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Forever President Barack Obama · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Jael and Charlomagne the guy my dad asked up the
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  Speaker 1: breakfast club is R. I'm okay, yookay. I love coming here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm never not gonna come here. You guys are good
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people in hip hop generation. The breakfast
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  Speaker 1: on the artists and everything like that. In that aspect,
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  Speaker 1: come up respecting. Good morning Usa yo yo yo yo
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  Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo. Good morning Angelo. Ye
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  Speaker 1: damn money, he's any Charlomagne the guy pace to the planet.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what day it is? Guess what day it is? Ah? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and today it is so special. I'm gonna tell you why.
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  Speaker 1: Why is today special? Um? I think next week, on
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  Speaker 1: the second, it will be ten years that we've been
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  Speaker 1: doing the breakfast club. Correct for ten years for this
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  Speaker 1: whole week, the weaker thanks given. We've never ever been
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  Speaker 1: here alive, no vacation, not one time. We're all somebody.
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  Speaker 1: We're always out of town. It's just the weaker Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: We're always off. So on the eve of this white
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  Speaker 1: Man's holiday, we decided to come in for one day
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  Speaker 1: and one day only for a very very very very
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  Speaker 1: very special occasion, a very special reason. All Right, there's
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  Speaker 1: a book out. It's called A Promised Land, A Promised Land, right,
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  Speaker 1: written by a guy you may know, what's his name.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of popular. I guess who is he? What's
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  Speaker 1: his name? I mean, he was the forty fourth president
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  Speaker 1: of the United States of America. What's his name? Barack?
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  Speaker 1: Who's saying Obama? Barack? Who's saying Obama? Who's that? And
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  Speaker 1: I guess you could say we were right. We don't
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  Speaker 1: have all all of that fancy ast technology that Oprah has.
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  Speaker 1: The way she can be in our house and way
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  Speaker 1: and make it look like her in Baracer in the
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  Speaker 1: same room. Now, we don't have that. So we had
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  Speaker 1: to get COVID tested and uh, fly down to DC
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  Speaker 1: and make sure we were probably socially distanced to sit
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  Speaker 1: and kick it with President Barack Obama. Well, not only
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  Speaker 1: that they took all our social Security numbers, that the
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  Speaker 1: full name that's regular protocol though, you know, made sure
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  Speaker 1: that that's on the list. Yeah, you actually also need that.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you need that to get the COVID test? Do
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  Speaker 1: you what? But I know, no, I didn't need that information.
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  Speaker 1: All that not just social All that information was for
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  Speaker 1: the Secret Service protocol is to run it make sure
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  Speaker 1: we have a good money. Yeah. I've been vetted before.
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  Speaker 1: I actually first time I ever got vetted. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: pass at all. We all been vetted, but you didn't
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  Speaker 1: pass that one. Yeah, didn't pass that on. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: since then, my life has changed. So President Barack Obama
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  Speaker 1: will be joining us next hour. We're gonna kick it
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  Speaker 1: with the with the president. Um, that's the only reason
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  Speaker 1: we have Yeah, that's the only reason we have communication.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know we were coming in. I was like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: we have a show tomorrow. Yeah, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's only only right. It's only right it's the president.
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  Speaker 1: And we sat and chopped it up with him for
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  Speaker 1: almost an hour. Yeah. Right, So we're also we usually
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  Speaker 1: you know, play snippets of the interview on the hair
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  Speaker 1: and then put the whole thing up on YouTube. This morning,
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  Speaker 1: we're playing the hole in it. We're playing the hole
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  Speaker 1: in it in the seven o'clock hour. Yeah, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into all of that. Um, that's it. It's the
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  Speaker 1: only reason we ha's the only reason we hear anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all got if y'all do who feel free? Yeah? We got,
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  Speaker 1: we got front page. Who's next we'll be talking about you. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about who Joe Biden has selected for his cabinet.
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  Speaker 1: And let's also talk about coronavirus. This vaccine is supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be coming in a couple of weeks, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: give you some updates on the side effects. All right,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into all that when we come back. Keep
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  Speaker 1: it locked. This to Breakfast Club, Come on morning. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are
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  Speaker 1: the breakfast. What's happening the next hour? Yes, Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 1: President Barack Obama will be joining us, and we're playing
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  Speaker 1: the interview in full. So no songs in between, no
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  Speaker 1: commercial breaks. No, it's commercial breaks, not in between. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's fifteen fifteen fifteen. No, you shall forty five minutes
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  Speaker 1: straight for ya. How y'all finessed that? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I just asked them right there I'm like, no commercials.
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  Speaker 1: It was like, nah, we're gonna We're gonna rocket straight.
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  Speaker 1: There was like only a couple of people can do that.
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  Speaker 1: There was like, uh, Barack Hove, Beyonce, and Michelle Obama
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  Speaker 1: the only four people that can get on. Yeah without
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  Speaker 1: playing we can debate all of those. What let's get
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  Speaker 1: some front page news. I ain't gonna front I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know who's playing football lamorrow. I don't even know.
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  Speaker 1: I've been chilling at home. Come on, man, Cowboys, redskins?
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  Speaker 1: You know that? Who cares about those? Exactly? So waste
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  Speaker 1: of time. There should be social distances away from the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: I went from, all, right, what else we got you? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden is building out his cabinets. It's been sucking presidents.
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  Speaker 1: That's our president elect. And there's fifteen executive departments and
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  Speaker 1: so far. Of course, Kamala Harris, we know his vice president.
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State is Anthony B. Lincoln. Secretary of Homeland
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  Speaker 1: Security is Alejandro Mayorkas. And that's a big one because
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  Speaker 1: he actually is the first Latino and he's also the
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  Speaker 1: first immigrant to serve in that position. So that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a big deal, right, now, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've had a lot of issues with immigration in this
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  Speaker 1: country and doc and all of that, so this could
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  Speaker 1: be something. And he says that he would have never
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  Speaker 1: seen himself in that position. So he's hoping to help
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  Speaker 1: out people who are fleeing from persecution and other things,
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  Speaker 1: coming to this country for a better life. All right, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and Donald Trump is finally seems like allowing this transition
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Joe Biden had tweeted out, the election is over.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to put aside the partisanship and the rhetoric
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  Speaker 1: designed to demonize one another. We have to come together.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, it looks like, begrudgingly, we are going to
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  Speaker 1: move forward. I just don't see handing this normally. I
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  Speaker 1: just I just don't see it. I mean, it's relatively
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  Speaker 1: normal by Trump's Nay, it hasn't been. I don't see
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  Speaker 1: an ending just just normally. I just don't see it.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna part in mad people, though he parted,
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  Speaker 1: may well, you need to start with himself. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if he can do that. Dog watching that on
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  Speaker 1: scene an last thing, don't they don't know if he
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  Speaker 1: can actually do that. It's never been done before. There's
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  Speaker 1: nothing in the constitution that says you can't. If I'm
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  Speaker 1: not mistaken, it doesn't have to be all right, it's
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  Speaker 1: been locked up first. I have no idea US COVID
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  Speaker 1: nineteen cases could reach twenty million. They're saying by the
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  Speaker 1: inauguration day on January twentieth, but by December tenth. They're
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  Speaker 1: saying that they could start soon after December tenth distributing
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  Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen vaccine. They are going to start doing
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  Speaker 1: some testing in pregnant women and children though, so you
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people are reluctant to actually take
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  Speaker 1: this vaccine, but right now they have to show that
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  Speaker 1: it's safe and make sure that group can take it.
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  Speaker 1: They also said that doctors are saying that the CDC
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  Speaker 1: should have warned people about the side effects from COVID
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  Speaker 1: vaccine shots, and they said it will not be a
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  Speaker 1: walk in the park. So you have to get the
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  Speaker 1: first shot of the vaccine and then you have to
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  Speaker 1: come back and get a second shot. Also, it requires
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  Speaker 1: two doses, and one doctor is worried patients will come
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  Speaker 1: back won't come back for a second dose because of
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  Speaker 1: the unpleasant side effects after the first shot. That could
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  Speaker 1: include symptoms like muscle pains, chills, and headaches, which is
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  Speaker 1: also symptoms associated with mile COVID nineteen. And they also
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  Speaker 1: need to make sure people are aware of that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's whacked that us. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: hear Governor Cuomo in New York. Can you hear Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden say that we have to get this to the
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  Speaker 1: African American community first, because you know, they're the one
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  Speaker 1: being impacted by it the most. They don't feel like
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  Speaker 1: that about anything else. They don't feel like that when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to better education, they don't feel like that
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to economic equity packages. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: don't feel like that when it comes to mental healthcare
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  Speaker 1: resources in our communities. So why aren't such a rush
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  Speaker 1: to push this vaccine in the hood. How's that? I
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  Speaker 1: want to though? I thought they were giving it to
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  Speaker 1: healthcare work there. They given the healthcare workers, and then
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  Speaker 1: they said the elderly and then everybody else. Governor Cuomo
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  Speaker 1: and Joe Biden both said, verbatim out of their mouth,
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  Speaker 1: we have to get this to the African American community
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  Speaker 1: first because it's impacting them the most. Yeah, but I
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  Speaker 1: know they're given it to healthcare workers. First. That was
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  Speaker 1: the first step, and then they said elderly. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you. I'm at a point right
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  Speaker 1: now where I'm like, yo, it is what it is. Man.
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  Speaker 1: If I got to take this vaccine, I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 1: the vaccine. I missed my mother and my father. I
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  Speaker 1: can't see him on Thanksgiving. I probably won't see him
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  Speaker 1: on Christmas. I'm tired, man. I want to see my mama.
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  Speaker 1: Can I cook my mama? Can I get my dad
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  Speaker 1: a hug? I'll be right behind you. Go, guinea pig, Go, go,
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  Speaker 1: guinea pig, go, Go get out there, Go do your thing. Baby.
