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FULL SHOW: JAŸ-Z30 Makes History After Earning Biggest Box Office Report By A Rapper In History + Mahershala Ali & Antoine X, Nataanii Means & Tufawon Interview · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Woke up, woke up, wake you up, wake you up,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, USA!
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Speaker 1: how y'all feel out there? I feel blessed, black, and
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Speaker 1: highly favored. Happy to be here. Another day to serve
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Speaker 1: our beautiful listeners.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, man.
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: How you feeling, Sharla?
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Speaker 2: Man, I feel great. What an incredible weekend.
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Speaker 1: You know, Saturday was World Mental Health Day, so I
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Speaker 1: had my sixth annual Mental Wealth Expo with Joelle and
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Speaker 1: Diane Bloom, Wellness and Events Center in Newark, New Jersey. Man,
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Speaker 1: what a beautiful turnout. And, you know, Saturday, all we
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Speaker 1: wanted to focus on was solutions. You know, I wanted
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Speaker 1: people on that stage. who are going to present pathways
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Speaker 1: to healing and, you know, give people tools and resources
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Speaker 1: to get on their mental health journey, man. And I
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Speaker 1: think that mission was 100 percent accomplished. So I just
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Speaker 1: want to salute so many people. Debbie Brown, of course,
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Speaker 1: my good sister for curating the whole event, man, putting
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Speaker 1: together that amazing panel of programming.
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Speaker 2: You know, Paris, Alexandra, Jennifer, our niece, Tiara Banks, Dr. J. Barnett, Dr.
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Speaker 2: Mark Brackett. Elliot Connie, Judge.
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Speaker 1: William Dawson, Kier Gaines, my man Trent Outloud, Savannah Stevens, Dr.
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Speaker 1: Julius Thomas, Dr. Rita Walker, Koya Webb, Jovion Zane, the
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Speaker 1: good sister Michelle Williams, and of course, Dr. Ayan Lavonzan.
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Speaker 1: We presented her with an award, actually. We presented her
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Speaker 1: with the first ever Mental Wealth Alliance Legacy Award for
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Speaker 1: all her years of service in the mental health mindfulness space, man.
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Speaker 2: So congratulations. Salute to everybody I saw Saturday in Newark,
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Speaker 2: New Jersey.
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Speaker 3: Dope, dope, dope. Congratulations. And also salute to everybody I
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Speaker 3: seen in China. I mean, I had an amazing time
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Speaker 3: in China. The NBA brought me out there. They had
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Speaker 3: two games, the Houston Rockets versus the Dallas Mavericks. They
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Speaker 3: do these preseason games out there. Well, so many people
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Speaker 3: had such an amazing time, ran into so many different people.
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Speaker 3: So salute to everybody that I've seen out in China
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Speaker 3: that's back now in the States.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Well, let's get the show cracking. Who we have joining
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Speaker 3: us this morning?
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Indigenous Peoples Day.
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Speaker 1: My guys, Antone X, Natani Means, and Tufuan, they'll be here.
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Speaker 1: Not just talking about Indigenous Peoples Day, but talking about
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Speaker 1: all of the... All the moves that indigenous people are
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Speaker 1: making within hip-hop culture and entertainment as well. And we
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Speaker 1: also have the good brother, Mahershala Ali.
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Speaker 3: Mahershala Ali will be joining us. New movie, your mother,
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Speaker 3: your mother, your mother.
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Speaker 2: Man, what a movie.
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Speaker 1: What a fantastic film, and he'll be here to talk
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Speaker 1: about that and some other things.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Did you see the movie Animals? Came out on Netflix
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Speaker 3: on Friday. Did you get a chance to see it?
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Speaker 3: Ben Affleck?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. Yeah, I watched that before. You watched that, yeah.
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Speaker 3: They was up there last week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: What you thought of the movie? Um, it was cool.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 6: I don't know.
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Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know.
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Speaker 5: I'm lying.
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Speaker 2: I didn't watch it, by the way.
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Speaker 3: I don't know why I lied like that. This guy
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Speaker 3: is crazy. There was no reason to lie like that.
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Speaker 2: That was an unnecessary lie. I mean, it was just
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Speaker 2: so unnecessary. You know what?
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Speaker 3: Let's get this show correct. That was an unnecessary lie.
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Speaker 2: Why do we do that?
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I had no reason to lie about seeing that movie.
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Speaker 3: I was going to ask you about the movie, but
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Speaker 3: all right, forget it.
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Speaker 2: But we did have a conversation with him last week.
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Speaker 2: That was fantastic.
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Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 2: That makes me want to watch the movie. The movie
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Speaker 2: was pretty good.
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Speaker 3: Pretty good. It was okay. It was all right.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, let's get the show started. Sounds like you
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Speaker 2: didn't like it.
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Speaker 3: It was decent.
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Speaker 5: Huh?
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Speaker 2: No, you know what it was?
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Speaker 3: It was good, but I just feel like they could
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Speaker 3: have pulled off, it could have pulled off a lot better.
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Speaker 3: The editing was too fast. It went through the movie
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Speaker 3: too fast. I didn't really get to, the plot wasn't done. Well,
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Speaker 3: I'll let you guys watch it and we can discuss it.
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Speaker 3: But let's get the show cracking. Yesterday was Cardi B's birthday.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Salute to Big Barty. Happy birthday. Happy belated, Barty. Hope
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Speaker 1: you enjoyed it last night.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Only right we start the show with some Cardi B.
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Speaker 2: What we start with?
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Speaker 3: A new joint?
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Speaker 2: Oh, just to wreck it off GTA 6?
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Speaker 3: All right, well, let's get to it. Front page news
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Speaker 3: is next. And don't forget, get it off your chest.
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Speaker 3: 800-585-1051 is the Breakfast Club. Come on and get your
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Speaker 3: ass up.
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Speaker 5: Morning, everybody.
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Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
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Speaker 3: the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news.
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Speaker 3: Start off with sports. Yesterday, the Eagles lost to the Jaguars. Now,
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Speaker 3: the Jets beat the Browns. Salute to the Jets. The
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Speaker 3: Texans beat the Titans. The Patriots beat the Raiders. The
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Speaker 3: Packers beat the Bears. The Lions beat the Cardinals. The
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Speaker 3: Ravens beat the Falcons. 49ers beat the Seahawks. The Broncos
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Speaker 3: beat the Chargers. The Bengals beat the Dolphins. The Vikings
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Speaker 3: beat the Saints. The Steelers beat the Colts. And the
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Speaker 3: Giants did not lose.
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Speaker 2: Boy, shut up.
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Speaker 3: They did not lose.
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Speaker 1: Y'all didn't win either. Okay, so nobody. You know what's crazy?
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Speaker 1: Nobody in the NFC East won this week. But we
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Speaker 1: still number one in the division.
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Speaker 3: The Cowboys lost.
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Speaker 1: The Eagles lost. And the Giants and Redskins did not win.
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Speaker 1: Nobody in the NFC East won this week. I don't
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Speaker 1: think I've ever seen that ever in my life. But
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Speaker 1: we're number one in the division. And tonight, in Monday
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Speaker 1: Night Football, the Buffalo Bills take on the Rams at 8-15.
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Speaker 1: Also got to salute the Dream beat the Liberty. Atlanta
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Speaker 1: win that series 3-0.
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Speaker 3: And the Valkyries beat the Aces.
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Speaker 2: That's right. WNBA Finals start this weekend. That's right. Angel
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Speaker 2: Reese and the Atlanta Dream versus... The Valkyries.
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Speaker 1: A bunch of former UConn Huskies and the Valkyries.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 3: What's up, Mimi?
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Speaker 9: Good morning, Envy.
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Speaker 3: Good morning.
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Speaker 10: How y'all doing this morning?
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Speaker 1: Good.
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Speaker 7: Good morning.
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Speaker 9: So Front Page News is sponsored by Morgan & Morgan,
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Speaker 9: America's largest injury law firm. So we start this morning
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Speaker 9: with President Trump's plan to execute a convicted mass murderer
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Speaker 9: by firing squad and live stream it for the world
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Speaker 9: to watch. It is raising a lot of concerns both
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Speaker 9: from Republicans and from Democrats.
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Speaker 10: So this is the case of Nadal Hassan.
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Speaker 9: He's the former army doctor who opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas,
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Speaker 9: back in 2009. He killed 13 people, wounded 32 others. Now,
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Speaker 9: Hassan was shot during the attack, leaving him paralyzed from
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Speaker 9: the waist down.
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Speaker 10: He's now in a wheelchair.
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Speaker 9: His execution is set for December 3rd. Now, critics warn
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Speaker 9: that broadcasting his death could turn him into a martyr.
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Speaker 9: That's someone extremists look up to and potentially inspired to
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Speaker 9: be like or have future terrorist attacks. based upon what
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Speaker 9: he did. Now, others are questioning the image of executing
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Speaker 9: a man in a wheelchair. Either way, Republican Senator Tom
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Speaker 9: Tillis thinks this is a bad idea.
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Speaker 11: Let's listen.
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Speaker 8: It's another example of where U.S. lives, American lives will
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Speaker 8: be put at risk. terrorist organizations will use this as
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Speaker 8: a recruiting tool. It will radicalize other people, and this
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Speaker 8: is not who we are. Look, the Fort Hood shooter
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Speaker 8: should be put to death, but there's a way to
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Speaker 8: deal with this that's proper, and there's a way to
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Speaker 8: deal with this that's more improper than I have ever
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Speaker 8: observed in my life. This is not who we are,
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Speaker 8: and it's another example of what Pete Hegseth And all
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Speaker 8: of his bravado needs to get the hell out of
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Speaker 8: the Department of Defense because he is a failed leader.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I still don't understand the reason for this. When
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Speaker 1: did America get to the point where we are doing
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Speaker 1: public executions? It feels so un-American. It's the stuff that
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Speaker 1: happens in countries like Iran and Afghanistan. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what Korea used to do. I don't even think North
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Speaker 1: Korea do them like they used to.
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Speaker 12: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: They do it like they do.
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Speaker 10: But Russia, there's other countries like that, authoritarian countries. Those
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Speaker 10: countries kind.
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Speaker 5: Of do it.
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Speaker 3: But they were saying that it might make people do
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Speaker 3: this more, right? Because they might want to be a
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Speaker 3: martyr and, you know, die in front of everybody. But
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Speaker 3: I think it makes no sense.
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Speaker 7: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: And who's going to sponsor the scream? You know how
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Speaker 2: they be doing that? You know how people sponsor the
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Speaker 2: scream and all that? It's like, who the hell is
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Speaker 2: going to sponsor that scream?
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Speaker 7: Probably kick.
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Speaker 2: Because millions of people are going to watch it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Don't Trump have his own streaming service? Don't he have
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Speaker 3: his own service now?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's true.
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Speaker 2: Trump TV.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: Vice President J.D.
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Speaker 9: Vance, he's also questioning, though, whether the live stream will
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Speaker 9: actually happen. He came out over the weekend and questioned that.
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Speaker 9: But if it is carried out, this would be the
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Speaker 9: first U.S. military execution since 1961. I just don't.
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Speaker 2: Understand the why. Like, why? Like, what makes them think
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Speaker 2: we need this?
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Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense at all.
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Speaker 10: It doesn't make any sense.
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Speaker 9: But meanwhile, rising fuel prices have President Trump this morning
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Speaker 9: turning to Russia for relief. He made a new deal
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Speaker 9: with Vladimir Putin. It's raising concerns about whether he's breaking
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Speaker 9: the law. Trump is allowing Russia to sell millions of
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Speaker 9: tons of diesel fuel, including to the U.S.
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Speaker 10: Market.
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Speaker 9: Now, the goal is to increase fuel supply and bring
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Speaker 9: down prices. But here's the problem. Congress banned Russian oil
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Speaker 9: imports back in 2022, and that law has not changed.
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Speaker 9: But President Trump, he praised the deal over the weekend.
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Speaker 3: Let's listen.
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Speaker 14: I think you heard about the oil deal with Russia.
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Speaker 14: That is a big deal. That is massive amounts of
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Speaker 14: oil coming into our country. And I want to thank
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Speaker 14: President Putin, to be honest with you. We have massive
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Speaker 14: amounts of oil being coming into our country.
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Speaker 2: And it's diesel, which is what we want. So thank you.
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Speaker 3: I'm so confused. I thought we sanctioned the hell out
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Speaker 3: of them at one point. So they would stop doing
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Speaker 3: the things that they did. They didn't listen to them sanctions,
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Speaker 3: gave us a middle finger, but then we're going back
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Speaker 3: to them for oil.
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Speaker 9: Exactly.
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Speaker 7: Exactly.
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Speaker 9: So there was this big back and forth with President
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Speaker 9: Trump and the Russian, not the Russian, the Ukrainian president.
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Speaker 11: Right.
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Speaker 10: About bombing the energy. What do you call them?
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Speaker 9: The energy refineries over there. And so there's this big
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Speaker 9: back and forth about this. And right now what's happening.
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Speaker 10: Is Trump says there's a ceasefire.
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Speaker 9: Both Putin and Vladimir Putin. Zelensky, thank you, said there
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Speaker 9: is no ceasefire. And so we don't know what's going
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Speaker 9: on right now, actually. Four senators, four Republican senators, they
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Speaker 9: have joined Democrats in calling on Trump to reverse the deal.
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Speaker 9: And so but we're talking about a lot of fuel,
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Speaker 9: 300,000 tons immediately, another 500,000 tons in November and millions
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Speaker 9: after that.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's what people want to see killed publicly. OK,
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Speaker 2: high gas prices.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 1: Find a way to take that out for the world
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Speaker 1: to see.
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Speaker 3: But the gas prices they were saying high was because
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Speaker 3: of what's going on in the Middle East, correct?
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So when I was in China and I was trying
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Speaker 3: to think that I thought China would be the same.
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Speaker 3: But China, the gas prices were cheap. They were fine.
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Speaker 3: The food prices were cheap. Even the Uber to get
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Speaker 3: around in China. I mean, we had the driver waiting
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Speaker 3: for us for about an hour and the Uber was
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Speaker 3: only thirty two dollars. So when I'm sitting there looking
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Speaker 3: at I'm like, oh, we the only ones dealing with
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Speaker 3: these high prices because China prices weren't that high. And
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Speaker 3: I'm like, are we getting the oil from the same
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Speaker 3: places in the place in the Middle East? I thought
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Speaker 3: I assumed I may be right.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, that is that is a great question
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Speaker 9: and something good to point out. I really don't know
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Speaker 9: what is, you know, what we're going to do, because
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Speaker 9: if if we don't Trump is like, if we don't
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Speaker 9: take this deal, then we're going to be in a
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Speaker 9: world of hurt.
