 7: and he moved on with someone else.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: But this is the woman that he cheated on her with.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah, she gonna have feelings for a long time toward
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 7: anything that goes down.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: Am I, are we right? Oh, am I right?
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 16: Hello?
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 10: Hello?
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 7: Damn, she hung up, yo.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 5: Damn, she was mad.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: Mad at you, not me.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 15: Damn, yo.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: It's your fault, though.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: It was your fault.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: That's what you did.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 4: You tried to make the other mother seem like it
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 4: was right. That was your fault she hung up.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: Nah, it's not right. It wasn't right. You know what
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: I mean? It wasn't right. But what do you do? Like,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: what you supposed to do?
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 4: All right, so Rome get another girl pregnant and Ash
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 4: kiss the stomach.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 7: Go ahead and be my guest. You know what I'm saying?
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: Do that.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 7: But like, if it went down in this, if it
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 7: was the same situation, like if me and Ron were
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 7: together and he cheated on me with somebody, I found out.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 7: And so I left him and he ended up having
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 7: a family with shorty, like being with her, not, not this.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 7: This is somebody that he is actually in love with.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 7: They are about to be a family. And my son
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 7: is over there and I just, and he comes back
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 7: and he tells me, Oh, I took a picture with them.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 7: Like we took family pictures or whatever. And, And I
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 7: see the picture and he kissing Shorty's stomach. Yeah, I'm
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 7: going to feel a type of way, but I'm going
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 7: to feel a type of way for two reasons. Because
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 7: this is the bitch you cheated on me with. And
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 7: you didn't even tell me that y'all were taking maternity pictures.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 7: And what the hell my son got to do with
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 7: y'all maternity pictures?
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 4: Now you're on all our social media kissing somebody else's
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 4: stomach and all your friends going.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: Exactly. So that's why I said I get it.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 7: But outside of that, I don't really think the dad
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 7: did anything wrong.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: Now, I know they probably going to eat me up
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: for this.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 6: I don't care.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 7: But I'm just saying, like, I don't think he did
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 7: anything wrong outside of communication.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 3: Well, Just Fix My Mess. And don't get mad and
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 3: hang up on us. We're just trying to fix this stuff.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 22: I know.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 3: It's your messiness.
• 1:23:52
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  Speaker 13: All right.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 3: When we come back, we got the latest with Lauren.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 3: It's The Breakfast Club.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: Good morning. Good morning, everybody.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: Lauren becoming a straight face.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: She gets in from somebody that knows somebody. She gets
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: the details.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: She be having the latest on this.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 5: The latest with Lauren La Rosa.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: have a little bit of everything. Brought to you by
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  Speaker 5: On The Breakfast Club. Talk to me.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 18: All right, y'all, so we talked about Diddy, right? And
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 18: the lifestyle they said he was living.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: When did we talk about Diddy?
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 18: We talked about Diddy, and not today, but on the show,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 18: we talked about the fact that Diddy, there were some
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 18: people that say that they were locked up with him,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 18: and they alleged that he was living it up. You know,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 18: the Hennessy, the cell phone, all the stuff behind bars, allegedly, right? Well,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 18: the Bureau of Prisons, their records now show that Diddy's
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 18: prison time has been moved back almost over a month. Now,
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 18: we don't know why, like the Bureau of Prisons won't
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 18: confirm it. His reps won't confirm it. We don't know
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 18: why this happened. But the timing is interesting being as though,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 18: you know, there was a contraband conversation.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 18: So now the release date is looking at March 2nd, 2028.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 18: So that's about six weeks that it's been pushed back.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, we knew that that was going to come
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: with some type of consequences. Yeah. Didn't we?
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 18: If it is because of that, though, I thought it
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 18: was going to be more. I thought that he was
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 18: going to be looking at a little bit more penalties
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 18: from those type of things. They don't take that lightly.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. All the alcohol. They're alleging alcohol. They're alleging drugs.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: They're alleging cell phones.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: That's not likely, though. If your sentencing got pushed all
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: the way up to January and they keeping you in
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: there until March again.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 18: I just meant, I thought it would be more as
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 18: in like maybe they would extend the time.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: How many more days in prison you need, Lauren? 30
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: days in prison is a lot.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 16: No.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 18: But I know people that have gotten, like, a lot
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 18: more additional time for things like that.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they put him in a hole, too, so
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 3: he's been there for a minute.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: Who hole?
