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FULL SHOW: Druski Signs Deal With Netflix & Announces New Show ‘Collect & Praise’ With Mike Epps + Ashley Allison, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Jasmine Crockett & Byron Donalds Interview · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> Just hilarious. Wake that ass up. Charlamagne Tha God.
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Speaker 1: Peace to the planet. It's Tuesday.
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Speaker 3: How y'all feel out there? I feel blessed, black, and
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Speaker 3: highly favored. Happy to be here. Another day to serve
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Speaker 3: our beautiful listeners. Good morning.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 5: It is election day.
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Speaker 1: November 3rd.
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Speaker 3: I'm telling y'all right now, I don't know what's going
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Speaker 3: to happen on this radio this morning, okay?
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Speaker 5: A little bit of everybody might be checking in.
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Speaker 1: Who knows?
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Speaker 6: Yep.
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Speaker 5: You know, we are here to be of service.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people will be calling in, and like
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Speaker 1: I said before they stepped in, today is very important
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Speaker 1: for a lot of different cities and states. So I
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Speaker 1: know for Mississippi, I know Texas, I know Nevada, I
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Speaker 1: know Georgia, even New York City, so New York State.
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Speaker 5: I mean, the whole country. You got a chance to
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Speaker 5: get the whole house back. That is right.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: If you don't like the way things have been going,
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Speaker 3: you know, if you think that there needs to be
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Speaker 3: some more checks and balances, even though I don't have
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Speaker 3: no faith in them to keep checks and balances, but
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 5: It feels good to say.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think I just hope these politicians just
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Speaker 1: really understand how people feel.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And I know for a lot of them, it's a
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Speaker 1: politician game. It's a power game. But at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day is people are hurt. Like people can't
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Speaker 1: afford groceries. Gas is expensive. Electric bills are high as hell. Healthcare, daycare.
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Speaker 1: There's so much out there that people really care about.
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Speaker 1: And I know for some it's, oh, he's Trump related
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Speaker 1: and this one does this. But people just care about
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Speaker 1: their necessities.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: Making sure that they're okay. And that's what people want.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: It should be exciting because 435 seats are for re-election.
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Speaker 9: How often do we get that chance?
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Speaker 3: I have no idea. I don't even know if that
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Speaker 3: number is... I don't know nothing about that number. I
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Speaker 3: just know that Congress is up for grabs.
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Speaker 10: That's all I know.
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Speaker 4: It is.
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Speaker 8: All 435 seats, Sharla, for real. If I'm saying it,
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Speaker 8: it's true. You said 500 something.
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Speaker 11: No, 435.
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Speaker 9: No, 435. She said 435. For real.
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Speaker 3: Just look it up.
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Speaker 1: Get on there.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, man. Angela Rice said you don't have
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Speaker 3: the range to be talking about it.
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Speaker 10: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no. She didn't say that.
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Speaker 1: She didn't say that. She didn't say that. She didn't
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Speaker 1: say that. She didn't say that. And speaking of.
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Speaker 5: She might be joining us this morning, too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's doing the People's Election Night tonight, from 8
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Speaker 1: to midnight, where she's going to be breaking down different states,
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Speaker 1: different cities, and she's going to be doing it live,
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Speaker 1: and she's inviting you guys out. So you can just
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Speaker 1: hit up her page, and if you want to join
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Speaker 1: her and everybody that she has coming, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: be pulling up. I know Fat Joe's going to be
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Speaker 1: pulling up. I know Bakari Sellers is pulling up.
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Speaker 5: Okay, and there's somebody that knows something about politics.
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Speaker 3: Bakari. Yeah. Buchanan.
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Speaker 12: Buchanan.
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Speaker 5: Okay, name somebody else.
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Speaker 1: Ed Gordon will be pulling up.
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Speaker 3: Oh, definitely. OG Ed Gordon.
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Speaker 5: He definitely knows something about politics.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 13: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Joe.
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Speaker 5: No, who else?
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 5: Who else?
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Speaker 9: Who else, yo?
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Speaker 1: Janai Nelson will be pulling up.
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Speaker 3: Yes, definitely. For sure.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Gillum. Kevin Ortega. Rojas will be joining.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: Okay, listen, man.
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Speaker 3: Ashley Allison will be joining us this morning, okay? Ashley
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Speaker 3: Allison will be here on Breakfast Club this morning. And
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Speaker 3: some other, but there's a lot.
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Speaker 5: Of people checking in.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people will be checking in this morning.
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Speaker 1: Let's get the show cracking. Of course, Front Page News
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Speaker 1: is up next. And you can get it off your chest.
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Speaker 1: So you can call us up right now.
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Speaker 13: 800-585-1051.
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Speaker 1: I can tell you hot you ran up here.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: I can tell. What are we starting the show with?
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Speaker 1: You want to start with Beyonce Freedom?
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Speaker 13: Or we got Tim's.
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Speaker 1: You can pick which one. Or what about Kendrick?
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Speaker 9: We're going to be all right.
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Speaker 5: I don't know who we are.
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Speaker 13: Oh, all right.
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Speaker 9: Well, let's do Beyonce Freedom.
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Speaker 1: Or Common to People.
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Speaker 5: Play Beyonce Freedom, man.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the Freedom.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, Kendrick on that, too.
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Speaker 3: I like that.
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Speaker 9: I just want to hear some Kendrick.
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Speaker 1: There we go. It's the Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 7: Good morning.
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Speaker 13: Morning, everybody.
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Speaker 1: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are
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Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 3: Election Day.
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Speaker 5: Go out there and do your civic duty today, damn it.
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Speaker 1: That's right. Let's get in some front page news. Start
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Speaker 1: off with Monday Night Football. The Bears beat the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: last night 34-17. The Bears, they're 6-2 in the season
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Speaker 1: so far.
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Speaker 13: Good morning, baby.
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Speaker 9: Good morning, everyone. How y'all doing this morning?
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Speaker 1: Good.
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Speaker 5: Peace, Mimi Brown.
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Speaker 14: Foreign Page News is sponsored by Morgan & Morgan, America's
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Speaker 14: largest injury law firm. So we start this morning with
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Speaker 14: Election Day across America. Voters are headed to the polls
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Speaker 14: to decide who controls Congress for the next two years
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Speaker 14: with the governor, state, and local leaders all up for grabs. Affordability,
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Speaker 14: of course, is a major issue from grocery to housing
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Speaker 14: to health care. And with the war in Iran, President
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Speaker 14: Trump's policies are weighing on voters today. And this election
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Speaker 14: could make history.
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Speaker 9: For black political leadership.
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Speaker 14: In 250 years, Americans have elected just three black governors. Today,
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Speaker 14: eight black candidates are running for governor across eight states,
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Speaker 14: five Democrats and three Republicans. They include Keisha Lance Bottoms
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Speaker 14: in Georgia, Byron Donald in Florida, John James in Michigan.
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Speaker 14: Lisa DeMuth in Minnesota, Aaron Ford in Nevada, Jermaine Johnson
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Speaker 14: in South Carolina, and Maryland Governor Wes Moore, who is
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Speaker 14: running for re-election.
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Speaker 15: Yes.
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Speaker 14: And in Wisconsin, Milwaukee County Executive David Crawley, he is
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Speaker 14: hoping to become the state's first black governor. I spoke
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Speaker 14: with Crawley this morning about what this day could mean.
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Speaker 9: Let's listen.
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Speaker 13: We've never elected a black governor.
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Speaker 16: And, you know, while the historical nature is not lost
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Speaker 16: on me, I'm not running, you know, to make history.
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Speaker 16: You know, if I'm going to make any type of history,
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Speaker 16: it's making child poverty history. It's making housing and security history.
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Speaker 16: My job is to make sure that we're delivering for
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Speaker 16: the six million people who call this state home, making
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Speaker 16: sure they can afford their groceries, making sure that, you know, kids,
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Speaker 16: no matter what zip code they live in, who they
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Speaker 16: love or what their last name may be, they feel
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Speaker 16: safe in their.
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Speaker 3: In their education system.
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Speaker 16: And so, you know, my job is to make sure
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Speaker 16: that when I see that glass ceiling that we shatter it.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 16: And make sure that we bring that ladder to allow
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Speaker 16: others to come behind us. And so I'm focusing on
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Speaker 16: making sure that when I walk through that door, becoming
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Speaker 16: the 47th governor of the state of Wisconsin, the first
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Speaker 16: African-American elected to this seat, that I am able to
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Speaker 16: inspire and encourage other young people who look like me,
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Speaker 16: that they can dream big and do whatever they want
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Speaker 16: to do.
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Speaker 3: I mean, even if guys like him don't win, I mean,
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Speaker 3: they've definitely energized and inspired people, right?
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Speaker 5: Because, you know, a lot of people are going out
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Speaker 5: to vote today.
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Speaker 3: And I don't know if it's necessarily a vote of
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Speaker 3: confidence in Democrats or simply a rejection of Donald Trump
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Speaker 3: and his policies. I think it's, you know, a rejection
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Speaker 3: of Donald Trump and his policy. But I think there
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Speaker 3: is some Democrats that they believe in, like, you know,
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Speaker 3: that young man who just spoke. Or like Dr. Abdul
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Speaker 3: Syed or Angie Nixon in Florida or Tallarico in Texas.
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Speaker 5: Like, those are the ones that are, you know, I
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Speaker 5: think are building the energy.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 14: And you can catch my full interview with David Crowley
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Speaker 14: on my podcast front page with Mimi Brown on the
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Speaker 14: Black Effect podcast network. And for voters in Wisconsin, they
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Speaker 14: allow same day registration. So even if you're not registered yet,
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Speaker 14: you can go to your polling place and register today
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Speaker 14: and vote. So you'll just need a proof of ID
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Speaker 14: and just where you live. You have to register where
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Speaker 14: you live. But so you can do that if you
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Speaker 14: have not done so yet. Do we have time for
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Speaker 14: one more?
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Speaker 1: Sure.
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Speaker 9: Okay. And I know we just talked about Wisconsin, but
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Speaker 9: the control for the U.S. Senate is up. Democrats are
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Speaker 9: headed into Election Day.
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Speaker 14: Char, you just touched on some of those, but Democrats
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Speaker 14: lead in five of the seven closely watched Senate races today.
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Speaker 14: according to new polling from New York Times and the
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Speaker 14: Siena University. The biggest lead is in Michigan, where Democrat
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Speaker 14: Abdul Syed is ahead of Republican Mike Rogers by 11 points.
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Speaker 14: In Texas, Democrat James Tallarico, he's leading Republican Kim Paxton.
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Speaker 14: And in Kansas, Adam Hamilton is ahead of the Republican
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Speaker 14: challenger there, Roger Marshall, by five points. Now, Kansas, they
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Speaker 14: haven't elected a Democrat in the U.S.
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Speaker 9: Senate since 1932. Here's Adam Hamilton. Hamilton on what's at stake.
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Speaker 17: And I think there's a whole lot of people across
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Speaker 17: the state who feel hope. Every campaign event I go to,
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Speaker 17: there's somebody comes up to me in tears and just says,
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Speaker 17: you've given me hope again. And I feel really grateful
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Speaker 17: for that. But I actually think we're going to win.
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Speaker 17: So I think we have a good chance to do
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Speaker 17: something that hasn't happened in 94 years.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, 94 years. So Democrats, they're leading in Maine and Ohio.
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Speaker 14: And Alaska and Iowa, they're much closer. They're within the
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Speaker 14: margin of error. So we will see what that looks like.
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Speaker 5: Them polls mean nothing if you don't take your ass out.
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Speaker 9: There and actually go vote.
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Speaker 1: Gotta get out there and vote.
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Speaker 3: Everybody who's already done early voting, but you still gotta
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Speaker 3: go out there and vote today if you haven't.
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Speaker 13: Absolutely.
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Speaker 14: So 57 million people have done early voting.
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Speaker 9: That's a lot for the midterm, right?
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Speaker 13: 57 million early.
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Speaker 9: Damn. Yeah, that's a lot. So people are serious. They
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Speaker 9: want to make sure they make their voice heard.
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Speaker 5: The Democratic Party needs to thank God for Dr.
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Speaker 3: Abdul-Sayed. They need to thank God for people like Angie Nixon,
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Speaker 3: because I don't know if.
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Speaker 5: they would have any energy if it wasn't for people
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Speaker 5: like that.
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Speaker 18: All right.
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Speaker 14: And as we wrap up, guys, gas prices remain a
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Speaker 14: big issue today as well.
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Speaker 9: It's the highest election day.
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Speaker 14: Gas prices are the highest of any election day ever
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Speaker 14: in U.S.
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Speaker 4: History.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, stupid.
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Speaker 9: No, just, you know, as we keep that in mind.
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Speaker 1: $ 40 really does nothing. Like, I have to move up
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Speaker 1: from $ 40 to $ 60 now. Because I'm the king of
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Speaker 1: just putting $ 40 in my tank. But it does nothing.
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Speaker 1: It absolutely positively does nothing. It's disrespectful.
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Speaker 9: What does it do for you to put $ 40 or
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Speaker 9: $ 60 in your tank?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I've been doing it since I was
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Speaker 1: a kid. It just makes me feel like I'm not
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Speaker 1: spending as much money. You know, $ 40 on three, $ 40 on.
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Speaker 5: Yo, you know what's crazy?
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Speaker 3: When I was home in South Carolina a couple weeks ago,
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Speaker 3: I had rented a Wagoneer. You know, you got to
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Speaker 3: fill it up before you get back to the rental
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Speaker 3: car place. I was like, when is it going to stop?
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Speaker 6: Damn.
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Speaker 5: It was like at 100 plus. I'm like, when is
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Speaker 5: this going to stop?
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Speaker 13: I love those shirts.
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Speaker 5: Like, it ain't going to stop?
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 14: Well, that hour was sponsored by Morgan & Morgan. No injured,
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Speaker 13: All right.
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Speaker 1: Now, get on the phone lines right now.
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Speaker 11: 800-585-1051.
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Speaker 1: Would love to talk to you if you're heading to
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Speaker 1: the polls this morning. I know the polls open up
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Speaker 1: at 6 a.m. Would love to talk to you if
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Speaker 1: you're online, if you're on your way there. Head to
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Speaker 1: them polls, baby.
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Speaker 5: I like the way Envy say it. It just sounds
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Speaker 5: nasty when Envy say it.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 9: That's why my mind went there.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, y'all better put.
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Speaker 13: On those heels.
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Speaker 5: The polls open it up for you. Or is the
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Speaker 5: poll opening you up? Which one is it?
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Speaker 3: Don't it just sound crazy when you say it?
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Speaker 1: What is wrong with you? Just say go vote.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You say go vote. I want to talk to people.
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Speaker 1: If you're going to vote.
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Speaker 5: Yes, please.
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Speaker 3: God damn.
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Speaker 1: Or head into the polls. Call us up. Nah, don't
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Speaker 1: say that.
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Speaker 3: It's a new day.
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Speaker 1: This is your time to get it off your chest.
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Speaker 1: Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed.
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Speaker 3: It's time to get up and get something. Call up now.
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Speaker 1: 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hey, Trav,
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Speaker 1: your Cowboys lost.
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Speaker 3: Good morning.
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Speaker 18: Hey, Emory, don't be starting with me this morning.
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Speaker 4: I said it and what?
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 18: Right now, we should be talking about football.
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Speaker 3: We should be talking about voting.
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Speaker 1: Exactly.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I heard you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but now you want to talk about voting.
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Speaker 13: We should be talking about voting.
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Speaker 18: We should be talking about Cowboys right now.
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Speaker 13: Okay.
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Speaker 3: I'm with you.
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Speaker 1: Nobody's talking about the Cowboys right now, but continue on.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Jeff.
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Speaker 13: What's up, Jeff?
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Speaker 3: What's up, baby? I'm chilling. I'm chilling, man.
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Speaker 18: I just wanted to call up here and say that,
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Speaker 18: you know, the polls open at 7 a.m. You know, people.
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Speaker 13: Be lying about voting for some reason.
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Speaker 18: We got to start shaming people who saying that they
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Speaker 18: voting and they not going out there and actually voting.
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Speaker 18: They be finding the stickers on the ground and posting
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Speaker 18: them up on these stories acting like they voted.
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Speaker 3: Actually go out there and vote today, y'all. From 7 a.m.
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Speaker 3: to 8 p.m. Make sure y'all go vote. You heard
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Speaker 3: the stat Mimi just said just now, though. Early voting
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Speaker 3: has surged past 54 million.
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Speaker 1: That's amazing.
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Speaker 6: That's crazy.
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Speaker 3: More than 54 million people have cast early voting ballots?
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Speaker 5: That's wild.
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Speaker 18: Hey, Sean, I'm going to hate on you this morning
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Speaker 18: a little bit.
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Speaker 1: It's impossible.
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Speaker 5: I'm too handsome.
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Speaker 18: No, so normally you be having like, you know, I
11:43
Speaker 18: didn't like your Halloween costume this year. I hated it.
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Speaker 18: Next year, put them little form-fitting suits on, all right?
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Speaker 18: Going to squeeze with some little tights. Make sure to
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Speaker 18: form against your body. Don't be wearing a little baggy
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Speaker 18: suit no more, okay?
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Speaker 3: First of all, first of all, the suit wasn't baggy.
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Speaker 3: I was just peeking behind a tree because I was
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Speaker 3: a shy.
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Speaker 5: Gray alien, okay?
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Speaker 3: But I had the whole form-fitting space suit on. You
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Speaker 3: ain't even peep, you know what I'm saying? And I
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Speaker 3: did that on purpose. Don't be acting sad.
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Speaker 12: Show that body.
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Speaker 3: I did that because of perverts like you, okay, trying
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Speaker 3: to reduce me to my body, treating me the way
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump treated Nicki Minaj, okay?
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Speaker 5: I am more than my ass.
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Speaker 9: Turn around and show that ass.
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Speaker 1: You know, Trav, you know, somebody called yesterday and said
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Speaker 1: he might want to get it cracking with you. Shout
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Speaker 1: out my boy Carter, man.
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Speaker 16: Carter, yes.
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Speaker 9: Let's call it Instagram.
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Speaker 3: Say it again, boo.
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Speaker 1: You want to call it Instagram.
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Speaker 3: Let's call it Instagram.
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Speaker 9: I'm going to send it to you. I'm going to
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Speaker 9: send it to you because I got to find it again.
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Speaker 9: He in my DMs, but I got to find it.
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Speaker 3: You too.
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Speaker 5: Why are you so horny?
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Speaker 9: He wanted you.
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Speaker 3: He's not horny.
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Speaker 12: I'm not horny.
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Speaker 18: First of all, your boy get on a bitch like that.
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Speaker 3: To pee pee.
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Speaker 8: Horny.
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Speaker 3: You bricked up right now. I'm not horny. Why you
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Speaker 3: sitting there with a bricked up, you bricked up on
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Speaker 3: our phone this morning.
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Speaker 13: Ain't nobody bricked up on the phone.
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Speaker 3: Make sure y'all go vote today, all right?
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Speaker 10: Goodbye.
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Speaker 3: You bricked up while voting.
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Speaker 1: You headed to the polls, ain't you?
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Speaker 3: Goodbye.
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Speaker 9: I got a Sam Carter IG. They're not one of them.
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Speaker 9: They just want each other.
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Speaker 1: Hello, who's this?
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Speaker 9: Hey, what's up? This is Tanya from Omaha.
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Speaker 1: Hey, Tanya from Omaha. Come on and get it off
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Speaker 1: your chest.
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Speaker 18: Hey, what up, Jess?
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Speaker 2: What up, Charlamagne?
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Speaker 3: What up, Mimi?
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Speaker 19: Lauren, if you there.
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Speaker 12: Hey, girl.
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Speaker 4: Mimi, what's up? What's up?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, no, I just wanted to put the word out
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Speaker 9: that today, I do this every year.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I call y'all all the.
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Speaker 9: Time about the election stuff and how corrupt Omaha is.
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Speaker 18: But I'm out here.
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Speaker 9: I'm about to give some free.
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Speaker 1: Rides out to the polls all day.
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Speaker 12: It starts at 9 o'clock.
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Speaker 5: That's what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 1: I love that.
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Speaker 9: I got my Jeep 2020 gassed up.
13:32
Speaker 19: We ready to go.
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Speaker 6: Period.
13:34
Speaker 9: I put a message out on Facebook.
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Speaker 12: I want everybody to know about it. I'm giving free
13:38
Speaker 12: smoke-friendly rides.
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Speaker 11: Period.
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Speaker 4: Period.
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Speaker 3: You said smoke-friendly?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we got to blaze up and go to these polls.
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Speaker 1: He said, yeah, smoke-friendly.
13:46
Speaker 5: And weed is legal in Omaha?
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Speaker 14: No, but you ain't got snitch, is you?
13:50
Speaker 9: I mean, sure.
13:51
Speaker 1: Whatever gives them the vote, baby.
13:55
Speaker 3: Do your thing.
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Speaker 5: Do your thing, shorty.
13:57
Speaker 3: Hey, we about to hit the polls high.
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Speaker 19: We about to get these votes in.
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Speaker 1: And we're going to have a high turnout. Period.
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Speaker 11: Period.
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Speaker 3: I told people, man, I've been telling people, I feel
14:08
Speaker 3: the energy.
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Speaker 5: Like, I feel, like, people are energized.
14:11
Speaker 3: When you see early voting has surged past 54 million,
14:14
Speaker 3: you see, you know, shorty out in Omaha getting high,
14:17
Speaker 3: taking two people.
14:17
Speaker 13: To the polls.
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Speaker 3: I feel it. I love that.
14:19
Speaker 5: People out there.
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14:24
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14:25
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14:27
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14:29
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Speaker 1: Not just me, I'm with the culture feeling. Hello, who's this?
14:43
Speaker 4: Good morning. This is Nicole Wallace calling from Caseyville, Illinois.
14:47
Speaker 4: How are you guys?
14:48
Speaker 5: This is Nicole from Caseyville.
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Speaker 13: How are you?
14:50
Speaker 1: Good morning.
14:51
Speaker 4: And Jess, this is Nikki Backers from Instagram.