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Speaker 10: But if we do take this deal, then we're breaking
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Speaker 10: the law.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 9: So Tom Tillis actually also has something to say about this.
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Speaker 9: I think we have that as well.
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Speaker 3: We've got to we've got to go back.
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Speaker 8: And I do believe there's a legitimate case for saying
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Speaker 8: the president's not.
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Speaker 2: Following the law. We were very clear.
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Speaker 8: That Russia is the aggressor.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, so basically.
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Speaker 2: I'm so tired of hearing that. When has Donald Trump
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Speaker 2: ever followed the law?
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Speaker 1: He hasn't been following the law in years. So now,
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Speaker 1: what's the point of even pointing it out now?
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Speaker 2: He's a habitual lawbreaker. Okay, that's what he does.
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Speaker 9: Alright, well, quick reminder today is Indigenous People Day, so banks,
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Speaker 9: post offices, and government offices are closed. There's no regular mail,
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Speaker 9: so you might want to check anywhere before you head out.
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Speaker 9: Restaurants are open, most stores are open, but You know,
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Speaker 9: you need to handle business may not be open.
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Speaker 7: All right.
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Speaker 9: Coming up at seven, a father is accused of killing
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Speaker 9: his killing a deputy.
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Speaker 10: We'll tell you why he did it is not as
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Speaker 10: simple as.
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Speaker 9: Guilty or not guilty, and this hour is sponsored by
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Speaker 3: All right, and everybody else, get it off your chest.
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Speaker 3: Phone lines are wide open, 800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 5: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.
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Speaker 3: We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello,
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Speaker 3: who's this?
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Speaker 15: Yo.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm from Baltimore.
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Speaker 7: Live in Atlanta.
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Speaker 5: Hey, you guys.
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Speaker 3: What's up, baby girl? How you feeling?
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Speaker 2: What up?
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Speaker 5: What up?
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Speaker 1: Were you torn yesterday watching the Ravens versus Falcons?
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Speaker 6: No, I was celebrating our homecoming weekend with Norfolk State.
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Speaker 5: Oh, you were at Norfolk State?
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Speaker 2: The Holder.
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Speaker 11: Okay.
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Speaker 5: NVA didn't even mention when Laura.
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Speaker 13: Was talking about DSU homecoming. NVA didn't even be like, oh,
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Speaker 13: it's Norfolk State homecoming, but he had our jersey on.
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Speaker 5: I had to repost it. Damn.
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Speaker 3: Now I have the jersey on to support Michael Vick
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Speaker 3: and the fact that he's a coach.
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Speaker 10: It's okay.
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Speaker 3: Either way, it was Norfolk State.
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Speaker 5: And Vick doing his big ones because we won 62-0. Okay. Well, congratulations.
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Speaker 3: Now it's homecoming. You had a good time?
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Speaker 1: It was wonderful.
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Speaker 13: I want to tell all the Spartans to have safe travels.
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Speaker 5: I'm heading back home today.
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Speaker 16: And I love you guys.
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Speaker 5: Jess, I met you when you came to Atlanta. I
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Speaker 5: told you I'm with the Norfolk.
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Speaker 12: Oh, shit.
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Speaker 7: Like, right up the street from where I grew up at.
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Speaker 2: Hell yeah. Yeah. That's what's up.
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Speaker 17: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 16: I love y'all.
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Speaker 5: I watch y'all every day.
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Speaker 2: Love you too, boo.
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Speaker 3: I can tell you had a good time. You left
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Speaker 3: on a Monday. Usually people leave on a Sunday. You
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Speaker 3: left on a Monday.
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Speaker 5: Listen, them tickets was too high on a Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I feel that.
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Speaker 5: I'm on top of that. Okay.
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Speaker 1: I feel that.
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Speaker 5: I'm on top of that.
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Speaker 1: So, it is what it is.
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Speaker 16: I had a great time.
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Speaker 18: My voice is gone. And that's it.
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Speaker 7: Oh, well, you did your big one then. That's what's up.
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Speaker 3: Well, you have a good one, Mom. Get home safe.
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Speaker 5: Y'all have a good day.
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Speaker 15: Love y'all.
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Speaker 3: Love you, Mom.
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Speaker 7: Love you back.
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Speaker 3: Hello, who's this?
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Speaker 13: Hey, this is Tayshia calling from 843.
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Speaker 2: 843, what's happening? Good morning. What's up, Sharla?
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Speaker 5: Hey, listen, man. I wanted to tell you.
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Speaker 13: Lil' Boss been taking off before.
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Speaker 2: You, you know, gave him his flowers on the radio.
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Speaker 13: But, man, how he perform at that show. It was
13:23
Speaker 13: cash money, no limit, but he really did his thing
13:26
Speaker 13: out there in Columbia, man. I was so proud, man.
13:28
Speaker 1: Man, I seen the video, man. Birdman set him up nice.
13:30
Speaker 1: Birdman said he a little superstar.
13:34
Speaker 13: He is, and he about to take off, and I
13:36
Speaker 13: pray God guidance over him, you know, because I know
13:38
Speaker 13: everybody going to try to get at him, but... We
13:40
Speaker 13: got to pray for him because, you know, you know,
13:41
Speaker 13: this industry that we don't I don't know about it,
13:43
Speaker 13: but we hear about it.
13:44
Speaker 5: So hopefully God guides him.
13:46
Speaker 2: God is guiding him right now. Put him in.
13:48
Speaker 7: The right direction.
13:49
Speaker 5: That's right.
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Speaker 18: Put him in the right direction.
13:51
Speaker 2: That's right.
13:51
Speaker 5: Yeah.
13:51
Speaker 13: I just wanted to tell y'all good morning. Also, before
13:54
Speaker 13: I go, can I give a shout out to something
13:56
Speaker 13: that I do?
13:56
Speaker 2: I'm doing right now. OK, cool.
13:59
Speaker 13: My brother and I just started a silent headphone party.
14:02
Speaker 13: And Halloween night, we're having a silent headphone party.
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Speaker 2: At the Jenkins Orphanage.
14:06
Speaker 3: We got DJ Chuck T and DJ D-Nice.
14:09
Speaker 2: My guys. That's fam right there.
14:12
Speaker 5: We're on Eventbrite. Yeah, we're on Eventbrite.
14:15
Speaker 13: And our Facebook page is Silent Vibes with a Z.
14:18
Speaker 13: And if my city can please get behind us and
14:19
Speaker 13: go buy the tickets, the ticket's.
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Speaker 5: Not even more than $ 30. Halloween costume party at the
14:24
Speaker 5: Jenkins Orphanage.
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Speaker 2: All right.
14:26
Speaker 3: Well, you have a good one. Good luck with your party.
14:28
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
14:28
Speaker 5: Y'all be blessed. Thank you. All right.
14:30
Speaker 2: I'm going to be in Charleston this weekend, man.
14:32
Speaker 1: This weekend is the International African American Museum's homecoming. So
14:36
Speaker 1: they got a whole weekend of events from Thursday to Sunday.
14:40
Speaker 1: And I'm going to be down there Friday doing something
14:42
Speaker 1: with the International African American Museum.
14:44
Speaker 2: All right.
14:44
Speaker 3: You know, the silent parties kind of went away. It
14:46
Speaker 3: was like big for a minute.
14:47
Speaker 17: I know.
14:47
Speaker 5: Yeah.
14:47
Speaker 3: Especially in a pandemic. It just kind of just went away.
14:50
Speaker 17: Yeah.
14:51
Speaker 1: Yeah.
14:51
Speaker 19: I think it was.
14:52
Speaker 7: I think it's fire, though.
14:52
Speaker 19: It's a creative way to listen to more than one
14:54
Speaker 19: DJ at one time.
14:55
Speaker 8: Yeah.
14:56
Speaker 3: Well, get it off your chest.
14:57
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14:58
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15:01
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15:02
Speaker 1: This is your time to get it off your chest,
15:05
Speaker 1: whether you're mad or blessed.
15:06
Speaker 3: I hate the way that you walk, the way that
15:08
Speaker 3: you talk.
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Speaker 19: I hate the way that you dress.
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Speaker 3: Everything with me is blessed. Call up now.
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Speaker 3: Not just me.
15:14
Speaker 2: I'm with the culture feeling. Hello, who's this?
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Speaker 5: Can you hear me?
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Speaker 14: What's going on, brother?
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Speaker 2: You ain't even say nothing yet. Talk about can we
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Speaker 2: hear you. You ain't say a goddamn thing yet.
15:25
Speaker 3: We can hear you.
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Speaker 5: Come on, brother. Hey, shallow man, shallow man.
15:28
Speaker 3: Come on, man.
15:28
Speaker 2: Don't start this on a Monday. Don't start this on
15:31
Speaker 2: a Monday, bro.
15:33
Speaker 3: What's up, brother? Get it off your chest.
15:34
Speaker 16: Hey, man, I'm just surprised that I got through, man.
15:36
Speaker 16: Top of the morning to all y'all.
15:38
Speaker 2: Top of the morning.
15:38
Speaker 3: Top of the morning.
15:39
Speaker 16: And it's Stunner calling from the Bay.
15:41
Speaker 3: Okay, what's up, Stunner?
15:43
Speaker 1: East Oakland, actually.
15:44
Speaker 2: Okay, what's happening, bro?
15:45
Speaker 3: Well, get it off your chest.
15:46
Speaker 16: Hey, I just want to get it. I just want
15:48
Speaker 16: to get off my chest, man, that I've been watching
15:49
Speaker 16: you guys for a long time, man, and I just
15:52
Speaker 16: want to big you guys up, each and every one
15:53
Speaker 16: of you guys. But look, man, I just wanted to
15:55
Speaker 16: get off my chest this morning, man, that gas prices
16:01
Speaker 16: is just ridiculous. The grocery prices, like, I get anxiety
16:04
Speaker 16: every time I walk into the grocery store these days
16:07
Speaker 16: because it's just like, man, you know, I remember, I'm
16:09
Speaker 16: from the old school. I was born in 1984, where.
16:14
Speaker 16: You know, we used to go into this, you know,
16:15
Speaker 16: we used to go into the grocery store and there
16:17
Speaker 16: would be people with like two baskets of groceries.
16:20
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
16:23
Speaker 16: You know, you used to, we walk, I go in
16:25
Speaker 16: there now and I can, I don't even have to
16:27
Speaker 16: get a basket. You know what I mean? I just,
16:30
Speaker 16: walk around and grab everything I need because it's like
16:32
Speaker 16: you can't afford nothing now, baby.
16:34
Speaker 2: Super, super expensive.
16:35
Speaker 1: Remember back in the day when somebody would give you
16:37
Speaker 1: $ 5 as a kid, you can go in some place
16:39
Speaker 1: like Food Lion.
16:40
Speaker 2: And ball out.
16:40
Speaker 11: What?
16:41
Speaker 1: You get you a big three liter of generic soda
16:44
Speaker 1: for a dollar.
16:45
Speaker 3: Eight bags of chips.
16:47
Speaker 2: You know?
16:48
Speaker 16: Hey, look.
16:49
Speaker 3: Hey, check it out.
16:49
Speaker 2: 12-pound oatmeal cream pie for 99 cents.
16:51
Speaker 16: Hey, well, check it out. Let me tell you how
16:55
Speaker 16: bad it is.
16:56
Speaker 5: I was at the.
16:57
Speaker 16: Grocery store the other day, and, you know, you can
17:00
Speaker 16: see people on the streets, the people that you know,
17:02
Speaker 16: they have, like, food stamps.
17:05
Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
17:06
Speaker 16: And I was like, hey, man, let me buy some
17:08
Speaker 16: of your food stamps. The guy looked at me and said, hey.
17:12
Speaker 3: Man, wow, I need all this.
17:14
Speaker 8: Word up.
17:14
Speaker 2: Times is hard, bro.
17:16
Speaker 16: Hey, times is definitely hard, but look. I want to
17:18
Speaker 16: hold you guys, man. I just want to appreciate you guys.
17:21
Speaker 16: This is my first time actually calling when I got in,
17:24
Speaker 16: so I'm really excited about that. I'm looking at you
17:26
Speaker 16: guys as I'm speaking right now.
17:27
Speaker 5: Right.
17:28
Speaker 16: So that's crazy to see, you know. But, man, I
17:31
Speaker 16: wish I could have went to your mental health, Charlamagne,
17:35
Speaker 16: because I'm one of the people I just recently started
17:38
Speaker 16: seeing a therapist myself.
17:40
Speaker 2: Okay.
17:41
Speaker 16: And I just want to encourage all the black men
17:43
Speaker 16: out there, men in general, but especially black men, like,
17:46
Speaker 16: it's okay. to not be okay that's right and you
17:50
Speaker 16: know um and i i love what you always say
17:53
Speaker 16: charlemagne is that you better take care of your trauma
17:56
Speaker 16: before your trauma take care.
17:58
Speaker 2: Of you that's right that's a fact you know what i.
18:00
Speaker 16: Mean so you know i pray that each and every
18:03
Speaker 16: you that um all three of you guys including you
18:06
Speaker 16: want to meet me sorry about that hey you want
18:08
Speaker 16: to meet me i love you guys too but um
18:11
Speaker 16: You guys just stay blessed, man, and may God continue
18:14
Speaker 16: to bless each and all of you guys.
18:16
Speaker 2: All right. Thank you, brother.
18:17
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, man. That is one of the
18:19
Speaker 1: things I really enjoyed seeing this weekend, man, just the
18:21
Speaker 1: amount of brothers that came out on Saturday. Like, you know,
18:24
Speaker 1: like brothers don't even, they know that they got to
18:27
Speaker 1: do the work on themselves, and they not even trying
18:29
Speaker 1: to hide it in no way, shape, or form.
18:30
Speaker 2: They was out there in droves on Saturday, man.
18:33
Speaker 3: We got Prince on the line. Prince said he was
18:35
Speaker 3: a volunteer this weekend. What's up, Prince?
18:37
Speaker 5: What's good? What's good?
18:38
Speaker 3: What's up with you, brother?
18:39
Speaker 5: Hey, Charlemagne, man. Let me... Let me say this, brother.
18:41
Speaker 5: This was the best one.