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 7: There ain't no damn who. They put him in the hole, yo.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 3: In the hole, man.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: We are moving on. Maybe they're dropping people off in
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: people's holes.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, God. We are moving on.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 18: Okay, so real quick, shifting gears, I want to just
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 18: send a congratulations to Mojo Brooks. His comedy special, I
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 18: Know You Lying, is currently number.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: One on Netflix. Under the top ten TV shows in
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: the U.S. today.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: Tropical Bomb.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: He was here talking about the fact that the special
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: would be coming. Congratulations. That is a huge accomplishment.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know how Netflix does their specials, but Mojo
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: was just here. Yeah. And couldn't even tell us he
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: had a special with Netflix.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: They move like Tyler Perry.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 3: He said he had it.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: Can't tell us where.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: Then they said Netflix. Then it aired. And then boom,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: number one.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: Yep, yep.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: So congratulations, Mojo Brooks. Yeah, moves that fast, man.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 7: And I just saw a clip of him getting emotional
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 7: at one of his shows. I think he brought his
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 7: daughter on stage and everything, just about how they counted
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 7: him out. He was also on Pretty V's conversation, her show.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. I just gave it a shout out.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 12: Damn.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 7: But he was on the outlet show with Pretty V.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 7: He was sitting down talking to her. He was saying
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 7: how they counted him out. A lot of people didn't
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 7: think that he would make it this far and look
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 7: where he ended up.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: Salute to Pretty V. Salute to Mojo. I'm going to
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: check out the special this weekend. I ain't seen it yet.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 8: Same, same.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: Me either. Well, another shout out, some more good news.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: Kirk Franklin.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 18: I know we've been playing this time a lot up
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 18: here because it's one of them ones. But that song
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 18: just made Billboard history. So this time, his collaboration with
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 18: Glorilla just debuts at number one on the Hot Gospel
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 18: Songs list. This gives Kirk Franklin a record-breaking ten number
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 18: ones on that chart.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 18: Yeah, now that is giving Kirk Franklin also a record-breaking... Like,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 18: he's made history now as the gospel artist who has
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 18: the most leads in that category, double digits, the first
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 18: artist to do that in that category. So that puts
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 18: him over Maverick City Music and CeCe Winans, who both
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 18: have six number ones in that category.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 7: I love me some CeCe, but yeah. Can we drop
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 7: a Clues Bond for Kirk Franklin?
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: Can we drop a Clues Bond for Holy Lobe? Oh,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: my God.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 18: You've been up here predicting a lot of the big
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 18: things with these records.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, we've been doing it together. We actually helped
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 4: Kurt Frillick break that record, which is amazing. Look at
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 4: you taking credit for God.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: I said we helped.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: I didn't say we did it.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 3: I said we helped.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: I said we helped.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 4: And the reason I say we helped is at first
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 4: they weren't going to go with quote-unquote urban radio.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 3: They were only going to go gospel. And with the
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 3: way that people reacted to.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 4: It now, they're going for urban, they're going for pop,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 4: they're going for crossover.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 3: So I think it's just a dope record.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how you gonna put Hallelujah Woods on a record
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: and sample Shorty Lowe and talk about you ain't going
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: for whatever they call us. What do they call us?
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: Urban Radio.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: The Devil's Radio. Secular. Yeah, secular.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 18: I saw a Remy 2 post about you, Envy. She
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 18: tagged you and she said that you were right. When
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 18: you get it right, you were right. Every now and then,
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 18: she says she wants to get into her Remy J.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 18: Blige bag. Because remember you said that the why I
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 18: get married was her getting into her Mary J.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: Blige bag? So she said she's going to lean into that.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's what that was. I didn't know what she
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: was talking about.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 18: She said she might put together an R & B
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 18: night in the city, in New York City, for some
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 18: of the ladies. And they can come out and sing.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 18: Come pick up your clothes and everything off-key. And just
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 18: have one of them nights. Charlamagne, she said you can
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 18: come too.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 3: Remy's an awesome friend.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: And then she put the little demon sign. She put
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: the demon sign. Now you know, right? What you doing
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: that for?
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 3: Now you know what I'm saying.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 6: Remi's an abusive friend.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 13: Yo.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 5: She's an abusive friend.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: Did she say, me and you can come?
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: No, she didn't.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: No, let me look. We are not in here. Damn, yo. No.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: There's nobody like us, yo.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 13: You know what?