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Speaker 9: Hey, girl.
14:57
Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm calling this morning because me and my husband,
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Speaker 4: Debbie and Wallace, we love going to vote together. It's
15:04
Speaker 4: just a thing that we like to share because, I mean,
15:06
Speaker 4: there's so much. going on in the world. And we
15:11
Speaker 4: just really try to finagle our schedule with him working
15:15
Speaker 4: nights and me working days so that we can vote together.
15:18
Speaker 4: And we've been doing this for years now when we
15:20
Speaker 4: were able to get out there and vote together. And
15:23
Speaker 4: I just call it to encourage everybody that's listening, you know,
15:27
Speaker 4: if you've already voted, great, but to make sure that
15:29
Speaker 4: you get out there and vote. And if I could say,
15:33
Speaker 4: when you guys had a lot of candidates come on
15:35
Speaker 4: the show, the one candidate that stood out to me
15:38
Speaker 4: was the candidate running for the governor of South Carolina.
15:41
Speaker 5: My man, Jermaine Johnson, man. Big Jermaine, Dr.
15:44
Speaker 9: Jermaine Johnson.
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Speaker 4: Some of the things he was saying, like, you know,
15:49
Speaker 4: using the money to try to get the roads fixed,
15:53
Speaker 4: to try to get rid of property taxes, because I
15:56
Speaker 4: have always hated the fact that when you pay off
16:00
Speaker 4: something and you're still paying the government over and over
16:03
Speaker 4: and over... And if you miss a month or whatever,
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Speaker 4: they can come take it after all this shit. I
16:09
Speaker 4: really feel like that is such an unfair practice, you know?
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Speaker 3: Well, listen, you know, Dr. Jermaine Johnson, as well as
16:17
Speaker 3: Annie Andrews in South Carolina, she's running for senator. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you know, they've been saying some things that have been
16:21
Speaker 3: resonating with a lot of people. They've had record-breaking early
16:24
Speaker 3: voter turnout in South Carolina. I think, damn near a
16:26
Speaker 3: million people, if not a little bit more than a million,
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Speaker 3: have voted early in South Carolina, so.
16:32
Speaker 5: Who knows?
16:32
Speaker 1: And I know, I know, I'm listening.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, sir.
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Speaker 4: What'd you say?
16:36
Speaker 1: No, I said, no, you're absolutely right. And that happens
16:38
Speaker 1: a lot. You think about it. Like you pay off
16:39
Speaker 1: your house for 30 years of a mortgage. You pay
16:41
Speaker 1: that house off and they still require you to pay taxes.
16:45
Speaker 1: Your family member passes away and you miss a month
16:47
Speaker 1: or two in them taxes. And now they take that property.
16:51
Speaker 1: That's not right. There should be a limit of how
16:54
Speaker 1: long you have to pay that. Cause it's not right. Like,
16:56
Speaker 1: so you really don't ever, ever own your home. You
16:58
Speaker 1: have to continue to pay for the rest of your life.
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Speaker 1: And that's not right. I'm with you.
17:02
Speaker 4: And it's not. And that's just another way for them
17:05
Speaker 4: to take generational.
17:06
Speaker 18: Wealth from us.
17:07
Speaker 1: You know?
17:09
Speaker 4: But I just wanted to say real quick, I know
17:11
Speaker 4: I live in Illinois, but that race, I'm going to
17:13
Speaker 4: be watching. And hopefully I can get back through and
17:17
Speaker 4: we can discuss it.
17:18
Speaker 3: Okay.
17:18
Speaker 4: Thank you, guys.
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Speaker 9: No problem. Thank you.
17:20
Speaker 3: Have a good one.
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Speaker 11: All right.
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Speaker 12: All right, bye.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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17:41
Speaker 4: Good morning, Lauren.
17:42
Speaker 3: Good morning, guys. Top dog love.
17:44
Speaker 9: Hey, y'all. Good morning.
17:45
Speaker 1: Lauren looks so shocked. Charlamagne gave her a hug and
17:47
Speaker 1: didn't say anything after. Yeah, why would you hug me
17:48
Speaker 1: this morning? Oh, my God. She was looking like she
17:50
Speaker 1: was almost passed out.
17:50
Speaker 9: He feel handsome this morning.
17:52
Speaker 3: That's a lecture. Oh, okay.
17:53
Speaker 1: You got your haircut yesterday?
17:54
Speaker 5: First of all, I can't show you love?
17:56
Speaker 9: It's kind of early. I don't know. You got to
17:57
Speaker 9: warm up.
17:58
Speaker 5: That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy.
18:01
Speaker 15: By the time we get to the positive note at
18:02
Speaker 15: 9 a.m., I might get a little, you know what
18:04
Speaker 15: I'm saying?
18:04
Speaker 5: Salute to my guy, Bishop Fulton in South Carolina. He
18:08
Speaker 5: prayed for you last night.
18:09
Speaker 3: Oh that's nice no he did he sent me a
18:11
Speaker 3: text message because he saw.
18:12
Speaker 15: Thank god for the bishop and thank god for all
18:15
Speaker 15: of that stuff but shop ain't gonna tell him to
18:17
Speaker 15: pray for my hair.
18:18
Speaker 3: That's not what happened he's older so i guess on
18:21
Speaker 3: the social media sites he'd be on her praying for
18:23
Speaker 3: skillet baby just got.
18:24
Speaker 5: To him and so he was just like i don't.
18:27
Speaker 3: Know who that young lady is but you tell her
18:29
Speaker 3: she's a you know god got his hand on her
18:31
Speaker 3: life blah blah blah this and.
18:32
Speaker 9: That and then what you say I said I agreed
18:35
Speaker 9: with him. And then what?
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Speaker 15: And he ain't going to say she's having issues with
18:39
Speaker 15: her hair growing.
18:40
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
18:40
Speaker 9: And he ain't going to say tell her to fast
18:41
Speaker 9: for hair growth. I was already thinking about.
18:45
Speaker 1: Doing a little fast.
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Speaker 5: He gave you a solution and a script ship.
18:49
Speaker 9: He said mark 929.
18:50
Speaker 21: Damn.
18:50
Speaker 1: And he said unto them.
18:52
Speaker 3: and he said unto them this kind can come forth
18:55
Speaker 3: by nothing but by prayer and fasting lauren go on
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Speaker 3: a hair grow back fast fasting works she can call
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Speaker 3: me and my wife and we will pray with her
19:03
Speaker 3: together we have seen the hands of the lord work
19:06
Speaker 3: miracles in people's lives she said please tell lauren the
19:10
Speaker 3: supernatural is about oh my god i.
19:12
Speaker 15: Know I feel like he AI'd that response.
19:15
Speaker 9: Covered by the blood for the bald spot is insane.
19:17
Speaker 1: And it's not even a bald spot no more. It
19:19
Speaker 1: don't even, it's not real. She sprayed it on. But
19:22
Speaker 1: now you got, what, what, you got the latest.
19:24
Speaker 5: What we talking about?
19:25
Speaker 9: I know you not talking about spray on.
19:26
Speaker 1: I got no spray on. I know you not talking
19:28
Speaker 1: about spray on. I agree with you. I know you
19:31
Speaker 1: not talking about spray on.
19:32
Speaker 9: I do have the latest coming up. I do got
19:35
Speaker 9: the latest coming up.
19:36
Speaker 15: Speaking of pastors, Drewski just signed a huge deal with Netflix.
19:41
Speaker 15: We're going to get a new series from him. I said,
19:43
Speaker 15: speaking of pastors, y'all probably wondering why I said that.
19:44
Speaker 15: I'll explain in the latest.
19:46
Speaker 3: Drop one of clues bombs yes I told y'all I
19:49
Speaker 3: told y'all they were going back that bring trucks up
19:51
Speaker 3: the way the business.
19:52
Speaker 9: Is moving around the creators right now it's an exciting time.
19:59
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you.
20:01
Speaker 5: Don't get everybody too much hope.
20:02
Speaker 1: It's the breakfast club.
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Speaker 3: Morning, everybody.
20:04
Speaker 1: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
20:07
Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club.
20:08
Speaker 3: Can I salute Taste Cheesesteak Bar in Philadelphia? Last week
20:11
Speaker 3: when we was in Philly, Taste Cheesesteak Bar pulled up
20:14
Speaker 3: with the best.
20:15
Speaker 5: Cheesesteaks in Philadelphia. Envy didn't get one.
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Speaker 3: No. You didn't get one? No, he left.
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Speaker 9: I see them on the way in.
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Speaker 1: I see them on the way in. I was like, yo,
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Speaker 1: can I get my cheesesteak?
20:21
Speaker 5: Salute to my guy, Kev.
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Speaker 1: He was like, I don't know which one is yours.
20:23
Speaker 13: And I was like.
20:23
Speaker 9: You violent.
20:24
Speaker 3: Shoot, man.
20:24
Speaker 9: I had a salmon cheesesteak.
20:25
Speaker 2: Me too.
20:26
Speaker 1: That's my favorite one. That salmon cheesesteak was like that.
20:28
Speaker 1: That was probably mine.
20:29
Speaker 13: Oh, man.
20:29
Speaker 3: So make sure y'all check out Tay's Cheesesteak Bar, man.
20:31
Speaker 3: They're on 1809 JFK Boulevard in Philadelphia, man.
20:35
Speaker 5: Salute to Kev.
20:36
Speaker 1: Salute to Taylor's mama.
20:37
Speaker 5: Mama G.
20:38
Speaker 1: Mama G. Taylor is one of the producers. She made
20:40
Speaker 1: chocolate chip cookies.
20:41
Speaker 9: Oh, my gosh. Pound cake and sweet potato pie.
20:43
Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. Them chocolate chip cookies were so damn good.
20:45
Speaker 1: What'd it do?
20:46
Speaker 3: Where y'all been?
20:47
Speaker 13: What'd it do?
20:48
Speaker 1: It melts in your mouth. Why did you.
20:51
Speaker 9: Pause when you did that?
20:53
Speaker 3: Don't be disrespectful to me and her husband, okay? But
20:56
Speaker 3: second of all, where y'all been?
20:58
Speaker 1: She cooked. She gave me some before. That's why she
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Speaker 1: held them for me.
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Speaker 11: Oh, okay.
21:01
Speaker 1: Then she gave me four or maybe five. I ate
21:03
Speaker 1: all five in 30 seconds. But anyway, let's get to
21:04
Speaker 1: the latest one, Lauren. Talk to me!
21:30
Speaker 15: So yesterday, guys, Netflix announced, Netflix and Drewskit announced that
21:34
Speaker 15: they are going to be doing a multi-year deal to
21:37
Speaker 15: develop and produce original series starting December 1st. Now, they're
21:42
Speaker 15: going to start with something that he has called Collect
21:44
Speaker 15: and Praise. So this is going to be an extension
21:46
Speaker 15: of his super viral pastor character that he does.
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Speaker 9: And it's going to be starring Mike Epps.
21:52
Speaker 15: Now, in the log line of this is Faith Comes
21:54
Speaker 15: Second to Fortune as money hungry megachurch pastor played by
21:56
Speaker 15: Drewski and his unpredictable deacon, Mike Epps, scheme their way
21:59
Speaker 15: through a scandal, chaos and controversy in a comedic episodic series.
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Speaker 9: Congratulations to you.
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Speaker 5: Dropping the clues bombs for Drewski.
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Speaker 1: That's amazing.
22:09
Speaker 3: Here's the thing that I love about Drewski. Drewski was
22:11
Speaker 3: going to do that with or without Netflix. So, you know,
22:14
Speaker 3: only thing you can do when you're one of these
22:16
Speaker 3: companies is back up the brink truck and jump on
22:18
Speaker 3: the creative train that Drewski has created.
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Speaker 5: Because that show premieres on December 1st.
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Speaker 6: Yep.
22:24
Speaker 9: And you know what's crazy?
22:25
Speaker 15: There's been small hints of this because remember when he
22:29
Speaker 15: did the Diary of a CEO, he talked about the
22:30
Speaker 15: bidding war that was happening between these networks or streamers, right?
22:33
Speaker 5: And everybody.
22:35
Speaker 1: Yes, and everybody.
22:36
Speaker 5: It wasn't just Netflix and YouTube. Every streamer wanted Drewski.
22:39
Speaker 15: Yeah, and then there was another feature that we talked
22:41
Speaker 15: about up here where he was actually on set of
22:44
Speaker 15: this Collect and Praise series. And I was like, well,
22:47
Speaker 15: that's kind of different because normally we don't know the
22:49
Speaker 15: names of his things before they drop, they just come.
22:51
Speaker 15: But they mentioned it in the article. So yeah, this
22:53
Speaker 15: dropping December 1st. And then also this weekend, he has SNL.
22:57
Speaker 15: He's going to be hosting SNL.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, November 4th, right? November 7th. Oh, it's 7th. November 7th.
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Speaker 1: Yes, this weekend.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, November 7th. Yeah, so congratulations. I do have some
23:06
Speaker 15: of the trailer. It is more visual.
23:08
Speaker 9: I will say that. Do y'all want to play some
23:10
Speaker 9: of the trailer that.
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Speaker 1: He dropped yesterday? No, you got to see it.
23:12
Speaker 15: You can go and check that out on Netflix's, all
23:14
Speaker 15: of their platforms and all of Drewski's platforms as well, too.
23:17
Speaker 3: And you know why Drewski's going to continue to win?
23:19
Speaker 3: Because he's going to continue to keep the main thing
23:21
Speaker 3: the main thing. So even though he got the Netflix
23:23
Speaker 3: and everything else, I guarantee you he's still going to
23:25
Speaker 3: be putting sketches out.
23:25
Speaker 9: Social media.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
23:27
Speaker 9: Bless an audience.
23:29
Speaker 15: And also Netflix additionally will license select content from Drewski's
23:34
Speaker 15: existing catalog, including some of the Could Have Been Loved,
23:36
Speaker 15: the Could Have Been Daddy, Could Have Been Records auditions, and.
23:38
Speaker 9: Some of his comedic skits.
23:39
Speaker 5: That's a whole other check. Period.
23:42
Speaker 15: And he's doing it with the Forlifers, which is his team.
23:44
Speaker 15: A lot of them know, like, he grew up with,
23:46
Speaker 15: he came up with. So, yeah, I love to see that.
23:48
Speaker 9: But, yes, congratulations, Drewski.
23:50
Speaker 3: And that means we're going to get to see more
23:52
Speaker 3: NAV green, because that's part.
23:53
Speaker 11: Of the Drewski part as well.
23:53
Speaker 9: Yo, shout out to NAV. It's NAV birthday today, too.
23:55
Speaker 13: It is?
23:56
Speaker 9: Yep, shout out to NAV.
23:56
Speaker 5: Damn, happy birthday, NAV.
23:58
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Happy birthday. Yep.
24:00
Speaker 9: Yes, now, well, in other announcement news, new things coming.
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Speaker 15: Justin Timberlake, Variety announced yesterday, is set to release a
24:07
Speaker 15: four-part docuseries on Apple TV. in December and is described
24:11
Speaker 15: as a tell-all. Now, there are three sources that have
24:14
Speaker 15: confirmed this to Variety. Now, one source is saying that
24:17
Speaker 15: this is going to feature Janet Jackson and they'll be
24:19
Speaker 15: discussing the infamous wardrobe malfunction that took place during their
24:24
Speaker 15: performance at the 2004 Super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: What is there to talk about 22 years later?
24:29
Speaker 9: I mean, if it's featuring Janet Jackson, though, like if
24:32
Speaker 9: she's actually.
24:32
Speaker 13: Janet Janet?
24:33
Speaker 15: It says, will feature Janet Jackson discussing the infamous wardrobe malfunction.
24:37
Speaker 9: If that is true.
24:39
Speaker 15: We haven't seen her go in depth about this. Like,
24:42
Speaker 15: even when I remember he apologized.
24:44
Speaker 1: She's still 22 years old.
24:45
Speaker 3: Right.
24:46
Speaker 9: And we haven't seen her in anything. She wasn't in
24:48
Speaker 9: the last Why Did I Get Married? She wasn't in
24:50
Speaker 9: Michael movie.
24:50
Speaker 1: Now she want to be.
24:51
Speaker 9: But she want to be in the JT documentary Discussing
24:53
Speaker 9: the City.
24:54
Speaker 15: I tried to confirm this separately and I reached out
24:57
Speaker 15: to her team for comment and I got no comment back.
24:59
Speaker 15: Because she doesn't really do a lot of things, especially
25:02
Speaker 15: like this. But I'm wondering, what is she going to say?
25:04
Speaker 3: And why right now?
25:05
Speaker 1: Why do they keep calling this a wardrobe malfunction?
25:07
Speaker 5: Like it wasn't a plan.
25:08
Speaker 3: Exactly.
25:09
Speaker 15: Because variety is speaking for Janet Jackson and not Janet Jackson.
25:15
Speaker 3: You know how trivial that seems 22 years later? Back
25:19
Speaker 3: then it was a big deal. Oh my God, a
25:20
Speaker 3: titty on TV. Now it's nothing.
25:24
Speaker 15: It's not nothing, but coming from Janet Jackson, remember she
25:29
Speaker 15: said that there were things that were taken away from
25:31
Speaker 15: her and the industry kind of got very weird to
25:33
Speaker 15: her but didn't get weird to Justin Timberlake. Maybe there
25:36
Speaker 15: are some things that she wants to discuss from her
25:38
Speaker 15: perspective on what she went through because I think a
25:40
Speaker 15: lot of people were surprised when he had to come
25:41
Speaker 15: out and apologize and There was reports that they had
25:44
Speaker 15: moved forward and were friends.
25:46
Speaker 9: People were like, well, why? So it can't be all
25:48
Speaker 9: about the uncovered nipple.
25:50
Speaker 15: So the other part of this, they're saying that he's
25:52
Speaker 15: also supposed to be discussing some of Britney Spears' recent comments.
25:58
Speaker 4: Yes.
25:59
Speaker 9: Some of Britney Spears' recent comments as well.
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Speaker 1: Why is JT doing this?
26:01
Speaker 3: Why is he doing this?
26:02
Speaker 1: What's the point of it?
26:03
Speaker 9: I don't know.
26:04
Speaker 15: Now, they mentioned that further details on the series were
26:06
Speaker 15: not available at the time of the publication of the article,
26:09
Speaker 15: but reps for Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson had no
26:13
Speaker 15: additional comments as well.
26:14
Speaker 9: So that's all we know.
26:14
Speaker 3: Now, they got that trailer. If you want to show it,
26:16
Speaker 3: you can show that trailer. They said they can show it.
26:18
Speaker 9: Oh, I know.
26:19
Speaker 3: That's fine.
26:19
Speaker 13: Okay.
26:21
Speaker 4: No.
26:21
Speaker 15: I didn't know Justin Timberlake had a trailer.
26:22
Speaker 1: No, they were talking about the Drewski.
26:24
Speaker 5: Oh, the Drewski trailer.
26:26
Speaker 3: Yeah. I didn't see that trailer.
26:28
Speaker 9: I didn't see that either, but I'm like, if they
26:29
Speaker 9: got it, go off, y'all. I didn't see the Drewski
26:31
Speaker 9: one anyway.
26:32
Speaker 21: Yeah.
26:32
Speaker 15: Well, I don't know what and why if Janet Jackson
26:35
Speaker 15: is a part of this, but I will be seated
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Speaker 15: to hear from her because people speak a lot for her.
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Speaker 9: So it would be interesting to hear from her, but
26:41
Speaker 9: I just don't know why now.
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Speaker 3: I don't care.
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Speaker 9: You would care.
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Speaker 3: No, I don't.
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Speaker 1: It's 22 years later.
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Speaker 9: I would want to hear from her.
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Speaker 3: That Super Bowl didn't change my perception of Janet Jackson
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Speaker 3: in no way. It ain't going to change nothing now.
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Speaker 9: It didn't for us, but for some people.
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Speaker 1: For the people that she referenced.
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Speaker 3: Drop one of those bombs for Janet Jackson. We don't
26:57
Speaker 3: care about who don't love Janet Jackson.
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Speaker 1: Because we love Janet.
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Speaker 9: I want her to be honest, too, in this doc.
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Speaker 3: All the white folks that got scared of a little nipple.
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Speaker 1: All right like they never seen a nipple before and
27:06
Speaker 1: it was a pre-planned nipple everybody's involved in the shenanigans
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Speaker 1: had a person in the nipple too right they said
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Speaker 1: it was supposed to have like a red bra underneath
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Speaker 1: but they said that when he pulled it off it
27:16
Speaker 1: revealed a little bit too much or whatever it was
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Speaker 1: whatever it was it was a planned stunt that didn't
27:20
Speaker 1: go right.
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh kids you know what i'm saying we
27:24
Speaker 3: came in came in the world sucking on them things
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Speaker 3: i know that's right i know.
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Speaker 3: All right.
27:43
Speaker 1: Now, when we come back, we got front page news.
27:45
Speaker 1: Of course, today is election day. So can we get
27:47
Speaker 1: some Tupac on changes maybe or something like that or
27:49
Speaker 1: fight the power or something?
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Speaker 3: Something like that. All right, man.
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Speaker 5: Y'all OD'ing, man.
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Speaker 6: Why?
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Speaker 3: Why not?
27:53
Speaker 5: Play Tim's like y'all been playing.
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Speaker 11: No, no, no.
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Speaker 3: Come on, yo.
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Speaker 9: No, we playing Tim's.
27:57
Speaker 3: Chill out, yo.
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Speaker 1: Common to people. Take y'all after vote.
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Speaker 3: Common to people.
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Speaker 1: Common to people.
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Speaker 5: Because people on the way.
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Speaker 9: To the polls, y'all.
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Speaker 8: Keep your head up.
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Speaker 9: No, when y'all played that Beyonce this morning, it felt
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Speaker 9: very liberating.
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Speaker 13: Be all right.
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Speaker 9: And it's 10 o'clock.
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Speaker 3: Who am I to get in the way?
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Speaker 1: You want to hear Tim's? The polls open at 7 a.m.
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Speaker 1: You want to hear Tim's?