18:43
Speaker 2: Oh, man. Thank you, brother.
18:45
Speaker 5: This was the best one. Let me tell you why, family,
18:47
Speaker 5: real quick. That Q & A, that Dr. J. Barnett,
18:51
Speaker 5: I was working his breakout room, and then I went
18:53
Speaker 5: to the bookstore. It was so packed. We were saying,
18:57
Speaker 5: with Sandy and everybody, we need to get him a
19:00
Speaker 5: bigger room, man, because I'm trying to volunteer and stop people.
19:03
Speaker 5: I couldn't even stop him coming in. He said, yo, Prince,
19:06
Speaker 5: let him in. Let him sit on the floor. It
19:08
Speaker 5: was Q & A. We was giving brothers hugs. I
19:11
Speaker 5: gave out a few copies of my book, Breaking the Curse.
19:14
Speaker 5: I gave you one shot.
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Speaker 2: I got it.
19:16
Speaker 5: I love you, man.
19:17
Speaker 2: I love you too, Prince.
19:18
Speaker 5: This was the best one, bro. I saw Lovey when
19:21
Speaker 5: he was there. He was being your security.
19:22
Speaker 2: I was like, that's it.
19:24
Speaker 3: All the pictures I seen, I seen Lovey behind Charlotte.
19:27
Speaker 2: Lovey was holding it down.
19:29
Speaker 1: Salute the lovers.
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Speaker 5: Salute, bro.
19:31
Speaker 2: Thank you, Prince.
19:32
Speaker 5: This is the best one, man. I'm telling you. We
19:34
Speaker 5: was crying, man. Me and Jay.
19:36
Speaker 2: Me and Doc.
19:37
Speaker 5: We crying, hugging people, telling their stories. Yo, never saw
19:41
Speaker 5: the breakout rooms like that, man. The affirmation board was
19:43
Speaker 5: so packed. The things was falling off. I met Dr.
19:47
Speaker 5: Puma when I come back up to Jersey. I'm going
19:49
Speaker 5: to set up an appointment.
19:49
Speaker 2: To see him.
19:50
Speaker 5: Good guy. Amazing turnout, bro.
19:53
Speaker 2: Thank you, brother.
19:55
Speaker 3: Thank you, Prince.
19:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, man. Dr. J did a phenomenal job. I mean, Dr.
19:58
Speaker 2: J was on the main stage as well.
20:00
Speaker 1: But, you know, what Debbie did this year that was
20:01
Speaker 1: so smart, like she would have people talk on the
20:04
Speaker 1: main stage and then Ivy would go up and tell people, hey,
20:07
Speaker 1: we're breaking for a while. So if you want to
20:08
Speaker 1: go to this breakout room, go here. If you want
20:10
Speaker 1: to go to this breakout room, you go there.
20:12
Speaker 2: And like people were just hanging out. I mean, Dr.
20:14
Speaker 1: J's breakout room was ridiculous. Like there were people hanging
20:17
Speaker 1: out the door. But Dr. J, Barnett's breakout room, man.
20:19
Speaker 1: I love Dr. J.
20:20
Speaker 2: He's such a special individual, man. Well, great job, man.
20:22
Speaker 7: See, I told you, I heard all of that about
20:24
Speaker 7: the event over the weekend.
20:25
Speaker 5: For real.
20:26
Speaker 11: V was there.
20:26
Speaker 2: He was reaching out.
20:27
Speaker 13: For real?
20:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, Pretty V came. Okay. She did ask about you.
20:30
Speaker 2: She asked about you.
20:31
Speaker 3: Oh, of course.
20:31
Speaker 7: That's my friend.
20:32
Speaker 2: Yes, V was there. That's what's up.
20:34
Speaker 1: So, to Dr. J, make sure you subscribe to his podcast,
20:36
Speaker 1: the Just Healed podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network.
20:40
Speaker 3: And get it off your chest.
20:41
Speaker 2: 800-585-1051.
20:41
Speaker 3: You all right, Lauren? I'm good.
20:43
Speaker 2: I'm here.
20:44
Speaker 3: I've seen you at Delaware State all weekend long. Big homecoming.
20:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm here.
20:48
Speaker 3: You had a good time. It's all right.
20:50
Speaker 6: I had an amazing time. I thought maybe we should
20:54
Speaker 6: have off work today because homecoming happened yesterday.
20:56
Speaker 7: Maybe we should have what?
20:57
Speaker 3: We have the latest with Lauren coming up.
20:58
Speaker 7: We do have the latest coming up. We're going to
21:00
Speaker 7: talk about, speaking of shows and stages, Jay-Z.
21:03
Speaker 6: He has officially earned a huge, huge box office number.
21:07
Speaker 7: We're going to get into it.
21:08
Speaker 6: We got some Chris Brown Usher tour concert updates. Some cancellations,
21:13
Speaker 6: but not for bad reasons.
21:14
Speaker 7: All for good reasons. So we'll get into that as well, too.
21:16
Speaker 8: All right.
21:17
Speaker 3: We'll get into all that when we come back. It's
21:18
Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club.
21:19
Speaker 9: Good morning.
21:22
Speaker 3: Talk to me.
21:43
Speaker 6: All right, y'all.
21:44
Speaker 3: Good morning. What's up, Mo?
21:45
Speaker 6: Fresh off the yard. I'm so excited to be back
21:48
Speaker 6: from homecoming.
21:49
Speaker 3: You're so stuck on homecoming.
21:50
Speaker 15: I love it, though.
21:51
Speaker 8: I am.
21:51
Speaker 6: But I did miss y'all, though, when I was out there.
21:52
Speaker 6: People always ask me about y'all, and I wish y'all
21:54
Speaker 6: could have came and experienced it.
21:55
Speaker 7: But maybe next year.
21:56
Speaker 3: I'm going to try to come out to Delaware State
21:58
Speaker 3: one time.
21:58
Speaker 7: You have to come at least one time.
21:59
Speaker 3: I tried to come this year, but... Shout out.
22:01
Speaker 7: To Delaware State University.
22:02
Speaker 15: What, y'all?
22:03
Speaker 7: You about to say you don't want to come?
22:04
Speaker 2: No, I was going to say I'm going to try
22:05
Speaker 2: my best not to come.
22:06
Speaker 7: Oh, my God.
22:08
Speaker 5: No!
22:09
Speaker 6: It's just so much joy when we all get together.
22:12
Speaker 5: Yes.
22:13
Speaker 6: But speaking of places that bring us joy and things
22:15
Speaker 6: that bring us joy, Jay-Z. So you guys know the
22:18
Speaker 6: Yankee Stadium shows that he did here in New York
22:20
Speaker 6: were a huge success. All the celebration of the anniversary
22:24
Speaker 6: to Jay-Z 30. But officially, according to tour data, it
22:28
Speaker 6: has now become the biggest box office report by a
22:31
Speaker 6: rapper in history. So they are reporting that he has
22:34
Speaker 6: officially earned with $ 42. 3 million dollars From over 137,000 tickets
22:40
Speaker 6: sold across all three shows, his biggest box office report
22:44
Speaker 6: by a rapper in history.
22:46
Speaker 2: Drop on the clues, Bonzo. Yes.
22:48
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
22:49
Speaker 1: Imagine being 30 years into a career, celebrating the 30-year
22:52
Speaker 1: anniversary of your first album, 25th year anniversary of what
22:56
Speaker 1: some people are saying is his best album, The Blueprint,
22:59
Speaker 1: and then the third night just celebrating period and then
23:02
Speaker 1: grossing all of that.
23:02
Speaker 2: Money and making history.
23:03
Speaker 6: And it breaks down to like their solo accomplishments within that.
23:06
Speaker 6: So he earned his highest grossing concert of all time
23:10
Speaker 6: on July 10th. And then he earned his most attended U.S.
23:13
Speaker 6: concert of all time as a soloist on July 11th.
23:16
Speaker 6: And he is now officially the second solo rapper in
23:18
Speaker 6: history to gross over $ 10 million from a single concert,
23:21
Speaker 6: which puts him in the company of Kanye West, The Weeknd, Beyonce,
23:27
Speaker 6: and Kendrick Lamar and SZA, Chris Brown and Usher.
23:30
Speaker 3: And in fact, how old is he? 54, 55?
23:32
Speaker 2: 54, 55.
23:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, the fact that he's doing that at that age,
23:35
Speaker 3: it's amazing. 30 years into his career. And the main
23:38
Speaker 3: thing about it is he doesn't have to.
23:40
Speaker 16: Nope.
23:41
Speaker 3: He does what he enjoys and what he wants to do.
23:42
Speaker 3: That's the main thing.
23:43
Speaker 7: The enjoyment of it.
23:45
Speaker 6: This weekend, I was thinking, so I saw these numbers
23:46
Speaker 6: and I was thinking a lot about how, I think
23:48
Speaker 6: as you, Charlamagne, always mentions how we need to protect
23:51
Speaker 6: our places that bring us joy in our spaces or whatever.
23:53
Speaker 13: Mm-hmm.
23:54
Speaker 7: And I'm thinking about like.
23:55
Speaker 6: You know, whether it's like the concerts or it's the homecoming,
23:57
Speaker 6: it's like everybody has such a good feeling at these things.
24:00
Speaker 2: Safe spaces.
24:00
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's just safe. It just, it feels good.
24:03
Speaker 2: And it's crazy, man.
24:04
Speaker 1: That's why I be telling folks, man, you can focus
24:06
Speaker 1: on right now all you want. You can think about
24:08
Speaker 1: wanting to be the, you know, the hottest right now.
24:10
Speaker 1: The red hot, white hot person right now at this moment.
24:13
Speaker 1: But what about being that person 30 years later?
24:16
Speaker 5: Right.
24:16
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
24:17
Speaker 3: You ain't got to be that far. 20 years later.
24:19
Speaker 2: 20 years later.
24:20
Speaker 20: Word up.
24:20
Speaker 2: 10 years.
24:20
Speaker 11: 10 years.
24:21
Speaker 2: Word up.
24:22
Speaker 3: Think about some of these artists, and you see them,
24:24
Speaker 3: they hot, and then you just don't see them again.
24:25
Speaker 3: You don't know where they are. You don't know what
24:27
Speaker 3: they're doing. But the fact that, like you said, Jay is.
24:29
Speaker 6: Doing this 30 years plus later.
24:31
Speaker 1: It's amazing. Some of their favorite artists are approaching them
24:34
Speaker 1: 20-year marks, though. We should be approaching the 20-year mark
24:37
Speaker 1: of so far gone soon. The 20-year mark of... Good Kid,
24:42
Speaker 1: Mad City, Section 80. We should be approaching those things soon, right?
24:47
Speaker 7: But it's different.
24:48
Speaker 6: It's weird because, yes, we are. But I don't know
24:51
Speaker 6: why it feels different. Maybe because of the age with Jay-Z.
24:54
Speaker 6: Like with Drake.
24:55
Speaker 14: What you mean?
24:56
Speaker 2: Drake is over 40. Cole is 42. But they don't feel.
24:59
Speaker 3: I don't know.
24:59
Speaker 2: Drake about to be 40.
25:00
Speaker 6: Drake feels like closer to. You know what I mean?
25:02
Speaker 7: Like he feels younger.
25:03
Speaker 3: He's closer to your age. You ain't a young girl.
25:06
Speaker 2: I am young.
25:07
Speaker 8: You 34.
25:07
Speaker 3: About to be 35.
25:07
Speaker 2: He's 39. I was not the oldest of the young.
25:11
Speaker 3: But it seems like that because Drake has had number
25:15
Speaker 3: one hits in the last, more relevant as far as
25:18
Speaker 3: hits wise. Right here, right now.
25:20
Speaker 6: You celebrate all that time, but it does feel a
25:22
Speaker 6: little bit different when you talk about it with someone
25:24
Speaker 6: who is like, you know, an artist of Jay-Z's age.
25:26
Speaker 2: What was the number again? 42.
25:29
Speaker 6: 42.3 million dollars.
25:33
Speaker 1: This week is going to be fantastic at headquarters. I
25:35
Speaker 1: need to make sure to go by the office. Might
25:37
Speaker 1: get a little bonus or something. Might be some envelopes
25:39
Speaker 1: passing around.
25:40
Speaker 7: That's why you went to dinner yesterday.
25:41
Speaker 3: I put in an order.
25:43
Speaker 2: Did you put my order in?
25:45
Speaker 6: Whatever you ordered, did you get me and Jess one?
25:47
Speaker 5: No.
25:48
Speaker 2: Just a jacket. Thank you.
25:52
Speaker 12: I got you.
25:52
Speaker 6: Well, speaking of real quick before we get out of here,
25:54
Speaker 6: speaking of concerts and longevity, so Usher and Chris Brown,
25:58
Speaker 6: there was an announcement that went out over the weekend that.
26:00
Speaker 7: Four dates of their R & B tour have been canceled.
26:04
Speaker 6: Now, I saw headlines talking about, you know, Chris Brown
26:07
Speaker 6: has those dates coming up for court over in the UK,
26:10
Speaker 6: but that is not what the promoters have posted. So
26:12
Speaker 6: the promoter said, following an extensive run of sold-out stadium
26:15
Speaker 6: shows on one of this year's biggest tours, the event
26:18
Speaker 6: promoter has made a difficult decision to cancel select upcoming
26:20
Speaker 6: R & B dates. to prioritize the health and well-being
26:23
Speaker 6: of the tour and party crew uh the demands of
26:26
Speaker 6: a tour this length and scale are significant and the
26:27
Speaker 6: adjustments will allow for the tour to continue safely and
26:30
Speaker 6: sustainably throughout the remaining scheduled performances so it's like they're
26:34
Speaker 6: working a lot and they want to be able to
26:35
Speaker 6: give everybody the amount of like get better feel good
26:39
Speaker 6: take your time time yeah because they can't.
26:40
Speaker 3: Make any mistakes if you ever been on tour like
26:42
Speaker 3: i've dj for fab on tour many years but It's
26:45
Speaker 3: not just the artists. It's the crew that has to
26:48
Speaker 3: drive from city to city and build that stuff. You
26:50
Speaker 3: don't want somebody to be tired, that builds wrong, forgets something. Like, yeah,
26:53
Speaker 3: if they need a break, they need a break. Because
26:55
Speaker 3: it's not just the artists. That crew.
26:57
Speaker 1: And they've been going on a run.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 14: Yes.