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: Think of my favorite represent for the ladies up here. Right, right, right.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: Don't nobody like us, Lord.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: You know, it's funny.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 3: No, I don't know.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: She just likes me, Jess.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 3: No, it's funny you say that.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: No, you with me.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: I don't care even if you not.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: They're like a side. We have been seeing up here. Listen.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: There's an old picture that Remy posted years, years, years ago.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: And it was me, Remy, and Tiffany Haddish. And Remy put,
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: just out me and my girls.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: Not your vinegar. Your vinegar.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 3: Remy is an abusive friend.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 2: She is an abusive friend.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 3: I believe it.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 22: Yes, she is.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: Drop one of Clues Bombs from Remy.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 18: She's been moving with her Alimony EP. So, you know, guys,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 18: keep streaming that as well. And that's the latest for
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• 1:30:32
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• 1:30:34
  Speaker 3: Now, when we come back, we got the mix. It's
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: the Breakfast Club.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 8: Good morning.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 4: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 3: We are the Breakfast Club.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 4: Again, let me salute to my beautiful, amazing, smart wife.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: Today is our 32nd anniversary.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: I just saw the video she posted.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 3: This is the first time where I said, will you
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: go out with me? And I was 16. She was 15.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 3: So we just posted the video that actual night. It
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 3: was a friend of ours, Sweet 16. Her name was Olivia.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 3: We were at the Sweet 16, and that's when I
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 3: asked that.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: Will you teach me how to wash my ass?
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 8: Shut up.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 2: It's crazy because she looks just like y'all daughters. I'm
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: telling you, it's just like his, too.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 7: Just like looking at Brooklyn. And you look like, damn,
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 7: you look like Peyton. Y'all look like both of y'all daughters.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 6: All three of them.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: Well, congratulations. 32 years is amazing.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 5: Yes. It is.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 3: 25, together 32. That's beautiful, man.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: That's what life is about.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 6: Congratulations, Envy and Gia.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: This was your kicking game. You was a little shy.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: He was a little shy at home, boy. His ass
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: was dirty.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 13: That was a moment.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: Confidence with a dirty ass. Dirty ass kid from Queens.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: You were fighting nervous, so you fought.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: You're trying to get some cheeks in yours dirty. That's crazy.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 3: You know what? When we come back, positive notice. The
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: Breakfast Club, good morning.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: Morning, everybody.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlemagne, the guy. We are
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: Salute to John Legend for joining us this morning. John
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: Legend's new album, Muse, is coming out October 23rd. It
• 1:32:01
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• 1:32:05
  Speaker 16: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So check out.
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  Speaker 3: Salute to John Legend for joining us this morning.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 6: Dope, dope, dope.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: And this weekend, Charlemagne.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 14: Huh?
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 3: And this weekend, Charlemagne?
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this weekend, man, my sixth annual Mental Wealth Expo
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: was happening at the Joelle and Diane Bloom Wellness and
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: Event Center in Newark, New Jersey, man. It's from 11 a.m.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: to 4 p.m. It is a completely free event, open
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: to all ages. All you got to do is go
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: to mentalwealthexpo.com and RSVP to be there. I bring together
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: some of the best mental health professionals on the planet, Dr.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: Rita Walker, Dr. Jay Barnett, the good brother, Kierre Gaines,
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: Elliot Connie, the good sister, Debbie Brown is going to
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: be there. Jennifer Arnice from the Black Mother Wound podcast
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: is going to be there. Michelle Williams. Salute to Michelle Williams, man.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: She's not doing Broadway right now, so she'll be pulling
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: up on us as well. um dr julius thomas uh
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: koya webb jovian zane uh dr j barnett whole whole
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: host of people man and it's all curated by the
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: good sister debbie brown i said ayan labanzan right you
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: did okay yes so we'll see you saturday man 11
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: a.m to 4 p.m joelle and diane bloom wellness and
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: event center uh my sixth annual mental wealth expo see
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: you there all right now charlie you got a positive
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: note Yes, the positive note is simply this. It's okay
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: to feel everything you're feeling right now. There's no rule
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  Speaker 1: book on how to handle what life throws at you,
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  Speaker 1: and no one has the right to tell you how
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  Speaker 1: you should be feeling. You're doing the best you can.
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  Speaker 1: Even if it doesn't feel like it, give yourself the
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  Speaker 1: space to heal in your own time, in your own way.
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  Speaker 1: Have a blessed day. Breakfast Club, bitches! We all finished
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  Speaker 1: or y'all done?