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  Speaker 1: All right, it might make your bid be permanently black,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I might not have to diet no more.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I'm going for it. Man. What if your
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  Speaker 1: bid turns black but your skin turns gray if you
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  Speaker 1: take that damn vaccine, that's all right. I won't die, though,
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  Speaker 1: but as long as I can. You don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was so many people dying like this has been
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  Speaker 1: an FWA, and I want to I want to see
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  Speaker 1: my mom and my pops like I want to spend
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  Speaker 1: time with them. I want to spend time with them
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  Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving. I don't want to zoom them for Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: as it's well, guess what Thanksgiving us tomorrow. I'm okay.
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  Speaker 1: So somebody pulls upon you to day with a vaccine,
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  Speaker 1: you better not take it, dumb ass. All right, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I heard you want to see you mom. I'm in
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  Speaker 1: this need upon you. It might be wrong with you,
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  Speaker 1: it might be arrow with And as far as Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden's cabinet, doctor Ruth Simmons needs to be his Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of Education because we all know the greatest and most
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  Speaker 1: long lasting form of systemic racism has been in the
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  Speaker 1: education system. So it's not a black person that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be Treasury Secretary Ruth Simmons should be, Uh Secretary of Education,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Ruth Simons, Googler. All right, well that is your
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  Speaker 1: front page news. Get it off your chests. Eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: five eight five one oh five one. If you need
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  Speaker 1: to vent, hit us up right now. Yeah, we are live.
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  Speaker 1: Usually we're on vacation right now, but uh, we have
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  Speaker 1: an interview next hour with somebody you might know, President
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  Speaker 1: Barack Obama. You know, yes, yeah, we're gonna be kicking
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  Speaker 1: with President Barack Obama. No, breaks uh no commercials uh
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  Speaker 1: no interruptions with music. We're gonna be talking to him straight.
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  Speaker 1: That has never happened the ten years we've been a paddle,
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  Speaker 1: We've never done that because we always just put pieces
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  Speaker 1: of regardless of how long an interview is, we always
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  Speaker 1: just put pieces of it on the air. Put the
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  Speaker 1: full thing up on YouTube. But you know it's a
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  Speaker 1: holiday week, man, tomorrow, give me. We are supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be hitting nowhere, right all right, all right, well it's
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  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Co morning, the Breakfast Club. I'm telling,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling what you're doing all of year. This is
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  Speaker 1: your time to get it off your chest, whether you're
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  Speaker 1: mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eight five one oh
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  Speaker 1: five one. We want to hear from you on the
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  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? This is Janelle? Ay, Janelle,
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  Speaker 1: get it off your chest. I just want to have
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  Speaker 1: a clue bomb drop for me on my birthday, Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: Happy Birthday. What are you doing this year? Um? Staying
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  Speaker 1: the house? Just as I just like to see what
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  Speaker 1: creative things people are doing for their birthday during this
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: time because my birthday is coming up too, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I'll be doing much either where. We was
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  Speaker 1: gonna go to Sloppy Chops, me and my husband. I
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  Speaker 1: love sloppy. Sloppy Chops. They open, we're gonna be takeout.
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  Speaker 1: There only doing takeout. They're only doing takeout. Yes, Sloppy
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  Speaker 1: Chops is a restaurant in Detroit. What up though. They
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  Speaker 1: serve the most amazing seafood and steaks and food. I
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  Speaker 1: went there like a week ago, two weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: BTS just did a giveaway with them yesterday for our
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  Speaker 1: families and they just gave away free food all day.
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  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of brothers that own that they own
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: a couple of another one called Slappy Crabs, I believe. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: downtown Detroit brothers doing that thing. Man. Yeah, yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: clap it up for Juneil, Clap it up for Happy Birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Happy birthday. And I'm proud of you guys for the interview.
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud of you guys for everything you guys are doing.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulate lections. God bless you guys, God bless the world.
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  Speaker 1: Let's heel together and let's get this coronavirus under control.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful Sagittarius, my wife is a Sagittarius. Get it off
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  Speaker 1: your chest eight hundred five eight five one on five one.
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  Speaker 1: If you need to vent, hit us up. Now. It's
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  Speaker 1: the breakfast club. Come on the breakfast club. This is
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  Speaker 1: your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're
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  Speaker 1: man from you on the breakfast club. But you got
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  Speaker 1: something on your mind. Let hello? Who's this? Hey? This
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  Speaker 1: King Jim and I Man, how y'all doing? What's up? Brother?
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  Speaker 1: Get off your chest? All right? So um last night
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  Speaker 1: right huh? I was performing oral sex with my girl
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  Speaker 1: and all that right, and he's about the combat and
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  Speaker 1: she farked in my face. Man. That means she was
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  Speaker 1: doing it. That means she was doing it real good.
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  Speaker 1: I means you got pinks. Yeah, you know what i't.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't got pink cotys. But real quick, hey, Charlotte, man,
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  Speaker 1: give me a huge favorite. Man, I will not fart
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  Speaker 1: on you. Don't you dare ask me too? No? I
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  Speaker 1: was wondering if you can send me your book of
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  Speaker 1: staring man, have a rock Obama sign it for me?
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  Speaker 1: That would be great. What I don't have it? I
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  Speaker 1: only have one copy of a Promised Land. Oh I
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  Speaker 1: only had one. Only he only sent us three copies.
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  Speaker 1: He sent one feature of us. I don't. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: actually sending the mind to my mom. To be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you. Somebody stole mine in the in the mail,
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  Speaker 1: so I had to go buy another one. Oh man,
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  Speaker 1: I was really hoping on that one though, if I
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  Speaker 1: had it with yours. I got a copy of I
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  Speaker 1: got a copy of Doctor readA Walker's Book up here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, hey, I'll take that and for me, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll send you a copy of mine. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: like I sold one point seven in the first week
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  Speaker 1: like Barrock did. I just been doing well in the
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  Speaker 1: book world though. Yeah, yeah, I know. I actually listen
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  Speaker 1: to your books. I ain't reading me yet though, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, listen, I'm gonna get your put you on hold,
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  Speaker 1: and they're gonna get your address're gonna mail it out
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  Speaker 1: to you. Brother. Hold on, stinky, Hello, who's this morning?
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  Speaker 1: Good morning? Get it off your chests, all right, So
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte May, Yes, good morning to you, Good morning to you,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. So yesterday my husband was he went up
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  Speaker 1: for parole. Okay, um, he's been locked up for like
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  Speaker 1: nineteen years. I actually wrote a last to President Obama
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  Speaker 1: a few years ago to see if he can maybe
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  Speaker 1: be parted. So a long story short. My husband goes
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  Speaker 1: up for parole. They gave him ten more years. Crazy
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  Speaker 1: why I don't know. I don't know. I didn't ask why.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't care. I said, what's up? You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, like you come home or not? He liked
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  Speaker 1: not again, sending years and I'm like, the boys, shoot
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  Speaker 1: my friend. That was crazy. I think they need yeah
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  Speaker 1: out here. I don't take care of kids ten years period.
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  Speaker 1: So he already did nineteen and they gave him another
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  Speaker 1: ten and didn't tell him why they gave him another ten.
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  Speaker 1: Said they told him his case play was messed up,
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  Speaker 1: something dealing with the case enators. And I'm like, this
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  Speaker 1: is ridiculous because he committed a crime. But he said
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  Speaker 1: he said his time, and he kind of al samll,
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  Speaker 1: You're like, I'm struggling to take care of my nine kids,
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  Speaker 1: saying my husband in prison. It's crazy. Something had to happen,
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  Speaker 1: if something, he must have did something in prison for
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  Speaker 1: him to give him another ten years. You know what,
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  Speaker 1: traveler Mary like. Honestly, I don't know. I wasn't able
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  Speaker 1: to watch his hearing. Normally they can let you watch
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  Speaker 1: it life stream. I wasn't able to it wasn't air.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like, that was God. You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: saying telling me to let me fall back and go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and let me handle this. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: happened in that here. I couldn't tell you. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but I had to get off my chest. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: christ is just today and it's like this is real.
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  Speaker 1: It's real, and I wish I could tell you something
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  Speaker 1: to help you, but I don't even know what to
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  Speaker 1: say to you at the time like this, To be honest,
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  Speaker 1: I know, and it's okay, like no one has anything
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  Speaker 1: to say. It's all because my kids keep giving me
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: encouraging words. You know what. I'm trying to be thrown
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: him up early. I couldn't even sleep last man, and
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: I'm up early, Like what am I about to do
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: with my life? Ten more years of being dedicated to
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: a man in prison? I love him with death, That's like,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I love him with all my heart. But yeah, you
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: can't do you can you can't, you can't. You can't
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: do his bid with him, you know, and and you
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: know supporting him is one thing, but you can't put
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: your life on hold. Damn. I'm cool a lot of
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: half stacks. You know what I'm telling forty five. I
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: don't had enough sex the last year the rest of
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: my life. I'm cool. I'm away from my man to
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: come home. I just think it's crazy crazy. We're praying
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: for you, absolutely, Mama, Lord at mercy. I wish I
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: could do something else, but I don't know what else
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: to do. Thank you for calling. Good luck and try
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: to join the outs. Mama. When when the president comes in,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: tell him Brandon Gord that's my husband's name. I wrote
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: him a letter a couple of years ago. We already
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: did the interview on Monday. Go Mama, Oh my god. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: he's not the president no more. And he's not the president.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: You have to reach out the Trump the president. Yeah,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: but that's fright. I'm sorry, thank you, all right, gee,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: all right, we'll get it off your chest. Eight hundred
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: five eight five, one oh five one. If you need
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: to vent, hit us up now. Now we got roomors
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: on the way he has and tuck about Grammy nominations.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: The Grammy Award nominations are here, and we'll tell you
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: what some of the reactions are from who's nominated. All Right,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: we'll get into that next it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the first Club. Yeah morning, everybody is DJ d Angela, yee,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club, and uh
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: invest in fifteen minutes, what's less than fifty President Barack Obama,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: we're gonna be kicking it with President Barack Obama. We
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: will summoned, yeah to DC. And you know, it's so interesting.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: We're always off this week, like we're never ever here
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: the week of this white Man's holiday, you know. But
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: since we shot down to DC because we don't have
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: the fancy technology that Oprah has the great team, like
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: we're just all in the same studio. We actually had
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: to get COVID tested and go down then socially distance
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: and all that good stuff, and that that conversation will
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: play back up next hour. Yeah, that's right and less
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: than uh fifteen minutes. So let's get to the rooms.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Let's talk. The Grammys just got Breakfast Club. Now. We
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: said we don't have the technology to do that. What
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Oprah did? We don't even have the technology to get
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: this thing working right. Years into trade and we don't
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: know what's going on. Yeah you there, Ye what up? Doe? Okay,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: he's not there, all right, So let's talk about the
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Grammy Awards and some of the nominations that came out.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Did you hear Did you see some of these nominations? Uh? Yeah,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I saw some of the fuss on social media yesterday,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: but you know, it just it just bugs me out
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: when I see all these pro black folks really giving
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: a damn about the white man's validation. But continue, So
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: let's go through some of these nominations. Best Rap Album,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: all right, uh, D Smoke with Black Habits, Alfredo, Freddy Gibson,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: The Alchemists, Jay Electronica with a written testimony, King's Disease
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: NAS and I think it's one more what is it? Um?