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Speaker 3: The polls are open now.
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Speaker 12: They're open at 6 a.m.
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Speaker 3: Go vote.
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Speaker 9: And then move that body out the way and let
28:18
Speaker 9: them play this song.
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Speaker 11: I know, right?
28:19
Speaker 1: We're just waiting for some positivity. this morning. Is that
28:21
Speaker 1: all right?
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Speaker 3: Owl? Yeah, sure.
28:23
Speaker 1: Forget it. Forget it. Not fight the power, though. What's
28:26
Speaker 1: wrong with fight the power? Kendrick. I want a Kendrick.
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Speaker 9: We're going to be all right.
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Speaker 1: You know that, people.
28:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:32
Speaker 1: We can do that.
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Speaker 13: Do Kendrick.
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Speaker 11: Changes.
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Speaker 3: Sounds of blackness.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
28:36
Speaker 3: Now we talking. Now we talking.
28:37
Speaker 1: Now we talking.
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Speaker 3: Those are regular optimistic records.
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Speaker 1: That I buy to any other time.
28:41
Speaker 9: You know he mix, so he got to go all
28:43
Speaker 9: the way.
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Speaker 5: He got to go all the way.
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Speaker 3: Them light-skinned activists be different, right? Them light-skinned activists always
28:47
Speaker 3: got to do about this. Fight the power.
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Speaker 21: Let's go.
28:49
Speaker 5: You told me we're going to be all right.
28:50
Speaker 10: Listen, man, God grant me the serenity, the acceptance of
29:00
Speaker 10: things I cannot change, the courage to change the things
29:03
Speaker 10: I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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Speaker 1: People headed to the polls. I just want to play
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Speaker 1: some positivity. That's all.
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Speaker 5: That ain't what I'm talking about right now.
29:10
Speaker 3: Morning, everybody.
29:11
Speaker 1: We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front
29:12
Speaker 1: page news.
29:14
Speaker 3: Let's start off with sports and Monday Night Football.
29:17
Speaker 1: Oh, the Bears beat the Seattle Seahawks 34-17. What's up, Mimi?
29:20
Speaker 9: Good morning, guys. How y'all doing this morning? Hey, Jorge.
29:23
Speaker 11: Good morning.
29:24
Speaker 9: So it is Election Day today.
29:28
Speaker 14: Front Page News is sponsored by Morgan & Morgan, America's
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Speaker 14: largest injury law firm. But on this Election Day, the
29:33
Speaker 14: Trump administration has suffered another setback in its effort to
29:36
Speaker 14: stop thousands of California ballots from being counted. So the
29:39
Speaker 14: US Supreme Court, they rejected an emergency request from the
29:43
Speaker 14: Justice Department late last night, just hours after it was filed.
29:47
Speaker 9: So the Justice Department claimed But.
29:48
Speaker 14: It found 20,000 people on California voter rolls that were
29:52
Speaker 14: not U.S.
29:52
Speaker 19: Citizens.
29:53
Speaker 14: It wanted election officials to separate their ballots and hold
29:57
Speaker 14: off on counting them until their citizenship could be verified.
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Speaker 14: The California officials say that government list is unreliable. There
30:04
Speaker 14: was a UCLA poll that found 42 percent of the
30:08
Speaker 14: names on that list aren't even on California's current voter rolls.
30:13
Speaker 14: Some of those people were naturalized citizens. So basically, the
30:16
Speaker 14: Supreme Court threw it out. So a non-starter there, guys. Also,
30:22
Speaker 14: President Trump launching new military strikes against Iran yesterday, just
30:27
Speaker 14: one day before today's midterm elections.
30:29
Speaker 9: Now, he targeted an island near the Strait of Hormuz.
30:33
Speaker 3: U.S.
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Speaker 14: Officials say the strikes were in response to Iran's attack
30:36
Speaker 14: on American military assets yesterday. Now, Trump had promised not
30:41
Speaker 14: to attack Iran before the midterms. And Connecticut Senator Chris
30:45
Speaker 14: Murphy had been warning that Trump could be preparing for
30:48
Speaker 14: a much larger military operation. He says lawmakers were briefed
30:53
Speaker 14: on a plan that could include attacks on Iranian infrastructure,
30:57
Speaker 14: potentially triggering a wider war in the Middle East. Let's
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Speaker 14: listen to what he had to say.
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Speaker 3: I will just say this. Their plan is insane.
31:08
Speaker 4: It won't.
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Speaker 3: It won't. It will lead to devastating escalation and the
31:19
Speaker 3: likely destruction of our commitment to the rule of law.
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Speaker 5: Then they gave him a pill and he had a stroke.
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Speaker 9: Well, we don't know if they gave him a pill.
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Speaker 19: Okay.
31:29
Speaker 9: I'm sorry.
31:30
Speaker 5: I have my tinfoil push IT mask on.
31:32
Speaker 1: I can tell.
31:32
Speaker 5: But he did have a stroke shortly after.
31:33
Speaker 3: He did.
31:34
Speaker 9: He did.
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Speaker 14: He did have a stroke shortly after over the weekend
31:37
Speaker 14: while attending a hockey game at his son's hockey game.
31:40
Speaker 14: The 53-year-old experienced numbness in his arm.
31:44
Speaker 9: He was hospitalized.
31:45
Speaker 14: His office says that he is awake, alert, and responding
31:48
Speaker 14: to treatment. But doctors, they're optimistic he'll make a full recovery,
31:52
Speaker 14: but they haven't said when he's getting out of the
31:53
Speaker 14: hospital yet.
31:54
Speaker 10: Now.
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Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson said that Trump is planning to drop a
31:59
Speaker 3: nuclear weapon on Iran.
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Speaker 9: He's making an even more serious allegation.
32:03
Speaker 14: He claims that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was pressuring
32:07
Speaker 14: Trump to launch a nuclear strike against Iran within days,
32:12
Speaker 14: targeting an underground nuclear facility. Now, he says that Netanyahu
32:16
Speaker 14: is motivated by political pressure because he lost the election.
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Speaker 9: But he has not given any.
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Speaker 14: support or proof on how he came to that conclusion
32:25
Speaker 14: we should say that um and neither the u.s or
32:28
Speaker 14: israel has confirmed a nuclear strike but that is what
32:30
Speaker 14: he has been saying so what's.
32:31
Speaker 5: Gonna happen to tucker stroke heart attack what are we
32:34
Speaker 5: thinking i.
32:34
Speaker 9: Mean if we are following accident.
32:36
Speaker 3: Let's not wish any of that i'm not wishing any
32:38
Speaker 3: of it i'm just saying in light of all the
32:40
Speaker 3: things that we're seeing i mean you know would that
32:42
Speaker 3: be a coincidence huh.
32:43
Speaker 1: Take the tinfoil off and let's just take the tinfoil
32:47
Speaker 1: off all right what.
32:47
Speaker 14: Else you got mimi Also, and we do have an
32:50
Speaker 14: update on that heartbreaking story out of the Bronx with Jarvis.
32:54
Speaker 9: Police say, you know, we talked about this yesterday.
32:56
Speaker 14: That's the 15-year-old who was shot and killed while.
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Speaker 9: Walking to school.
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Speaker 3: Horrible. Yeah.
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Speaker 14: Police say they were trying to find out whether bullying
33:05
Speaker 14: at school had anything to do with his murder. They
33:07
Speaker 14: said they're having trouble getting information from the New York
33:11
Speaker 14: City Department of Education. Now, his father told investigators that
33:14
Speaker 14: two students had recently been suspended for bullying his son. Now,
33:18
Speaker 14: the NYPD and the education department, they won't turn over
33:21
Speaker 14: those student records without a subpoena. So police are taking
33:25
Speaker 14: legal steps to get those records.
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Speaker 1: Let's listen.
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Speaker 7: All indications are that this was a good kid. Right now,
33:32
Speaker 7: we're looking at the possibility that the kid was being
33:36
Speaker 7: bullied at school. We're working with the Department of Education
33:39
Speaker 7: to verify that. But we're also looking at two other aspects.
33:43
Speaker 7: Could this child have been the victim of a robbery
33:45
Speaker 7: gone bad? Or was this a case of mistaken identity
33:48
Speaker 7: where a rival gang member thought he was the opposition?
33:51
Speaker 3: That's horrible. That is so horrible. That is so horrible.
33:55
Speaker 1: With all these cameras in the city, I'm surprised they
33:57
Speaker 1: didn't piece that together quicker, you know, to find out
33:59
Speaker 1: where it came from. And also, I just want to
34:01
Speaker 1: tell this has necessarily nothing to do with that, but
34:03
Speaker 1: I just want to tell parents. If your child is
34:06
Speaker 1: a victim of bullying. Right. And there is a problem
34:08
Speaker 1: in this situation. It will mean more for you to
34:11
Speaker 1: go to that school and just be seen.
34:13
Speaker 3: Yeah.
34:13
Speaker 1: A lot of times other kids get scared. They know
34:15
Speaker 1: that somebody else is in their life just and sometimes
34:18
Speaker 1: teachers take it more serious when parents are involved.
34:21
Speaker 6: Right.
34:21
Speaker 1: No matter what it is, if you're something's going on
34:23
Speaker 1: with your child, it might take you, you know, maybe
34:25
Speaker 1: you'll be late to work that day. You might have
34:27
Speaker 1: to miss work. Pull up on your child's school. Talk
34:29
Speaker 1: to those teachers. Look those kids in the eyes. Let
34:32
Speaker 1: them see that their dad is there.
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Speaker 3: Please. That means a lot. adult supervision that's one of
34:44
Speaker 3: the most effective ways to reduce bullying because a lot
34:47
Speaker 3: of this you know bullying comes from.
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Speaker 1: Little or no adult presence correct.
34:52
Speaker 3: Like they do that when the adult's not around correct
34:54
Speaker 3: you gotta always you gotta be a helicopter adult you
34:57
Speaker 3: gotta be micromanaging these situations like Yes.
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Speaker 1: And the reason my dad wouldn't, whatever happened in my school, regardless,
35:03
Speaker 1: my dad was there. And yesterday I had to pull
35:04
Speaker 1: up in my son's school. And it had nothing to
35:06
Speaker 1: do with bullying, but it's something that I didn't like.
35:08
Speaker 1: And I pulled right up, right up in that school.
35:11
Speaker 1: And all the kids see me. Yes, I'm here. What's up?
35:13
Speaker 1: What's going on?
35:14
Speaker 11: That's me.
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Speaker 1: Logan, matter of fact, Jackson, call him down. I'm taking
35:18
Speaker 1: him home today. You know I'm here. You know I'm present.
35:20
Speaker 3: And sometimes you got to tell a kid, I'll beat
35:22
Speaker 3: your daddy up.
35:23
Speaker 9: Damn right.
35:23
Speaker 5: He playing with my child. I'm going to beat your
35:25
Speaker 5: daddy up.
35:25
Speaker 9: I'm not playing.
35:26
Speaker 6: Yep.
35:27
Speaker 9: And, you know, just one more thing. No, I'm with you. No,
35:31
Speaker 9: I'm there.
35:32
Speaker 1: I ain't going to say it on the air, but
35:34
Speaker 1: I'm there.
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Speaker 3: You're supposed to be there. You're supposed to be there.
35:37
Speaker 3: You're supposed to be there. You're supposed to be there.
35:40
Speaker 1: You're supposed to be there.
35:41
Speaker 3: You're supposed to be there. You're supposed to be there.
35:43
Speaker 1: You're supposed to be there. You're supposed to be there.
35:46
Speaker 1: You're supposed to be there. You're supposed to be there.
35:51
Speaker 9: Yes, guys.
35:51
Speaker 14: So just really quickly, too, police say that another just
35:56
Speaker 14: a really heartbreaking tidbit from this story that he was
35:59
Speaker 14: so focused on school that he had voluntarily left his
36:02
Speaker 14: cell phone at home that day to avoid any distractions.
36:05
Speaker 3: Wow. I just don't understand what got to the point
36:06
Speaker 3: where they had to kill a little.
36:07
Speaker 9: Yeah.
36:08
Speaker 3: Like, what are y'all youngins beefing about so much that
36:10
Speaker 3: you got to kill this.
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Speaker 5: Little young man?
36:12
Speaker 1: Well, they said that he allegedly told and the kids
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Speaker 1: got suspended and they were coming back for revenge.
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Speaker 21: Yeah.
36:17
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm sure we'll hear more and
36:19
Speaker 1: more details. It's definitely sad, man.
36:21
Speaker 13: It's so sad.
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Speaker 9: We'll keep watching that.
36:22
Speaker 14: No arrests have been made so far, but yes, you guys,
36:24
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36:35
Speaker 1: Now, when we come back, Ashley Allison will be joining us.
36:37
Speaker 1: You know she's the owner and publisher of The Root.
36:40
Speaker 1: And we're going to talk to her next. She's also
36:41
Speaker 1: a commentator, a political strategist.
36:43
Speaker 5: We're going to talk to her next. Yeah, she be
36:44
Speaker 5: on CNN all the time. Yep, it's The Breakfast Club.
36:46
Speaker 3: Good morning.
36:46
Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God.
36:50
Speaker 1: We are The Breakfast Club. Lola Rose is here as well.
36:53
Speaker 1: We got a special guest in the building.
36:54
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed.
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Speaker 1: Ashley Allison.
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Speaker 18: Welcome. Hey, guys.
36:57
Speaker 3: How you feeling this morning? It's all happening tonight, Ashley.
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Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 13: I mean.
37:01
Speaker 5: How you feeling?
37:02
Speaker 19: Well, I just want it to be over.
37:03
Speaker 2: I'm honest.
37:04
Speaker 3: You just want it to be over?
37:05
Speaker 19: I'm so tired.
37:06
Speaker 3: I feel good.
37:07
Speaker 19: I feel good.
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Speaker 6: You know what, actually, I'm excited because the numbers of
37:11
Speaker 6: people going to vote is breaking records. And that means
37:16
Speaker 6: that people believe in this democracy and know that they
37:19
Speaker 6: have some agency and they do not like what's happening
37:22
Speaker 6: right now and they want to change it.
37:24
Speaker 19: So we'll see.
37:25
Speaker 21: I don't know.
37:26
Speaker 1: It's surprising because people are exhausted. People are tired.
37:28
Speaker 6: Yeah.
37:29
Speaker 11: Yeah.
37:29
Speaker 19: It feels like a passive engagement. They're like, I'm not
37:32
Speaker 19: going to march. I'm not going to this. I'm just
37:34
Speaker 19: going to go vote. So this nonsense can be over.
37:36
Speaker 3: Is this a vote of confidence in the Democrats or
37:39
Speaker 3: simply rejection of Donald Trump? Because I feel like voters
37:41
Speaker 3: always express skepticism in regards to Democrats. And people like
37:45
Speaker 3: Haley Stevens don't make it any better.
37:49
Speaker 19: She will not live rent free in my head. So
37:51
Speaker 19: I'm like done with her.
37:53
Speaker 6: You know, I actually think that there is a slate
37:55
Speaker 6: of candidates this cycle. You look at Scott Colom in Mississippi.
37:59
Speaker 6: You look at Angie Nixon in Florida. You look at
38:03
Speaker 6: Abdul in Michigan, Tallarico in Texas. That is not the
38:06
Speaker 6: Democratic establishment. That is a new wave of talent. And
38:09
Speaker 6: so I think people are excited about folks.
38:11
Speaker 19: The guy in the pastor in Kansas, right?
38:15
Speaker 6: There's a new breed coming in, and I think that
38:17
Speaker 6: if they win, they will try and set a new
38:20
Speaker 6: agenda and reframe how the Democrats are, you know, being
38:23
Speaker 6: perceived right now.
38:23
Speaker 3: But what about the people who I believe believe in
38:26
Speaker 3: establishment self-preservation? That's what I believe Haley Stevens is.
38:30
Speaker 19: Yeah, but I don't even think she's really a Democrat
38:32
Speaker 19: at this point, you know?
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Speaker 11: Mm-hmm.
38:34
Speaker 19: I mean, it was, like, what she did.
38:35
Speaker 6: I was with her, actually, a week ago, because I
38:39
Speaker 6: did CNN with her.
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Speaker 16: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 19: And she lied to everybody. She like lied to my face.
38:44
Speaker 6: You know, we talked for 20 minutes and I was
38:46
Speaker 6: just like, she was like, yeah, you know, I think
38:48
Speaker 6: he can do this.
38:49
Speaker 19: I think it just is wild, wild work.
38:51
Speaker 3: How do Democrats gain power and then restore public trust?
38:55
Speaker 6: They need to put an agenda for where it makes
38:58
Speaker 6: housing more affordable. programs that if you are a first
39:02
Speaker 6: or a second time homeowner, you can buy a home,
39:05
Speaker 6: bring down the cost of groceries, come up. There are
39:07
Speaker 6: different tax incentives, grocery taxes that you can take off of.
39:11
Speaker 6: We need to get out of this war in Iran.
39:13
Speaker 6: Like they are going to have to go in and
39:15
Speaker 6: put forth an actual agenda. Now, the thing that's important
39:18
Speaker 6: for people to remember is that Donald Trump will still
39:21
Speaker 6: be the president and he will still have veto power,
39:23
Speaker 6: but it is important not to just passively say, well,
39:26
Speaker 6: let's wait till 2028 to make changes. Like there are,
39:29
Speaker 6: there are, make donald trump say no i'm not going.
39:32
Speaker 19: To lower your groceries if democrats get in power i
39:36
Speaker 19: fundamentally believe they can do that.
39:37
Speaker 1: Now do you think you talk about a new wave
39:39
Speaker 1: of people coming in with this new wave do you
39:41
Speaker 1: think they will learn from what we've seen donald trump
39:44
Speaker 1: do like from the first day of office, start just
39:47
Speaker 1: doing issues just with the pen and saying, F everybody else.
39:49
Speaker 1: I don't care how I look. I don't care if
39:51
Speaker 1: you like me or not. I'm just doing what's in
39:53
Speaker 1: my best interest that we really haven't seen.
39:55
Speaker 6: I think they're campaigning like that. Honestly, I think that
39:57
Speaker 6: if you look at the way Tallarico campaigns versus the
40:01
Speaker 6: way Angie Nixon campaigns, it's not what you've seen in
40:04
Speaker 6: past elections. They are themselves. And I think that is
40:08
Speaker 6: whether you like it or not, Donald Trump is himself.
40:11
Speaker 6: And that is actually what people are looking for for
40:12
Speaker 6: politicians is to be authentic, to be true to who
40:15
Speaker 6: you are. And if you don't like it, then don't
40:18
Speaker 6: vote for me. But I'm not changing who I am.
40:21
Speaker 15: Do those pressures and that be yourself change, though, once
40:24
Speaker 15: they get from the ballot to like actually sit in
40:26
Speaker 15: the seat? Because that's always the thing as well, too.
40:27
Speaker 15: It's like I feel like on the Democratic side, we'll
40:29
Speaker 15: get that.
40:30
Speaker 9: We'll get all the hope.
40:30
Speaker 15: And then they get in and there's all these restrictions
40:32
Speaker 15: and things that they can't push through because they don't
40:34
Speaker 15: have the support.
40:35
Speaker 19: I think that's for everybody.
40:36
Speaker 6: I think some people, but look at like an Aiyana Perthley, right?
40:39
Speaker 6: She has been who she has been from day.
40:42
Speaker 3: One, right?
40:43
Speaker 6: I don't like Barack Obama was who he was when
40:46
Speaker 6: he got into office. He, you know, he was hopes
40:47
Speaker 6: and dreams and he most, a lot of black people
40:50
Speaker 6: wanted him to.
40:51
Speaker 19: Be the first black president. He's like, I'm the president
40:52
Speaker 19: for everybody.
40:53
Speaker 6: So I think if you know who you are going in, you,
40:56
Speaker 6: it's easier for you to stay who you are once
40:58
Speaker 6: you're inside.
40:59
Speaker 13: Mm-hmm.
41:00
Speaker 5: What does, and I know you don't want to talk
41:01
Speaker 5: about Haley Stevens, but I'm not.
41:02
Speaker 3: I just want to know, what does that tell you
41:04
Speaker 3: about the ideological divisions inside the Democratic Party? I think
41:07
Speaker 3: sometimes we talk about Democrats versus Republicans, but to me,
41:10
Speaker 3: this is establishment Democrats versus people that are actually trying
41:13
Speaker 3: to change the establishment.
41:14
Speaker 6: I see that differently. I think she is a sore loser.
41:17
Speaker 6: It was about herself. When she did that, every Democrat
41:22
Speaker 6: said what she did was wrong, from Chuck Schumer- To AOC. So,
41:28
Speaker 6: and that is the spectrum, right? So I don't think
41:31
Speaker 6: that what Haley Stevens does is did is actually like
41:34
Speaker 6: the establishments. perception of that race. She did something that
41:39
Speaker 6: was selfish, that was about her self-interest, was embarrassing.
41:44
Speaker 19: She embarrassed herself.
41:44
Speaker 3: It feels like Democrats always need a bad guy, though,
41:47
Speaker 3: just to keep corporate status quo.
41:48
Speaker 19: What do you mean, Charlamagne?
41:49
Speaker 3: Like the Fettermans of the world, the dude's name from
41:53
Speaker 3: West Virginia, I can't remember his name, Joe Manchin of
41:54
Speaker 3: the world, the cinemas. They always need at least one
41:57
Speaker 3: person just to appease those corporate PACs that they know
42:00
Speaker 3: they need money from to let you know, hey, we're
42:02
Speaker 3: not all going... All the way to the left.
42:04
Speaker 6: Look, I think if when Joe Manchin was in office,
42:08
Speaker 6: if Joe Biden could get him to do more to
42:10
Speaker 6: work with him, he would have. I don't think that
42:12
Speaker 6: Joe Manchin's behavior was actually, again, aligned with the Democrats.
42:16
Speaker 6: I think he was doing his own thing. He was
42:18
Speaker 6: thinking about himself and his constituents.
42:20
Speaker 19: Now, I didn't agree with it. If they could have got.