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Speaker 6: And they still got a very extensive run left. I
27:03
Speaker 6: know the added dates. Yep, they're going to be in Houston. Well,
27:06
Speaker 6: they were just in Houston over the weekend, and then
27:08
Speaker 6: they have MetLife Stadium coming up.
27:10
Speaker 3: I'm going to go to MetLife and take the wife
27:11
Speaker 3: this time.
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Speaker 19: Oh, y'all going to love it.
27:15
Speaker 3: I'm going to take the wife.
27:16
Speaker 2: I don't like when they do that, though, because you
27:18
Speaker 2: know who suffers?
27:19
Speaker 1: The secondary markets that don't necessarily get big shows like that.
27:22
Speaker 2: Because if you look at that list... Who'd they cut?
27:24
Speaker 1: I know they cut Columbia, South Carolina, you know, to
27:27
Speaker 1: the 803.
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Speaker 3: No, they did.
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Speaker 1: They did?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so it was announced that the ticket buyers for
27:31
Speaker 6: the Baltimore.
27:31
Speaker 2: Concert, Baltimore, Cincinnati.
27:35
Speaker 6: Columbia, South Carolina, and Indianapolis.
27:38
Speaker 1: Most of the, well, I thought, I would think Cincinnati
27:40
Speaker 1: and Indianapolis are considered major markets, but a lot of
27:42
Speaker 1: those are considered secondary markets.
27:44
Speaker 6: But they went to Baltimore once already, right? Because some
27:46
Speaker 6: of these places are doubling back at.
27:47
Speaker 19: They didn't go to Baltimore, that's why they put Baltimore
27:49
Speaker 19: on American Street.
27:50
Speaker 3: But the thing is, is, yeah, I mean, I do
27:51
Speaker 3: get it, but these guys need rest. Remember, Chris Brown
27:53
Speaker 3: is flying through the air. Usher's burning stuff on live
27:57
Speaker 3: on things.
27:58
Speaker 7: And the crew behind the scenes.
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Speaker 2: Well, they know that when they're making the schedule.
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Speaker 7: The crew behind the scenes.
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Speaker 3: But they can get tired when the tour is going
28:05
Speaker 3: on because you think you can do it and then
28:06
Speaker 3: you start getting tired. You start yawning. You forget to
28:09
Speaker 3: do things. And Usher is your age.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
28:10
Speaker 2: He's 47, 48.
28:10
Speaker 3: That's right.
28:11
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28:29
Speaker 3: Now, when we come back, we got front page news.
28:31
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28:33
Speaker 5: Morning, everybody.
28:34
Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
28:37
Speaker 3: the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news.
28:41
Speaker 3: Start off with sports. A lot going on. Major League
28:43
Speaker 3: Baseball tonight. The Dodgers take on Milwaukee Brewers. Game two
28:47
Speaker 3: of the NLCS happens at five, followed by the Clubs.
28:49
Speaker 3: Cleveland taking on the Tampa Bay Rays, game one of
28:52
Speaker 3: the ALCS at eight. Now, also, WNBA, the Dream beat
28:56
Speaker 3: the Liberty, 85-83, sent the Liberty home. And the Valkyries
28:59
Speaker 3: beat the Aces, sent the Aces home, 87-77. Now, in football,
29:05
Speaker 3: all right, let's get to it. The Jaguars beat the Eagles.
29:09
Speaker 1: By the way, the Jaguars look really good. Salute to
29:11
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars, man. Drop on the Clues Bonds for the Jaguars.
29:14
Speaker 1: I'm not a Jaguars fan. I'm a Dallas Cowboys fan.
29:16
Speaker 1: But they look really good.
29:16
Speaker 3: They should have lost that game, though.
29:18
Speaker 2: It's no such thing.
29:19
Speaker 3: They should have. That was bad coaching.
29:21
Speaker 2: They should have lost that game.
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Speaker 3: They did. Now, the Jets beat the Browns 17-12. Texas
29:25
Speaker 3: beat the Titans. Patriots beat the Raiders. The Packers beat
29:28
Speaker 3: the Bears. Lions beat the Cardinals. Ravens barely beat the Falcons.
29:30
Speaker 2: You've seen the game?
29:31
Speaker 7: There ain't no barely nothing.
29:32
Speaker 3: We did it. We did it. You said it was
29:34
Speaker 3: an overtime. Yeah, we did. But you can't say that.
29:36
Speaker 3: We won. We got it.
29:37
Speaker 2: A win is a win.
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Speaker 20: 30-23.
29:39
Speaker 3: A win is a win. 49ers beat the Seahawks. Broncos
29:42
Speaker 3: beat the Chargers. The Bengals beat the Dolphins. Vikings beat
29:45
Speaker 3: the Saints. Steelers beat the Colts. And the Giants are
29:47
Speaker 3: still number one in the division.
29:48
Speaker 2: The Giants should have lost that game.
29:49
Speaker 1: Right.
29:50
Speaker 3: We actually should have won that game. We actually should
29:54
Speaker 3: have won that game. And tonight on Monday Night Football,
29:58
Speaker 3: the Bills take on the Rams at 8-15. What's up, Mimi?
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Speaker 1: I've never seen a division not win a game. The
30:04
Speaker 1: NFC East did not win this week.
30:06
Speaker 8: Nope.
30:06
Speaker 2: Nobody in the NFC East won. That's crazy.
30:09
Speaker 3: What's up, Mimi?
30:09
Speaker 7: Good morning, guys.
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Speaker 10: How y'all doing this morning?
30:11
Speaker 14: Good.
30:12
Speaker 5: Good.
30:12
Speaker 9: Okay. Front Page News is sponsored by Morgan & Morgan,
30:15
Speaker 9: America's largest injury law firm. So we start this hour
30:19
Speaker 9: in Cincinnati. This is a very sad story, guys. This
30:23
Speaker 9: is where a father is now on trial for running
30:26
Speaker 9: over and killing a sheriff deputy. So prosecutors say it
30:29
Speaker 9: happened just hours after the father watched police body cam
30:33
Speaker 9: video showing his son being shot by a police officer.
30:37
Speaker 9: His attorneys argue that, you know, after the father watched
30:41
Speaker 9: the video, he went into some sort of mental health shock.
30:44
Speaker 10: His name is Rodney Hinton Jr.
30:46
Speaker 3: I remember this case. This happened a couple years ago. Yeah,
30:48
Speaker 3: I remember this case.
30:49
Speaker 10: It happened last May.
30:50
Speaker 9: Cincinnati police shot and killed his 18-year-old son. His name
30:54
Speaker 9: was Ryan Hinton during a foot chase. Now, police say
30:57
Speaker 9: that Ryan was carrying a gun. He pointed it at officers,
31:00
Speaker 9: but his family, they dispute that account. Prosecutors later ruled
31:04
Speaker 9: that shooting was justified and that officer was not charged.
31:07
Speaker 9: And so later that next morning, Rodney and his family,
31:11
Speaker 9: they went to the police station to watch the body
31:14
Speaker 9: cam footage of his son's final moments. And his family
31:17
Speaker 9: members say that Rodney was devastated. And so just hours later,
31:20
Speaker 9: he deliberately drove his vehicle, this is according to prosecutors,
31:24
Speaker 9: deliberately drove his vehicle into a sheriff deputy who was
31:26
Speaker 9: directing traffic.
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Speaker 10: His name is Larry Henderson.
31:29
Speaker 9: The trial is happening right now and here's what a
31:31
Speaker 9: witness say happened that day. I saw the car first
31:35
Speaker 9: hit the lamppost very hard and it bounced to the
31:39
Speaker 9: left and that's when it hit Deputy Henderson.
31:42
Speaker 1: And you said it went straight toward the light post
31:44
Speaker 1: and then it struck the light post, right?
31:46
Speaker 13: Yes.
31:46
Speaker 2: And then after it struck the light post, it hit, unfortunately,
31:50
Speaker 2: Deputy Henderson, correct?
31:51
Speaker 1: Yes, it did.
31:52
Speaker 2: And you saw that with your own eyes?
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Speaker 3: Yes, I did.
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Speaker 21: Who was standing directly next to that light post from
31:56
Speaker 21: your observation?
31:58
Speaker 3: Immediately behind the light post was the deputy. Tell the
32:01
Speaker 3: questions I have, Your Honor.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so it's important to point out that Deputy Henderson
32:08
Speaker 9: was not the person involved in his son's shooting. In fact,
32:12
Speaker 9: he worked for a different law enforcement agency altogether. So prosecutors,
32:16
Speaker 9: they say this is an act of revenge, but his
32:18
Speaker 9: attorneys say that he was having a mental health crisis
32:21
Speaker 9: and watched his son be killed on video.
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Speaker 1: That's what I thought the first time I heard that story. Like,
32:26
Speaker 1: first time I heard that story, I'm like, oh, man,
32:28
Speaker 1: he snapped. You know, definitely some type of... you know,
32:31
Speaker 1: temporary insanity. It's horrible what happened to Larry Henderson. He
32:33
Speaker 1: was just out there directing traffic. He had nothing to
32:35
Speaker 1: do with, you know, the man's son being killed, but
32:38
Speaker 1: this guy clearly snapped.
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Speaker 22: Yeah.
32:40
Speaker 2: That's what I thought when I heard the story.
32:42
Speaker 3: Now, with his son, I know they were chasing his son.
32:44
Speaker 3: Did his son, did they find a gun on his son?
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Speaker 9: They said that they found a gun on his son.
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Speaker 9: And they said that the son actually pointed the gun
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Speaker 9: at the officer. But the family, you know, they dispute that,
32:58
Speaker 9: that that's what happened.
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Speaker 11: So.
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Speaker 2: Horrible situation.
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Speaker 10: Very, very horrible situation. This trial is expected to last
33:04
Speaker 10: two weeks. We'll continue to watch that.
33:07
Speaker 9: And there's been a lot of talk about Atlanta leading
33:10
Speaker 9: the nation in evictions.
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Speaker 10: Have you guys heard about this?
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Speaker 7: No. You did?
33:14
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: So we're getting a clearer picture of just how bad
33:17
Speaker 9: the problem is, especially for black families. So landlords across
33:20
Speaker 9: Atlanta are They filed 144,000 eviction cases last year. That's
33:26
Speaker 9: nearly one in four case for every four households that rent.
33:29
Speaker 9: That's nearly three times the national average. So and of course,
33:33
Speaker 9: as always, black renters are being hit the hardest. They
33:36
Speaker 9: make up 50 percent of the renters, but nearly 70
33:39
Speaker 9: percent of all cases. Researchers say it's easier for landlords
33:43
Speaker 9: to evict people in Atlanta because there's no protections like
33:46
Speaker 9: there are here in New York City and other places.
33:48
Speaker 9: But with rent continuing to rise, Atlanta's mayor, Andre Dickens,
33:51
Speaker 9: he is now launching a new program. And he's offering
33:54
Speaker 9: $ 500 interest-free loans to help struggling renters stay in their homes.
33:58
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
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Speaker 19: I remember there was a time where everybody wanted to
34:01
Speaker 19: move to Atlanta because the cost of living was so
34:03
Speaker 19: cheap down there, you know.
34:04
Speaker 7: It was so inexpensive, I should say.
34:06
Speaker 3: And one time they said Atlanta had a lot of jobs.
34:08
Speaker 3: People were actually working. There was, you know, places for
34:10
Speaker 3: them to work. And they said a lot of that
34:11
Speaker 3: slowed down in the last couple of years.
34:13
Speaker 7: It has.
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Speaker 9: And so we're seeing the effects of that right now, Envy.
34:16
Speaker 9: So with this loan, the money has to be paid back,
34:19
Speaker 9: of course. It's a loan, but it's interest-free. So for
34:22
Speaker 9: more information, residents can visit Atlanta's Housing Health Center to
34:26
Speaker 9: get more information on that.
34:28
Speaker 3: That's what's up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
34:29
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's good to help, to offer some help.
34:33
Speaker 9: And lastly, you know, as we wrap up Mental World
34:36
Speaker 9: Health Day, which was Saturday, Sharr, a new warning for
34:39
Speaker 9: parents whose teenagers are using chat GPT. Researchers say the
34:43
Speaker 9: chat box may not be doing enough to protect kids
34:45
Speaker 9: during a mental health crisis. So Common Center Health, they
34:51
Speaker 9: conducted a chat GPT safety features for teenagers.
34:55
Speaker 10: They gave the platform.
34:56
Speaker 9: Its lowest safety rating, calling it unacceptable. So they tested
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Speaker 9: 4,000 conversations when teenagers talked about suicide, self-harm, eating disorders.
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Speaker 9: And the chat box failed to alert parents, sometimes failed
35:09
Speaker 9: to alert parents that their kids were in distress and
35:11
Speaker 9: needed real help. This comes as these conversations, they went
35:15
Speaker 9: on for an hour without a parent. Several families say
35:19
Speaker 9: they've sued AI companies because their children died by suicide,
35:22
Speaker 9: claiming the chat box encouraged unhealthy emotional attachments. So what
35:26
Speaker 9: happens is if a teenager or someone says, you know,
35:29
Speaker 9: I'm thinking about suicide, the chat is supposed to alert
35:32
Speaker 9: a parent, especially chat GPT for teenagers.
35:35
Speaker 10: They're saying that did not happen.
35:36
Speaker 7: Instead of what is giving them wings.
35:38
Speaker 9: It just let them go on for about an hour
35:41
Speaker 9: before they even like kind of.
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Speaker 1: Every single social media platform is bad for your mental health.
35:46
Speaker 8: All of them.
35:46
Speaker 2: So what makes them think chat GPT would be any different? Right.
35:49
Speaker 7: Like why are we leaning so heavily on AI to
35:51
Speaker 7: help save our.
35:52
Speaker 10: Children and steal technology?
35:53
Speaker 9: Because they came out and said, they said that their
35:55
Speaker 9: teenager edition was safer. And so that's, you know, so
35:58
Speaker 9: teenagers can use that. And it has safety alerts and everything.
36:02
Speaker 9: But chat, so open AI, they're disputing the findings saying
36:05
Speaker 9: that the testing happened before. is parental safety features were
36:07
Speaker 9: fully activated.
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Speaker 2: How could they even alert the parents?
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Speaker 1: Are the parents connected to their kids?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, if it's a teen account, yeah, you're connected to it.
36:16
Speaker 3: Same thing, I don't know if my kids are connected
36:19
Speaker 3: to my phone, so anytime they try to download an app,
36:21
Speaker 3: it asks me, hey, Jackson is trying to download this app,
36:24
Speaker 3: is it okay?