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: All great projects. I haven't heard D Smoke saluted D Smoke, Um,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I honestly slept on the brother. I definitely haven't heard
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: of Black Habits, but all of those other albums, they
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: deserve to be there. I just feel like a little
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Baby should have been there with my baby definitely should
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: have been like Roddy Rich should have been there with
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Rich should have been excuse me for me and Antisocial
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: And I definitely think m Conway the Machine or been
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: in the Butcher should should should have been should have
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: been in there too, especially Conway project was phenomenal. It was,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: and it's been out long enough way it should have
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: been nominated. I agree, But you know I'm not gonna lie.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I love Jay Electronics album. I love a written testimony too.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: I might be one of the few people based off
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the conversations that I'd be happy really Um yeah, a
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: lot of people. I think people had two high expectations
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: for it, only because they've been waiting for a jail
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: electronic a project for so long and it had all
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: those whole guest appearances. I think people would I thought
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: it was dope and they had a very very high
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: expenitating for it. I thought it was phenomenal. It got
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: washed away, and I don't know why I got washed away.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: It was something that happened right during that time. I
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: don't know if it was George Floyd or if it
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: was the pandemic that hit right now, a little bit
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: of both. And then the album kind of got washed
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: away because they're supposed to go on toys, supposed to
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: be a huge announcement. But I really love Jay Electronic
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: out based off that category, A Little Baby definitely should
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: have been there, Like I said, Roddy Richard, one of
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the one of the Grids elder brothers. I think you've
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: been here, Conway. But for that category, I get at
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: the Nas King Dream personally, yeah, Personal Kings Disease and
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Never Kings Dream of the Kings Disease and NAS has
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: never gotten a Grammy, never got Na's never never a Grammy.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: So NAS should definitely went out this year best Rap Song,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: The Bigger Picture, Little Baby, who else the Box Roddy
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: rich laugh now, cry later. I felt like that just
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: came out, Uh, rock Star the Baby, Roddy rich and Savage,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Beyonce and Maga A Stallion. I don't know why Savage
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: is in the Best Rap Song though, I guess yeah,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: guess yeah. They were rapping, but I, um, I think Savage,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: You think Savage. I think Savage wins that or the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Bigger Picture. UM, I don't know what the metrics started.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I don't be honest with you. I don't care. Like
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: it's like, you know, I see everybody getting upset about
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the Grammys, and I'm like, YEO, who cares with them?
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Coltur really clueless white people think? You know, if I
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: had to pick a song my personal favorite out of
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: that bunch of probably would be bigger. Picture rock Star
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: is a bigger record though rock I'm just like you know,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Savages Savage was huge as Biggs rock Star though. See,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know what. I don't know what the metrics.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the metrics are. I don't know. Well,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the Weekend tweeted out yesterday the Grammys remain corrupt. You
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: owe me my fans in the industry transparent. Yeah, listen,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the Weekend definitely got robbed because you know, the Grammys.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I don't look for them the hip hop. Look for
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: them for hip hop, right, but I definitely look for
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: them for I guess the R and B pop stuff.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: The Blinding Lights was the biggest record of yet, right yes,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: well by by whatever metric you can measure, and Heartless
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: another big song on the album, really well well album
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: of the year. They put Taylor Swift post Malone too much.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: God damn man ain't already I like to drop black poomas?
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: What black poomas? I don't know? Cold Play? Oh my god,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Jacob call Yeah, that's y h A, I M. I
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: don't know what that is. Drum and do a leap?
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Do you this and they got Jenneico and what album
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: of the year. All right, give the Jaico. Don't know
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: nothing else. She's a person of color. Oh my goodness.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: All right, well that is your rumor report. We don't
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: know where he is. Uh, Like we said, Oprah has
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the dope technology where she could look like her and
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Barrock are in the same room. We don't even have
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: enough technology to get Angela then, but we were in
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the same room and President Barack Oba, he definitely we
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: went down to DC to have the conversation. So that
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: conversation will be coming on shortly, all right, So keep
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: it lockedice to Breakfast Club coming morning. Everybody is DJ
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Envy Angela Ye, Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast's happening. Listen.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: We're only here, okay, listen next next to some of
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the six Crap Sunday years a Sunday. I believe that
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club has been on the air and for
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the past ten years, during this week of this white
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Man's holiday, we never are here, right right, take vacation
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: always and where we've been, we've taken vacation all week.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Just Monday we had to fly down the DC. We
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: will summoned because the forty fourth president of the United
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: States of America has a book out called a Promise Lane,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and he wanted to do the breakfast club. Right, Okay,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: we don't have the fancy technology that Oprah has. We we
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: we had to go down there all right, COVID tests,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: We socially distanced, and we had a great conversation. The
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: only reason we're here today is because this conversation is airing. Yeah,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: in a few minutes. Yeah, we all went went down
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to a hotel in DC and it was it was
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: it was dope. I didn't know what to expect, you know.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: It's when when he walked in, it felt like he
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: was one of our brothers, just one of the I
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: don't want to say, one of the homies, but he
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: just seems so cool, so relaxed, so inviting. So just
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: felt like a don't I don't know how to still
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: a politicians, still a politician, but it felt like a
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: thing's given dinner way. He was just cool, like on
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: some cool. I ain't gonna say all that I have
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: still a politician, So what does that mean he can't
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: be cool being a politician. It was definitely cool. I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: mess some asses politician that was assholes, you know really yeah,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: oh names some names name. I mean, it's it's a
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: certain level of it's a certain level of full of
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: you have to be in order to be a politician though,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: because you're always on right, like, you can't always be happy, correct,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? You got to tell people
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: what he was real about things though, and he was
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: definitely very transparent in the book, very transparent in the book.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: All right, so we'll talk to President Barack Obama when
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: we come back. Keep it locked. It's the Breakfast Club.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Good morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and Jula Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: And this is what we do. Every time you were
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: talking nice and level. This is how we talk every day,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't coming in high and now you are well,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: now we are. We have a special guest. He served
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: eight years as the forty fourth President of the United States.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, President Barack Obama. Never heard of him,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: never heard of him. You know what I heard of y'all.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: And I appreciate you guys having me. It's wonderful to
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: see you again. Thank you for being in Thank you. Now,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: we don't have much time, so let's get right into
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: us A promised Land. Why is that the title for
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: your book? When I think about America, I think about
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: both where we've been, where we might be going. I'm
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: reminded of doctor King's speech, famous speech he gave shortly
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: before he got shot, about I might not get there
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: with you, but I've been at the mountain top and
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I see the promised land, and I think that that
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: idea that we're not where we need to be, but
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: we still act on the faith and the belief that
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: we can get there. That's how I think about America.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: That's how I think about my own political journey. That's
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: not one where it's ever gonna be finished. It's not
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: one where racism is gone or inequality is gone, but
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: what we can continually try to do better. That was
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the spirit that I wanted to communicate. You're say in
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the prefaith that America's ideals have always been secondary to
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: conquest and subjugation, a racial cast instiment, that to pretend
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: otherwise is to be complicit in a game that was
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: rigged from the start. So my question is, if the
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: game is rigged and we know to fight is fixed.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: How could black people ever believe in this idea of
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: America being a promised the land. That's one argument, and
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: that's how some people feel. And obviously there's evidence of that, slavery,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Jim Crow, Native Americans being driven from their lands. On
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the other hand, what we also have stories of is
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: abolition and civil rights movement and folks fighting for their
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: freedom and generation passing on a legacy of struggle that
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: results in something a little bit better. What I try
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to do book as a whole is paying an honest
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: picture about how there's a gap between the myth of
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: America and the reality of America. Will never completely close
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: that gap, but if we in the effort, if we
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: stay focused, reach out, then we can get closer to
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the ideal. You know, one of the lessons I try
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: to teach in the book about politics is it's never
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: going to be perfect. We live in a big country
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: with a lot of different points of view. We've got
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: hundreds of years of oppression and discrimination that have to
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: be overcome. We've got, you know, the natural human impulses
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: that you see around the world, Greed, power, you know,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: folks trying to get over on others. But you also
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: see kindness, courage, folks looking out for each other, and
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: a lot of goodness along with the bad. And in politics,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the job is not to think that you're ever going
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to eliminate all the bad. It can can you empower
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the good to make more kids get a better education,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: to make sure that some folks have better healthcare, to
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: make sure that you know, there's less discrimination, and that
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the police are more accountable. And if you if you
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: do that and you stick with it. Yeah, the distance
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: that we've traveled, let's say, just in my lifetime. We
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: were talking before we got on the air. I'm fifty nine.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I don't feel old. And in you know, human history,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: fifty nine years is a blink of the eye. None
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: of us would have been sitting here fifty nine years ago.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: We couldn't imagine, you know, you guys having your own
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: show that you control and that you produce. And I
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: couldn't imagine being a former president and having a best
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: selling book that just wasn't in the cards. And that
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: was just you know, in my lifetime. And so we
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: can imagine if we keep working that maybe our kids,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: certainly our grandkids, if we do it right, they're going
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: to be that much more ahead of the game now.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: But you know, one thing we always have to remember
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: is history doesn't just go forward, it can go backwards too,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and if we're not vigilant, things can get worse. President Obama,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you something about revend Jeremiah Right
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: from in your book, because you've addressed it, Michelle Obama
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: has addressed it. Do you think that in today's climate,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the comments and the speeches that Jeremiah Right gave would
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: still be looked at the same way where you would
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: have had to distance it yourself from him today. Yeah,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: you know, it's Look, it's an interesting thing. As I
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: write about in the book. You know, Reverend Right as
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: an example of somebody who supremely gifted Preacher Trinity United
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Church of Christ on South Side Chicago had amazing ministry
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: still does. I was very close to a lot of
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: people in that congregation as well as Reverend Right. In
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: national politics, if you can take out a bunch of
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: sound bites that say Goddamn America, even if the context
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: of it is prophetic and biblical, and he's trying to
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: describe how somebody might feel he wasn't promoting the notion
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: that God was damning America. He was making the point
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: that if you looked at slavery and discrimination, you could
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: see the conclusion of people feeling that there was not
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: an alignment with Christian values and America. But if you'd
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: see it a two minute sound bite trying to explain
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: that is too complicated. In my campaign, I had to
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: constantly manage the fact that truths that black folks experience
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: on a day to day basis are not going to
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: be the same as the truths that the country as
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: a whole experience. But if you want to operate at
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the highest level of politics, you have to be able
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: to communicate and translate for the country as a whole.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: And there were times where I was surprised by the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: reaction of folks, generally white voters, to certain things that