42:22
Speaker 6: Joe Manchin or even Fetterman, for the most part, votes
42:26
Speaker 6: with the.
42:27
Speaker 19: Democrats, though. Every once in a while, he skews.
42:31
Speaker 6: But I don't think that is saying that, like, this
42:33
Speaker 6: is the Democratic Party putting those folks forward.
42:36
Speaker 19: I think they're surprised.
42:38
Speaker 6: Joe Biden was pissed when Joe Manchin would do some
42:40
Speaker 6: of the things he would do, you know, trying to
42:42
Speaker 6: block his bills.
42:43
Speaker 19: So how do you explain people like Angie Nixon in Florida?
42:46
Speaker 3: She's got the people. She's got the energy. But the
42:49
Speaker 3: establishment Democrats don't want to put no money. OK, I haven't.
42:52
Speaker 19: Yes, I think that that is because I'm from Ohio.
42:55
Speaker 4: Right.
42:56
Speaker 6: And I have said really since 2016, Democrats stopped investing
43:00
Speaker 6: in Ohio because.
43:02
Speaker 19: Of the population shift, right? I thought that was a
43:04
Speaker 19: bad idea.
43:05
Speaker 6: I think if you actually invest in states and talk
43:09
Speaker 6: to your voters, you can win a state like Ohio.
43:11
Speaker 6: And that's what you're seeing right now with Amy Acton
43:14
Speaker 6: and Sherrod Brown. The same thing goes for Texas, is
43:17
Speaker 6: that really after.
43:19
Speaker 19: 2016, Democrats were like, you know, That state's not in play.
43:22
Speaker 6: And so they started to disinvest in that state.
43:26
Speaker 19: And I think that that is wrong, too.
43:28
Speaker 6: The other reason why is because Ohio and particularly Florida
43:32
Speaker 6: is so expensive to run in because of the media markets.
43:36
Speaker 6: So some of it is just like we don't have
43:39
Speaker 6: unlimited resources as Democrats. And some of it is that
43:42
Speaker 6: we disinvested in states. And that was a mistake because
43:45
Speaker 6: you look at a state like Mississippi, you look at
43:47
Speaker 6: a state like South Carolina, like we have to put
43:49
Speaker 6: more states in play. At this point, I think some
43:52
Speaker 6: Democrats are waking up. I think it is unfortunate that
43:55
Speaker 6: they are not supporting Angie Nixon in the way they should.
43:57
Speaker 6: She is so dope. She might be surprise, surprise people.
44:01
Speaker 6: I think there'll be a lot of surprises.
44:02
Speaker 3: It's something that's just for optics, right? Like to me,
44:04
Speaker 3: I think it's politics. I think you should do things
44:06
Speaker 3: just to show, hey, we're not against what Angie Nixon
44:09
Speaker 3: is talking about. We're not against what Dr. Syed is
44:11
Speaker 3: talking about. We want, you know, affordable health care as well.
44:14
Speaker 3: We want affordability in this country, too. Don't seem like
44:16
Speaker 3: you're against it.
44:17
Speaker 19: Yeah, I think they should be supporting Angie Nixon.
44:19
Speaker 1: Now, we've seen a lot of people vote for Donald Trump.
44:23
Speaker 4: Yeah.
44:23
Speaker 3: Right?
44:23
Speaker 1: And hopefully, it's changed their thoughts on things, right? They
44:27
Speaker 1: roll with somebody that obviously slapped them in the face.
44:29
Speaker 1: Do you feel like politically and people should open up
44:32
Speaker 1: their arms to those people?
44:34
Speaker 11: Yeah.
44:34
Speaker 19: I mean, I'm not a baby with the bathwater type
44:38
Speaker 19: of girl.
44:38
Speaker 3: Okay?
44:39
Speaker 4: So.
44:39
Speaker 6: I'm highly disappointed in people who voted for Donald Trump,
44:42
Speaker 6: especially when I think they voted against their own self-interest.
44:45
Speaker 6: But if you see the error in your ways, we
44:47
Speaker 6: ain't got to be best friends. But, like, if you
44:49
Speaker 6: want to come over and vote for the side I'm
44:51
Speaker 6: playing for, I will take that vote. I'm not above that. Like,
44:54
Speaker 6: politics is a math game, right? So you got to
44:57
Speaker 6: put points on the board.
44:58
Speaker 19: But I also.
44:59
Speaker 6: Think that we don't need to over-index trying to get
45:04
Speaker 6: voters who will never vote for Democrats.
45:07
Speaker 3: Right?
45:07
Speaker 6: Like, they're... We should be doing more investing into the
45:11
Speaker 6: Black community, into the Latino community, into some of the
45:14
Speaker 6: other coalitions, young people, rather than always over-investing in people
45:19
Speaker 6: who have said over and over, I don't believe in
45:22
Speaker 6: the world that you believe in. And so at some point,
45:25
Speaker 6: I'm not going to keep courting you.
45:26
Speaker 10: Right.
45:27
Speaker 3: Or keep trying. What's the difference between campaigning for Black
45:33
Speaker 3: votes and actually governing elections? in ways that benefit black community.
45:36
Speaker 2: Yeah.
45:37
Speaker 6: So I think a lot of people make promises to
45:39
Speaker 6: the black community. Like, so I, on the route, we
45:42
Speaker 6: did this series called what's popular where, uh, I was
45:44
Speaker 6: really curious, like, what are you going to do for
45:47
Speaker 6: Black voters, right? So we reached out to Abdul's team.
45:51
Speaker 6: I did an interview with him. We reached out to
45:53
Speaker 6: Mike Rogers' team. Mike Rogers did not respond to us, right?
45:57
Speaker 6: I wasn't just trying to talk to Democrats. I was
45:59
Speaker 6: trying to talk to everyone because I think it's important
46:01
Speaker 6: for people to say what they're going to do for
46:03
Speaker 6: Black voters. So you should have a plan for us
46:06
Speaker 6: before you are elected. And Abdul went through his stuff.
46:08
Speaker 6: I don't know what Mike Rogers' plan is because he
46:10
Speaker 6: did not speak with us.
46:11
Speaker 19: What are you thinking about us?
46:14
Speaker 5: Mike Roberts is nothing about Black people.
46:15
Speaker 19: He was in a Black church. I don't know.
46:18
Speaker 6: And so then we need to now, as voters, if
46:21
Speaker 6: we elect Abdul or if we elect Angie or we
46:23
Speaker 6: elect Donald Trump, because some people voted for Donald Trump
46:27
Speaker 6: and they say they're going to deliver for us, they
46:29
Speaker 6: need to deliver for us. And so what does that
46:30
Speaker 6: look like?
46:31
Speaker 19: That means like.
46:32
Speaker 6: When your elected official is in your district having conversations
46:35
Speaker 6: with them don't disappear after election day i always say
46:38
Speaker 6: democracy this politics thing is like being in a relationship
46:42
Speaker 6: you can have like a one-night.
46:43
Speaker 19: Stand where you vote on election day and then you
46:45
Speaker 19: never see the person.
46:46
Speaker 6: Again or you can be in a long loving relationship
46:48
Speaker 6: where you you do have fights sometimes in relationships you
46:51
Speaker 6: can tussle but at the end of the day like
46:53
Speaker 6: you you need to be in conversation and um in
46:56
Speaker 6: relationship with your politicians and they need to be in
46:58
Speaker 6: relationship with The community.
47:00
Speaker 15: I was going to ask you before he got to this,
47:02
Speaker 15: what do you think that relationship and conversation looks like?
47:06
Speaker 15: Because I know you guys invest in our newsroom. That's
47:08
Speaker 15: your thing at The Root. But do people really want
47:11
Speaker 15: to hear from the newsroom on a day-to-day on the
47:13
Speaker 15: trail of the politicians? Or do they want the politicians
47:16
Speaker 15: to set up a phone and talk to them right
47:17
Speaker 15: on Instagram so we can really feel and see where
47:20
Speaker 15: you are and what you're doing?
47:21
Speaker 6: Our numbers say that they want to hear from us
47:23
Speaker 6: because we're a trusted source. So it's been a year
47:26
Speaker 6: since I bought The Root.
47:27
Speaker 4: Damn.
47:29
Speaker 3: I'd be flying.
47:30
Speaker 9: She was here when she first.
47:31
Speaker 15: Listen, I'm going to tell you, they feel like they
47:33
Speaker 15: didn't fly to me.
47:35
Speaker 19: You were doing a good job, though.
47:38
Speaker 9: I love it.
47:38
Speaker 19: It's been a blessing, but it's hard work, you know?
47:40
Speaker 9: It is, yeah.
47:42
Speaker 19: But our numbers are growing.
47:43
Speaker 6: Like, on our Instagram, our YouTube, our viewers on our website,
47:47
Speaker 6: it's because they're looking for people they can trust to
47:49
Speaker 6: tell the truth to them. And they also wanted a
47:51
Speaker 6: politician to pick up their phone and do it. And
47:53
Speaker 6: so sometimes we reach out to the politicians and we
47:56
Speaker 6: have conversations with them. But it has been a year
48:00
Speaker 6: and our numbers are, if they're indicative of what people
48:03
Speaker 6: and where they want to get their stuff, they are
48:04
Speaker 6: coming to the root.
48:05
Speaker 3: How do you choose what to amplify? The reason I
48:07
Speaker 3: asked that, because I was looking at this Tucker Carlson story, right?
48:10
Speaker 3: Where Tucker Carlson said that Donald Trump may drop a
48:12
Speaker 3: nuke on Iran over the next seven days. To me,
48:15
Speaker 3: that's something to talk about. You know, how do you
48:18
Speaker 3: handle a situation like that?
48:20
Speaker 6: I mean, we would do some of our own research
48:22
Speaker 6: and we would call some of our sources. I think
48:24
Speaker 6: there's one thing to amplify that story. I think there's
48:28
Speaker 6: something else to help people make sense of what that means.
48:30
Speaker 4: Right.
48:31
Speaker 6: So if you are it's Election Day and you feel
48:35
Speaker 6: like it costs too much money to put gas in
48:37
Speaker 6: your tank.
48:38
Speaker 13: What?
48:39
Speaker 6: And that's because of the war in Iran right now.
48:42
Speaker 6: What would dropping a nuke on– let's talk about what
48:45
Speaker 6: a nuclear weapon is.
48:47
Speaker 19: Let's talk about the destruction that it causes.
48:49
Speaker 18: It's over.
48:51
Speaker 6: Yes. So I think it is not just about promoting
48:55
Speaker 6: what Tucker Carlson says. I think it is helping your community,
48:57
Speaker 6: helping your readers understand what the repercussions of those actions are.
49:01
Speaker 6: I also think it's like we posted something today. There
49:03
Speaker 6: was a man who finished the marathon. It was his
49:06
Speaker 6: 43rd marathon. And it was so hard. He did the
49:09
Speaker 6: New York City Marathon and walked across the finish line.
49:11
Speaker 6: He said it's his last one. And why are we
49:14
Speaker 6: showcasing him? Because it's somebody who was committed to himself,
49:17
Speaker 6: to the community. And so I think it's a balance.
49:20
Speaker 6: but it's celebrating some joy when there's tough conversations making
49:23
Speaker 6: sense of the moment.
49:24
Speaker 15: And I think a lot of the stuff that we've
49:26
Speaker 15: studied in like history about America is actually starting to
49:29
Speaker 15: maybe about.
49:29
Speaker 9: To be happening.
49:30
Speaker 15: That's something you said at this point. I'm like, well,
49:31
Speaker 15: what am I supposed to do as a day to
49:33
Speaker 15: day person? What does that mean for me? Like we
49:35
Speaker 15: don't practice bunkers and all that stuff.
49:37
Speaker 9: So what do we do?
49:38
Speaker 3: It's unprecedented stuff, right? Like when you see the Pentagon,
49:40
Speaker 3: you know, preparing to be off the grid for 90
49:43
Speaker 3: days and you see all these countries telling people that
49:44
Speaker 3: they should stockpile and you see. Chris Murphy saying, I saw,
49:47
Speaker 3: you know, what Donald Trump has planned after the midterm
49:50
Speaker 3: for Iran. And it's insane is what he said. Then
49:54
Speaker 3: he has a stroke.
49:54
Speaker 4: Yeah.
49:55
Speaker 3: So now it's super conspiracy. What the hell?
49:57
Speaker 19: Well, I'm not going to go down that conspiracy.
49:59
Speaker 1: I'm going to walk you back, Charlemagne. Come on, come
50:02
Speaker 1: on back.
50:03
Speaker 3: That's a hell of a coincidence.
50:04
Speaker 6: Well, I just hope Senator Murphy is okay. That's the
50:07
Speaker 6: most important thing because he is a real fighter for
50:10
Speaker 6: working class people. Yeah, I think people need to wake
50:13
Speaker 6: up and realize why this election matters so much is
50:17
Speaker 6: because we do have somebody in the Oval Office.
50:19
Speaker 19: Who could do something like that.
50:21
Speaker 6: The way our government is set up is we have
50:24
Speaker 6: the Supreme Court, we have the executive branch, and we
50:26
Speaker 6: have the legislative branch.
50:28
Speaker 19: And whatever you.
50:28
Speaker 6: Think of the Supreme Court... They have done some overreach.
50:31
Speaker 6: They've done some really problematic rulings. But the legislative branch
50:34
Speaker 6: is the checks.
50:35
Speaker 19: And balances on the executive branch.
50:37
Speaker 6: And so when you have a one-party rule, when you
50:40
Speaker 6: have the president, the Congress, the Senate, all Republicans, there
50:44
Speaker 6: is no checks and balances. It's very clear they are
50:46
Speaker 6: not checking that man. And so with the split government,
50:49
Speaker 6: if you have the Democrats in the House or the
50:52
Speaker 6: Democrats in the Senate and the House.
50:54
Speaker 19: they can.
50:54
Speaker 6: Do some intervention because Congress is supposed to have the
50:58
Speaker 6: power to declare war. There are very few instances where
51:00
Speaker 6: the president actually can declare war, and they are not
51:03
Speaker 6: checking him on this right now.
51:04
Speaker 3: But what about when you hear Republicans have already been
51:06
Speaker 3: planning to govern without Congress? They know they're going to
51:10
Speaker 3: lose the midterms, so they don't care about the rule
51:12
Speaker 3: of law.
51:13
Speaker 6: Yeah, I will say this, that in my former life,
51:16
Speaker 6: when I was a civil rights advocate, I still am,
51:19
Speaker 6: but when I got paid to do that work, There
51:22
Speaker 6: are a lot of people right now in the civil
51:24
Speaker 6: rights community and the democracy community that are working to
51:27
Speaker 6: make sure that this election is protected, that people with
51:30
Speaker 6: their votes are there. Sometimes people don't feel like there's
51:32
Speaker 6: a plan. People have been working around the clock since
51:35
Speaker 6: 2020 to make sure. that the election is safe and
51:37
Speaker 6: that if Congress tries to govern without not seat people,
51:41
Speaker 6: the litigators are in place, people are in place. And
51:43
Speaker 6: I have to have faith that the system will hold
51:46
Speaker 6: and not just the system, that people will not.
51:49
Speaker 19: Allow that overreach of power.
51:50
Speaker 6: Like at some point, folks will say, whether they voted
51:53
Speaker 6: for Republicans or Democrats, like you did lose, right?
51:57
Speaker 19: Now you need to like step aside. So there are,
52:00
Speaker 19: there are, Hope we don't need them.
52:01
Speaker 6: But there are people ready to protect this election and
52:04
Speaker 6: fight for our democracy.
52:06
Speaker 19: And there's some of the best.
52:07
Speaker 3: That do it. What do you think about, I don't
52:09
Speaker 3: know if you saw, Big Sister General Kamala Harris said
52:11
Speaker 3: that we shouldn't impeach Donald Trump if we take control.
52:15
Speaker 3: But I think people missed the other things she said
52:18
Speaker 3: around that.
52:19
Speaker 19: Yeah, I'm torn on that.
52:20
Speaker 6: I was actually having a conversation with The Independent about
52:22
Speaker 6: this last night. And he's like, you guys just said
52:24
Speaker 6: you're going to impeach Donald Trump. I think the voters
52:27
Speaker 6: are very clear about that. that they do not like
52:29
Speaker 6: the corruption that is happening in this system. They want
52:31
Speaker 6: somebody to be held accountable. I think there are ways
52:33
Speaker 6: for people to be held accountable that don't include impeaching
52:36
Speaker 6: Donald Trump. And so I think that if the Democrats
52:41
Speaker 6: take the House, there should be oversight hearings and investigations.
52:44
Speaker 6: But that's not the only thing you can do. Like,
52:46
Speaker 6: people want their lives to improve. So that is like,
52:48
Speaker 6: you can do oversight hearings and investigations, but you also
52:51
Speaker 6: have to put forth an agenda to improve the quality.
52:54
Speaker 19: Of people's lives. Or we will be right back in
52:56
Speaker 19: the same position we were in 2024.
52:57
Speaker 3: So what should voters realistically expect Congress to do about affordability?
53:02
Speaker 6: Well, I think that they can draft some legislation on
53:04
Speaker 6: housing reform, on, like I said, the grocery piece, doing
53:08
Speaker 6: some supplements for like the farmers right now that are
53:11
Speaker 6: struggling so much that in rural areas. And then they
53:15
Speaker 6: have to ensure that, you know, Donald Trump could veto it.
53:18
Speaker 6: But then I think that People need to make that
53:20
Speaker 6: message clear that it is Donald Trump that is stopping
53:22
Speaker 6: those initiatives to go in.
53:24
Speaker 19: But they have to present those.
53:25
Speaker 6: They have to then they might have to negotiate with
53:27
Speaker 6: Republicans and not get get everything they want. I mean,
53:30
Speaker 6: I know people sometimes want folks to do everything perfectly like.
53:34
Speaker 19: That is really hard in Congress. Like you have to compromise.
53:37
Speaker 19: You have to. When I worked in the White House,
53:39
Speaker 19: I would be like, we need to do this and
53:40
Speaker 19: we need to do that. And it's like, well, that's
53:42
Speaker 19: not how it works.
53:43
Speaker 3: Like.
53:44
Speaker 6: I wasn't going to let perfection be the enemy of good, right?
53:47
Speaker 6: Or an enemy of progress. So they can pass bills.
53:50
Speaker 6: And if Donald Trump vetoes them, then the voters need
53:54
Speaker 6: to take that into account in 2020.
53:56
Speaker 1: It just seems easy because it seems like a human thing, right?
53:58
Speaker 1: It's not like you're asking for frivolous-ish.
54:01
Speaker 13: I mean, you're asking for food.
54:02
Speaker 3: Water.
54:02
Speaker 13: Affordable food.
54:03
Speaker 3: Affordable water.
54:04
Speaker 1: Affordable health care.
54:05
Speaker 3: Affordable gas. The basics. The basics.
54:07
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like it's a far ask.
54:09
Speaker 19: It's not. It really isn't. And I think that's what
54:12
Speaker 19: voters will say at the election ceremony.
54:14
Speaker 13: I hope.
54:14
Speaker 3: Are we witnessing a normal midterm backlash or is this
54:17
Speaker 3: something deep?
54:18
Speaker 19: Well, what is normal?
54:19
Speaker 1: I'm serious.
54:24
Speaker 19: I'm like, what are we doing, folks?
54:26
Speaker 6: Historically, when you have a president, there is backlash, right?
54:31
Speaker 6: The party in power usually loses.
54:34
Speaker 6: We didn't see that happen in 2022. And I think
54:37
Speaker 6: that was a misread by Democrats because they thought it
54:40
Speaker 6: was the Joe Biden policy agenda. But it really was
54:44
Speaker 6: because you remember that was the summer that the Dobbs
54:47
Speaker 6: decision came down that overturned women's right to have an abortion, right?
54:51
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
54:52
Speaker 6: That animated the electorate. I think we're seeing record numbers though.
54:56
Speaker 6: I think people don't like what's happening in our politics
55:00
Speaker 6: writ large and they want to do something to shake it.
55:03
Speaker 19: We'll see.
55:03
Speaker 1: I don't know.
55:04
Speaker 6: I think that like the states that are in play
55:06
Speaker 6: right now, I don't believe the polling. I never believed polling.
55:09
Speaker 6: The states that are in play right now, I don't
55:11
Speaker 6: think it is just about a midterm. I think it
55:13
Speaker 6: is about the electorate waking up and realizing like, for example,
55:17
Speaker 6: yesterday when I was on my way up here from
55:19
Speaker 6: New York, I was in a car and I was
55:21
Speaker 6: driving down 14th Street in D.C. There's a line down
55:25
Speaker 6: the block and I'm like, what's going on? And when
55:27
Speaker 6: I get to the end of the corner, they're handing
55:28
Speaker 6: out food. And I'm like, and I'm looking. And the
55:32
Speaker 6: reason why I was like, what's going on is because, like,
55:35
Speaker 6: I think people have this image of what poverty looks like.
55:39
Speaker 19: And these folks have fits on, you know, because they can't.
55:44
Speaker 3: Regular working people.
55:45
Speaker 9: That's how I was last year.
55:48
Speaker 5: I do a lot of work with the food bank.
55:49
Speaker 4: Yes.
55:49
Speaker 3: And when the government was shut down, I saw that.
55:53
Speaker 3: People are one paycheck away. It don't mean you homeless
55:55
Speaker 3: or in poverty. You've been paying their bills fine, but
55:58
Speaker 3: missed the paycheck. Now they got to be at the
56:00
Speaker 3: food bank.
56:00
Speaker 6: And I have to believe, and I do believe, those
56:03
Speaker 6: people go to work every day.
56:04
Speaker 3: That's right.
56:05
Speaker 19: They were standing with their kids.
56:07
Speaker 9: This is America.
56:09
Speaker 6: This is in Washington, D.C., literally 10 blocks from the
56:12
Speaker 6: White House, and people are waiting in line down a
56:15
Speaker 6: block to get a cooked meal.
56:17
Speaker 19: That is why you are seeing people. And it's not
56:19
Speaker 19: just food.
56:21
Speaker 12: It's gas.
56:22
Speaker 19: It's housing.