36:24
Speaker 7: Yeah, but that's not OpenAI, that's just another app that
36:26
Speaker 7: you have.
36:26
Speaker 3: But you can do that with this now, it's a
36:28
Speaker 3: teen app where anytime you go into it, they can
36:30
Speaker 3: alert you and say, hey, your son is looking this
36:32
Speaker 3: up or this is happening.
36:32
Speaker 19: Yeah, because we have the same thing, but it's not OpenAI,
36:34
Speaker 19: but Like kids, I mean, parents just tap in with
36:38
Speaker 19: your children.
36:38
Speaker 3: Yeah.
36:39
Speaker 7: Do a better job.
36:40
Speaker 19: Don't rely on technology to help you.
36:43
Speaker 7: Get in touch with them.
36:44
Speaker 1: All of that excessive, unmonitored social media use. Yeah, that's
36:50
Speaker 1: going to definitely link to negative mental health outcomes.
36:53
Speaker 3: And I was also talking to a parent yesterday at
36:54
Speaker 3: Jackson Soccer Game. He was telling me that he works
36:56
Speaker 3: for companies that do the AI type of thing. And
36:59
Speaker 3: he said the biggest thing that they're doing now is
37:01
Speaker 3: they're trying to teach kids how to use AI the
37:04
Speaker 3: right way. So use AI for you. Tell it what
37:06
Speaker 3: you want it to do, how you want it to
37:08
Speaker 3: do it. Because they're saying it can make people's lives
37:10
Speaker 3: easier when it comes to work. But it was like,
37:12
Speaker 3: we have to learn how to teach kids how to
37:15
Speaker 3: use it.
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Speaker 20: Yeah, yeah.
37:16
Speaker 7: It has to know you.
37:17
Speaker 3: Like, that's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 19: You got to teach your chat GPT or your open AI, like,
37:20
Speaker 19: about you so it can better assist you with whatever.
37:23
Speaker 2: Man, you got to be the pimp. Chat GPT got
37:25
Speaker 2: to be the hoe. Not the other way around.
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Speaker 15: Exactly. Okay?
37:28
Speaker 2: Don't let chat GPT pimp you. All right?
37:30
Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
37:31
Speaker 10: There you have it, y'all.
37:32
Speaker 7: It's not the moral.
37:33
Speaker 2: Yes, it is. That's exactly what it is.
37:35
Speaker 1: You got to be the pimp and Chad GPT got
37:37
Speaker 1: to be the hoe. You got to put that hoe
37:39
Speaker 1: on the scroll and have it work for you.
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Speaker 5: Hey, y'all.
37:41
Speaker 2: Hey, not the other way around. Stupid, stupid, stupid. All right, y'all.
37:44
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37:52
Speaker 3: All right. Now, when we come back, who's joining us, Charlamagne?
37:55
Speaker 1: Oh, Mahershala Ali will be joining us. Mahershala Ali has
37:58
Speaker 1: a new movie, Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother, in
38:00
Speaker 1: theaters right now.
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Speaker 2: So he'll be here to talk to us about that.
38:03
Speaker 2: And I'm sure other things.
38:04
Speaker 3: All right. We'll get to that next. It's The Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. Good morning, everybody.
38:07
Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
38:11
Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club. Lawn LaRose is here as well. We
38:13
Speaker 3: got a special guest in the building.
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Speaker 1: Mahershala Ali is here.
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Speaker 2: How are you, sir?
38:18
Speaker 3: I'm good.
38:18
Speaker 2: I'm good. Thanks for having me. Hey, you rolling right.
38:21
Speaker 2: Nothing but women. Okay. Black women. You know what I mean?
38:26
Speaker 2: The Nubian white queen over there too. But you're rolling right.
38:30
Speaker 2: That's how you stay out of trouble.
38:31
Speaker 3: Thank you, brother.
38:32
Speaker 15: Thank you.
38:33
Speaker 3: Keep me in line.
38:33
Speaker 2: That's right. How are you, man?
38:35
Speaker 3: I'm well, man.
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Speaker 15: I'm just, you know, out on these streets talking about
38:38
Speaker 15: this movie right now.
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Speaker 2: Your mother, your mother, your mother.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah.
38:41
Speaker 2: Very interesting concept. It's like John Q times 100. Yeah.
38:45
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? It's like I don't want
38:47
Speaker 2: to give too much away, but tell them a bit
38:49
Speaker 2: about your character.
38:50
Speaker 15: Man, it's about a gentleman by the name of Lateef,
38:54
Speaker 15: who is a recent widower. And he is urgently looking
38:59
Speaker 15: for breast milk because his child is allergic to formula.
39:02
Speaker 15: He's also a hitman. And so he is looking for
39:05
Speaker 15: breast milk while he is also being hunted. So he's
39:08
Speaker 15: trying to. protect his family, but he urgently needs to
39:11
Speaker 15: feed his child.
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Speaker 2: He's committing crimes. I don't want to call him a criminal.
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Speaker 11: Right.
39:14
Speaker 2: He's committing crimes.
39:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a vigilante.
39:16
Speaker 2: He's a vigilante, but you're rooting for him.
39:18
Speaker 11: Yeah.
39:19
Speaker 2: And it made me think, like, how much of morality
39:21
Speaker 2: is really just circumstance?
39:23
Speaker 15: Yeah, and sort of like what, to some degree, what,
39:28
Speaker 15: because there's certain things that people... are contracted to do
39:31
Speaker 15: who have government approval and then later on we have
39:34
Speaker 15: governments apologizing for those actions later on and people so
39:38
Speaker 15: how do people interpret justice you know it's sort of
39:41
Speaker 15: what it gets down to like you know we can
39:43
Speaker 15: sit back and watch a Batman movie and kind of
39:46
Speaker 15: agree with a lot of his choices you know even
39:48
Speaker 15: though There's things that the police force or some government
39:53
Speaker 15: agency wouldn't condone. And his teacher in the film, played
39:56
Speaker 15: by the extraordinary Giancarlo Esposito, doesn't agree with what Lateef
40:01
Speaker 15: is doing. But what Lateef is doing, he feels like
40:03
Speaker 15: is just and he has a real passion for justice.
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Speaker 1: Is it easy for people with options to judge the
40:12
Speaker 1: decisions of people who don't have any?
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Speaker 3: I think it's, yeah, I think so.
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Speaker 15: It's very easy for people who have options to be
40:19
Speaker 15: blind to the circumstances of people who, who are dealing
40:23
Speaker 15: with very limited opportunity. And we, we see it all
40:26
Speaker 15: the time. You know, people make judgments from a lens
40:30
Speaker 15: of being privileged on those who grow up with very
40:33
Speaker 15: little access to a lot of the things that they
40:36
Speaker 15: have access to. And so we have to all be
40:38
Speaker 15: like very careful, careful of that, like sort of becoming
40:40
Speaker 15: like self-righteous, so to speak.
40:42
Speaker 3: There's also, okay.
40:43
Speaker 6: A conversation that the film made me think about of
40:45
Speaker 6: how you don't have these options you're doing what you
40:47
Speaker 6: got to do and your children are watching you do
40:49
Speaker 6: that yeah so they're learning of the world and what's
40:52
Speaker 6: right what's wrong how to navigate it is shaped very
40:55
Speaker 6: differently than what you as a parent are trying to
40:57
Speaker 6: instill it them in them at the same time and.
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Speaker 15: Some of that like do as i say not as
41:01
Speaker 15: i do yes so to speak yeah and i think
41:04
Speaker 15: latif feels like he's a good model for his children
41:08
Speaker 15: but Kids are smart, and they're going to have their
41:11
Speaker 15: own opinions, and they're experiencing a new world. They're not
41:13
Speaker 15: growing up in the same world that you grew up in.
41:16
Speaker 15: You have children. Your children are not growing up in
41:18
Speaker 15: the world that you were raised in.
41:20
Speaker 3: They're just not.
41:20
Speaker 15: And so we as adults have to be very mindful
41:24
Speaker 15: of the new truths that these kids and these youth
41:27
Speaker 15: are navigating. That's just different from our own. Man.
41:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very different.
41:32
Speaker 3: Very different.
41:33
Speaker 7: What drew you to the script?
41:34
Speaker 15: The characters. Just the character and the range that was
41:40
Speaker 15: offered to me in this opportunity. I come from an
41:44
Speaker 15: athletic background. I was an athlete for half of my life.
41:47
Speaker 15: And I think inherent in that is constantly being challenged
41:51
Speaker 15: and setting new goals and trying to reach those goals
41:55
Speaker 15: and go beyond. And so as I transitioned into BYU,
41:58
Speaker 15: being a full-time artist and actor, essentially, I feel like
42:02
Speaker 15: I'm inherently always looking for, like, the new mountain to climb. Like,
42:06
Speaker 15: what's the new challenge? What's going to wake me up?
42:09
Speaker 15: What's going to require all of me? Because all of
42:12
Speaker 15: this is time away from your loved ones. Like, 100%
42:14
Speaker 15: of the time, you know that. but you start filming something,
42:17
Speaker 15: your short days are 12 hours, you know? And so
42:20
Speaker 15: you start working 70, 75 hours in a week. You
42:23
Speaker 15: want it to matter. And I think the, what this
42:26
Speaker 15: character offered to me in terms of, of getting to
42:29
Speaker 15: play the soft and the sharp, so to speak, having
42:33
Speaker 15: to juggle being a father of three kids, being a widower,
42:38
Speaker 15: but also being a swordsman and essentially like a samurai.
42:41
Speaker 15: That was so exciting to me. And I also felt
42:44
Speaker 15: like it was a, a story that could really resonate
42:47
Speaker 15: sort of culturally we haven't seen this iteration of a
42:50
Speaker 15: black man in the world just in film period like
42:54
Speaker 15: there's no character that you could point to that that
42:56
Speaker 15: someone could say like oh i've seen this guy.
42:58
Speaker 2: Before this is what john king i think john q
43:01
Speaker 2: wanted to.
43:01
Speaker 15: Do yeah yeah potentially yeah you know yeah so yeah
43:05
Speaker 15: so this for me is is um it's sort of
43:08
Speaker 15: like the one like i'm always looking to stretch and
43:12
Speaker 15: grow so to be able to bring qualities like yeah
43:14
Speaker 15: maybe i've had to bring certain things that this character
43:16
Speaker 15: has to other characters but then to add the stunt
43:21
Speaker 15: action element to it is all very new and and
43:24
Speaker 15: honestly a dream come true for me because i've been
43:27
Speaker 15: wanting to i've been wanting to do like stunts and
43:30
Speaker 15: fight and and it'd be purposeful though like not just
43:32
Speaker 15: like stunts for the sake of doing stunts but it
43:35
Speaker 15: for it to be incorporated in a story in a
43:37
Speaker 15: way that made the story like really dynamic and makes sense.
43:40
Speaker 1: Did you get pitched it before you saw the script
43:42
Speaker 1: because the breast milk storyline sounds absurd until you realize
43:45
Speaker 1: what it represents.
43:46
Speaker 15: Yeah no uh you know what i had gotten my
43:48
Speaker 15: manager got it and he was like yo you you
43:51
Speaker 15: gotta read this i'm not i'm not sure what you
43:53
Speaker 15: would think i'm not even sure about it but like
43:55
Speaker 15: read it and then i read it and i was
43:57
Speaker 15: kind of blown away i could see When you read,
44:00
Speaker 15: when I read things, I know that they're for me
44:03
Speaker 15: if I can hear sort of the voice of the character.
44:06
Speaker 15: Like I could hear, I could hear he was like
44:09
Speaker 15: sort of speaking to me.
44:10
Speaker 3: And it was a wild read.
44:13
Speaker 15: I think the only reason I think it wasn't a
44:15
Speaker 15: no brainer for me was because there's worlds within this world.
44:19
Speaker 15: This story is like broad and vast and a little
44:22
Speaker 15: bit crazy. So I was curious as to how the
44:25
Speaker 15: director was going to make one world out of this,
44:28
Speaker 15: like stitch this together and make all the stories like
44:31
Speaker 15: fit together. I feel like he did it.
44:34
Speaker 1: Is the, is it criticized? Is the movie criticizing religion too?
44:36
Speaker 1: Because you're a Muslim hit man who's in conflict with
44:40
Speaker 1: a man leading a Christian cult, right? So both men
44:44
Speaker 1: can probably convince themselves that what they're doing is justified.
44:47
Speaker 1: So is the movie kind of criticizing religion?
44:49
Speaker 15: I think it's examining hypocrisy. I think it's examining how, uh,
44:55
Speaker 15: I think it's examining, uh, how we interpret and metabolize
45:00
Speaker 15: faith and religion and have to really hold ourselves accountable
45:05
Speaker 15: for how we live.
45:07
Speaker 2: It out yeah because faith and religious institutions aren't necessarily
45:09
Speaker 2: the same thing.
45:10
Speaker 15: Yeah they're not and so much of what so much
45:13
Speaker 15: of what we see go on in the world where
45:15
Speaker 15: you say where might someone might be like oh islam
45:18
Speaker 15: promotes this or christianity promotes that honestly it's how people
45:22
Speaker 15: interpret those things and are the ones that are empowered
45:26
Speaker 15: to like act those things out in a certain way
45:29
Speaker 15: that end up honestly being counterintuitive to what a lot
45:32
Speaker 15: of the faves are really teaching.
45:33
Speaker 19: What part of the character did you connect to mostly?
45:38
Speaker 19: Like what part of Mahershala was really, really rooted in Lateef?
45:42
Speaker 19: You know, you have your widowed father, you know, hitman.
45:45
Speaker 3: I know obviously you don't be killing people.
45:46
Speaker 19: But I'm just saying, what did you resonate with the most?
45:50
Speaker 15: I think I loved working with the children. I really
45:53
Speaker 15: loved working with the children. Like there was something in,
45:56
Speaker 15: especially working with Jalil was amazing, the young man who
45:59
Speaker 15: plays my son. But there was something really special in
46:03
Speaker 15: working with Adia, who plays my teenage daughter. And just
46:06
Speaker 15: as an actor stepping into the shoes of that character,
46:09
Speaker 15: you realize that children have so much more power than
46:13
Speaker 15: they're sort of aware of. You're kind of at the
46:14
Speaker 15: mercy of your children. You think about, like, I know
46:17
Speaker 15: we all have families and wonderful aunts or uncles who
46:21
Speaker 15: had children that kind of figured that out when just
46:24
Speaker 15: acting a fool out there. And you see Parents lives
46:27
Speaker 15: change and them trying to navigate life in a way,
46:30
Speaker 15: but they're really at the mercy of how their children
46:32
Speaker 15: are behaving and trying.