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: to me didn't seem like it was something they should
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: be surprised or upset about. And I suspect attitudes would
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: probably be a little bit different now. And I give
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to give one example that I use in the book,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: when Professor Skip Gates gets arrested in his own house.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I write about the fact that in a press conference
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I'm asked about it and I said, well, you know,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I think the police probably acted stupidly and arresting you know,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: sixty year old professor who's got a lame leg in
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: his own house after he shown them ideas. Even if
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: he cussed out the police, all they have to do
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: is just leave right and was treated with all kinds
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: of controversy, And my polling with white voters dropped drastically
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: because the notion is somehow I was insulting the police.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I think today, in light of everything that's happened and
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: part of what happened this summer terms of raising awareness
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: of potential bias in the criminal justice system, I suspect
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: that that would not have seemed as much of a
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: controversial statement as it was viewed at the time, even
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: though at the time I didn't think it was particularly controversial.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: You talk about that in a Good Fight chapter Henry
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Lewis gets Gate situation, but you also say that wouldn't
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: have happened to a white person in the same situation.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: But at the same time you say you wish you
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: had have said that then, which you didn't. So we
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: bite our tongue in situations like that, who were trying
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to protect one of the things that you that I
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: try to communicate in this book is what's the best
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: way to expand folks understanding right where where do you
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: see teachable moments? And there have been times where, for example,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: the tragedy in Charleston, when Pickney and others who are
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: praying and invited a young white man into pray with them,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: he then shoots them. He's obviously his head's been filled
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: up with racist ideology. That was a teachable moment where
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I could say some things that I might not have
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: said in another context, you know. And part of what
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I also try to describe in the book is the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: fact that the prophetic voice that you have if you
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: are a civil rights leader, if you're a Malcolm, if
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: you're a Martin, is not going to be the same
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: voice as if you're a politician, Because politicians, the whole
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: thing is, I've got to figure out how do I
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: get this white senator from this conservative state to maybe
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: support this bill. That's different from me teaching as a
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: civil rights leader or a movement leader, and each each
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: of us have different roles to play in that process.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: And you know, I think that you know, as as
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: as one of my I think staff people I write
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: about in the book, when I'm running, he says, you know,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: white folks, they notice you don't look like the other
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: forty two folks that have been president. They're noticing this
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: is already a radical break for them. And you know,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: in the same way that Jackie Robinson, there were times
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: where if he hadn't been the first, he would have
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: whooped on somebody who's coming in, sliding with spikes at
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: him or otherwise trying to injure him. But he recognized,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: all right, there's some things that right now I'm gonna
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: be more diplomatic about that. Maybe the next African American
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: president will not have to be I think those are
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: the kinds of things that you're constantly having a measure
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: and make decisions about. One thing I love about the book,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: President Obama, is you talk about your relationship with your wife,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and you talk about how your wife is the boss
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: and you're scared of him. You also talk about how
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: every decision has to be approved by your wife. You know,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: one thing that I love about the book is everybody
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: talks about relationships and sometimes things seem perfect, but in
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: your book you show that things aren't perfect. You know,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I've been married in nineteen years. So when you talk
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: about your wife and you talk about how hard it
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: was and how she didn't want you to run, how
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: bad did it get in the household? Did it ever
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: get to the point where it was like, you know what,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: maybe this is not going to work for us? Or
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: is that never an option when it came to a relationship.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I think I think there were times where certainly she
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: thought this wasn't gonna work. Michelle is somebody who has
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: a different temperament than me, and I think she'd admit
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: that she has more of a temper than I does
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: than I do. I think she can get more pessimistic
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: sometimes about things than I can. I tend to be
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: pretty even killed. Yeah, I we'll figure this out kind
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: of approach. But as I write about in the book,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: sometimes that's that itself is frustrating to your partner. Right
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: if you're all like, hey, honey, relax, why are you
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: getting so excited about stuff? You know? Then she'll be like, oh,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: you're just not listening to me at all, Right, And
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I know I listened to you. I'm I'm just saying,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: you know, it's not so bad. Well, what do you
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: think I'm overreacting? Is that what you're saying, all right,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: and then you I mean, you're in that pattern. So
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: there's no doubt that there were periods, there were episodes
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: where she was questioning whether the life that I had
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: charted for us was compatible with what she wanted out
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: of life. You know, she you know, Michelle once told
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: me something that I think summed it up pretty well.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: She said, I have organized my life not to have
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of mess in my life, and politics, by definition,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: brings mess into our household. You've got people that I
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: would never associate with otherwise who now suddenly are talking
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: about us or you know, have impact on our well being,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: and I don't. That's not what I want. And I
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: understood that. And the sacrifice she made is one that
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: you know, I've had to work off, you know, the
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: like I I've been. My debt has been it's almost
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: like a payday loan, you know, it just keeps on.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: The interest was high. How did you get over it?
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Was it therapy? Was it friends? Was it reverence? Was
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: it church? Was it prayer? When the terms were over? Well?
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I think all of the above. Yeah. Michelle talked to
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: right writes about the fact that we went to counseling
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: pre presidency, and that was when the kids were small.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: And I think anybody who's had small kids, you know,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: that's always a strain. You know, as much joy as
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: they bring, there is that tension, especially if both uh
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: bouses are working right. Um. And during the White House. Look,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I give a lot of credit to my mother in
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: law because Miss Marian, you know, she would Michelle be hot.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: You know, she'd go upstairs. My mother in law was
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: living on the in the suite and on the third floor,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: and Michelle to go up there. And I'm pretty sure
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: she talked Michelle down a couple of times. UM. Friends,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: one thing we Michelle and I both tell younger couples,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: you know, who are going through rough patches. Um. I
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: think we were pretty good about the fact that even
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: when things were tough, we never lost basic respect for
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: the other person. We never thought that that person was
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: a bad person. We never sent things that would make
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: it seem as if, oh, you just completely disrespect me.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: It was more, look, I love you, Barrock, but you
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: know this is driving me crazy, or you know how
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: much I respect you, but so so. I think that
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: is part of what kept us able to sort this out.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Because we never doubted each other's intentions. And the basic
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: fact that you know, my view of Michelle is she
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: is a remarkable woman, even you know, if she driving
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: me crazy sometimes, I never thought that there was anybody
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: who I would rather be with, No being that you're
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: so even killed, right, did you ever take your frustrations
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: from work home? And did you ever do anything like
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: punch a wall or what did you do when you
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: got mad? You know? I had there were times where
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I would have a potty mouth in the Oval office,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: but we heard some of that, which I appreciate it
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: because well, I mean, I think it's I think it's
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: important to be honest, because part of what I try
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: to describe in the book is the White House, you know,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: and the presidency. Look, you're the leader of the free world.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Is the most powerful office owner. But it's also a job,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: and the West Wing is also an office, and you're
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: going to have some of the same frustrations and mistakes
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: and doubts and mishaps as in any office, in any job,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: which also means sometimes you don't cuss a little bit
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: because because stuff's frustrating. Um, working out was important, you know,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: we get those workouts in sometimes, uh, you know, dear
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: friend of ours who who was also a trainer, Cornell McClellan,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: we would get the boxing gloves out and didn't seem
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: too fullness. A lot of old people in the White House.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: You can't just say, let's play a pickup game. Those
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: guys pass out now. I had my weekend game though
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: with Reggie love Right who you know on Reggie at
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: that time was you know, probably he just turned thirty.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: He wasn't posting up Joe Biden, and so no, we
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: could we couldn't play. We couldn't play in the White House.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: We had a we had a regular game. Reggie had
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: his crew and so we had regular basketball games. You
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: know a lot of times though, you know, you would
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: just try to take the long view in dealing with frustrations.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: If Mitch McConnell and the Republicans were blocking something for
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: no reason, if they were playing games that actually had
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: real consequences in terms of people being able to get
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: healthcare or be able to get some relief from unemployment
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: or what have you. You know, you just had to
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: remind yourself that you were in a long term contest
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: and there were going to be ups and downs. At
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: any given time, but that if you kept your eye
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: on the ball, that you know, sooner or later you
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: can prepare. You know. In the Yes we Can chapter,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: you discuss how you were frustrated with the constant need
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: to soften for white folks benefit the blunt truths about
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: racing this country. Do you still feel the need to
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: do that after the last four years? We wouldness? Well,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I think we're all a little bit more open and aware.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: And one of the things that I was really inspired
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: by in the wake of tragedy was the response after
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: George Floyd's murder, because what you saw was not only
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: people of all walks of life out there protesting. It
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: wasn't just black folks, But when you looked at the polling,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: you actually saw that by a significant number, many more
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: white Americans were willing to acknowledge problems in the criminal
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: justice system race. Why do we have to wait on
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: them though? Well? Speak to speak our truth to power.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: You know, what this comes down to is how do
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: you build coalitions to actually get stuff done? Because the
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: truth of the matter is is that in very few
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: places are African Americans the majority of the vote. You know,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: it's just simple math, right, so right where we're sitting
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: right now in Washington, DC, that would be the case.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: But there are not a lot of states, and they're
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: a handful of cities where just the black vote delivers
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: the power then to actually bring about concrete change. So
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: as a consequence, then you've got to pay attention to
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: how other folks are feeling. That may be frustrating sometimes,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: And as I said, that's not the job of everybody.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: The job of a writer like a James Baldwin or
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: a Tanahasi Coates, the job of a preacher, the job
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: of an activist. When I was a community organizer, I'm
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: thinking differently about what I'm communicating because I'm trying to
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: mobilize a particular segment of my community. Right But when
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: we are talking about politics at the particularly at the
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: state or federal levels, well, you need to be able
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: to persuade some white folks who are not going to
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: think like you. And you may want to say things
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: exactly the way you want to say it, but they
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: may not hear it. And if you don't hear if
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: they don't hear it, then it's not going to help you.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, listen. One thing that I think is
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: absolutely important to recognize is that even people who are
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: not in any way consciously anti black, they don't want
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: to be seen as the bad person. They're always going
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: to be a little defensive. That's human nature. In the
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: same way, by the way that you know, and you know,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: you may be able to relate to this more as
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: a man, like you know, if women start talking to
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: men about their issues, a lot of men will get