56:23
Speaker 12: It's healthcare.
56:25
Speaker 19: It's the tension and like the hate that people feel.
56:28
Speaker 6: Like you don't even know sometimes if you look at
56:30
Speaker 6: somebody the wrong way, like folks are so.
56:32
Speaker 19: On edge right now. And I think people are saying like,
56:35
Speaker 19: we got to wake up.
56:36
Speaker 6: And I actually think young people to play a role
56:38
Speaker 6: in this because they are like, I mean, I'm a millennial.
56:41
Speaker 6: I still feel like I'm young, but they look at
56:43
Speaker 6: us and they're like, we're not doing it the way
56:45
Speaker 6: y'all did it.
56:46
Speaker 19: We don't like this. We don't, we're going to be
56:48
Speaker 19: more inclusive.
56:49
Speaker 3: So, and I think this is one of the first
56:50
Speaker 3: times you can directly point and say, Gas is high
56:54
Speaker 3: because of this war.
56:56
Speaker 5: Yes.
56:56
Speaker 3: Retail prices are high because of your tariffs.
56:59
Speaker 10: Yes.
56:59
Speaker 3: You didn't release the F-15. You can directly point out
57:03
Speaker 3: exactly what the problem is.
57:05
Speaker 12: Yes.
57:05
Speaker 19: And then you have a ballroom.
57:07
Speaker 3: Yes. Right.
57:09
Speaker 19: Or you have a Halloween party where you serve king crab.
57:12
Speaker 4: Dang.
57:13
Speaker 13: Right?
57:14
Speaker 19: And have a zebra that you can pet.
57:15
Speaker 3: That's right.
57:16
Speaker 19: But I'm waiting in line to get food for my kid.
57:19
Speaker 9: Or I got to.
57:20
Speaker 8: Go steal king crab from a tractor trailer in the
57:23
Speaker 8: middle of Philly and sell it in Philly.
57:26
Speaker 18: Oh, really?
57:27
Speaker 1: Oh, I did see that. I saw, yeah.
57:29
Speaker 3: You ain't cop something. You got to hook up.
57:32
Speaker 9: You got to hook up, girl.
57:34
Speaker 3: I do want to ask you, I feel like you've
57:35
Speaker 3: been protecting your peace lately, right? I mean, we know
57:37
Speaker 3: you're the media owner, the root. You do a lot
57:40
Speaker 3: of things.
57:40
Speaker 2: Yeah.
57:41
Speaker 3: But I feel like I don't see you as much
57:43
Speaker 3: on CNN as I used to.
57:44
Speaker 11: Oh, well.
57:45
Speaker 3: I'm wondering if that's on purpose.
57:47
Speaker 19: I went to Africa for three weeks. Oh, I took a.
57:50
Speaker 13: Listen.
57:50
Speaker 9: Where'd you go in Africa?
57:51
Speaker 19: Okay, I took my mom.
57:53
Speaker 3: Okay.
57:54
Speaker 6: We went to Kenya for a week, Rwanda for a week,
57:57
Speaker 6: and Tanzania and Zanzibar.
57:58
Speaker 9: For a week.
57:59
Speaker 18: Oh, wow.
58:00
Speaker 19: And we had a family wedding.
58:01
Speaker 6: In Rwanda, and it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. And, like,
58:05
Speaker 6: you know, I think folks know this, but, like, right
58:07
Speaker 6: when I bought the Root, the very next... No, when
58:09
Speaker 6: I found out I was going to get the chance
58:11
Speaker 6: to buy the Root, the very next day I found
58:12
Speaker 6: out my mom was having quadruple bypass surgery, right? So I, like,
58:15
Speaker 6: negotiated this deal in her hospital room, caring for her, right?
58:20
Speaker 19: After you go through something like that, like, the.
58:23
Speaker 9: It's like what you've been spending all your time.
58:25
Speaker 19: And so I was just like, hey. And then I
58:27
Speaker 19: sent her back home and I stayed in Europe for
58:29
Speaker 19: a week.
58:30
Speaker 6: And I was just like, I'm blessed enough to be
58:32
Speaker 6: able to do it and I don't take it for granted.
58:34
Speaker 6: And I'm very clear on that because we just had
58:36
Speaker 6: this conversation how some people are really struggling right now.
58:39
Speaker 6: And I take my blessings not for granted at all
58:42
Speaker 6: and I'm very grateful. And I was like, you know,
58:44
Speaker 6: I'll see you in a month. You'll be here when
58:48
Speaker 6: I get back. So no, it's not intentional. I'm just like,
58:52
Speaker 6: And I, listen, I'm traveling all the time and you.
58:54
Speaker 19: Have to be on set. And like, I, my first responsibility.
58:58
Speaker 6: Is to make sure I preserve this institution, the root
59:01
Speaker 6: and that I care for it.
59:02
Speaker 19: And if that means I can't do as much CNN,
59:04
Speaker 19: that's why.
59:05
Speaker 15: You're prioritizing the things that matter for you like your
59:08
Speaker 15: real life and your legacy.
59:09
Speaker 3: Because you know you're going to be arguing with some
59:11
Speaker 3: white man on CNN as soon as you get on there. Yes,
59:14
Speaker 3: I do. I do.
59:15
Speaker 12: I do.
59:16
Speaker 3: Yeah.
59:17
Speaker 19: But I love it still.
59:18
Speaker 13: It's fun.
59:18
Speaker 15: I just love to hear a black woman in your
59:20
Speaker 15: position say that out loud because you feel like there's
59:24
Speaker 15: like a tug of war when you get to that
59:25
Speaker 15: point where you want to prioritize things that are not
59:27
Speaker 15: just work.
59:28
Speaker 11: Yeah.
59:28
Speaker 19: And I'm also trying to prioritize my health as well.
59:31
Speaker 21: Right.
59:31
Speaker 6: Like I really ran myself into the ground last year.
59:35
Speaker 6: Like when I went to the doctor, I had high
59:37
Speaker 6: cholesterol and high blood. And I'm like, I'm 44.
59:39
Speaker 19: I can't be on all these. You know what I mean?
59:41
Speaker 6: Like I want to live a long, healthy life. And so, yeah,
59:44
Speaker 6: you know, the older they say this, I never thought
59:47
Speaker 6: I was going to be that girl. But like the
59:49
Speaker 6: older you get, the more you just like prioritize other things.
59:52
Speaker 5: So predictions for the midterms.
59:54
Speaker 19: Oh, I don't like to do predictions.
59:56
Speaker 3: I don't.
59:57
Speaker 6: I swear to God, I have not done predictions. I
1:00:00
Speaker 6: won't say it on air. I just like, I'm keeping
1:00:03
Speaker 6: it inside. I know what I'm praying for, the outcome
1:00:05
Speaker 6: I'm praying for. And it's not about party, actually. There's
1:00:09
Speaker 6: something bigger that needs to happen in this country that
1:00:12
Speaker 6: needs to shift. It is disturbing a lot of times
1:00:16
Speaker 6: when I see all the hate that is around here.
1:00:18
Speaker 6: It's not healthy for humans to experience that.
1:00:22
Speaker 19: And so I'm not doing any predictions.
1:00:24
Speaker 6: I'm just praying for people to know their agency in
1:00:27
Speaker 6: this midterm, to engage in this democracy, and that when
1:00:31
Speaker 6: the results are the results, that we accept them and
1:00:34
Speaker 6: we have peace in this country and we don't have
1:00:36
Speaker 6: another January 6th or anything like that, and that adults
1:00:39
Speaker 6: in power will.
1:00:39
Speaker 19: Do the right thing.
1:00:40
Speaker 3: You got the Route 100, too. Yes.
1:00:43
Speaker 19: On a good note, you're trying to get me to
1:00:45
Speaker 19: go all like, Democrats!
1:00:47
Speaker 3: I'm not predicting anything.
1:00:49
Speaker 19: I will say this. I think there's going to be
1:00:50
Speaker 19: some surprises in midterms. Good and bad.
1:00:53
Speaker 11: I do.
1:00:54
Speaker 19: I think the map is going to look different this year.
1:00:58
Speaker 9: It already does.
1:00:59
Speaker 19: I just do. I really, really do.
1:01:01
Speaker 6: And I think that's exciting for politics because I think
1:01:04
Speaker 6: we can't forget about the South. We can't forget about
1:01:07
Speaker 6: the Midwest. We can't forget about Texas. So I think
1:01:11
Speaker 6: some stuff will... Be surprising to folks. And we do
1:01:13
Speaker 6: have the Route 100 and we're going to be announcing
1:01:15
Speaker 6: it last year.
1:01:16
Speaker 19: Y'all are on the list. We'll be announcing it November
1:01:20
Speaker 19: 12th and we'll be celebrating in December.
1:01:23
Speaker 3: Okay.
1:01:24
Speaker 5: Ashley Allison, y'all.
1:01:25
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us this morning.
1:01:26
Speaker 19: Thanks for having me.
1:01:27
Speaker 1: Appreciate you. And it's the Breakfast Club.
1:01:29
Speaker 13: Good morning.
1:01:29
Speaker 1: Let's get right to the latest with Lauren. on the
1:01:32
Speaker 1: breakfast club talk to me.
1:01:55
Speaker 15: Alrighty, alright, so last latest, we were talking a bit
1:01:57
Speaker 15: about the Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake documentary.
1:02:00
Speaker 9: Well, let me be clear about that.
1:02:02
Speaker 15: Justin Timberlake is dropping a three-part docuseries, it's supposed to
1:02:06
Speaker 15: be like a tell-all, and it's reportedly supposed, via Variety,
1:02:09
Speaker 15: supposed to feature Janet Jackson.
1:02:11
Speaker 9: And you guys were asking me like.
1:02:13
Speaker 1: I thought you said that.
1:02:14
Speaker 15: I did, but I wanted to clear it up because
1:02:15
Speaker 15: I just said it as if them two are working
1:02:17
Speaker 15: on something together, and it's his, not hers.
1:02:18
Speaker 3: No, you didn't.
1:02:19
Speaker 9: Okay, all right. I just wanted to make sure I
1:02:20
Speaker 9: was clear.
1:02:20
Speaker 1: You know people will take.
1:02:21
Speaker 3: Things wrong with it.
1:02:22
Speaker 1: Whenever you feel a little re-read, just ask me. You
1:02:23
Speaker 1: know I'll tell you if you re-read now.
1:02:24
Speaker 3: Continue on. You was fine.
1:02:25
Speaker 9: Not a source close to the re.
1:02:27
Speaker 3: We understand. All right, all right.
1:02:27
Speaker 12: Fight through it, Lauren.
1:02:29
Speaker 5: Fight through it, Lauren.
1:02:30
Speaker 15: The reason why I'm bringing this back, though, last hour, Charlamagne,
1:02:33
Speaker 15: you asked why... and people are calling it a malfunction.
1:02:37
Speaker 15: And I should have had this last hour, but I
1:02:38
Speaker 15: wanted to play it here. So in 2022, Janet Jackson
1:02:41
Speaker 15: did a two-part Lifetime and A & E documentary. And
1:02:45
Speaker 15: in that documentary, she addressed the Super Bowl incident herself.
1:02:47
Speaker 15: And she talked about, remember, she asked us to forgive
1:02:50
Speaker 15: Justin Timberlake. Let's take a listen to Janet Jackson on
1:02:53
Speaker 15: forgiving Justin.
1:02:54
Speaker 21: Honestly, this whole thing was blown way out of proportion.
1:02:58
Speaker 21: Of course, it was an accident that should not have happened, but...
1:03:01
Speaker 21: Everyone is looking for someone to blame and that's got
1:03:04
Speaker 21: to stop. Justin and I are very good friends and
1:03:08
Speaker 21: we will always be very good friends. We spoke just
1:03:11
Speaker 21: a few days ago and he and I have moved
1:03:14
Speaker 21: on and it's time for everyone.
1:03:15
Speaker 9: Else to do the same.
1:03:17
Speaker 12: Yeah.
1:03:18
Speaker 15: So, I mean, when people talk about it as a malfunction,
1:03:20
Speaker 15: it's because she has stated it that way. She also mentioned, too,
1:03:23
Speaker 15: that she told him not to make a statement at first. Like,
1:03:25
Speaker 15: she didn't want the things pointed at her. So maybe
1:03:27
Speaker 15: she'll get back into this.
1:03:28
Speaker 9: I'm not for sure.
1:03:29
Speaker 3: We're spending a lot of time on this titty, man.
1:03:30
Speaker 1: Too much time.
1:03:31
Speaker 9: Oh, my God. I just wanted to answer your question.
1:03:34
Speaker 9: But let's move on.
1:03:35
Speaker 15: So, Angel Reese, we were talking a bit about her
1:03:38
Speaker 15: earlier this morning on Netflix. We know that Angel Reese
1:03:41
Speaker 15: down in Atlanta, they just competed in Game 7. And
1:03:45
Speaker 15: she's saying that she may be taking a break. So
1:03:48
Speaker 15: according to the Barbie Archive, which is like a fan
1:03:51
Speaker 15: page for her, she says, Hi, my love bugs. I'll
1:03:53
Speaker 15: miss you all before I go for the next six months.
1:03:55
Speaker 15: I'm dedicated this I'm dedicating this offseason to myself. I
1:03:58
Speaker 15: won't be doing my podcast this offseason, but you can
1:04:01
Speaker 15: expect some vlogs from time to time. So subscribe to
1:04:03
Speaker 15: my YouTube channel. She says that she'll be down in Florida.
1:04:06
Speaker 15: She'll be resting, working out, continuing to work on her
1:04:08
Speaker 15: personal brand quietly and supporting her. loving on her partner,
1:04:11
Speaker 15: and doing the things that she loves to do that
1:04:13
Speaker 15: bring her some peace. So she's taking a break.
1:04:16
Speaker 1: Well, the season's over.
1:04:17
Speaker 15: Yeah, but you know what, Angel Reese, even outside of
1:04:20
Speaker 15: the season, it's the brand deals, it's the podcast.
1:04:22
Speaker 9: She's become like a cultural movement.
1:04:24
Speaker 1: Off the court.
1:04:24
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I think this is picking up because... She
1:04:28
Speaker 9: said she's.
1:04:29
Speaker 1: Not doing the podcast.
1:04:30
Speaker 5: She deserves it, man.
1:04:31
Speaker 3: Angel Reese is absolutely one of the best players in
1:04:33
Speaker 3: the league. Drop on the clues bombs for Angel Reese.
1:04:34
Speaker 3: I enjoy watching Angel Reese as a ball player. Not
1:04:38
Speaker 3: a woman ball player.
1:04:39
Speaker 1: No, she gets busy. Just a ball player. Angel Reese
1:04:41
Speaker 1: got that dog in her.
1:04:43
Speaker 11: Yeah.
1:04:43
Speaker 15: And I know that, like, I've seen people say that, like,
1:04:47
Speaker 15: even her deciding to take a setback if she does
1:04:49
Speaker 15: that is because they didn't win. But I think it's
1:04:51
Speaker 15: fair for her to focus on what she wants to
1:04:52
Speaker 15: focus on.
1:04:52
Speaker 1: Now, she put a lot of energy into basketball and playing,
1:04:54
Speaker 1: and sometimes they just need to breathe them.
1:04:56
Speaker 16: There's nothing wrong with that.
1:04:58
Speaker 3: At all.
1:04:58
Speaker 5: Listen, her offensive game got.
1:05:00
Speaker 3: tremendously better this year she was the principal player of
1:05:02
Speaker 3: the year this year she's probably going to work out
1:05:05
Speaker 3: even harder to come back to like really seal the
1:05:07
Speaker 3: deal next year absolutely you know because you know getting
1:05:09
Speaker 3: there one time and getting to a game seven is
1:05:11
Speaker 3: one thing getting back is even harder.
1:05:13
Speaker 15: Yep yep all right well shifting gears a bit uh
1:05:16
Speaker 15: Dirk um there are reports right now that Dirk has
1:05:19
Speaker 15: been placed in solitary confinement We talked about Dirk last
1:05:22
Speaker 15: because I told you guys that he was awaiting to
1:05:24
Speaker 15: number one, see if he was going to be released
1:05:26
Speaker 15: on any type of bond. But he does still have
1:05:28
Speaker 15: that racketeering trial that he has to be in L.A.
1:05:30
Speaker 6: For.
1:05:31
Speaker 15: So according to reports, he is been placed on or
1:05:35
Speaker 15: been placed in a shoe. And a lot of this
1:05:37
Speaker 15: is happening because there has been constant searches of his cell. Now,
1:05:41
Speaker 15: according to prison authorities that are talking to TMZ, they're
1:05:45
Speaker 15: saying that during these searches, nothing has been found. No
1:05:47
Speaker 15: contraband or anything has been found since he was acquitted.
1:05:50
Speaker 15: And the murder for hire case. But we're told that
1:05:53
Speaker 15: or they're told TMZ is told that because they begin
1:05:55
Speaker 15: asking questions about why they're continuing and keep searching where
1:05:59
Speaker 15: he's staying. He was placed in the shoe and reprimanded
1:06:02
Speaker 15: for allegedly talking back.
1:06:03
Speaker 3: What is the shoe?
1:06:04
Speaker 19: That's when you go on solitary.
1:06:05
Speaker 9: So they take you away from everything.
1:06:07
Speaker 1: So he asked why I keep running into my cell
1:06:11
Speaker 1: and that's the reason why.
1:06:12
Speaker 9: According to these reports now.
1:06:13
Speaker 21: So BS.
1:06:13
Speaker 1: It sounds like BS.
1:06:15
Speaker 7: Right.
1:06:15
Speaker 15: But the Bureau of Prisons, they won't comment on this.
1:06:17
Speaker 15: They always say this for privacy and security. But if
1:06:20
Speaker 15: that is true, that is BS.
1:06:23
Speaker 9: You should be able to ask. You have rights even
1:06:25
Speaker 9: though you're behind bars.
1:06:25
Speaker 3: So, yes.
1:06:26
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
1:06:27
Speaker 9: All right, y'all. And that's the latest for the hour.
1:06:30
Speaker 1: And that's it. They moved Diddy's time up again?
1:06:33
Speaker 15: Yes and the reason why I didn't report that is
1:06:34
Speaker 15: I'm so tired of these stories where it's like it
1:06:36
Speaker 15: moves a couple months and then it moves back a
1:06:38
Speaker 15: couple months and then it yeah but it's supposed to
1:06:40
Speaker 15: be like a bit earlier now but it's only like
1:06:43
Speaker 15: three weeks.
1:06:44
Speaker 1: Only three weeks that's so long time when you're.
1:06:46
Speaker 15: In jail but I think for it to be such
1:06:47
Speaker 15: a major story it's like Is the time going to
1:06:50
Speaker 15: be cut?
1:06:51
Speaker 9: Is he going to be released? We're still waiting to appeal.
1:06:54
Speaker 1: Three weeks is a long time, Lauren.
1:06:55
Speaker 9: Three weeks is a long time for him there.
1:06:57
Speaker 15: But for us here, it's like, I think that there's
1:07:00
Speaker 15: bigger things and conversations that we are waiting to hear
1:07:02
Speaker 15: about with him.
1:07:03
Speaker 9: But yes, MB, it was moved.
1:07:05
Speaker 3: Up three weeks. All right.
1:07:06
Speaker 5: All right.
1:07:06
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Speaker 1: All right, Charlamagne, who you giving that donkey to?
1:07:21
Speaker 3: Listen, man, for everybody out there who is thinking about
1:07:24
Speaker 3: not getting up off their ass today and going to
1:07:27
Speaker 3: cast their vote, you need to come to the front
1:07:29
Speaker 3: of the congregation.
1:07:29
Speaker 5: We'd like to have a word with you, okay?
1:07:30
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to that next. It's The Breakfast Club.
1:07:32
Speaker 6: Good morning.
1:07:34
Speaker 12: This is America.
1:07:37
Speaker 20: There is no question that there are problems in this
1:07:40
Speaker 20: country between police and community.
1:07:42
Speaker 3: Yes.
1:07:44
Speaker 5: You are a donkey.
1:07:46
Speaker 3: The latest on that police killing of a black man.
1:07:48
Speaker 1: Now to new developments in the deadly spa shooting rampage.
1:07:51
Speaker 13: It was a really bad day for him and this
1:07:53
Speaker 13: is what he did.
1:07:53
Speaker 9: And so we are in a state of emergency.
1:07:57
Speaker 3: White supremacist violence is and always has been the number
1:08:01
Speaker 3: one threat to our society.
1:08:02
Speaker 2: But I'm also very proud that my wife is white.
1:08:06
Speaker 3: That's a breakfast club, bitches.
1:08:07
Speaker 12: All right, Charlene, please tell me, why was I.
1:08:10
Speaker 19: Your donkey of the day?
1:08:12
Speaker 3: Well, donkey of the day for Tuesday, November 3rd, Election Day,
1:08:15
Speaker 3: goes to everybody out there who is still holding on
1:08:17
Speaker 3: to the idea that your vote doesn't matter, okay?
1:08:20
Speaker 5: And you have zero plans.
1:08:22
Speaker 3: To vote today all right if you have zero plans
1:08:24
Speaker 3: to vote today i'm talking to you okay now i
1:08:26
Speaker 3: want to be clear this isn't geared towards the people
1:08:29
Speaker 3: who can't vote okay this isn't about people who face
1:08:32
Speaker 3: real obstacles getting to the polls i'm talking about this
1:08:34
Speaker 3: belief that elections don't affect your life so there's no
1:08:37
Speaker 3: reason to pay attention let me repeat again today is
1:08:40
Speaker 3: election day in america And whether you're a Democrat, Republican, independent, progressive, conservative,
1:08:46
Speaker 3: or somebody who doesn't trust either party, there's something we
1:08:50
Speaker 3: all need to understand. In the words of the good
1:08:52
Speaker 3: sister Nina Turner, you may not do politics, but politics
1:08:55
Speaker 3: will do you.
1:08:57
Speaker 5: Okay.
1:08:57
Speaker 1: I also like to say you may not be interested
1:08:59
Speaker 1: in politics.