46:33
Speaker 3: To reel them back in. So you see.
46:36
Speaker 15: Lateef at this moment where he suddenly, especially because of
46:39
Speaker 15: the loss of his wife, he's so aware of sort
46:42
Speaker 15: of the power that his daughter has and really needing
46:47
Speaker 15: her to sort of like cooperate with the teachings that
46:50
Speaker 15: they've sort of implanted in her over time. Like he
46:53
Speaker 15: needs her to like, I need you to keep this modest,
46:56
Speaker 15: so to speak. And, but kids get to that age
46:59
Speaker 15: where they start wanting to stretch them, stretch and grow and,
47:02
Speaker 15: Define themselves for themselves and step out of the lens
47:05
Speaker 15: of their parents. And so he's starting to realize that, oh,
47:08
Speaker 15: she's going through some changes. And he's not quite ready
47:12
Speaker 15: for that, especially in this moment that he's dealing with.
47:15
Speaker 1: Lateef loses his wife. He loses the structure of his
47:19
Speaker 1: entire life. So it makes me wonder, is he grieving
47:22
Speaker 1: his wife or discovering how dependent his life was on her?
47:26
Speaker 3: Good question.
47:27
Speaker 15: I think he's trying to make sense of the world suddenly.
47:30
Speaker 15: After essentially losing half of himself. And not only that,
47:34
Speaker 15: he's lost so much of himself and how I think
47:37
Speaker 15: he identifies in the world by how your wife and
47:39
Speaker 15: your partner impacts you by their presence. And added to that,
47:43
Speaker 15: he's got three children and one clearly being an infant.
47:47
Speaker 15: So I think that's where some of the anger and
47:49
Speaker 15: frustration comes from and the questioning of God. Like, why
47:53
Speaker 15: did you do this to me? Because, you know, there's
47:55
Speaker 15: a saying in the faith saying that God doesn't give
47:57
Speaker 15: you anything you can't handle. I think that he feels
48:00
Speaker 15: like God has given him something he can't handle. And
48:03
Speaker 15: I think he's angry as a result of that. But
48:06
Speaker 15: that is just, if you pull back, sort of take
48:09
Speaker 15: a bird's eye view of this, that's all some iteration
48:13
Speaker 15: of mourning. It's some iteration of like coming to terms
48:15
Speaker 15: with loss. And you have to, I think later on,
48:19
Speaker 15: he learns how to give himself grace. But in the
48:23
Speaker 15: early moments of the film, he just doesn't have time
48:26
Speaker 15: to do that. He's so stressed by this ticking clock
48:29
Speaker 15: of a baby who is allergic to formula, urgently needing
48:32
Speaker 15: breast milk. And this guy who's lived outside the system,
48:35
Speaker 15: and I know you guys all know these brothers out
48:37
Speaker 15: in New York who ain't really messing with the government
48:39
Speaker 15: or whatever in a certain way, trying to live off
48:42
Speaker 15: the grid, so to speak, in the grid. He's suddenly
48:46
Speaker 15: having to go through the system to try to find
48:49
Speaker 15: his baby some breast milk and then ends up having
48:51
Speaker 15: to go a different way. And so I think he's
48:54
Speaker 15: just so stressed by the situation along with being hunted by...
49:00
Speaker 15: some other folks that he's got to handle.
49:02
Speaker 6: The crazy part about hearing you say the grace thing
49:04
Speaker 6: is in the movie, your son, there's that, there's one
49:07
Speaker 6: moment where he gives you.
49:08
Speaker 7: A lot of grace.
49:09
Speaker 6: Y'all are talking about like watching the baby while you
49:10
Speaker 6: go figure something out. And I, I see Lateef's character,
49:13
Speaker 6: like he pauses and like, wow, like your baby boy
49:17
Speaker 6: is giving you grace. But then I've also heard you
49:18
Speaker 6: talk about in real life where your daughter, her giving
49:21
Speaker 6: you grace as you go when you work and you
49:23
Speaker 6: do all these things.
49:23
Speaker 7: That alone is powerful. And children don't even know that
49:26
Speaker 7: they do it.
49:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I'm glad you mentioned that.
49:29
Speaker 15: Like children are brilliant and we gotta, I'm learning so
49:33
Speaker 15: much on, so much about how they process the world
49:38
Speaker 15: and how they communicate, how they work to protect you,
49:43
Speaker 15: how they cover sometimes and may put themselves second because
49:47
Speaker 15: they don't want their parent to worry or to be stressed,
49:51
Speaker 15: you know? And so, and sometimes like I recently learned
49:55
Speaker 15: that my daughter had gone through something, had been hit
49:58
Speaker 15: at this camp situation and I go to pick her
50:02
Speaker 15: up from camp and I was like, Hey, how was
50:04
Speaker 15: your day?
50:04
Speaker 3: And she was like, Oh good.
50:06
Speaker 15: And she's like, I was like, all right, cool. And
50:07
Speaker 15: I'm about to pull off. And somebody walks up to
50:09
Speaker 15: the window.
50:10
Speaker 3: I was like, hey, Mr.
50:11
Speaker 15: Ali, can you stick around for a minute? I was like, OK.
50:14
Speaker 2: Someone needs to talk to you.
50:15
Speaker 15: I was like, what happened? She's not saying anything. Next
50:18
Speaker 15: thing you know, a guy telling me that this kid
50:20
Speaker 15: hit her and did all this kind of stuff. And
50:23
Speaker 15: I knew, like, knowing her, I know she didn't want
50:26
Speaker 15: me to have a certain type of reaction.
50:27
Speaker 2: Yeah.
50:28
Speaker 1: You know, and saw it in the trunk.
50:32
Speaker 15: Man, I was so heated. I was so upset, you know,
50:36
Speaker 15: but I think she didn't want that.
50:38
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
50:39
Speaker 15: And so it's it's that's just like a small example.
50:42
Speaker 15: And that's like from a nine year old, you know.
50:44
Speaker 3: So once once these.
50:46
Speaker 15: Kids hit these like teenage years and they've learned you
50:49
Speaker 15: and they've no one observes you better than your children.
50:52
Speaker 15: Once they start knowing how you operate and respond to things,
50:55
Speaker 15: they start editing things. and you want to be careful
50:58
Speaker 15: of that because you want them to still be communicating
51:01
Speaker 15: and not making certain choices for you at such a
51:04
Speaker 15: young age but they do it I did it like
51:07
Speaker 15: I think we all can think back onto things that
51:09
Speaker 15: like I chose not to share this because I don't
51:12
Speaker 15: want my dad to get in this kind of situation
51:14
Speaker 15: because I know he would come up and like be
51:17
Speaker 15: heated and then that could lead to this that and
51:18
Speaker 15: the other and so it's the ways in which your
51:21
Speaker 15: children work to protect you as well and that's why
51:22
Speaker 15: I say you got to be very conscious and aware
51:24
Speaker 15: of how you pour into them you know.
51:27
Speaker 1: I want to go back to the spiritual hypocrisy of Lateef, right?
51:29
Speaker 1: Because he's capable of taking a life.
51:31
Speaker 5: Yeah.
51:31
Speaker 2: But then he's terrified of losing one.
51:33
Speaker 5: Yeah.
51:34
Speaker 2: So when you approached his role, did.
51:35
Speaker 1: You see him as a violent man who loves his
51:37
Speaker 1: family or a loving man who learned how to be violent?
51:41
Speaker 15: I saw him as a man who was really passionate
51:43
Speaker 15: about justice. And.
51:45
Speaker 2: Isn't that subjective?
51:46
Speaker 15: But hold on, though. I think as a... And I
51:49
Speaker 15: think when I try to step into... Every character I
51:52
Speaker 15: step into, I try to step in without judgment and
51:54
Speaker 15: sort of be a lawyer or advocate for that character
51:57
Speaker 15: and see how they are seeing the world. There are
52:00
Speaker 15: so many brothers that we know of, especially as black
52:03
Speaker 15: men who are experiencing the world that is inherently unjust
52:07
Speaker 15: towards them. And so you you don't it's not that
52:10
Speaker 15: you don't respect the laws, but you don't look at
52:14
Speaker 15: the law as the end all be all because you
52:16
Speaker 15: know that it was never necessarily set up for you
52:19
Speaker 15: to succeed within that. So then you have some people
52:22
Speaker 15: who sort of live by another set of rules and go, well,
52:25
Speaker 15: as a practice, we don't get a certain type of justice.
52:28
Speaker 15: But justice needs to be met out. And so I'm
52:32
Speaker 15: going to be the one who handles that. Like he
52:34
Speaker 15: believes that that is he believes that that is his calling.
52:37
Speaker 15: Even if his teacher and mentor and shake Giancarlo Esposito's
52:42
Speaker 15: character doesn't agree with him on that. That's how he
52:45
Speaker 15: sees the world. And there's a lot of those brothers
52:47
Speaker 15: running around. that ain't running around killing people because the
52:50
Speaker 15: law didn't go and handle something, but still have issues
52:55
Speaker 15: with how brothers can be falsely accused for something or,
53:00
Speaker 15: or you can have all the evidence in the tape
53:02
Speaker 15: of this, that, and other happening. And they just get
53:05
Speaker 15: off with it like over and over again. And you
53:07
Speaker 15: can't tell me that that doesn't impact people and shape
53:11
Speaker 15: your view of on the system and so i think
53:15
Speaker 15: so i i feel like on some level because in
53:18
Speaker 15: storytelling you gotta lean into something that's a little bit
53:21
Speaker 15: heightened for being worthy of people's like time right and
53:25
Speaker 15: you're you're entertaining them and taking them along a journey
53:28
Speaker 15: so i see how with that sort of view of
53:32
Speaker 15: our reality and you kind of stretch that a bit
53:35
Speaker 15: and make it into a movie and a story how
53:36
Speaker 15: you can have a character like a latif who isn't
53:39
Speaker 15: that different from say a He's like a broke Batman
53:43
Speaker 15: in that way.
53:43
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
53:46
Speaker 3: Gotcha.
53:48
Speaker 1: How do you pronounce the director's name?
53:50
Speaker 15: Bassam Tariq.
53:50
Speaker 2: Bassam Tariq. I know he was supposed to direct Blade.
53:53
Speaker 5: Yeah.
53:54
Speaker 1: And you said you wanted to get into action. Is
53:56
Speaker 1: Your Mother, Your Mother the movie we got because Kevin
53:59
Speaker 1: Feige failed to get Blade made?
54:01
Speaker 15: You know, I just think if I had done that,
54:03
Speaker 15: we wouldn't get this movie. It would almost be redundant
54:06
Speaker 15: for me in terms of because I wouldn't go do
54:08
Speaker 15: a sword thing and then go do another sword thing.
54:11
Speaker 15: You know, so it's just, you know, man plans and
54:14
Speaker 15: God plans, and God is the best of planners.
54:16
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm talking about, right?
54:17
Speaker 15: And it's as simple as that. You know what I mean?
54:18
Speaker 1: Preparation, all those years, and it turns into something you
54:21
Speaker 1: actually control.
54:22
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah. I wouldn't even say control, but it's like,
54:25
Speaker 15: you know, we got to do it. And I'm really
54:29
Speaker 15: proud of this movie. Like, when I look back, I'm
54:32
Speaker 15: not trying to rewrite history or make it any other way.
54:34
Speaker 15: This is a movie we got. And I couldn't be
54:37
Speaker 15: more proud of this film.
54:38
Speaker 5: Like, or.
54:39
Speaker 15: It's one of those pieces. I've had a pretty solid career,
54:42
Speaker 15: you know. And in terms of the type of steps
54:45
Speaker 15: and growth I want, I think this is very reflective
54:48
Speaker 15: of the type of opportunities I want to step into.
54:53
Speaker 15: And so, yeah, so here we are.
54:55
Speaker 19: You just celebrated 10 years of Moonlight.
54:57
Speaker 8: Yeah.
54:58
Speaker 7: For your anniversary. I love the film.
55:01
Speaker 2: Thank you.
55:02
Speaker 7: I've always wanted to meet you to say that. And
55:03
Speaker 7: I always wanted to say.
55:05
Speaker 19: You look like a very elevated therapeutic version of future.
55:08
Speaker 19: You know what I'm saying?
55:11
Speaker 3: You sound like black Twitter.
55:13
Speaker 7: I want to come at you right. Anybody ever say that?
55:17
Speaker 3: Yes, I've seen that several times.
55:19
Speaker 7: Okay, do you feel that way?
55:21
Speaker 3: You know, I just feel like myself. I can't speak
55:23
Speaker 3: for Future, but I just feel like myself.
55:25
Speaker 7: Okay.
55:25
Speaker 6: I don't know if I feel March Madness, but I'm
55:27
Speaker 6: here today.
55:28
Speaker 7: But I'm just saying, very, very handsome, very clean.
55:30
Speaker 5: Thank you. Thank you, Jeff.
55:31
Speaker 7: Cut version of Like a Future.
55:33
Speaker 2: Thank you.
55:33
Speaker 8: Love it.
55:33
Speaker 15: Thank you.
55:34
Speaker 2: You're welcome. I did want to ask you, though.
55:36
Speaker 1: When Wesley Snipes said in Deadpool vs. Wolverine, there's only
55:39
Speaker 1: been one blade, how did that make you feel?
55:41
Speaker 15: I didn't see it. Oh.
55:43
Speaker 2: You had to hear about it.
55:44
Speaker 15: I heard about it.
55:44
Speaker 2: You heard about you looking like Future. I know you
55:46
Speaker 2: heard about it.
55:47
Speaker 3: I heard about it, but I didn't see it.
55:48
Speaker 2: I didn't see the movie. gotcha yeah okay you didn't
55:51
Speaker 2: feel any type of way no i.
55:52
Speaker 15: Was you know gotcha um i don't even know how
55:56
Speaker 15: to respond i don't even know how to respond but
55:58
Speaker 15: i love wesley i appreciate him dearly you know yeah
56:01
Speaker 15: he's one of he's one of our ones you know
56:03
Speaker 15: yeah so i appreciate and respect that man as.
56:06
Speaker 1: A muslim man because you converted to islam years ago
56:08
Speaker 1: is there pressure when you're muslim in real life to
56:11
Speaker 1: make sure the muslim character isn't interpreted as representing i
56:15
Speaker 1: guess islam as a.