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: very defensive, very quickly and say, you know that's not me.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: You know, I treat my woman good, or you know,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: I'm not the problem, or et cetera, et cetera, et cetera,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: and or if they're smart, they will listen and make adjustments. Yes,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: but the woman has to be allowed to be able
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: to speak their truth to power, of course. But you know, listen,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: part of the book you talk about that, That's what
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you next, right, you talk
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: about the women on your team and them having issues
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: with men interrupting them constantly and taking their ideas and
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: making it their own. And as a matter of fact,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: that was happening, they were feeling so intimidated by it
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: that they didn't even want to speak anymore. And sometimes
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: because of that, and that was something that you guys
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: had to adjust. And I feel like that's something that
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: happens in the workplace all the time to this day.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: So absolutely part of what had to happen was the
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: women had to bring it to me. Then we all
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: had to talk about it. I had to get educated
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: on what was happening, because a lot of times this
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: wasn't happening in front of me. As I said, the
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: guys would be on their best behavior a lot of
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: times in front of me, but in meetings where I
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: wasn't in suddenly you had some of these macho attitudes
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: coming up. My point is that as we think about
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: social change, whether we're talking about race, whether we're talking
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: about gender, whether we're talking about sexual orientation, you know,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: this stuff is deep in everybody, right. We all have
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: all these attitudes that have been built up over time,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: what we learned from our parents, what we learned from
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: our communities, our neighborhoods. And there are times where the
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: best thing to do is just be blunt and say
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: you know what you know you are being racist or
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: you are being sexist. There are times where the better
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: thing to do is listen, I understand you know, you've
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: got your own issues and this is you know, I
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: think you mean well, but let me tell you, like
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: how this is interpreted by me, right, and in each
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: of those situations, and there's no formula, right, You're trying
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: to figure it out at any given time. How can
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: I get other people to see my reality in a
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: way that leads them to change their behavior, leads them
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: to support changes in laws and institutions. And you know,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: but as as you quoted, that's frustrating, right, you' not
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: you'd you'd prefer not having to do this at all.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm not the first person to write about
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: the fact that it is sometimes exhausting to feel as
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: if you got to educate folks about just being treated
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: normally unfairly. Right, I prefer not having that legacy that
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: we have to deal with with reading this book and
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: all that you did for every community, including our own community.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: How do you take it when you hear, especially African
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Americans minorities say that, you know, they feel that President
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: but Rock didn't do enough for minorities, didn't do enough
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: for black people people. You know, what are your thoughts
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: on that? I understand it because when I got elected
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: there was so much excitement and hope. And I also
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: think that we generally view the presidency as almost like
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: a monarchy in the sense of, well, once the presidents there,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: he can just do whatever it needs to get done.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: And if he's not doing it, then it must be
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: because he didn't want to do it. Well, we see
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: what Trump soo, so he does what he wants to do.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: So people listening right because he breaks laws and or
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: or disregards the Constitution. But I think that anybody who
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: goes into public life they need to understand that, yeah,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: you're going to get criticized because that's just the nature
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: of it. If you don't want that, then you shouldn't
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: be in that business. The good news for me was
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: that I was very confident in what I had done
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: for black folks because I had the statistics to prove it. Right. So,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: by the time I left office, you had seen three
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: million African Americans have healthcare that didn't have it before.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: You had seen the incarceration rate, the number of black
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: folks in prison drop for the first time in years.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: You had seen the juvenile correction system thirty percent fewer
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: people in there. You had seen black poverty dropped to
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: its lowest level since nineteen sixty eight. You had seen
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: black businesses rise, you had seen black income go up.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: So I could just look at the data and I
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: could say millions of black folks were better off at
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: the time I left office than when I came in.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: And you know what I have to accept, and I
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: think what any president has to accept is the fact that, Okay,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: so I got twenty million people healthcare, but there's still
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: ten million out there who don't have healthcare because Republicans
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: blocked me from doing everything I wanted to do with
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Obamacare because some states didn't, you know, accept Medicaid dollars
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: even though it wasn't going to cass them a dime,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: just because they wanted to oppose me. So if you
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: were black and you're one of those ten million who
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: didn't get healthcare because they were living in a state
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: that didn't accept the money we were giving them, I
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: can understand why they would be upset. How come things
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: didn't change. I think people want to know, like, what
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: did you do specifically for black people? Not the rising
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: tide lifts all boats types of rhetoric, because we all
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: know black people's boat got to hold in it so
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: the systemic things that were done to black people to
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: put us in these positions need specific systemic things to
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: get us out. So well, but what I'm doing, what
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, travel Mayne, is black property dropped faster than
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: everybody else. Black incomes went up more than a lot
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: of other folks. So you know, the issue is sometimes
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: we just didn't go around advertising that because once again,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: the goal here is to build coalitions where everybody is
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: getting something so that they all feel like they've got
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: a stake in it. But a lot of my policies
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: were targeted towards people most in need. Those folks are
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: disproportionately African American. Now, there are some things that for example,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: US having a civil Rights division in the Justice Department
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: that actually took seriously civil rights and imposed consent decrees
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: on places like Ferguson, and change sentencing guidelines so that
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: we didn't max out on sentencing for all non violent
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: drug offenses, but change the incentives so that prosecutors were
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: judged not by how long of a sentence you got,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: but did you get a proportional sentence? Was it a
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: fair sentence? Those kinds of changes that we made, that's
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: why I say, there's a reason why the federal prison
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: population dropped, by the way, at the same time the
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: crime also dropped, right, So we were able to show
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: that you can have a smart strategy in terms of
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: reducing crime without expanding incarceration. But the truth of the
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: matter is shell them in. At the end of the day,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: there is no way in eight years to make up
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: for two hundred years. Absolutely, And the question is constantly,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: how are you going to you know, the way I've
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: been describing it, because because it's very much how I
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: understand the presidency. Now, You're like a relay runner. You
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: know you're getting the baton from somebody else, and all
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: you can do is run your stage of the race,
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: and then you pass it on the next person. And
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: on either side, both who you got to hit from
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: and who you're passing it too, they may not have
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: the same priorities that you do. You know, you're you
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: know that you're not going to get everything done that
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: you need to get done. But what you got to
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: do is do your best to get as much done
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: as possible, and I think that's what we did. Would
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: you say that your intention with this book was to
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: explain to people also how difficult it was for you
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: to get things passed and for people to see what
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: you did do, because, like you said in the book,
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of times, it's not your policies and what
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: you do, it's more what you say and the feeling
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: that people have, and that's what they pay attention to.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: So absolutely, look, let's take something like, you know, the
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Recovery Act. So I walk in the day I walk in,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: we're losing eight hundred thousand jobs a month. The economy
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: is actually contracting faster than it did during the Great Depression.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: And six months later the economy was grown again and
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: we had kind of stopped the free fall. But if
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: you're somebody who had lost your job at that point
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: or lost your house, you're not feeling good. And we
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: couldn't go around saying look what a patting ourselves on
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: the back, saying look at what a great job we did,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: because people are still hurting out there. I hope if
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: somebody reads this they come to recognize if we want
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: to bring about systemic change, there are a whole bunch
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: of different pressure points that we have to apply. It's
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: not just the presidency. So I write extensively about the
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: fact that I have a lot of power as president.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: I'm the most powerful person as president, but I still
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: need a Congress. I still need to make sure that
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: we have a majority in the House of Representatives, because
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: if I don't, I can't get any a single law
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: passed if I want to change something on criminal justice reform,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: it turns out that the federal government isn't actually in
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: charge of most criminal in the law. Most criminal laws
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: made at the state level and determined by state prosecutors,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: most police departments, the federal government has nothing to do with.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: That's determined by the mayor in that city. Whether they're
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: prosecuted when they do something wrong, that's up to the
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: state's attorney or disc attorney in that area. So when
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: we think about politics, it is a mistake for us
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: to say, Okay, once i'm I voted for president, I'm done,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: and I hope people don't repeat that mistake with Biden
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: and Kamala Harris. Right now, we've got two seats in
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: Georgia coming up. If the Republicans win those two seats,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: then Joe Biden and Kamala Harrist will not be able
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: to get any law passed that Mitch McConnell and the
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Republicans aren't willing to go along with Well, you got
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: to do a better job of letting people know, Hey,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: I wanted to do a lot more for people, especially
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: black people, but I couldn't because Mitch McConnell was blocking
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: me every chance you got. Well, that's why I wrote
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: the book. That's why whatever everybody gonna read, that's all
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Well, you know, all these interviews I hear
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: some people listen to you about Georgia where Warnock, I
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: see they're giving him issues about his alliance with Jeremiah Rights,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: the same kind of stuff. Did you tell him he
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: should step back and denounce him? At this point? We look,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: first of all, it is a losing game at this
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: stage to just go chasing crazy commentary. H There's some
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: things you have to answer aggressively, but you can't obsess
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: over it. Warnock is doing a great job. If I'm him,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be emphasizing what am I positively going
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: to do on behalf of the people of Georgia that
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: that as opposed to just trying to play defense against
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: a bunch of crazy stuff that's coming out there. But
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: but listen, it's hard winning in Georgia, just like it's
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: hard winning in Iowa. It's like it's hard in a
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: lot of the country. And one thing I think that
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: I hope the book also reminds us of Yeah, those
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: of us who live in DC or New York or LA.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes we do not have a a good
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: enough sense of how big this country is and how
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of folks do not accept at all things
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: that we who are living in urban metropolitan areas just
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: take for granted. From South Carolina, I don't know, Yeah,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: I mean it's you know, you go, there are a
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: big chance of the country, even in our own communities, right,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, so I deeply believe that people should be
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: treated equally under the law, regardless of sexual orientation. I
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: was shocked you talked about that a book, but we all,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I think they're big chunks of
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: our community where that's still controversial. People were surprised about
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of Hispanic folks who voted for Trump, but
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of evangelical Hispanics who you know, the
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: fact that Trump says racist things about Mexicans or puts detainees,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: you know, undocumented workers in cages. They think that's less
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: important than the fact that, you know, he supports their
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: views on you know, gay marriage or abortion. Right. It's
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: hard to believe when you say this, But then you