1:09:00
Speaker 3: Politics but politics is absolutely interested in you politics is
1:09:04
Speaker 3: interested in your paycheck okay it's interested in your rent
1:09:07
Speaker 3: It's interesting in your health care.
1:09:09
Speaker 5: It's interesting in your children's education. It's interesting in your
1:09:12
Speaker 5: property taxes. It's interesting in your reproductive rights, your neighborhood,
1:09:15
Speaker 5: your business, all that.
1:09:17
Speaker 3: OK, politics determines who writes the laws, who enforces the
1:09:20
Speaker 3: laws and who gets to decide how your tax dollars
1:09:23
Speaker 3: are spent. By the way, I'm all for taxing the billionaires.
1:09:27
Speaker 3: I'm all for taxing the wealthy, but we need proper
1:09:29
Speaker 3: legislation in place. to make sure those tax dollars go
1:09:32
Speaker 3: to where they need to go to.
1:09:33
Speaker 5: But guess what? That's all politics. And here's what I
1:09:36
Speaker 5: don't understand.
1:09:36
Speaker 3: We live in a country where people complain about the
1:09:39
Speaker 3: government every single day.
1:09:40
Speaker 1: You know I do, okay? Everybody's frustrated about something, all right?
1:09:44
Speaker 3: The economy, the healthcare, the immigration, the housing, the education system,
1:09:46
Speaker 3: the criminal justice system. But somehow, we still have people
1:09:50
Speaker 3: who believe elections have absolutely nothing to do with any
1:09:54
Speaker 3: of those things. That's nuts to me. OK, explain to
1:09:57
Speaker 3: me how y'all have come to that conclusion. Inquiring minds
1:10:00
Speaker 3: would like to know. Now, I completely overstand why people
1:10:03
Speaker 3: are frustrated. OK, because these politicians be lying. OK, these
1:10:07
Speaker 3: politicians be making promises they don't keep. All right. Political
1:10:10
Speaker 3: parties take communities, especially black communities, for granted. And sometimes
1:10:14
Speaker 3: it feels like no matter who's in office, ordinary people
1:10:17
Speaker 3: are still struggling. Those are legitimate complaints. But here's the question.
1:10:21
Speaker 3: If you don't trust the people in power. Why would
1:10:24
Speaker 3: you want less influence over who gets that power? Think
1:10:28
Speaker 3: about that for a second. If you believe the system
1:10:31
Speaker 3: is broken, then what part of sitting out an election helps.
1:10:35
Speaker 5: You to fix that system?
1:10:36
Speaker 3: And if you believe both political parties are failing you,
1:10:39
Speaker 3: that's a reason to demand better candidates.
1:10:42
Speaker 5: It's a reason to demand better policies.
1:10:44
Speaker 3: And better accountability. But it's not a reason... to stop
1:10:47
Speaker 3: paying attention and not participate.
1:10:49
Speaker 5: OK, have we not realized.
1:10:51
Speaker 3: Probably more than ever at any point in history that
1:10:54
Speaker 3: elections have consequences? OK, we're watching decisions being made in
1:10:58
Speaker 3: Washington and state capitals.
1:11:00
Speaker 5: That affect millions of Americans.
1:11:02
Speaker 3: And today, Americans are choosing members of Congress, governors, and
1:11:06
Speaker 3: other elected officials who will have a say in those decisions.
1:11:09
Speaker 3: I'm not about to sit here and BS people, though, okay?
1:11:12
Speaker 3: Voting is not magic, all right? Voting doesn't guarantee that
1:11:15
Speaker 3: your candidate will win today. OK, it doesn't guarantee that,
1:11:19
Speaker 3: you know, politicians will keep their promises when elected. And
1:11:22
Speaker 3: it damn sure doesn't mean your responsibility ends when you
1:11:24
Speaker 3: leave the voting booth. OK, democracy requires more than showing
1:11:29
Speaker 3: up once every two or four years. It requires paying
1:11:32
Speaker 3: attention at all times. It requires organizing. You have to
1:11:35
Speaker 3: hold your elected officials accountable and sometimes replace them when
1:11:38
Speaker 3: they don't do the job. But as I always tell people,
1:11:41
Speaker 3: if you don't have any other ideas. Shut the F
1:11:44
Speaker 3: up for heaven and go vote. Okay. Your vote is
1:11:48
Speaker 3: one of the tools available to you that makes them change.
1:11:51
Speaker 3: And personally, I can't voluntarily throw that tool away while
1:11:55
Speaker 3: complaining that I have no power.
1:11:57
Speaker 9: Okay.
1:11:57
Speaker 3: You don't have to love a politician to understand the
1:11:59
Speaker 3: importance of choosing who has authority over your life.
1:12:02
Speaker 5: You don't have to worship a political party.
1:12:04
Speaker 3: You don't have to defend every decision your preferred candidate makes.
1:12:08
Speaker 5: Matter of fact, you shouldn't.
1:12:09
Speaker 13: Okay.
1:12:10
Speaker 3: Everyone should be challenged at all times because politicians work
1:12:12
Speaker 3: for the people and The people don't work for politicians.
1:12:15
Speaker 3: And the minute we forget that we've already lost sight
1:12:18
Speaker 3: of what democracy is supposed to be. OK, all I'm
1:12:21
Speaker 3: simply saying is if you're frustrated with this country, I
1:12:24
Speaker 3: understand if you're disappointed in the political system. I understand that, too.
1:12:28
Speaker 3: But don't confuse being disappointed in democracy with being powerless
1:12:33
Speaker 3: within it.
1:12:34
Speaker 5: OK, you have a vote. And that vote is your power.
1:12:36
Speaker 3: And even when that vote doesn't produce the outcome you wanted,
1:12:39
Speaker 3: it still deserves to be casted. So today, don't let
1:12:42
Speaker 3: anybody tell you that you have to be loyal to
1:12:45
Speaker 3: a party, a politician, or a political personality. Be loyal
1:12:49
Speaker 3: to your principles. Be loyal to your community. Be loyal
1:12:53
Speaker 3: to the future you want to see because the government
1:12:56
Speaker 3: is going to make decisions that affect your life whether
1:12:58
Speaker 3: you participate in the election or not.
1:13:01
Speaker 5: The question is.
1:13:04
Speaker 3: whether you're going to have a say in choosing the
1:13:06
Speaker 3: people who make those decisions.
1:13:08
Speaker 5: So please give.
1:13:09
Speaker 3: Everyone who's just, you know, sitting around refusing to participate
1:13:15
Speaker 3: in the election today. The biggest. I am going to
1:13:21
Speaker 3: do my civic duty.
1:13:22
Speaker 5: I love that.
1:13:23
Speaker 1: All right.
1:13:24
Speaker 3: Soon as I leave.
1:13:25
Speaker 13: Yeah.
1:13:27
Speaker 1: Listen, he's not like little Richard.
1:13:29
Speaker 18: Little Dick.
1:13:33
Speaker 5: Shoes as I leave here.
1:13:37
Speaker 1: All right, little bit.
1:13:38
Speaker 12: Stupid, guys.
1:13:41
Speaker 1: Thank you for that donkey today.
1:13:42
Speaker 3: Shut up. You see what I'm saying? What?
1:13:44
Speaker 11: Liar.
1:13:44
Speaker 1: I ain't doing it. Like, shut up.
1:13:46
Speaker 3: Anyway, speaking of bottoms, Keisha Lance Bottoms is going to
1:13:49
Speaker 3: be joining us next. She's running for governor of Georgia, okay?
1:13:52
Speaker 3: And she's zooming in just to say what's up.
1:13:54
Speaker 13: That's right.
1:13:55
Speaker 5: And to encourage y'all to get to the polls.
1:13:56
Speaker 1: That's right. We're going to talk to her next.
1:13:57
Speaker 3: So don't move.
1:13:58
Speaker 1: It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.
1:13:59
Speaker 3: Morning, everybody.
1:13:59
Speaker 1: It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are
1:14:03
Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club. It's election day, and we got a
1:14:05
Speaker 1: special guest on the line. Running for governor of Georgia,
1:14:09
Speaker 1: Keisha Lance Bottoms.
1:14:10
Speaker 12: Good morning. It's great to be with you.
1:14:12
Speaker 5: You know, I was looking at the polls, man.
1:14:15
Speaker 3: Only point oh three percent separates you and Rick Jackson.
1:14:22
Speaker 5: What does that what does that mean exactly?
1:14:24
Speaker 11: I think it means that it's going to come down
1:14:25
Speaker 11: to the wire. We always knew that this is going
1:14:28
Speaker 11: to be a close race. But to put it into context,
1:14:31
Speaker 11: this man has spent over two hundred and twenty million
1:14:34
Speaker 11: dollars in this campaign, over one hundred million dollars.
1:14:37
Speaker 12: Against me alone. And we are tied.
1:14:40
Speaker 11: So it speaks to the power of the movement that
1:14:44
Speaker 11: we have with this campaign. And we're just reminding people
1:14:46
Speaker 11: don't get comfortable with those early vote turnouts. You got
1:14:50
Speaker 11: to turn out today, run through the tape and then
1:14:53
Speaker 11: we'll celebrate later.
1:14:55
Speaker 1: Have you have you been seeing anything that looks a
1:14:57
Speaker 1: little crazy at the polls out in Georgia at all?
1:14:59
Speaker 12: There were a few flags that we've had.
1:15:01
Speaker 11: Nothing that seems to be systemic.
1:15:05
Speaker 12: It all seems to be one-offs.
1:15:07
Speaker 11: Some people have gotten letters questioning their registration. Someone was
1:15:12
Speaker 11: told they had to take a class in order to vote.
1:15:15
Speaker 12: But we we don't see a pattern yet.
1:15:19
Speaker 11: But hopefully, you know, those were just one off and
1:15:22
Speaker 11: it's not something larger going on.
1:15:24
Speaker 3: Gotcha. You know, Keisha, Georgia has become one of the
1:15:28
Speaker 3: most politically important states in America. Right.
1:15:31
Speaker 5: But there's still.
1:15:32
Speaker 3: A lot of distrust toward both parties. What would you
1:15:35
Speaker 3: say to a voter who's sitting at home right now
1:15:37
Speaker 3: deciding whether they want to go out and vote, who
1:15:40
Speaker 3: believes politicians only come around when they need votes and
1:15:42
Speaker 3: disappear once they're elected?
1:15:43
Speaker 5: What would you say to that person to get them
1:15:45
Speaker 5: off the couch this morning?
1:15:46
Speaker 11: I would say that it's understandable, but not to give
1:15:49
Speaker 11: up on our democracy, that our voices are reflected through
1:15:53
Speaker 11: our votes and everything that you care about comes through government.
1:15:59
Speaker 11: Whether it is, will a hospital stay open in your community?
1:16:03
Speaker 11: Will there be a library? How your schools will be funded?
1:16:06
Speaker 11: Will that pothole be filled? Will that bridge be repaired?
1:16:10
Speaker 11: I mean, it all boils down to government. So when
1:16:15
Speaker 11: you stay home and don't vote, you are voting for
1:16:18
Speaker 11: something that most likely it's not in your best interest.
1:16:22
Speaker 8: Also, just to piggyback from what Charlotte said, more specifically,
1:16:26
Speaker 8: how would you activate the youth?
1:16:27
Speaker 19: Well, you know what?
1:16:28
Speaker 11: Thankfully, we have seen a significant uptick in our young
1:16:33
Speaker 11: voters turning out to vote. But again, we need more
1:16:37
Speaker 11: because what people have to understand, there's still enough votes
1:16:40
Speaker 11: out there on either side for it to go either
1:16:43
Speaker 11: way for our young people. I've heard them loud and
1:16:46
Speaker 11: clear when they've talked about wanting access to mental health services.
1:16:49
Speaker 11: That's probably the number one concern I hear from high
1:16:53
Speaker 11: school students and college students. They're concerned about AI and
1:16:56
Speaker 11: is it going to take away their possibilities of having
1:16:59
Speaker 11: jobs in the future and then the cost of living?
1:17:02
Speaker 11: You know, they're questioning, is my education worth it? So
1:17:06
Speaker 11: I've heard them. I've been working on policies to address
1:17:10
Speaker 11: these issues that we've heard, like expanding our 988 mental
1:17:14
Speaker 11: health access services, making sure that we have a pathway
1:17:18
Speaker 11: to free technical and community college, and then proposing things
1:17:21
Speaker 11: like eliminating our grocery taxes in Georgia and taxes on diapers,
1:17:26
Speaker 11: baby formula, and feminine hygiene products.
1:17:29
Speaker 1: We've had, I'm not sure the gentleman, I'm not sure
1:17:32
Speaker 1: if he was running for governor. I can't remember, but
1:17:34
Speaker 1: he was talking about house taxes, right? Home taxes. And
1:17:37
Speaker 1: he was saying that a lot of times, especially in
1:17:39
Speaker 1: our community, Generation 12 comes from Families passing down homes
1:17:43
Speaker 1: from years and years and years.
1:17:44
Speaker 17: Dr.
1:17:45
Speaker 5: Jermaine Johnson of South Carolina.
1:17:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dr.
1:17:47
Speaker 1: Jermaine Johnson. And he was talking about how, you know,
1:17:49
Speaker 1: you can pay off your house in 30 years and
1:17:51
Speaker 1: you own that house, but you don't pay your taxes
1:17:54
Speaker 1: in two or three years and they automatically take your house.
1:17:56
Speaker 1: What's your thoughts on that? Because it seems like that's
1:17:59
Speaker 1: a way that we're losing a lot of our quote
1:18:00
Speaker 1: unquote generational wealth and these houses that's been passed down
1:18:03
Speaker 1: from our ancestors. Grandmothers, great-grandmothers, our great-great-grands. What are your
1:18:07
Speaker 1: thoughts on that?
1:18:07
Speaker 12: Yeah, and my family is experiencing this.
1:18:10
Speaker 11: My mother owns the home that my grandparents built. And
1:18:16
Speaker 11: when those taxes come due, you know, my mom's a senior,
1:18:19
Speaker 11: and she is trying to figure out how she's going
1:18:21
Speaker 11: to pay those taxes in lump sum. So what I
1:18:24
Speaker 11: did when I was mayor of Atlanta was I created
1:18:27
Speaker 11: an affordable housing trust fund and it allowed us to
1:18:31
Speaker 11: do just that to offset rising property taxes. The first
1:18:35
Speaker 11: legislation I proposed was when I was on city council
1:18:38
Speaker 11: and we did it outside of the Mercedes-Benz stadium because
1:18:41
Speaker 11: we knew gentrification was going to hit that area hard.
1:18:45
Speaker 11: We now expanded it citywide and I want to expand
1:18:49
Speaker 11: that and full fund it statewide. And not only helps
1:18:52
Speaker 11: people be able to pay their property taxes, our seniors
1:18:56
Speaker 11: or people who may not be able to afford to
1:18:58
Speaker 11: do it, but also, you know, with down payment assistance,
1:19:01
Speaker 11: rental assistance. And then just one other thing I'll say,
1:19:05
Speaker 11: another challenge we have is with air property, where grandparents
1:19:08
Speaker 11: leave the home and they don't leave a will. So
1:19:12
Speaker 11: that's a huge issue, especially in Black communities. So we
1:19:16
Speaker 11: are working on policies to help make it easier for
1:19:19
Speaker 11: people to clean up those titles.
1:19:21
Speaker 3: You know, Election Day is one of those moments when,
1:19:23
Speaker 3: you know, you've done everything you can.
1:19:25
Speaker 4: Right.
1:19:25
Speaker 3: Like, you know, shook all the hands, kissed all the babies,
1:19:28
Speaker 3: you know, knocked on all the doors. And now the
1:19:30
Speaker 3: decision is in the hands of the voters. How difficult
1:19:33
Speaker 3: is it for you to surrender control?
1:19:35
Speaker 11: You know what, Charlamagne, I can tell you from the
1:19:38
Speaker 11: beginning of this campaign, I've just tried to do what
1:19:42
Speaker 11: I knew in my heart and what I believe God
1:19:44
Speaker 11: would have me to do.
1:19:46
Speaker 12: And I've said I've done.
1:19:48
Speaker 11: All that I humanly can do. I don't know what
1:19:51
Speaker 11: else I can do physically, emotionally, mentally. And it's up
1:19:56
Speaker 11: to God and the people at this point.
1:19:59
Speaker 3: Are you somebody who trusts who trust God? I mean,
1:20:01
Speaker 3: I know you do this. I know you trust God's
1:20:03
Speaker 3: divine process. But do you trust the process or do
1:20:06
Speaker 3: you find yourself worrying about every possible outcome in regards
1:20:08
Speaker 3: to how this could turn out?
1:20:10
Speaker 12: No, you know, I.
1:20:11
Speaker 11: Just as a person of faith, I want his will
1:20:13
Speaker 11: to be done. But I also know faith without works
1:20:16
Speaker 11: is dead. So, you know, I can't just believe and
1:20:19
Speaker 11: then sit at home and do nothing.
1:20:22
Speaker 12: I believed, and then we went out and did the work.
1:20:25
Speaker 12: And to be up.
1:20:25
Speaker 11: Against a billionaire who's put over $ 200 million, and for us,
1:20:31
Speaker 11: depending on the poll, we're either tied or leading, it
1:20:37
Speaker 11: speaks just to the power that the people have. And
1:20:41
Speaker 11: you can go up against giants, but the bigger they are,
1:20:45
Speaker 11: the harder they fall, I believe.
1:20:48
Speaker 12: And this man... has been a giant when it comes
1:20:51
Speaker 12: to his money.
1:20:52
Speaker 11: But it's like I said to our supporters last night,
1:20:54
Speaker 11: he ain't no match for our God. So, you know,
1:20:58
Speaker 11: my faith is strong and my work ethic is unparalleled.
1:21:02
Speaker 12: So we've done the work.
1:21:03
Speaker 11: I have an incredible team of volunteers, a meek and
1:21:06
Speaker 11: mighty team and my campaign staff, and we're running through
1:21:10
Speaker 11: the tape.
1:21:11
Speaker 14: Right.
1:21:11
Speaker 1: And if you're joining us right now on Netflix, I
1:21:13
Speaker 1: know a lot of you guys just tuned in. We're
1:21:14
Speaker 1: talking to a Keisha Lance Bottoms, who's running for governor
1:21:17
Speaker 1: of Georgia today. And she's telling you guys to get
1:21:20
Speaker 1: out there and vote, vote, vote, vote. Make sure you
1:21:22
Speaker 1: leave the house. I know that a lot of you
1:21:25
Speaker 1: guys are exhausted. Bring your ass out and get it
1:21:27
Speaker 1: to them polls today.
1:21:28
Speaker 3: Do you have a particular prayer, Keisha, or scripture, or
1:21:31
Speaker 3: spiritual practice that helps you stay grounded on a day
1:21:33
Speaker 3: like today?
1:21:34
Speaker 11: You know, my favorite, there are two. My grandmother's scripture was,
1:21:40
Speaker 11: all things work for the good of those who love
1:21:41
Speaker 11: the Lord and are called according to his purpose.
1:21:44
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
1:21:44
Speaker 11: And then Proverbs 19, 21, many are the plans of
1:21:49
Speaker 11: a man's.
1:21:50
Speaker 12: Heart, but it's the Lord's purpose that prevails.
1:21:53
Speaker 11: So many are the plans of a woman's heart, but
1:21:56
Speaker 11: his purpose will always prevail. And I just tell people,
1:21:59
Speaker 11: you know, even if you aren't in Georgia, you may
1:22:02
Speaker 11: know somebody who knows somebody in Georgia. Everybody got a
1:22:05
Speaker 11: cousin in Georgia. I got 25 of them who came
1:22:09
Speaker 11: from Chicago yesterday.
1:22:10
Speaker 4: So.
1:22:11
Speaker 11: Everybody knows somebody. Just let's let's just all do our
1:22:15
Speaker 11: part because I truly believe so goes Georgia goes to
1:22:19
Speaker 11: South and so goes the South goes America.
1:22:22
Speaker 3: That's right. My last question, Keisha, when you put your
1:22:25
Speaker 3: head on the pillow tonight, OK, regardless of the results,
1:22:29
Speaker 3: what do you want to be able to say to
1:22:30
Speaker 3: yourself about this journey?
1:22:31
Speaker 11: I want to be able to say that I was
1:22:34
Speaker 11: obedient and I did it right by the people. When
1:22:37
Speaker 11: I prayed at the beginning of this campaign about whether
1:22:40
Speaker 11: or not I should get in, and I was so
1:22:43
Speaker 11: glad I actually did a selfie video. You know, I
1:22:47
Speaker 11: was really uncomfortable getting out of my comfort zone. But
1:22:52
Speaker 11: I knew it was the thing that I was supposed
1:22:55
Speaker 11: to do. And I just my prayer is that I've
1:22:58
Speaker 11: done right by the people as I've gone throughout this
1:23:01
Speaker 11: campaign trail and God willing, when I'm victorious, that I'll.
1:23:04
Speaker 12: Be the leader that he wants me to be.
1:23:07
Speaker 11: Right now, people are hurting. People need leaders to stand
1:23:11
Speaker 11: in the gap. So I just I hope to continue
1:23:15
Speaker 11: to be able to do the work that needs to
1:23:17
Speaker 11: be done.
1:23:19
Speaker 3: I hope when you put your head on that pillow tonight,
1:23:21
Speaker 3: you know, you're putting your head on that pillow as
1:23:22
Speaker 3: the governor of Georgia.
1:23:24
Speaker 5: That's what I hope.
1:23:25
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
1:23:26
Speaker 9: And real quick, how do you wrap your hair at night?
1:23:28
Speaker 9: Girl is sitting.
1:23:32
Speaker 12: Let me tell you. This hair has done about all
1:23:35
Speaker 12: it can do.
1:23:36
Speaker 8: It's so smooth looking, though.
1:23:40
Speaker 13: It's nice.
1:23:42
Speaker 11: I just hope that my hair appointment doesn't get bumped
1:23:46
Speaker 11: before I have to go on that stage.
1:23:50
Speaker 1: Well, Keisha Lance Bonner, we appreciate you checking in, and
1:23:53
Speaker 1: good luck today. We wish you the best.