56:16
Speaker 15: Whole You know, I think maybe from the standpoint because
56:19
Speaker 15: from a standpoint, because there just isn't enough representation. But
56:23
Speaker 15: I think that's also just as a black man, I'm
56:24
Speaker 15: so aware of that in general, where there's just not enough.
56:28
Speaker 15: There's just not enough of our films or stories out there.
56:30
Speaker 15: So suddenly anything you do has to be all things
56:33
Speaker 15: to all people and you've got to get it perfect.
56:35
Speaker 15: And it puts an unnecessary pressure on our projects and
56:38
Speaker 15: it's really unfair. And so I also I saw on
56:41
Speaker 15: some level also try not to engage in that. too
56:44
Speaker 15: much because I'm going to do the best I can do,
56:47
Speaker 15: whether I'm playing a Buddhist, a Christian, an atheist, an agnostic,
56:51
Speaker 15: I can be playing anything. And then I'm going to
56:53
Speaker 15: try to do the absolute best work I can do. And, and,
56:57
Speaker 15: and that work and that job is to bring dimensionality
57:01
Speaker 15: to a character and make them feel fully human, make
57:04
Speaker 15: it feel like a somebody that you've met before that,
57:06
Speaker 15: you know, or if you haven't, you were like, I
57:09
Speaker 15: just went through a two hour journey with that person
57:11
Speaker 15: and I, and it felt real.
57:13
Speaker 3: Like that's my job.
57:14
Speaker 15: And so I think sometimes that there is, if you're
57:17
Speaker 15: representing a Muslim or playing a Muslim, I think that
57:19
Speaker 15: there's pressure to sanitize things and make this guy perfect.
57:23
Speaker 15: When I don't know anybody that's perfect, you know, and brothers,
57:28
Speaker 15: whether they be in the mosque or outside the mosque
57:31
Speaker 15: or the church or outside, do dirt too, you know, unfortunately.
57:35
Speaker 15: And so, And I'm not trying to condone that, but
57:38
Speaker 15: that's the reality. And everyone knows people like that. And
57:40
Speaker 15: so I just hope for more representation in general, for
57:45
Speaker 15: people to be able to see some version of themselves
57:49
Speaker 15: or someone that they know on screen. And the more
57:51
Speaker 15: we can do that, I think the healthier it is
57:54
Speaker 15: for our culture and the environment. Because it can't just
57:57
Speaker 15: be such a small segment of people getting to have
58:00
Speaker 15: dimensionality on screen, which has always been the case in
58:04
Speaker 15: our business.
58:05
Speaker 11: Yep.
58:06
Speaker 15: And that needs to change. And, you know, so hopefully
58:09
Speaker 15: I'm part of that change.
58:10
Speaker 6: That's why your comment, when you talk about Marvel and
58:13
Speaker 6: having this budget and you are this amazing actor, you
58:16
Speaker 6: did this year of training and nothing happened. I was
58:20
Speaker 6: happy to see that because I've always felt like in
58:22
Speaker 6: that world, especially because you're black and there's not a
58:24
Speaker 6: lot of us there, people can't say what's happening and
58:27
Speaker 6: it's messed up because then we don't have the representation.
58:29
Speaker 6: Like it just doesn't happen after that. And nobody says
58:32
Speaker 6: anything because it's like a cult universe to be a
58:34
Speaker 6: part of.
58:35
Speaker 5: Yeah.
58:35
Speaker 6: Like, those comments, I think, are going to maybe free
58:38
Speaker 6: a lot of people. But has there been forward conversation
58:40
Speaker 6: about moving? Like, now what? Like, so you say this
58:44
Speaker 6: and Marvel sees it. The world has a reaction.
58:46
Speaker 7: There's no.
58:47
Speaker 15: Honestly, to be way weird with you, I've sort of.
58:49
Speaker 2: You over it.
58:50
Speaker 15: I've exhausted anything I have to say about that situation.
58:55
Speaker 15: I'm just not there. I care about this project. I
59:00
Speaker 15: really do. Like, God is my witness. This is one
59:02
Speaker 15: of the best things that's ever happened to me. your mother,
59:05
Speaker 15: your mother, your mother, just creatively for me to get to,
59:08
Speaker 15: I felt exhausted for all the right reasons. You know,
59:11
Speaker 15: I felt from the stunt training to like emotionally having
59:16
Speaker 15: to navigate working on this story from moment to moment,
59:20
Speaker 15: beat to beat, getting to work with Giancarlo Esposito, a
59:22
Speaker 15: legend and an icon and a genius to working with
59:26
Speaker 15: John Cho. who is, it was clearly underrated. And getting
59:31
Speaker 15: to work with Bassam Tariq, like it is really a
59:34
Speaker 15: dream come true. So that's where I'm at. Right now
59:38
Speaker 15: I'm working on Task for HBO, HBO show, which is
59:42
Speaker 15: like kicking my ass, but like giving me life too,
59:45
Speaker 15: because it's another thing I get to like sink my
59:48
Speaker 15: teeth into when a character that is like stretching me,
59:50
Speaker 15: they're writing for me.
59:52
Speaker 3: I'm getting to work with Mark Ruffalo.
59:54
Speaker 15: I got another movie called Wildwood coming out, stop motion
59:57
Speaker 15: animation project that they took him 10 years to work on.
1:00:00
Speaker 15: I did the voiceover for five years ago. That comes
1:00:02
Speaker 15: out in a couple of weeks.
1:00:03
Speaker 7: Divine Redirection.
1:00:05
Speaker 15: So I'm just like, I'm not even thinking about that. So,
1:00:09
Speaker 15: I mean, I say respectfully, I'm just, I'm in a
1:00:11
Speaker 15: different place. You know what I'm saying?
1:00:13
Speaker 6: So, yeah, you know what you say you deserve.
1:00:15
Speaker 17: Yeah.
1:00:15
Speaker 3: I'm just, I'm just doing my thing.
1:00:17
Speaker 7: So how do you pronounce your birth name?
1:00:19
Speaker 3: Mahershala al-Hashbaz.
1:00:20
Speaker 11: Okay.
1:00:21
Speaker 15: And so, Mahershala al-Hashbaz. It's 18 letters.
1:00:23
Speaker 2: Oh, got you, got you.
1:00:24
Speaker 5: Yes.
1:00:24
Speaker 19: I just wanted to know, because you shortened it. Was
1:00:27
Speaker 19: it because people kept messing it up?
1:00:29
Speaker 3: Well, no, no.
1:00:30
Speaker 2: You know what?
1:00:32
Speaker 3: I left, I went to school here. I went to.
1:00:41
Speaker 3: No, I left NYU.
1:00:44
Speaker 15: I went to grad school out here. And that mid
1:00:47
Speaker 15: twenties moment is so important for, for us. If you
1:00:51
Speaker 15: think back, you know, um, and you're like defining yourself,
1:00:54
Speaker 15: you know? And I was like, man, my mama gave
1:00:57
Speaker 15: me this name. I'm going by my full name, you know,
1:01:00
Speaker 15: and I had converted to Islam. So I changed my
1:01:02
Speaker 15: last name. But so for the first 11, 12 years
1:01:05
Speaker 15: of my career, it was Mahershala Hashbaz Ali. And then
1:01:09
Speaker 15: one day I kid you not, I had to go
1:01:11
Speaker 15: with my dreams, but I had a dream that I
1:01:13
Speaker 15: shortened my name. I went back to, They called me
1:01:15
Speaker 15: Mahershala in college. I had this dream. I was doing
1:01:18
Speaker 15: Place Beyond the Pines out here in Schenectady, New York.
1:01:22
Speaker 15: And I'd had this dream that I was like debating,
1:01:25
Speaker 15: do I abbreviate my name to Mahershala or Mahershalal? Because
1:01:29
Speaker 15: Mahershalal would actually be the correct syllabic cutoff.
1:01:33
Speaker 8: Right.
1:01:34
Speaker 15: And I woke up going like, I ain't changing my name.
1:01:36
Speaker 3: Why have this dream?
1:01:38
Speaker 15: Then like a few days later, my manager at the
1:01:40
Speaker 15: time calls me and is like, yeah, so listen, they
1:01:42
Speaker 15: want to know how they put, if you're okay, because
1:01:46
Speaker 15: finally my name was about to be on the bottom
1:01:48
Speaker 15: of a film poster and I had never been busting
1:01:50
Speaker 15: my tail. I'd never been, I was never accredited like that.
1:01:54
Speaker 6: They're like, that's a lot of characters.
1:01:55
Speaker 1: Yeah.
1:01:56
Speaker 15: And so they were like, you know, so the producers
1:01:59
Speaker 15: are asking if you're okay with them just putting M.I.
1:02:01
Speaker 15: Lee on the bottom of the poster for you.
1:02:03
Speaker 3: I was like, Huh.
1:02:04
Speaker 15: And there's like, or like, you know, what about Mahershala?
1:02:06
Speaker 15: I was like, and that dream like clicked. And I
1:02:09
Speaker 15: was like, huh? My mama named me that. She don't
1:02:12
Speaker 15: even call me Mahershala Hashbaz though.
1:02:14
Speaker 3: Like why?
1:02:15
Speaker 15: I don't, I didn't feel like I didn't want a
1:02:17
Speaker 15: couple of syllables to be the difference between me having
1:02:21
Speaker 15: my fullest experience as an actor. And so I made
1:02:25
Speaker 15: the change.
1:02:26
Speaker 7: But it is a beautiful name.
1:02:27
Speaker 5: Thank you.
1:02:28
Speaker 1: Mahershala Ali, your mother, your mother, your mother is out
1:02:30
Speaker 1: in theaters.
1:02:31
Speaker 2: Right now, right? Yes, yes.
1:02:33
Speaker 3: Limited right now, but it'll be nationwide October 16th.
1:02:36
Speaker 15: I know that's right.
1:02:37
Speaker 1: Great to meet you.
1:02:39
Speaker 3: Thank you for coming, brother.
1:02:39
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you for having me. It's the Breakfast Club.
1:02:42
Speaker 3: Let's get to the latest with Lauren. She gets them
1:02:48
Speaker 3: from somebody that knows somebody.
1:02:49
Speaker 6: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
1:02:54
Speaker 1: She be having the latest on this.
1:02:57
Speaker 3: The latest with Lauren La Rosa.
1:02:58
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
1:03:01
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Speaker 7: That's how it's looking right now.
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Speaker 3: All right.
1:03:21
Speaker 6: So let's get into a conversation that I don't know
1:03:23
Speaker 6: why people are upset.
1:03:24
Speaker 7: Stephen A.
1:03:25
Speaker 6: Smith is apologizing and is making people really upset. So
1:03:28
Speaker 6: Stephen A. Smith has a show called The Culture Table
1:03:31
Speaker 6: with Stephen A.
1:03:31
Speaker 5: Smith.
1:03:32
Speaker 6: And joining him is my homegirl from Delaware, Ashley Christopher,
1:03:34
Speaker 6: who does HBCU Week. Tori Cooper and Sumatra Appanathy. So
1:03:40
Speaker 6: they sit down and they discuss all different pop culture,
1:03:42
Speaker 6: you know, things that are happening in pop culture. And
1:03:44
Speaker 6: they had a conversation about Teyana Taylor and he said
1:03:46
Speaker 6: to apologize.
1:03:46
Speaker 3: Let's take a listen.
1:03:47
Speaker 4: In the interest of fairness, accuracy, and decency, I believe
1:03:51
Speaker 4: it's important to address what happened in connection with an
1:03:54
Speaker 4: October episode of The Culture Table titled, Can Men Trust
1:03:59
Speaker 4: Women With Their Finances? During that episode, I stated that
1:04:03
Speaker 4: Teyana Taylor walked away from her divorce with $ 25 million,
1:04:08
Speaker 4: $ 10 million in properties, luxury cars, and other assets, while
1:04:12
Speaker 4: Iman Shumpert her ex-husband was left with approximately $ 2 million
1:04:17
Speaker 4: and nowhere to live. Those statements were inaccurate, and I
1:04:21
Speaker 4: want to sincerely apologize to both Iman Shumpert and Tiana Taylor.
1:04:24
Speaker 4: The information, just to be clear, was based on quotes
1:04:28
Speaker 4: and claims that are heavily circulating in media reports and
1:04:31
Speaker 4: on social media that were attributed to Iman Shumpert. The
1:04:35
Speaker 4: quotes attributed to him, however, were not his statements at all,
1:04:38
Speaker 4: and the financial figures presented were inaccurate. I know this
1:04:42
Speaker 4: for a fact because I personally spoke to Tiana Taylor,
1:04:45
Speaker 4: who verified herself that the information circulating out there is
1:04:49
Speaker 4: patently false.
1:04:51
Speaker 2: Why were they having that conversation? That feels very old.
1:04:53
Speaker 1: I know they said it was back in October, but
1:04:54
Speaker 1: that story feels older than that. That feels like a
1:04:56
Speaker 1: two-year-old story.
1:04:58
Speaker 6: I don't know how or why, but basically him and
1:05:00
Speaker 6: Tiana had a conversation, so it made him come back.
1:05:03
Speaker 3: And correct it. Oh, she probably ran up on him.
1:05:04
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I don't know why they were having it. Well, no,
1:05:07
Speaker 7: I do know why.
1:05:07
Speaker 6: The topic was, or the premise of it was, you
1:05:10
Speaker 6: know how people talk about not wanting to get married
1:05:12
Speaker 6: now because of all the business stuff that comes with it,
1:05:14
Speaker 6: and when you leave a marriage, you leave with or
1:05:16
Speaker 6: without certain things and money or whatever?
1:05:18
Speaker 5: Yeah.
1:05:18
Speaker 6: They were using that as a group discussion and it
1:05:21
Speaker 6: came up there and he repeated something that he found
1:05:24
Speaker 6: that was not true because he spoke to Tiana Inamon.
1:05:26
Speaker 7: So he wanted to come back and correct it.
1:05:28
Speaker 2: I know one thing.
1:05:29
Speaker 1: If you're a media personality, you better start crossing your
1:05:31
Speaker 1: T's and dotting your I's because I don't care about
1:05:34
Speaker 1: how you feel. OK, you got to get on these
1:05:36
Speaker 1: platforms and state facts because these lawsuits are flying.
1:05:39
Speaker 5: Yeah.