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: look at the way the government is ran. Right you
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: talk about, for instance, you look at these big businesses
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: and you look at their taxes, and they don't pay
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: taxes at all. And then you look at somebody who
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: is just getting by paying as much tax as possible.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: And you look at, for instance, the Pandemic task Force
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: that you created, and you see Trump coming office and
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: he shuts that down. And then you think to yourself, damn,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: if that task force was still around, with so many
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: people have been dead, been killed, would we be able
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: to save lives? We would have saved some lives. Here's
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: one simple statistic. Canada, right right next door. Their death
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: rate is forty percent of what ours is per capita.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: I don't you know. So for every one hundred Americans
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: that have died, only forty Canadians have died. And that's
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: just a matter of their government making better decisions. So
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: the question, though, is is that you still had seventy
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: billion people voting for a government that I would say
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: objectively has failed miserably in handling this basic looking after
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: the American people and keeping him safe. Why is that, Well,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: part of it is because, uh, you know, it turns
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: out politics is not just about policy. It's not just
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: about numbers. It's about the stories that are that are
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: being told. And the story that they're hearing from Fox
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: News and Rush Limbaugh and you know, in some cases
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: inside their churches is that Democrats don't believe in Christmas,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: and you know, you only care about minorities and black
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: folks and are trying to take your stuff and trying
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: to take your guns away, and right there's a whole
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: story that's being told to them, and people end up
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: feeling as if, you know, what, we are under attack
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: that you know, what's always interesting to me is the
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: degree to which we've created, you've seen created in Republican politics,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: this sense that you know, white males are victims, like
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: they're the ones who are like under attack, which obviously
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: doesn't jibe with both history and data and economics. But
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: that's a sincere belief, you know, that's been internalized. That's
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: a story that's being told, and how you unwind that
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: is going to be not something that is done right away.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: It's going to take some time. But we heard some
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: rumors in this book how different because you know, when
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: I hear that, I'm like and it feels like we're
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: catering to white racists all the time. So I wonder
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: how different would the dem strategy be if we lived
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: in a one man, one vote society with no electoral college. Oh,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: I think that would help. Let's take a simple example
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: like the Senate. So Wyoming, which has about half a
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: million people, has the same number of senators as California
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: with thirty three million people. Right, So what that means
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: is is that the US Senate is hugely skewed towards
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: some of these lower population, you know, more rural, much
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: wider states than the big coastal states. And that's a
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: that's a big difference in terms of getting stuff done.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: So so the bottom line is is that our democracy
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: is imperfect. Changing that is going to take a lot
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: of effort because you've got to get over the hump,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: even even just to secure our voting rights. One of
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: the things that you know is still at stake at
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: Georgia is if we controlled the Senate, then it is
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: at least theoretically possible to pass a voting rights bill
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: that stops some of this voter suppression and intimidation that
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: you're still seeing around the country that Republicans have been
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: pretty blatant about just saying, look, we just we're trying
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: to prevent them promoting, but getting to the electoral college,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: getting to the way that the the US Senators skewed
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: that would require us also potentially admitting Washington, DC, and
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico in as states so that you know, which
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: has its own politics. Um, you know, it would mean
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: having states change how they do their electoral counts. I
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: think the Constitution is outdated. Three, they got to get
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: rid of that language. The way that this diverse the
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: country is those people weren't at the table when they
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: wrote the constitution. You're a constitutional lawyer, you got we
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: gotta get Well, there is a way to change it.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: It's called amending the Constitution. The problem is that in
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: order to do that, we have to have such an
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: increase in awareness and active So there's a mechanism to
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: amend the Constitution, but you just have to get everybody
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: involved and focused in it. And this is part of
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: the reason. You know, folks have been teasing me about
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: how you know, man, that's a long book, and you know,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: Michelle's was so much shorter. And you know, there were
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: times where I was tempted to, you know, let me
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: just leave out this explanation or that explanation, because folks,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: you know, they're not gonna necessarily want to read all that.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: But part of what I wanted to do was just say, man,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: this is the stuff that we've got to know if
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: we really want to change stuff, Like you have to
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: know about the filibuster in the Senate. Right, So this
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: is a rule that wasn't even in the Constitution. This
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: is just a rule that the Senate adopted that says
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: you have to have sixty votes to pass legislation, you
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: have to have a supermajority. That even more empowers those
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: little states, right because now they don't even need they
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: don't even need fifty Senate votes, They just need a
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: forty one to basically block anything from getting through the Senate.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: That's what happened to me in my first two years
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: was I was having to get to sixty votes on everything,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: which meant that the number of Senators that were basically
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: representing twenty five percent of the country had a veto
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: power over anything we want to try to get done.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: But most people don't know that. You know, if if
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: you try to explain to the average you brother in
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: the barbershop man, that filibuster, I just I just thought
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: it when people talked for a long time. Yeah. Well,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: but but that thing is which, by the way, had
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: its roots. You know. The thing that it was most
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: used for was to block civil rights legislation and and
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: anti lynch legislation, and that thing is still operating. We
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: have to know how that stuff works in order for
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: us if we really want the kind of changes you're
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: talking about, where taking away some of these barriers to
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: everybody having their voice heard in the government. President Obama
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: has to go guys, so and listen. Congratulations. Eight hundred
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: ninety thousand sold in the first day, which is breaking
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: all kinds of records. So it just shows the power
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: that you still have. You got a little name out here.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: First of all, I think it's because it was packaged
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: with Michelle's book, so you know, and uh, but I
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. You know, you talked about black folks
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: and how they talked about or thought about my presidency.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: I will say, even at our lowest point, the amount
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: of loyalty and folks having our back, knowing you know
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: that we were going through some challenges. Um, the prayer
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: that we got, the you know, the blessings we received
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: from our own um that that is as much as anything,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: what helped sustain us. It is something we never took
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: for granted and we were always grateful. So so what
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: one last question, what do democrats old black people specifically
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: do you think, especially after what we just did in
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: this past election. Well, I look, I think that Democrats
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: and Republicans and America old black folks the same thing
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: that all people are, which is justice and fairness. The
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: differences is that for black folks that justice has been
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: deferred and denied for too long, or it's been half
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: baked and in insufficient. We've never done a full reckoning
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: of what was part of the essential history and building
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: of this country. And I think in concrete terms, you know,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: I don't want to overstate what Joe and Kamala are
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: going to be able to accomplish in this congressional environment
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: with that much resistance, because they're going to be in
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: a position that was even that's probably even tougher than
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: the one that I came in. But what I can
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: say is, I think at the very minimum, everything they
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: put forward, from jobs programs to small business loans, to
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: education to college debt issues, that they have to be
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: mindful that the African American community put faith in them
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: to hear them and to understand what ordinary folks are
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: going through every day, working hard, trying to make it
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: and that and that they shouldn't be making a decision
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: without knowing, all right, this is going to have an
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: impact on some of those struggles to make make people
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: and their families a little more secure, a little bit better.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: It's not going to make things perfect. But if if
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: at the end of Joe Biden's presidency and Commons presidency,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: he too can say what I was able to say,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: which is people's lives are better. You know, at the
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: end of the day, that's what you expect out of politicians.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: They're a morally correct way to do what Trump did,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: which is as far as like you know, catering to
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: his base, you know, doing what he felt was best
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: for his folks. They are morally correct way to do
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: that get more votes. I mean, the truth of the
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: matter has actually Trump hasn't gotten a lot. He's torn
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: some stuff down, he hasn't. There's no law that he's
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: passed that is transformative in this country. He passed the
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: tax cut to give away some more money to rich folks,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: which probably has been doing that for years. But you
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: can't name a piece of legislation that he's done that
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: has actually changed the country, even for his own constituencies.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: So it's always easier to tear down than build up.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: Building up that requires votes, And that's why I do not.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: I will come on this show every time if I
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: hear folks say voting doesn't matter. Yeah, voting will not.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: It's not like winning the lottery. You don't you don't
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: vote and then suddenly everything is great. Voting is more
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: like you know, washing your car or iron in your clothes.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: It's part of the thing you do to make stuff work,
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: and it's part of your responsibility and as part of
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: all of our responsibility, just to make sure that we
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: don't see chaos of the sort that we've just seen
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: over the last four years. All right, guys, well, we
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: appreciate you for joining us. President Barack Obama, thank you, sir,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Thank you so much happy and relaxed. Now,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: you know, I feel pretty good. Happy Thanksgiving everybody all morning.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy and Julia Yee, Charlomagne, the guy,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: we all the breakfast club. Good morning. Now. Usually I
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: do donkey to day right here, but I'm not even
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: supposed to be here today. The only reason I'm here
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: because you know of what you just heard. You know,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: we had to go down to DC on Monday and
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: kick it with Foux Fox. Okay, President Barack Obama. So
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: that conversation and as we have been saying, that book
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: is seven hundred pages if I'm playing. But I read
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: the whole book and it did explain. It did explain
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: a lot, you know, just a lot of things that
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: Barack Obama was trying to do when he was in
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: the White House. You're trying to Turkey. You're trying to Turkey.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: I gotta reset you. It sound like you're trying to Turkey.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't do that in the house. Body, you gotta
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: recent deep in well even Brooklyn or in the back
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: and dump it. Then. Yeah, but the book was over
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: seven hundred pages. I started reading the book and then
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: I mean it was so long. I had to buy
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: the audio. Well, I have a technique, right. My technique
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: is I read when I'm at home, when I'm in
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: the car, listen to the audible. But I'm gonna tell
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: you another technique that I do. I put the speed
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: to one point four and I'm at home. I did
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: that too, and I read the book as well as
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: listen to the person, uh recite the book right, And
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: it was twenty nine hours long of him reciting the
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: book sped up. I think it was like twenty seven.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: I don't remember. I absorbed me when I'm reading. Yo,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: you frying a turkey on the radio. Y'all know thanks
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: Giving as tomorrow, But you have to reset the whole kay,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. Yeah, but yeah, it was so people ask,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how was the room? How many Secret service
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  Speaker 1: people were there? Was Michelle Obama there? Well, it was
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  Speaker 1: in the one of the ballrooms of the hotel, the
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy ball Room. Shout to Crystal, who was the person
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: Crystal and made sure everything came together with Stephanie to
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  Speaker 1: Stepan as well. It wasn't It wasn't too many people there.