1:23:55
Speaker 3: Thank you.
1:23:56
Speaker 12: Appreciate you all.
1:23:57
Speaker 9: No problem.
1:23:57
Speaker 1: It's The Breakfast Club. It's Keisha Lance Bonner.
1:23:59
Speaker 3: Morning, everybody.
1:24:00
Speaker 1: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarion, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
1:24:03
Speaker 3: We are The Breakfast Club.
1:24:04
Speaker 1: Our sis Angela Rye is with us this morning.
1:24:06
Speaker 3: Good morning.
1:24:06
Speaker 1: It's Election Day, and we got another special guest in
1:24:09
Speaker 1: the building. We have Jasmine Crockett.
1:24:11
Speaker 13: Welcome.
1:24:11
Speaker 22: Yes, good morning.
1:24:13
Speaker 9: It's Election Day.
1:24:14
Speaker 11: Yes.
1:24:17
Speaker 1: How you feeling?
1:24:18
Speaker 12: Oh, my God.
1:24:19
Speaker 22: I am so worried for this election to be over.
1:24:20
Speaker 22: I think everybody's tired. But I think that it's going
1:24:23
Speaker 22: to be a really good night.
1:24:24
Speaker 15: I don't know if it's going to be as good
1:24:26
Speaker 15: as the polls think it's going to be, but it's
1:24:28
Speaker 15: definitely going to be a good night if you're a Democrat.
1:24:30
Speaker 3: You know, Texas got one of the most closely watched
1:24:32
Speaker 3: Senate races in the country.
1:24:33
Speaker 4: Yes.
1:24:34
Speaker 3: For everything you've experienced this election cycle, what are you
1:24:36
Speaker 3: feeling this morning?
1:24:38
Speaker 15: You know, I think that Texas is going to be
1:24:40
Speaker 15: closer than what everybody thinks it's going to be, what
1:24:43
Speaker 15: the polls are saying.
1:24:44
Speaker 19: But looking at.
1:24:45
Speaker 22: The turnout, listen, it's the theory that I put out there.
1:24:49
Speaker 15: I said that we're a majority minority state right now.
1:24:52
Speaker 15: People of color are leading the way in the turnout.
1:24:55
Speaker 15: I said that we had the votes. We just needed
1:24:57
Speaker 15: to turn people out. We have so many new voters
1:25:00
Speaker 15: right now. So I think that Texas is doing what
1:25:02
Speaker 15: it needs to do. So I think it's going to
1:25:04
Speaker 15: be a really good night. It's still Texas. But I
1:25:06
Speaker 15: think that if Republicans stay home, stay home, I think
1:25:11
Speaker 15: it'll be an even better night. One of the things
1:25:13
Speaker 15: that I have been fascinated with over the last couple
1:25:16
Speaker 15: of days is Haley Stevens, your colleague in the house.
1:25:21
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm gonna bring it up.
1:25:24
Speaker 15: I'm gonna bring it up because you caught a lot
1:25:28
Speaker 15: of flack for endorsing James Tallarico, not appearing with James
1:25:32
Speaker 15: Tallarico though.
1:25:33
Speaker 9: And Haley Stevens said, hold my beer.
1:25:36
Speaker 15: I'm going to go ahead and endorse the Republican show
1:25:38
Speaker 15: up to perfecting church where he couldn't get a standing ovation.
1:25:41
Speaker 9: I'm talking about Mike Rogers.
1:25:43
Speaker 15: She showed up to endorse Mike Rogers, who is running
1:25:45
Speaker 15: against Abdul El-Sayed.
1:25:47
Speaker 9: What do you say to that?
1:25:48
Speaker 15: And if you were seeing Haley Stevens today and anybody
1:25:51
Speaker 15: who would be influenced by her, what would you tell them? Listen,
1:25:55
Speaker 15: first of all, I think that Haley did Abdul a favor, honestly.
1:25:59
Speaker 15: I will tell you that there have been reports that
1:26:02
Speaker 15: there have been some issues specifically within the black community
1:26:05
Speaker 15: with Abdul El-Sayed. But I think that this is actually
1:26:08
Speaker 15: going to give him a boost. So I think when
1:26:10
Speaker 15: he wins tonight, he may need to call Haley and
1:26:13
Speaker 15: say thank you. He had an infusion of cash of
1:26:15
Speaker 15: over $ 2 million in 24 hours at the very end
1:26:18
Speaker 15: of a tight race.
1:26:19
Speaker 22: That's the kind of day that you want.
1:26:22
Speaker 15: And I think that a lot of people were frustrated
1:26:24
Speaker 15: in the role that Haley attempted to put the black
1:26:27
Speaker 15: church in this. She could have went out, endorsed him,
1:26:31
Speaker 15: got on her social media, left that at that. I
1:26:33
Speaker 15: still take issue with it as a Democrat. I don't
1:26:35
Speaker 15: think that you can say that you're a team player
1:26:37
Speaker 15: and you were running to run against that particular person.
1:26:41
Speaker 15: And then you say, never mind, I would rather it
1:26:43
Speaker 15: be the Republican. And the reality is that, listen, Mike
1:26:47
Speaker 15: works with us. We know his voting record. For everybody
1:26:50
Speaker 15: that is upset because their insurance premiums are up, which
1:26:53
Speaker 15: is basically everyone, they should feel like this is a problem.
1:26:56
Speaker 15: For every single Black woman that is out of work
1:26:59
Speaker 15: right now because of what this administration has done, They
1:27:02
Speaker 15: should feel like this is a problem.
1:27:03
Speaker 22: And for everyone who wanted just.
1:27:06
Speaker 15: Congress that was going to stand up for them as
1:27:08
Speaker 15: it relates to this war and hopefully keep some money
1:27:10
Speaker 15: in your pocket as it relates to gas, they should
1:27:12
Speaker 15: all be upset.
1:27:13
Speaker 22: So here's the reality.
1:27:15
Speaker 15: I think that Haley is done with politics or she's
1:27:18
Speaker 15: decided she wants to be a Republican going forward. And
1:27:22
Speaker 15: we will see what happens when we get back into
1:27:23
Speaker 15: Congress next week. about how the caucus decides to deal
1:27:27
Speaker 15: with this situation. Even though you're not going to be
1:27:30
Speaker 15: in the House anymore, you're not deciding to become a Republican.
1:27:33
Speaker 15: So for folks at home in Texas who are saying,
1:27:36
Speaker 15: I still don't know about James Tallarico, what's the closing
1:27:40
Speaker 15: speech you would give to encourage people to go and
1:27:42
Speaker 15: vote for James Tallarico over Kim Heston?
1:27:44
Speaker 22: Listen, I think here's my issue.
1:27:46
Speaker 15: You know, we have had a problem on the Democratic side,
1:27:48
Speaker 15: whether it's Texas or otherwise, where we are looking for perfection.
1:27:51
Speaker 15: And one of the things that I say all the
1:27:53
Speaker 15: time as I'm out on the trail is stop looking
1:27:55
Speaker 15: for perfection in your preachers as well as your politicians.
1:27:59
Speaker 15: You will never, ever find it, right? So the thing is, like,
1:28:02
Speaker 15: it's the 80-20 rule, right? Like forget focusing on, say,
1:28:06
Speaker 15: the 20 percent they don't have. Focus on the 80
1:28:08
Speaker 15: percent that they can't provide. So, you know, this may
1:28:11
Speaker 15: not be your favorite. This may not have been your pick,
1:28:14
Speaker 15: regardless of where you are in this country, including Michigan.
1:28:17
Speaker 3: Right.
1:28:18
Speaker 15: This may not be your favorite. This may not have
1:28:20
Speaker 15: been your pick. But I promise you, you're going to
1:28:22
Speaker 15: get 80 percent. And you probably need to just say
1:28:26
Speaker 15: we can roll with it. And the final thing that
1:28:28
Speaker 15: I'll say is that when I'm on the road, I
1:28:30
Speaker 15: usually tell people all the time, I say, listen, You know,
1:28:33
Speaker 15: so many of y'all decided that y'all would get married
1:28:35
Speaker 15: for life and you don't agree with your spouse on everything.
1:28:39
Speaker 15: So we just asking for. two years, four years or
1:28:40
Speaker 15: six years. And if you don't agree with us, you
1:28:42
Speaker 15: can dump us.
1:28:43
Speaker 1: Now, you said the polls might not reflect the outcome.
1:28:45
Speaker 1: What's your concerns with that? There's a reason.
1:28:46
Speaker 15: The polls have been completely off. They're completely off. They
1:28:48
Speaker 15: don't make sense. And Democratic states, the numbers.
1:28:52
Speaker 19: Are so tight.
1:28:52
Speaker 15: So I'm like, how is it we flip in Republican
1:28:54
Speaker 15: states and at the same time in Democratic states?
1:28:57
Speaker 19: They're running tight.
1:28:58
Speaker 15: When you look at Minnesota, which I wouldn't say is
1:29:00
Speaker 15: solidly blue, obviously is more purplish.
1:29:02
Speaker 22: That is a tight race.
1:29:03
Speaker 15: They're saying that the Minnesota race, Senate race is super
1:29:07
Speaker 15: tight and the Texas race is wide open.
1:29:09
Speaker 22: That doesn't make sense.
1:29:10
Speaker 15: So ultimately- I think that, you know, for me, I've
1:29:14
Speaker 15: looked at more so the demographics of a state and
1:29:17
Speaker 15: looked at whether or not the state was participatory. I
1:29:19
Speaker 15: think one of the reasons Mississippi is at play, it
1:29:22
Speaker 15: is 40 percent black. There is no reason that Mississippi
1:29:25
Speaker 15: should not be a blue state except for the fact
1:29:27
Speaker 15: that they are not voting.
1:29:28
Speaker 22: Same thing in Texas.
1:29:29
Speaker 15: It's a non-voting state, but we have the demographics. And
1:29:33
Speaker 15: when you look at South Carolina right now, people think
1:29:35
Speaker 15: South Carolina may or may not.
1:29:36
Speaker 9: Be in play.
1:29:37
Speaker 22: Here is the reality.
1:29:39
Speaker 15: I talked to Jamie yesterday, Jamie Harrison, and he told
1:29:42
Speaker 15: me that African-American participation right now is at 28 percent.
1:29:46
Speaker 15: That is higher than the percentage of black folk that
1:29:48
Speaker 15: they have in that state. They're at about 26 percent.
1:29:51
Speaker 9: That is huge.
1:29:52
Speaker 5: Million early voters, too.
1:29:54
Speaker 11: Right.
1:29:54
Speaker 19: Exactly.
1:29:54
Speaker 5: 1.1, I believe.
1:29:55
Speaker 19: I mean, they're hidden historic numbers.
1:29:57
Speaker 15: But I will tell you that something that most southern
1:29:59
Speaker 15: states did that nobody really talked about is they had.
1:30:03
Speaker 22: They had tickets that were reflective of the people.
1:30:06
Speaker 3: Right.
1:30:06
Speaker 15: So you have Dr. Jermaine Johnson, who is a black
1:30:08
Speaker 15: man who is running for governor. And then you have
1:30:11
Speaker 15: Annie Andrews for the Senate position. Same thing in Georgia.
1:30:15
Speaker 15: You have John Ossoff that is running. But then you
1:30:17
Speaker 15: have Keisha Lance Bottoms that is running for governor. Same
1:30:21
Speaker 15: thing in Florida. You have Angie Nixon that is running
1:30:25
Speaker 15: for the Senate. And then you have David Jolly running.
1:30:28
Speaker 15: that is running for the gubernatorial, we can go on
1:30:30
Speaker 15: to Tennessee, same thing. Black woman running for Senate, you've
1:30:33
Speaker 15: got a white woman that is running for governor. I
1:30:36
Speaker 15: think that the best thing specifically for Southern states to
1:30:39
Speaker 15: do is to actually look at how can I maximize
1:30:42
Speaker 15: bringing out every single part of the demographic. And no
1:30:45
Speaker 15: matter what happens, if we end up with say, Annie
1:30:47
Speaker 15: Andrews going, which is what people believe, and Dr. Johnson not,
1:30:51
Speaker 15: which I honestly think Dr. Johnson may be the stronger
1:30:54
Speaker 15: candidate of the two, if I'm being perfectly honest. But
1:30:57
Speaker 15: at the end of the day, it will be because Dr.
1:30:59
Speaker 15: Johnson was on that ballot and he was able.
1:31:01
Speaker 19: To bring out black folk.
1:31:02
Speaker 15: If David Jolly, which they keep saying David Jolly is
1:31:04
Speaker 15: doing better than Angie, if he wins, it will be
1:31:07
Speaker 15: because Angie Nixon was on that ballot. And so I
1:31:09
Speaker 15: think that we need to start thinking about that more strategically,
1:31:12
Speaker 15: specifically in the South.
1:31:14
Speaker 22: And almost every southern state figured out how to do that.
1:31:17
Speaker 3: What did the Texas primary teach you about Texas politics
1:31:21
Speaker 3: that you didn't fully understand before?
1:31:24
Speaker 15: How scary Democrats can be and how much they try
1:31:27
Speaker 15: to project what a Republican will do. You know, even
1:31:31
Speaker 15: when you look at the editorial boards that endorsed against me,
1:31:35
Speaker 15: they didn't endorse against me because of qualifications, because of
1:31:37
Speaker 15: my platform, because of my experience. They endorsed against me saying, well,
1:31:41
Speaker 15: she's crazy because she's not going to go after MAGA. Ultimately,
1:31:44
Speaker 15: I don't think that the story that will be written
1:31:46
Speaker 15: in Texas will be about MAGA. I think the story
1:31:48
Speaker 15: that will be written in Texas will be that the
1:31:50
Speaker 15: diverse coalition that exists in our state actually came together,
1:31:53
Speaker 15: which was my theory. But that is not what, you know,
1:31:57
Speaker 15: those over the media believe is the winning answer. And
1:32:01
Speaker 15: I think ultimately, when we look again, when we look
1:32:04
Speaker 15: at South Carolina, when we look at whatever happens in Mississippi,
1:32:07
Speaker 15: it will be talking about the diversity. It doesn't mean That,
1:32:11
Speaker 15: you know, specifically diverse candidates are not going to speak
1:32:14
Speaker 15: to everybody because they we always govern for everybody as
1:32:17
Speaker 15: a sitting member of Congress. I govern for every single
1:32:19
Speaker 15: person that's in my district, regardless of their political affiliation.
1:32:23
Speaker 15: But I think that we have to have specifically a
1:32:27
Speaker 15: conversation with the Democratic Party about making the investment specifically
1:32:31
Speaker 15: into black folk this election cycle. We saw whether it
1:32:36
Speaker 15: was in Michigan where Mike Rogers was spending all kinds
1:32:39
Speaker 15: of money. He had his wife out at the gas
1:32:41
Speaker 15: stations with gas cards handing out money. He was running
1:32:46
Speaker 15: ads specifically to black folk trying to peel them off.
1:32:49
Speaker 15: Byron Donalds is doing the same thing down in Florida,
1:32:52
Speaker 15: trying to make those investments into black communities and peel
1:32:55
Speaker 15: black folk off. So stop looking at black folk and saying, well,
1:32:58
Speaker 15: they're going to show up. Yes, we will show up
1:33:00
Speaker 15: those that will and we will do the right thing.
1:33:02
Speaker 15: Every candidate, if they win on the Democratic side, is
1:33:05
Speaker 15: going to have the best numbers out of a demographic
1:33:09
Speaker 15: known as black folk.
1:33:10
Speaker 19: That is true.
1:33:11
Speaker 15: But to pull out more black people, stop playing with us,
1:33:15
Speaker 15: stop ignoring us and going after people that truly look
1:33:19
Speaker 15: at being a Republican as an identity. It's like looking
1:33:22
Speaker 15: at me and saying, yeah, you black.
1:33:24
Speaker 22: But pretend you not. And when you go deep south,
1:33:27
Speaker 22: a lot of them, it's an identity.
1:33:28
Speaker 15: The other thing that I'll finally say is I don't
1:33:30
Speaker 15: want Democrats to be disillusioned with this idea that once
1:33:35
Speaker 15: they win today, it's because people love the Democrats.
1:33:37
Speaker 19: No, that is not true.
1:33:38
Speaker 15: What they are is they're frustrated with the Republicans. And
1:33:41
Speaker 15: so you are going to have to deliver. I mean,
1:33:43
Speaker 15: heavy is the head that wears the crown. You are
1:33:46
Speaker 15: going to have to deliver for the American people an
1:33:49
Speaker 15: agenda that makes them say, you know what, I do
1:33:52
Speaker 15: mess with the Democrats. And I think that that may
1:33:54
Speaker 15: be the biggest challenge. That is where the Republicans kind
1:33:57
Speaker 15: of went wrong. They delivered, but all they delivered was harm.
1:34:01
Speaker 3: We got to wrap.
1:34:01
Speaker 1: So, Jasmine, I appreciate you joining us. But tonight we're
1:34:04
Speaker 1: doing a people's election night. Break it down on what's
1:34:07
Speaker 1: happening and if people can still pull up on us.
1:34:09
Speaker 9: Absolutely. So the people's election night.
1:34:11
Speaker 15: And since you're welcome, I don't know if you're hopping
1:34:13
Speaker 15: to another state before the end of the night, but
1:34:15
Speaker 15: 8 p.m. to midnight Eastern. We are going to be
1:34:17
Speaker 15: live in New York City to register. You have to
1:34:21
Speaker 15: RSVP at people's election night dot com. At that point,
1:34:25
Speaker 15: we'll share the address for security reasons. And then we
1:34:28
Speaker 15: have Breakfast Club will be joining us for part of
1:34:30
Speaker 15: the program.
1:34:31
Speaker 9: Fat Joe, Nick.
1:34:32
Speaker 15: Cannon, Janae Nelson from LDF, which is the Legal Defense Fund,
1:34:36
Speaker 15: who argued the Supreme Court case on redistricting, on voting rights,
1:34:40
Speaker 15: and tons of other guests.
1:34:41
Speaker 5: And Gordon, Bacari Sellers.
1:34:43
Speaker 9: Yes, keep naming them, guys.
1:34:44
Speaker 3: Talk about the people with range.
1:34:49
Speaker 15: And I'm so sorry that it feels like people don't
1:34:51
Speaker 15: have range, but I think we have a lot of
1:34:53
Speaker 15: people with a tons of tons of different experience that matters.
1:34:56
Speaker 15: And that is your everyday lived experience as well as
1:34:58
Speaker 15: your political experience.
1:35:00
Speaker 1: So that's right. Well, Jasmine cracker, we appreciate you for
1:35:02
Speaker 1: joining us.
1:35:02
Speaker 19: Thank you.
1:35:03
Speaker 5: We'll see you tonight.
1:35:04
Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
1:35:05
Speaker 5: We got the latest with Lauren coming up. It's the
1:35:06
Speaker 5: breakfast club.
1:35:06
Speaker 4: Good morning.
1:35:10
Speaker 1: She gets them from somebody that knows somebody. She gets
1:35:12
Speaker 1: the details.
1:35:13
Speaker 9: I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
1:35:16
Speaker 3: She be having the latest on it.
1:35:19
Speaker 1: The latest with Lauren La Rosa.
1:35:21
Speaker 3: Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
1:35:24
Speaker 3: have a little bit of everything.
1:35:24
Speaker 1: Well, it's the latest. Brought to you by Top Dog Law.
1:35:27
Speaker 1: On The Breakfast Club.
1:35:29
Speaker 9: Talk to me.
1:35:30
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1:35:31
Speaker 9: Alrighty, y'all.
1:35:32
Speaker 15: I want to take a minute when we start the
1:35:34
Speaker 15: latest this hour to send some love over to Cool
1:35:38
Speaker 15: DJ Red Alert.
1:35:39
Speaker 1: Cool DJ Red Alert.
1:35:41
Speaker 9: Yes.
1:35:42
Speaker 15: Now, he posted a video talking about the fact that
1:35:45
Speaker 15: he is going to be signing off of radio. This month,
1:35:47
Speaker 15: he will do his last radio broadcast on November 30th.
1:35:51
Speaker 15: It'll be a four-hour set on WBLS. Let's take a
1:35:54
Speaker 15: listen to DJ Red Alert.
1:35:55
Speaker 20: Today, I stand before you to announce that I'm saying
1:35:59
Speaker 20: farewell to radio. It has been an honor in my
1:36:02
Speaker 20: life to share the airwaves with the community for over
1:36:05
Speaker 20: four decades. To every listener, artist, co-worker, peer, and radio
1:36:10
Speaker 20: stations that have welcomed me throughout this incredible journey, may
1:36:13
Speaker 20: I say thank you. Y'all have played a significant role
1:36:17
Speaker 20: in making this journey what it has been, and I
1:36:19
Speaker 20: will forever carry that love, support, and gratitude with me.
1:36:23
Speaker 20: 50 years of DJing and God's grace has allowed me
1:36:26
Speaker 20: to reach 70 years of a lifetime. What a blessing
1:36:30
Speaker 20: it has been. Although I am stepping away from radio,
1:36:33
Speaker 20: I will continue to bring the sounds, the energy, and
1:36:36
Speaker 20: the vibe to the people through the DJing, special events,
1:36:40
Speaker 20: and community celebrations. Radio may be one chapter, but the
1:36:44
Speaker 20: music and the entertainment will continue.
1:36:47
Speaker 3: So the cool DJ Red Alert.
1:36:48
Speaker 5: Envy told you to do that because you have no
1:36:50
Speaker 5: idea who the hell cool DJ Red Alert is.
1:36:51
Speaker 1: I definitely told him.
1:36:52
Speaker 5: He did tell me.
1:36:53
Speaker 9: I didn't know that that was happening.
1:36:54
Speaker 1: I definitely told him.
1:36:55
Speaker 9: I knew that he was like one of the founders
1:36:56
Speaker 9: of like hip hop. I knew who he was.
1:36:58
Speaker 15: I didn't know all of the like everything. And I
1:37:00
Speaker 15: didn't know that he was like actively still on the radio.