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  Speaker 1: I think it may have been maybe two three people
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  Speaker 1: from his staff. I see, maybe two secret service people. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and it was just him. He came in, happy, smiling,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: sat down, He was very polite. He was joking smell cigarettes,
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  Speaker 1: not making that I'm making all of that didn't But
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  Speaker 1: if you read the book, you know he was one
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  Speaker 1: point he was smoking ten cigarettes today. Yeah, until he
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: got on the niggotine gumbo. Yeah, go by the book.
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  Speaker 1: But even even I know behind the scenes when he
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  Speaker 1: was leaving. I asked him because in the book, when
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: you read the book, I'll tell you a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: They here saying that Republicans were making so many rumors
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: up about him. They said that one he wasn't born
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: here in the US. Know that. Another one that he
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: was a drug deal it's a good one. And the
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: last one is that he was a gay male prostitute.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: And you couldn't wait there. And he asked behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 1: which says a lot. But what does it say that
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  Speaker 1: exactly if he was over we haven't even we have
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  Speaker 1: a clipp of it. When I when I did ask,
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: but what then if he said, damn, it's not true,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: and he was so disappointed. I didn't say he had
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: a handful of money. He was your rules right upstairs, right,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: But he was a good sport. He was laughing. He
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: was like, sho, I did it was funny, said Helen,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: finding for they at all. But you know, he was
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: a good guy. It was he didn't take anything personal.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: And hopefully we'll get to speak with him again and
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: maybe interview him again. Oh, it's a part two of
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: the book coming up. Yeah, you know, because it's a
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: promised land only covers the first four years, correct, So
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell you how it ends, but you
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: know it only covers the first four years, right, And
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: we want to take your phone calls. I mean, you
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: heard what forty five minutes I don't long a thane
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  Speaker 1: forty eight minutes of President Barack Obama with the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts? Eight hundred five one? We sure have.
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  Speaker 1: We've come a long way, slot to everybody else with us.
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning, when I was on this radio talking
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: about sucking far to other people's butts, vaginas, thank God
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: for growth and evolutions, sniffing people's chairs, Yeah, we were
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: pretty bad. Yeah, but we changed, all right, No, we grew.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: It's a difference. Okay, see what I'm saying? What what?
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  Speaker 1: What's on your mind? That's on your mind. I would
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: putting up the phone up all you want to open
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  Speaker 1: this morning. We just said we grew up. We just
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: said we did, and you're going back. We did eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred five eight five one five one is the Breakfast
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  Speaker 1: Cloud Morning, the Breakfast Club. It's topic time on the
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  Speaker 1: phone called eight hundred five eight five one oh five.
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  Speaker 1: Want to join it to the discussion with the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about it morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: Charlomagne the guy. We all the Breakfast Club. Now if
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  Speaker 1: you're just joining us, please joining us. Forty eight minute
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  Speaker 1: interview we did with President back Obama. Now listen. It's
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: very important to note. And on December sixth, it to
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: be ten years of the Breakfast Club. Next Sunday, next Sunday.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: We're never here during the week of this White Man's holiday,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: which is Thanksgiving, We're never here. We haven't been here
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: in ten years. We only came in today because we
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: had this conversation with President Barack Obama on Monday that
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: we aired this morning. Yep, what's your thoughts? Shout out
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: to my mama, My mama is the first time my
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: mama don't usually text me this early in the morning
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: unless there's a problem or situation. My Mama said, I
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: just listened to the interview and I'm very proud of you.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: It was great. My aunt v texting me this morning
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: as well, so thank you. She hid the question that
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: you asked him about being a gaymeel prostitute. What you
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: might not have heard that part because that part. But
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: let's not remind Let's go to the phonelines. Hello, who's
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: this this? De Sean Sulk y'all, what's up? The show
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: was going on? What's happening? King? But what did you
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: think of the interview? Bro? So? I thought it was great,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: I really did. I learned a lot of things that
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: I didn't even learn in high school. And I'm definitely
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: about to go grab the book because it's all about education.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: You know, they're not teaching the things that he's saying,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: and then the things that he's written in the book,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: they're not teaching us. So that's the only way that
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: anybody is ever gonna learn any of this stuff self education,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: and they're learning from someone who've been through these things
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: and going through the things and stuff like that. I agree,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, brother. Hello, who's this This? Is TSA, what's
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: going on? Djay Vy, what's up? T shat, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: Happy happy things given happy white Man's holiday T shirt him.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to get you back. So what did you think?
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: What were your thoughts on an interview? I think at first,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: I want to like, you know, President Obama for taking
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  Speaker 1: the time out forty eight minutes. You quite some time
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  Speaker 1: for a man, you know, if his stature and they
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  Speaker 1: just kind of like educating people and Sharlo Man, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you for asking serious questions. You know, sometimes
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: you get like a little flex sometimes, but I think
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  Speaker 1: you kind of like put the gas to them a
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: little bit and forced to, you know, answer questions that
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: the black people wanted to hear. I think it's unfortunate
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: that black people sometimes we don't really educate ourselves. We
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: just go with what it said and we follow it
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: and then we spread it and a lot of times
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: it takes. But you know, I think that Obama could
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: only do so much, like you said, and I think
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: that what he did do was just enough, and we
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: need to also give him, you know, praise. I appreciate
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: him shouting out, you know, God and saying, you know,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: his prayers, just what really got him through. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I really really appreciate President Obama, appreciate both of you guys.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: Have a safe holidays and you know, just love on
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: your family more. Thank you. So we appreciate you so much.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: To Shi, thank you. Hello. Who's this? Rico? Rico? Rico?
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: Woke up? Rilla? Rico Gorilla? Oh woke up Rella? Hashtag
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: it's me again. I was onna want y'all last week. Okay, well,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: what do you think about the Barack Obama interview? Weren't memorable? Rico? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Charlotte man be quietma hearing him. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to say, real quick, my dad met
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: Barack when he was running for senator and he asked
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: for He asked my dad for a newport. Anyway, I'm
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: talking about so you got so. I just wanted to say,
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: I listen to y'all every day, man, y'all really really
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: upgrading every day, y'all getting better. When I heard him
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: on the radio and I turned my car on, I
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: was just like, damn, I can't move. I was like,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: you know, I didn't get out of the car. I
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: sat there the whole time to listen to it. I
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: don't know. Man, you guys are doing great. Thank you, brother.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear. Yeah. I can't wait for
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: y'all edited and put it on YouTube so I can
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: share it. Oh, we're not adding it right now, that's
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: all you mean? Like the clip? Yeah, we post clips
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: on social media. No, grandpa eighty two years old and
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: they listened to you guys. Appreciate that. Y man, I'm
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: gonna get your grandaddy from blue tooth for Christmas. Man. Yeah,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: follow me. Uh, it's old understory five bro bro brot
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  Speaker 1: the man shot out. Click, y'all a brother, love you back.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: Let him give his let me so Patty. Let the
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: man shout out of people. I'm not Patty. Eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: five eight five one on five one. We just played
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: our interview with President Barack Obama forty eight minutes long.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: What were your thoughts? Call us up. It's the Breakfast Club,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: come morning. Call me and your opinions to the breakfast
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  Speaker 1: club topic. Come on. Eight hundred five eight five one
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  Speaker 1: five one wanted everybody iss d j Envy Angela, yee all.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the guy we are the Breakfast Club now
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  Speaker 1: if he just joined us, we're talking about our interview
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: with President Barack Obama. It just aired forty eight minutes. Yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we took we took time out of our
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: busy schedules, you know, to sit down with a fan.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, to sit down with a
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: man who's a fan of the breakfast Club. You know
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. This is listen, this is a giving season, right,
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: we gotta do some sheriff of y'allt stopped for Hello,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: who's this all? This air from Gjersey City? What's up?
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: What's up? Interview with President Barack Obama? Brou Look, I'm
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: coming back from Walmart. Right, I'm parking the car. I
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: turned on the radio real quick. It's it's Obama. I'm
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: like what and you know when the fire play when
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, yo. I loved it, man, I
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  Speaker 1: loved it. Bro. It was so educational. I think we
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: need more of that, Like the part on the Senate,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: like you know, you don't like in us where I
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: live at in Jersey City, to turnout is always so
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: big during the presidential election and then nobody comes out
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: and vote. No other talk. So it was so important.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: And then Angela Anglo you was so sweet when you
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: was when you interjected with the violence against women in
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: the world place where you know the professional environment, that
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: was so sweet. Obama was like, um, the guys, it
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: was pretty much all right under my radar. And then
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: when I stepped away, you got the macheesing my attitude.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: We have dice so much. I just appreciated that interview.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: Bro I really did it. Thank you King, Thank you,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: brother peace Broe. Hello, who's this? Iwer room ending? I
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: us room end? What's happening? Good morning? Good one? I
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: love you, guys, good morning, we love you. Was happening? Hey,
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: Uncle Charlotte. I got seven uncles, and you are by
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: far my best uncle, my favorite. I appreciate that, Thank
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: you very much. Hey, so about about Obama. So I'm
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: a black woman of human resources. Right, so when I'm
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: at work, I gotta turn it down. My family knows
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: when I'm at work, they make me turn it off. Right,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: So I got my my word voice, and then I
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: got I'm at work on my eas at home. I'm
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: isshaw like. I thoroughly enjoyed the interview. Y'all. Y'all are
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: the most dangerous breast of something more in the show,
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: we get it, but I wanted a little bit more Berry.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: I know he's got a legacy to uphold. I get that,
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: but I kind of wanted a little bit more Berry,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: more human side I did. I felt like he stuck
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: with the Obama he you know, he was still professional,
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: he did everything right. We will always lost him, but
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: I just wanted a little bit more. I wanted to
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: know him a little bit more personally. I'm gonna be
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: honest with you. I think that's who he is, like
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: even if you read his book. Don't get me wrong,
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: Like he smokes or he used to smoke. He drinks,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: you know, he curses, But I think for the most part,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: that's who he is. He's like he's that kind of person,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: like he shows up in the world in that way,
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: you know, always get thing to say, the right things,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: moving the right way. I mean, come on, he's a
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: black man high road. Yeah, he's a black man who
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: didn't have no scandal. Think about that. Right. Well, I'm
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: getting his book. I haven't gotten it, but I'm with you, guys.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: I think now I'm getting an audio. Yes, thank you
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: so much, mamma, thank you. I have a good day,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: all right. Well, the full interview you can check out
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: on the Breakfast Club YouTube. Right right now, We'll be
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: playing clips on our personal social media, so you can
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: definitely check those out, but definitely check out the full interview. Man,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: I think that's a great way to in the year.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: You actually, I mean listen, honestly, I got a lot
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: of vacation days. I don't have to come back after
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: this week. You know what I'm saying. I'm just saying.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: I'm just shaying. But no, that was feeling froggy jumped.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Listen. All jokes aside. It was a
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: great conversation. I really enjoyed sitting sitting down with the
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: forty fourth president of the United States of America, President
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: Barack Obama, and I just feel like that was a
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: culmination of everything that we've been doing in the past
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: couple of years as far as like having these conversations
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: with correct these politicians. You know what I'm saying, I
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: think black political culture is some then that I want
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: to I want to continue to push even when it's
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: not an election cycle. You know, everybody gets excited when
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: it's you know, the presidential election, but what about the
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: mid terms, what about local elections? I just think that's
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: something we have to add to our repertoire. Absolutely, And
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: another thing we keep on on saying is also making
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: sure that you know that just because you voted, it's
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: not over. After that, you still have work to do
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: and you have to hold politicians accountable. It's not that
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: you just expect them to hand you things. You have
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: to be part of that process. But absolutely, Well, y'all
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: want to do rumors when we come back. Were you'all
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: ready to get about what you want to do now?
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: I'm whatever. We can leave right now if you want listen.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: I think we should talk about Dave Chappelle and his
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: Unforgiven that he just put up. I think we need
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: to discuss that too. Is along with this after this
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: interview a we'll do that when we come back. Leave
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: right after that, right after the mix. Sorry, so don't move.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: It's a breakfast Clocal morning, a breakfast club. It's about
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: is the rumor report Angela Yee on the breakfast club?
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, Dave Chappelle posted another I don't know
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: if you would call it a stand up, but it's
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: called Unforgiven and it's about twenty minutes long, and he
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: talks about the Chappelle show being on Netflix, but he
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: wasn't getting any money from it, you know, he said
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: that previously. Well, here's what he had to say. I
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: like working for Netflix because when all those bad things
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: happened to me, that company didn't even exist. And when
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: I found out they were streaming Chappelle's show, I was furious.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: So you know what I did. I called them and
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: I told them that this makes me feel bad. And
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: do you want to know what they did? They agreed
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: that they would take it off their platform just so
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: I could feel better. That's why I put Well, Netflix
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: was smart to do that because they don't want to
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: ruin any future business with Dave Chappelle. Absolutely, so that
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: was a smart move, very smart move. Yeah, they're in
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: business with him now, so I was. And it's interesting
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: how he said that he approached them about it and
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: how that happened, and he wants to make sure other
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: people aren't watching it. You know, it's a it's a
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: weird thing because you want people to watch the show
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: and appreciate it, but not when you're not getting money
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: from it. Well, you know, he asked the question and
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: unforgiving that I thought was a very fair question. He said,
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: you know, what they're doing is legal because he did
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: sign the contract. What is it right? That's that's that's
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: that's a great question. All right, here's what he had
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: to say about the boycott. I called my agent, I said,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: is there anything I can do about this show? And
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: he said, no, he wants something done, right. I guess
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: you got to do it yourself. So I'm not going
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: to the agents, coming to my real boss. I'm coming
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: to you. I'm begging you, if you ever liked me,
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: if you ever think there was anything worthwhile about me,
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: I'm begging you, please don't watch that show. I'm not
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: asking the boycott any network, boycott me, boycott Chapelle's show.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: Do not watch it, and let's stay paying me. And
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: you know what, use It's interesting. It does play on
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: other things besides Netflix. You know, it's on HBO Max
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: and they are still streaming the show right now, and
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: it's been on Comedy Central. It's been playing, so you know.
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  Speaker 1: Another thing he said that stood out to me is
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  Speaker 1: when he compared it to a three card Molly, and
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  Speaker 1: he said, you know, he realized he couldn't win at
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  Speaker 1: three card Molly because all of the people he thought
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  Speaker 1: was just innocent. Bystanders were all in on it. And
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  Speaker 1: three Card mon that was three card Molly. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know he's taking trugs whatever whatever they did rob people
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  Speaker 1: in New York. But that's something very important to look
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  Speaker 1: out for. You got to make sure that your lawyer,
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  Speaker 1: all aren't ko who twit each other? Correct? You know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean? Yep? All right? And in good news,
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  Speaker 1: it's like Jeremiah has been taken off of a ventilator
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  Speaker 1: and he's starting to recover. So that's a positive thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. Yes, So let's hope that everything with that
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  Speaker 1: turns out okay. And now let's talk about hit maker
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  Speaker 1: ak a young burg. Now, he was on Drink Champs
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  Speaker 1: and he had some things to say about Notoria from
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  Speaker 1: Power and from three LW and a past relationship that
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  Speaker 1: he says that they had that she said has never happened. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when he was on lip Service, here's what he had
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  Speaker 1: to say to apologize to NATORI and myself I would
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  Speaker 1: say too, we didn't like that interview you just did.
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  Speaker 1: I think you could tell a story, but you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to say who it is. After I did it,
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  Speaker 1: I literally hit norriy like yo, I don't want this out.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to come out. Please edit it. I
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  Speaker 1: will pay for whatever will go on. I felt bad
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  Speaker 1: about the fact. You know what I'm saying after the fact,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean, you know it is my truth, like
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But I didn't. I adn't
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  Speaker 1: want it to come out like that, and I knew
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  Speaker 1: they was gonna clip it up and make it like
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  Speaker 1: a thing like that. My asks them out too, but
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  Speaker 1: they did it anymore. And I apologize once again to her.
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  Speaker 1: I wish it never came out, and I'm sorry about
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  Speaker 1: it for real. He said he asked Nora to take
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  Speaker 1: that out, right, Yeah, he did say that, he asked
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  Speaker 1: Nora to take it out. And actually Nori said he
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: wants to talk about that too, because I guess he
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  Speaker 1: has his own side. After this interview came out, everybody
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  Speaker 1: hit me up. We should call LORI. Yeah, he asked
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  Speaker 1: for that to happen, So he did apologize to Natory,
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  Speaker 1: but it should have never happened. And I said, as
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  Speaker 1: I said before, are in the breakfast club. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: play the actual clip because it is disappointing to hear that.
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  Speaker 1: So there's Notori except his apology. I don't know if
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: he's directly apologized to her, but I think she thought
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  Speaker 1: it was whack and she said that she has never
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  Speaker 1: slept with him. Oh so he lied, that's what she's saying. Yes,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: you said you don't want to play the clip because
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  Speaker 1: it was because why, I just thought it was extremely offensive.
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  Speaker 1: You should call Lorian. All right, Well, that is your
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  Speaker 1: room of report. I'm Angela Yee. All right, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: miss Yee. All right, now when we come back. We
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  Speaker 1: want to call LORI. We got time. We called Nori.
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  Speaker 1: After the mix, we call Nori. Try to get Norion.
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  Speaker 1: Save noriences. So don't move. It's to breakfast club. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: You know my partners. Um Yeah, Conresident Barack Obama for
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  Speaker 1: President Barack Obama, and thank us man, you know what
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  Speaker 1: credit as well. But you know, thank you to Crystal
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: Carson and Stephanie Young for connecting those dots and yes,
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  Speaker 1: making it happen. Thank you the President of Barack Obama. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was. He was like two three minutes late. We
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  Speaker 1: almost decided not to do the interview because he was
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  Speaker 1: running a little late. I was happy. I was happy
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  Speaker 1: His schedule was jam packed though. He was doing a
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  Speaker 1: first guests being Ray J to today and if you're
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  Speaker 1: in President of Barack Obama, life being good. Isn't God good? God,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's me talking to the celebrity or me talking
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  Speaker 1: um check it out. If you want more information, you
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