1:37:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
1:37:04
Speaker 3: He was here.
1:37:04
Speaker 1: He worked here for five years, Power 105.1. Red Alert
1:37:08
Speaker 1: is one of the people that influenced a lot of
1:37:11
Speaker 1: DJs out there, including myself to DJ on radio. One
1:37:14
Speaker 1: of the first shows listening to hip hop on radio
1:37:18
Speaker 1: was listening to Cool DJ Red Alert as a kid.
1:37:20
Speaker 1: But then meeting him is, you know how they say
1:37:21
Speaker 1: sometimes you don't want to meet your idols or, you know,
1:37:24
Speaker 1: he is like he is such a positive person. He'll
1:37:27
Speaker 1: sit there. He'll talk to you for a long time.
1:37:30
Speaker 1: He still DJs. He turned 70 this year. He's been
1:37:32
Speaker 1: on radio for over 40 years. And he's been the
1:37:35
Speaker 1: same person. You said 50. So salute to cool DJ
1:37:39
Speaker 1: Red Alert. You are appreciated. You are some of the
1:37:41
Speaker 1: reasons some of the biggest DJs are even here watching you,
1:37:44
Speaker 1: following you, idolizing you.
1:37:46
Speaker 3: So thank you.
1:37:47
Speaker 1: And he's been responsible for breaking a lot of legendary.
1:37:49
Speaker 1: A lot of legendary.
1:37:50
Speaker 15: Trap Call Quest, Queen Latifah, De La Soul. Also, too,
1:37:56
Speaker 15: he mentioned in his video, we didn't have it in
1:37:58
Speaker 15: there because I was going to mention it here. But
1:38:00
Speaker 15: on November 24th at Sony Hall in New York, They're
1:38:02
Speaker 15: going to be doing the Red Alert Experience Gala, which
1:38:04
Speaker 15: is where they'll just honor him and give him some
1:38:06
Speaker 15: love so you guys can pull.
1:38:07
Speaker 9: Up and support there as well.
1:38:08
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
1:38:09
Speaker 10: Yep.
1:38:09
Speaker 15: Now shifting gears a bit, continuing celebrations of careers. Wale
1:38:14
Speaker 15: is celebrating 15 years of his Ambition album.
1:38:17
Speaker 5: As he should.
1:38:18
Speaker 11: Yes.
1:38:18
Speaker 18: Hell yeah.
1:38:19
Speaker 15: But listen, the album actually is now certified platinum as well, officially.
1:38:23
Speaker 15: So I wanted to send some congratulations to him. While
1:38:26
Speaker 15: they posted, it was like a video mashup. There's audio
1:38:29
Speaker 15: under it, but nothing that would sound good, just audio.
1:38:31
Speaker 15: You have to kind of see it. And in the mashup, though,
1:38:34
Speaker 15: there's a few Breakfast Club moments. He is showing the journey,
1:38:37
Speaker 15: and we have it on the screen for the people
1:38:38
Speaker 15: that are watching us on Netflix. He's showing his journey,
1:38:41
Speaker 15: you know, through the 15 years. And also, you know,
1:38:44
Speaker 15: on Chill, just hit four times platinum. Bad, six times
1:38:48
Speaker 15: platinum as well, too. So, yeah, congratulations to Wale.
1:38:50
Speaker 1: Wale very well deserved.
1:38:51
Speaker 3: I like seeing all of it. And it's funny because
1:38:54
Speaker 3: I still look at Wale as a young OG, right?
1:38:56
Speaker 21: Yeah.
1:38:56
Speaker 3: Because he's young in my eyes. But to have a
1:38:58
Speaker 3: 15-year career.
1:38:59
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:38:59
Speaker 3: That you can celebrate, you should celebrate it. Like I
1:39:02
Speaker 3: saw A Boogie out here celebrating.
1:39:04
Speaker 1: The 10-year anniversary of his album. That's crazy.
1:39:06
Speaker 5: You should absolutely celebrate that.
1:39:07
Speaker 3: That's why when people, like, yes, Jay-Z should be out
1:39:10
Speaker 3: there celebrating the 30-year anniversary of Reasonable Doubt and his
1:39:13
Speaker 3: 30-year career. You know, those are amazing milestones. You know
1:39:16
Speaker 3: how many people come and go? And I was thinking
1:39:18
Speaker 3: about all of the albums, right? I'm wearing Nas' Illmatic
1:39:21
Speaker 3: jacket right now. All of those albums that deserve celebration. Raekwon,
1:39:25
Speaker 3: Only Built for Cuban Links deserves a 30-year in 2025.
1:39:29
Speaker 3: Thug Motivation 101 deserves to be celebrated. All of these
1:39:34
Speaker 3: projects that provided the soundtrack to our lives deserve to
1:39:37
Speaker 3: be celebrated.
1:39:38
Speaker 1: Yes, LL Cool J's projects, Run the MCS, we should
1:39:40
Speaker 1: be celebrating and hopefully they do shows. But I had
1:39:43
Speaker 1: my Nas jacket on the other day and I'm like, yes,
1:39:45
Speaker 1: we should be celebrating these artists. The fact that they
1:39:47
Speaker 1: made it this long and these albums still play a
1:39:50
Speaker 1: part in a lot of our lives, absolutely celebrate.
1:39:52
Speaker 15: Yeah, Jermaine Dupri, well, I saw the announcement before him,
1:39:55
Speaker 15: but Jermaine Dupri was kind of sharing some of the
1:39:57
Speaker 15: same sentiments online. He was talking about the fact that
1:39:59
Speaker 15: Wu-Tang is going to be headlining a halftime show at
1:40:01
Speaker 15: the Detroit Lions game for Thanksgiving Day.
1:40:03
Speaker 1: Damn right.
1:40:04
Speaker 15: And that's November 26th. And then, you know, Jay-Z is
1:40:07
Speaker 15: celebrating everything he's doing. And then the Super Bowl announcement
1:40:09
Speaker 15: just happened. He was talking about the fact that all
1:40:10
Speaker 15: these greats. This is like such a year to be
1:40:13
Speaker 15: able to do that for them.
1:40:14
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1:40:24
Speaker 3: Morning, everybody.
1:40:25
Speaker 1: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
1:40:29
Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club. Marla Rose is here as well. So
1:40:31
Speaker 1: is our sister, Angela Rye. We got a special guest
1:40:34
Speaker 1: in the building. He's running for governor of Florida. Ladies
1:40:36
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, we have Byron Donalds. Welcome, brother.
1:40:39
Speaker 13: It's good to be back. You know, it's good to
1:40:41
Speaker 13: be with y'all. How you feeling?
1:40:43
Speaker 3: It's funny because last time you was in studio, Angela
1:40:46
Speaker 3: Rye was on Zoom.
1:40:47
Speaker 5: Now you on Zoom and Angela Rye's in studio.
1:40:50
Speaker 2: I mean, look, if I had known, I would have
1:40:52
Speaker 2: made a special trip to NYC just for that.
1:40:54
Speaker 13: Angela, it's good to be back with you. It's been
1:40:56
Speaker 13: a long time.
1:40:57
Speaker 9: Indeed.
1:40:58
Speaker 5: You know, Byron, you're running for governor.
1:41:00
Speaker 3: I saw recently David Jolly, he described your policies as anti-black. Now,
1:41:05
Speaker 3: you are a black man running to become the first
1:41:07
Speaker 3: black governor of Florida. So when you heard a white
1:41:11
Speaker 3: political opponent make that accusation, what's your immediate reaction? Gaslighting.
1:41:15
Speaker 2: The same craziness that happens in every election cycle. When
1:41:19
Speaker 2: you're a Republican and you have conservative principles, I think
1:41:24
Speaker 2: David Jolly is somebody who You know, switch parties. He's
1:41:27
Speaker 2: done everything. He's been trying to find a political home
1:41:30
Speaker 2: for 10 years. But what he knows in Florida is
1:41:32
Speaker 2: that he's been losing black voters to me. So, you know,
1:41:35
Speaker 2: his only response was to try to use race and
1:41:39
Speaker 2: the issues around race and politics for voters to have
1:41:42
Speaker 2: a second guess about being able to support me, specifically
1:41:45
Speaker 2: black voters in the state of Florida. But I just
1:41:48
Speaker 2: think it's the same type of gaslighting that happens every
1:41:50
Speaker 2: single election cycle. If you look at what I'm talking
1:41:53
Speaker 2: about in the state of Florida, it's lowering insurance costs,
1:41:56
Speaker 2: lowering housing costs.
1:41:57
Speaker 3: When it comes to our kids.
1:41:58
Speaker 2: We want them to master math, reading and writing for
1:42:01
Speaker 2: the children in our state who aren't going to the
1:42:03
Speaker 2: universities in our state, which, by the way, are the
1:42:05
Speaker 2: best universities in the country. We want them to be
1:42:08
Speaker 2: able to get apprenticeships and internships so they can have
1:42:11
Speaker 2: the on the drive training skills they need to be
1:42:13
Speaker 2: able to get a high paying job coming out of
1:42:14
Speaker 2: high school with no student debt. Those are the things
1:42:16
Speaker 2: that I talk about in this campaign every single day.
1:42:19
Speaker 2: If that's anti-black, then I don't know what to tell you.
1:42:21
Speaker 2: But the truth of the matter is he's gaslighting because
1:42:23
Speaker 2: he knows he's losing a lot of black voters to
1:42:26
Speaker 2: me in Florida.
1:42:26
Speaker 3: Well, he says his criticism wasn't about your race, but
1:42:29
Speaker 3: more so about your positions on like voting rights and
1:42:31
Speaker 3: DEI and minority business funding, HBCUs. Like which of those
1:42:36
Speaker 3: criticisms do you believe he has wrong? And what's the evidence?
1:42:40
Speaker 2: Well, to be blunt, he's got them all wrong. When
1:42:41
Speaker 2: I was on your show, we talked about the Voting
1:42:43
Speaker 2: Rights Act before. I know Angela and I went back
1:42:45
Speaker 2: and forth on that. What I'll quickly tell you is,
1:42:48
Speaker 2: if you look at Georgia's voting law, and I remember
1:42:50
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, you had every Democrat in
1:42:52
Speaker 2: the country saying that Georgia's voting law was Jim Crow 2.0.
1:42:56
Speaker 2: But if you look at the outcome of that, Georgia
1:42:58
Speaker 2: has more black people voting in their elections today than
1:43:00
Speaker 2: they've ever had.
1:43:01
Speaker 3: In the history of that state.
1:43:03
Speaker 13: And if you're talking about the state of Florida, Angela,
1:43:05
Speaker 13: come on, I'm not going to do it back and
1:43:07
Speaker 13: forth with you today.
1:43:08
Speaker 15: If you talk about what's happening in Florida right now, in.
1:43:11
Speaker 2: Florida, we have the same election laws that they have
1:43:14
Speaker 2: in the state of Georgia. Black people in the state
1:43:16
Speaker 2: of Florida have no issues voting. If you want to
1:43:19
Speaker 2: talk about minority business.
1:43:20
Speaker 15: We want to make sure that there's capital formation today
1:43:24
Speaker 15: in our country.
1:43:25
Speaker 3: I'm making my final point, Angela.
1:43:27
Speaker 1: If you want to talk about HBCUs and.
1:43:28
Speaker 2: FAMU, Then at FAMU, when I was in the statehouse,
1:43:32
Speaker 2: I actually helped them receive $ 25 million to build their
1:43:35
Speaker 2: student access building.
1:43:36
Speaker 3: I want FAMU to be an R1 institution.
1:43:38
Speaker 15: However, FAMU has been underfunded to the tune of $ 2 billion.
1:43:42
Speaker 2: However.
1:43:44
Speaker 15: Georgia has a voting law that is in the center
1:43:47
Speaker 15: of controversy. And you're talking about more voters turned out.
1:43:50
Speaker 15: They're turning out because they're frustrated. They're turning out because
1:43:53
Speaker 15: their voting rights have been challenged. They're turning out because
1:43:56
Speaker 15: in the Calais decision before the Supreme Court this year, the.
1:43:59
Speaker 9: Voting Rights Act was fully gutted.
1:44:01
Speaker 15: And you haven't said anything to stand in the gap
1:44:04
Speaker 15: for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The very reason
1:44:06
Speaker 15: why you can be sitting there right now in that
1:44:08
Speaker 15: blue suit with that Florida pen.
1:44:09
Speaker 9: So I'm not going back and forth with you either.
1:44:12
Speaker 9: But don't just use words without facts, Byron. So let's
1:44:14
Speaker 9: be very clear.
1:44:15
Speaker 13: About what's actually happening with Georgia.
1:44:18
Speaker 15: No, let let us get into it. But let us
1:44:20
Speaker 15: get into it with facts. So when we talk about reparations, Byron,
1:44:24
Speaker 15: you don't support that. When we talk about affirmative action, Byron,
1:44:27
Speaker 15: you don't support that. When we talk about access to education,
1:44:31
Speaker 15: health care, all of these other things, diversity, equity and inclusion,
1:44:34
Speaker 15: you don't support that. You went to FAMU to make
1:44:37
Speaker 15: a social media post, but you have never fully supported
1:44:40
Speaker 15: the funding of Florida A & M University.
1:44:43
Speaker 2: None of it.
1:44:43
Speaker 3: None of what you just said is true.
1:44:45
Speaker 1: No.
1:44:49
Speaker 2: Angela, do you want to argue or do you want
1:44:51
Speaker 2: to know what I want to do?
1:44:53
Speaker 15: Byron is have a factual conversation is something that you
1:44:55
Speaker 15: have demonstrated.
1:44:56
Speaker 2: Angela, two years ago, I bought you on the facts
1:45:00
Speaker 2: and everybody saw it nationwide.
1:45:02
Speaker 9: Let's actually talk about what happened.
1:45:04
Speaker 15: Number one, like I told you, when I was in
1:45:06
Speaker 15: the state legislature and fam, you needed $ 25 million to.
1:45:09
Speaker 13: Build their student access building.
1:45:10
Speaker 2: I worked with Democrats in the legislative chamber, Chevron Jones,
1:45:13
Speaker 2: Ramon Alexander, both went to FAMU and I worked with
1:45:31
Speaker 2: them to make sure that was a reality. Today, the
1:45:34
Speaker 2: president of FAMU, Marva Johnson, her goal is to make
1:45:38
Speaker 2: FAMU a research institution, an R1 institution. I share that
1:45:42
Speaker 2: goal and I want to make sure that they can
1:45:44
Speaker 2: achieve that goal. If you're talking about the private HBCUs
1:45:48
Speaker 2: in the state of Florida, Bethune-Cookman University, Florida Memorial, Edward Waters,
1:45:53
Speaker 2: I've met with all of their presidents already and we
1:45:55
Speaker 2: want to make sure that they have the necessary funding
1:45:57
Speaker 2: to through the EASE grants to help their students be
1:46:00
Speaker 2: able to sustain themselves at those HBCUs. If you want
1:46:04
Speaker 2: to talk about the $ 1. 9 billion that came up in
1:46:06
Speaker 2: the report, Angela, I did not vote on that. I
1:46:09
Speaker 2: don't know how that occurred. My commitment is that we're
1:46:12
Speaker 2: going to read that study and the ways that we
1:46:14
Speaker 2: can make sure FAMU gets the funding that they need,
1:46:17
Speaker 2: then they will get that funding because we want all
1:46:19
Speaker 2: of our universities to be funded and be prepared for
1:46:22
Speaker 2: the students in our state. That's my commitment as a
1:46:24
Speaker 2: state's next governor. If you want to talk about.
1:46:26
Speaker 3: Calais, let's be very clear.
1:46:27
Speaker 9: Well, can you pause there for just a moment on FAMU?
1:46:29
Speaker 13: You want to stop me or let me finish?
1:46:30
Speaker 9: Because I let you run through four things, Angela.
1:46:31
Speaker 3: Angela, I let you run through four things.
1:46:33
Speaker 13: Let me respond to Calais and then I'm going to stop.
1:46:35
Speaker 9: I know you don't like to be challenged factually, but
1:46:37
Speaker 9: it's just a quick point of clarification.
1:46:38
Speaker 3: Let me respond to Calais and I'm going to let
1:46:39
Speaker 3: you talk, Angela.
1:46:39
Speaker 9: Can I ask you a quick point of clarification?
1:46:42
Speaker 15: For the underfunding that has been established to the tune
1:46:45
Speaker 15: of $ 2 billion for Florida A & M University, are
1:46:48
Speaker 15: you saying as governor, you will work to ensure that
1:46:51
Speaker 15: that funding gap of $ 2 billion at the state level
1:46:55
Speaker 15: is repaired? Are you going to ensure that FAMU gets
1:46:58
Speaker 15: $ 2 billion?
1:46:59
Speaker 13: Angela, that's what I just said. I want to read
1:47:02
Speaker 13: that study and fully understand it.
1:47:04
Speaker 2: I've heard about the study, but I've not reviewed it.
1:47:07
Speaker 3: As governor, I have a responsibility.
1:47:09
Speaker 15: Which means that you are going to look into it,
1:47:12
Speaker 15: but you're not committing to it.
1:47:13
Speaker 3: To make sure that, Angela, you're not letting me answer.
1:47:15
Speaker 9: The question, but that's okay.
1:47:17
Speaker 3: No, we're not.
1:47:18
Speaker 2: Because I have a fiduciary responsibility as Florida's next governor.
1:47:21
Speaker 3: Anybody can just say things from the stump.
1:47:23
Speaker 2: The truth of the matter is you have to review
1:47:25
Speaker 2: the study, look at what was done, and then make
1:47:28
Speaker 2: the necessary adjustments to repair that funding gap.
1:47:30
Speaker 13: That's the way this is done, Angela. It's easy just
1:47:33
Speaker 13: to say it.
1:47:34
Speaker 2: In an interview, the hard thing is to be direct
1:47:36
Speaker 2: and honest about what you're going to do.
1:47:38
Speaker 1: Angela, would you like to close with anything?
1:47:40
Speaker 11: Yes.
1:47:41
Speaker 15: I hope that the Florida voters equip themselves with the
1:47:44
Speaker 15: facts today because people sound good. Doesn't necessarily mean that
1:47:48
Speaker 15: they're telling you the truth. It's really important here that
1:47:51
Speaker 15: we talk about the SNAP benefits that are being cut
1:47:53
Speaker 15: and what people are going to be able to do
1:47:55
Speaker 15: to afford their groceries, to be able to afford housing,
1:47:57
Speaker 15: to be paid the wages they deserve. And as black
1:48:00
Speaker 15: men and black women are suffering historical unemployment rates. We
1:48:04
Speaker 15: need to have solutions that move us forward. And we
1:48:06
Speaker 15: can't do that with people who won't even be honest
1:48:08
Speaker 15: about what their actually policy positions are and have to
1:48:10
Speaker 15: study what the outcome is when folks are suffering.
1:48:13
Speaker 5: Closing words, Byron?
1:48:14
Speaker 2: I actually agree with Angela because David Jolly won't even
1:48:17
Speaker 2: talk about his policies.
1:48:17
Speaker 13: He said that two days ago. in Sarasota to the voters.
1:48:20
Speaker 2: He said he'll talk about the policies tomorrow, but election
1:48:24
Speaker 2: day is today. The policies matter today. I've talked about
1:48:27
Speaker 2: my policies every single day on the trail. David Jolly
1:48:29
Speaker 2: refuses to. So I actually agree with Angela on that one.
1:48:32
Speaker 1: Byron, thank you for.
1:48:33
Speaker 3: Calling in, Byron. All right, take it easy. Have a
1:48:36
Speaker 3: good one.
1:48:37
Speaker 1: All right, well, Charlamagne, you got a positive note?
1:48:40
Speaker 3: I do have a positive note. And the positive note
1:48:43
Speaker 3: is about voting. Well, first of all, Angela Rye, tonight,
1:48:46
Speaker 3: election night.
1:48:47
Speaker 9: Yeah, sorry, I'm a little hot.
1:48:48
Speaker 3: Why?
1:48:49
Speaker 1: We gotta check your blood pressure.
1:48:50
Speaker 15: Well, yeah, I just, I think, for me, y'all know, like,
1:48:52
Speaker 15: there's nothing worse than being lied to. I think a
1:48:55
Speaker 15: positive note is telling the truth.
1:48:56
Speaker 9: And tonight.
1:48:57
Speaker 15: We're given the opportunity to bring people in to a
1:49:00
Speaker 15: discussion around the importance of this election. We're doing that
1:49:04
Speaker 15: with people who touch electoral politics every single day and
1:49:08
Speaker 15: some folks who don't as much. And I'm thrilled because
1:49:10
Speaker 15: the legendary Ed Gordon, as you guys have pointed out throughout,
1:49:13
Speaker 15: is going to join us talking to the audience, hearing
1:49:15
Speaker 15: what they feel like they need to do to tap
1:49:17
Speaker 15: into their power. We'll be eight to midnight live in
1:49:19
Speaker 15: New York tomorrow. And we'll be sharing that address with
1:49:22
Speaker 15: folks who want to come and register. And then we
1:49:24
Speaker 15: also will be live on YouTube. So I can't thank
1:49:26
Speaker 15: you all enough for doing this and partnering and for
1:49:29
Speaker 15: all you do to make sure that people can access
1:49:31
Speaker 15: this really important information.
1:49:32
Speaker 3: What's the website?
1:49:33
Speaker 9: It is, thank you, peopleselectionnight.com.
1:49:36
Speaker 1: Peopleselectionnight.com.
1:49:37
Speaker 4: Yeah.
1:49:37
Speaker 5: That's right.
1:49:38
Speaker 1: Now you have some positivity?
1:49:39
Speaker 3: I do.
1:49:39
Speaker 5: Go vote, y'all.
1:49:40
Speaker 3: Okay. Our political leaders will know our priorities only if
1:49:44
Speaker 3: we tell them again and again and if those priorities
1:49:47
Speaker 3: begin to show up in the polls.
1:49:48
Speaker 5: So go vote.
1:49:49
Speaker 3: Have a great day. All right.
1:49:51
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, bitches! You all finished or you all done?