1:05:40
Speaker 8: Right.
1:05:40
Speaker 3: I mean, I love people not playing with you. I
1:05:42
Speaker 3: love the fact that a lot of people are suing
1:05:44
Speaker 3: for wrong information. But the problem is, is. But that
1:05:46
Speaker 3: can happen to any of us. That's what I'm saying.
1:05:47
Speaker 3: A lot of these stories you think is true because
1:05:50
Speaker 3: you check multiple sources and they say it's true. And
1:05:52
Speaker 3: then you go and say it.
1:05:53
Speaker 2: And that's right.
1:05:53
Speaker 3: The sources got it wrong.
1:05:55
Speaker 7: That's the crazy thing.
1:05:55
Speaker 19: I be sending Lauren stuff, like, to report, and I'm like, yo,
1:05:59
Speaker 19: is it real? And shit hit me back, like, I
1:06:02
Speaker 19: don't even know if it's real. I got to see.
1:06:03
Speaker 6: Yeah, like, I'll check it. I'll try my best to go, yeah,
1:06:06
Speaker 6: to go to, like, the teams or whatever. But basically,
1:06:08
Speaker 6: he was saying that, like, it was just something circulating online.
1:06:09
Speaker 6: And it was even down to the fact that there
1:06:11
Speaker 6: were quotes that were attributed to Iman that Iman never said.
1:06:15
Speaker 2: I hate when people say it's circulating online.
1:06:17
Speaker 1: Like, my homeboy hit me this weekend. We were talking
1:06:19
Speaker 1: about something, and he was like, I said something about
1:06:22
Speaker 1: the Cash Money No Limit concert.
1:06:23
Speaker 2: And they was like, isn't it canceled? I'm like, canceled?
1:06:26
Speaker 16: What?
1:06:26
Speaker 2: He was like, yeah, I saw it on Facebook.
1:06:27
Speaker 6: And that concert was sold out. First of all, Facebook
1:06:30
Speaker 6: is the first place you don't trade. Facebook over there
1:06:33
Speaker 6: is a little crazy. But you have a lot of
1:06:35
Speaker 6: people on Facebook.
1:06:37
Speaker 3: Millions and millions, and they going. Hundreds of millions. And
1:06:40
Speaker 3: they older.
1:06:40
Speaker 5: They older.
1:06:40
Speaker 19: That's a much more mature population. And they be over
1:06:43
Speaker 19: there believing everything.
1:06:44
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
1:06:46
Speaker 20: Yeah.
1:06:46
Speaker 6: Well, he came and he corrected it. And I don't
1:06:48
Speaker 6: know why that has people in a frenzy. You should
1:06:51
Speaker 6: correct things if they're wrong. And it takes a lot
1:06:53
Speaker 6: to do that, especially for a person who is Stephen A.
1:06:55
Speaker 7: But because he is him.
1:06:56
Speaker 2: And he just apologized for something else, too.
1:06:58
Speaker 6: He just apologized for the mental health thing. I saw,
1:07:06
Speaker 6: I think what Jalen Rose say that he's like doing
1:07:08
Speaker 6: a lot of like. apologizing and dancing or whatever. But
1:07:11
Speaker 6: this right here, though, it's like you come on and
1:07:13
Speaker 6: you apologize.
1:07:13
Speaker 3: I don't think it's apologizing and dancing. The mental health
1:07:15
Speaker 3: thing should.
1:07:16
Speaker 2: That's what you should do.
1:07:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what you should do.
1:07:18
Speaker 6: The mental health thing, you also should apologize. But I
1:07:20
Speaker 6: didn't expect to even hear Stephen A. talk like that,
1:07:23
Speaker 6: knowing where he is in his own journey.
1:07:26
Speaker 1: You should do that because it makes your audience trust
1:07:28
Speaker 1: you more. If your audience goes to you for information,
1:07:30
Speaker 1: they go to you. And when you get things right,
1:07:32
Speaker 1: they trust you. And when you get things wrong, they
1:07:34
Speaker 1: trust you to correct yourself and let them know it's wrong.
1:07:36
Speaker 7: 100%. 100%.
1:07:38
Speaker 6: Now, shifting gears a bit, speaking of some things that
1:07:41
Speaker 6: people were having some conversations about. So Tyson, Mike Tyson,
1:07:44
Speaker 6: was out over the weekend in support of President Donald Trump.
1:07:49
Speaker 6: So he was asked by reporters about the midterms. And
1:07:53
Speaker 6: let's take a listen to what he had to say
1:07:54
Speaker 6: about Donald Trump in the midterms.
1:07:56
Speaker 2: What are you.
1:07:57
Speaker 10: Doing here today?
1:07:58
Speaker 3: I have the slightest idea.
1:08:00
Speaker 2: I was called by my cousin to come. This thing
1:08:02
Speaker 2: was exciting.
1:08:03
Speaker 15: We're going on a trip to.
1:08:04
Speaker 5: New York, and I'm excited.
1:08:05
Speaker 10: Are you traveling up to New York?
1:08:07
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Syracuse City Night.
1:08:09
Speaker 10: And you'll be at the rally tonight in Syracuse?
1:08:11
Speaker 2: I look forward to it. What did you talk to
1:08:13
Speaker 2: him about today? Golly, you really got me up here.
1:08:16
Speaker 2: No tough questions.
1:08:17
Speaker 8: Do you think Republicans will win the midterm, sir?
1:08:21
Speaker 2: I think Donald Trump will win the midterm.
1:08:26
Speaker 6: Who is the greatest fighter of.
1:08:27
Speaker 10: All time, in your opinion, besides you?
1:08:32
Speaker 3: And to answer your question, you asked me behind the scenes,
1:08:34
Speaker 3: how did they get so tight? Back in the 80s,
1:08:36
Speaker 3: Donald Trump used to help Tyson promote his fights. And
1:08:39
Speaker 3: then also when Trump was going with me, when Mike
1:08:41
Speaker 3: Tyson was going through the BS, Trump held him down.
1:08:43
Speaker 3: So that's why they're so tight.
1:08:45
Speaker 2: I saw that.
1:08:45
Speaker 6: But my thing is, though, is that Trump is not
1:08:49
Speaker 6: on the midterm ballot.
1:08:51
Speaker 3: I mean, his party is.
1:08:53
Speaker 2: He's the leader of the Republican Party.
1:08:55
Speaker 1: So he's basically saying, you know, vote for who Donald
1:08:58
Speaker 1: Trump wants you to vote for.
1:09:00
Speaker 7: Vote for.
1:09:00
Speaker 2: If you support Trump, you should support the Republican Party.
1:09:02
Speaker 3: Correct.
1:09:03
Speaker 2: That's why Donald Trump is on the campaign trail.
1:09:05
Speaker 17: Yes.
1:09:05
Speaker 6: But just to be clear, I'm like, you ain't seeing
1:09:08
Speaker 6: him on there. But yeah, so he talked about that.
1:09:10
Speaker 6: But he also talked about like, you know, he wouldn't
1:09:12
Speaker 6: be here if it wasn't for Trump.
1:09:13
Speaker 7: Let's take a listen.
1:09:14
Speaker 2: I'm just happy to be up here with my president,
1:09:16
Speaker 2: President Trump.
1:09:17
Speaker 1: And there's no way in the world I would ever
1:09:19
Speaker 1: be here if it wasn't for a president like Donald Trump.
1:09:22
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you.
1:09:25
Speaker 7: Very much.
1:09:26
Speaker 11: Yeah.
1:09:26
Speaker 3: They've been friends for over four decades, 40 years plus.
1:09:29
Speaker 6: Last week, it was an interview that came out where
1:09:31
Speaker 6: Tyson was talking about how Didier called him to pass
1:09:34
Speaker 6: over a letter to Trump about his pardon. And he
1:09:37
Speaker 6: said he I mean, he did it just because it
1:09:39
Speaker 6: was something that was asked of him.
1:09:40
Speaker 8: So.
1:09:40
Speaker 7: But yeah. That's the latest for the hour, though.
1:09:43
Speaker 3: All right.
1:09:43
Speaker 17: Yes.
1:09:44
Speaker 2: Thank you, Lauren.
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Speaker 3: Get on them knees and bark.
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Speaker 2: Go ahead. That ain't my spot.
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Speaker 3: You said the word.
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Speaker 2: The script says bark.
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Speaker 5: No, it don't.
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Speaker 2: No, it does not.
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Speaker 3: First of all.
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Speaker 2: The script says bark, yo.
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Speaker 7: Script is crazy.
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1:10:58
Speaker 2: You do the L.
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Speaker 3: I'm LifeLock?
1:11:00
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:11:01
Speaker 1: This is where programming and leadership come into play because
1:11:03
Speaker 1: that wasn't supposed to happen.
1:11:04
Speaker 21: God damn it.
1:11:05
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
1:11:05
Speaker 11: All right.
1:11:06
Speaker 3: They're just taking every dollar.
1:11:07
Speaker 5: Mm.
1:11:07
Speaker 15: Mm-mm-mm.
1:11:08
Speaker 2: I don't hear him. Yeah.
1:11:10
Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club. Come on in.
1:11:12
Speaker 1: Hey, I just wanted to know how you came up
1:11:14
Speaker 1: with the donkey of the day.
1:11:17
Speaker 7: Because you're mean.
1:11:18
Speaker 2: I am not. What did I do? I made donkey
1:11:20
Speaker 2: of the day. There's a bunch of donkeys out here
1:11:22
Speaker 2: in the streets.
1:11:24
Speaker 1: If we live a life where we bite our tongue
1:11:25
Speaker 1: based off who we may offend, we never will say anything.
1:11:27
Speaker 2: We don't get the damn donkey throwing up.
1:11:29
Speaker 5: Ha-ha-ha-ha.
1:11:35
Speaker 1: On the breakfast club in the words of charlemagne the
1:11:37
Speaker 1: god he's a donkey.
1:11:39
Speaker 3: Oh man.
1:11:42
Speaker 2: Charlemagne you giving donkey the day to who.
1:11:45
Speaker 1: Now Well, good brother, Busta Rhymes. Donkey of the Day
1:11:49
Speaker 1: for Monday, October 12th goes to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson
1:11:52
Speaker 1: and Andrea Lucas of the EEOC.
1:11:54
Speaker 2: Oh, the mayonnaise is heavy with this one, ladies and gentlemen.
1:11:58
Speaker 1: Okay, the Hellman's is not being spread thin on this
1:12:01
Speaker 1: one at all.
1:12:02
Speaker 2: Okay, now I know a story.
1:12:04
Speaker 1: Oh, I saw a story in the Huffington Post over
1:12:06
Speaker 1: the weekend about FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson praising the efforts.
1:12:11
Speaker 1: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas to protect white
1:12:15
Speaker 1: American men from discrimination. Let's listen to what Andrea Lucas
1:12:19
Speaker 1: said that made Andrew Ferguson say that.
1:12:21
Speaker 22: I'm Andrea Lucas, chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
1:12:26
Speaker 22: Are you a white male who's experienced discrimination at work
1:12:29
Speaker 22: based on your race or sex? You may have a
1:12:31
Speaker 22: claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws.
1:12:35
Speaker 2: Now let's listen to what Andrew Ferguson had to say.
1:12:38
Speaker 21: America is not a jobs program for the rest of
1:12:41
Speaker 21: the world. We didn't build our institutions for the rest
1:12:44
Speaker 21: of the world.
1:12:45
Speaker 2: We built them for Americans.
1:12:46
Speaker 21: Our rule of law, our system of sane and sound regulation,
1:12:50
Speaker 21: our capital markets, our justice system, everything that makes the
1:12:54
Speaker 21: American economy thrive, we did not build for the planet.
1:12:57
Speaker 3: We built it for us.
1:12:58
Speaker 21: We built it for Americans first. I also want to
1:13:01
Speaker 21: acknowledge the work of Andrea Lucas, who's the chairman of
1:13:04
Speaker 21: the EEOC. She is the greatest chairman of that institution
1:13:08
Speaker 21: since Clarence Thomas back in the 1980s. On every issue
1:13:12
Speaker 21: that previous EEOCs refused to touch, protecting white American men
1:13:17
Speaker 21: from discrimination, protecting American citizens from national origin discrimination, she
1:13:22
Speaker 21: has led the EEOC headlong to defend Americans from these
1:13:26
Speaker 21: abusive practices. She has been an incredibly valuable partner of
1:13:29
Speaker 21: the task force. I know she's been a very valuable
1:13:32
Speaker 21: partner of the Department of Justice, and we're thrilled to
1:13:34
Speaker 21: work with her on these issues.
1:13:36
Speaker 1: I don't need to hear any more. Today is Monday, man. Guys, listen,
1:13:41
Speaker 1: white men shouldn't be discriminated against. OK, I'm not even
1:13:44
Speaker 1: being sarcastic. White men should not be discriminated against. I
1:13:48
Speaker 1: don't see where that's happening to them anywhere. But if
1:13:51
Speaker 1: it is, it shouldn't be. OK, nobody should be discriminated against.
1:13:56
Speaker 1: Which leads me to the question I would ask Andrew Ferguson.
1:13:59
Speaker 1: And the question is, if discrimination against white men concerns you,
1:14:03
Speaker 1: then surely discrimination against black people.
1:14:06
Speaker 2: Should concern you.
1:14:07
Speaker 1: OK, surely discrimination against women and Latinos and Muslims and
1:14:11
Speaker 1: every other marginalized group in this country that should concern you, too.
1:14:15
Speaker 14: Right.
1:14:16
Speaker 9: Right.
1:14:16
Speaker 2: Because I would hate to find out that some of.
1:14:18
Speaker 1: Y'all just discover discrimination because you think it's happening.
1:14:21
Speaker 2: To white men, okay? I would hate to find out
1:14:23
Speaker 2: that the same.
1:14:23
Speaker 1: People who spent years telling black people to stop complaining,
1:14:26
Speaker 1: stop playing the victim, stop making everything about race, I
1:14:30
Speaker 1: would hate to find out that y'all are now complaining
1:14:32
Speaker 1: about being victims.
1:14:34
Speaker 2: Of racial discrimination. Oh, now race matters, okay?
1:14:39
Speaker 1: Now you understand what it feels like, you know, to
1:14:42
Speaker 1: have somebody judging you because of the color of your skin. OK,
1:14:45
Speaker 1: now you understand why people get upset when they believe
1:14:48
Speaker 1: they're being denied opportunities because of their race.
1:14:51
Speaker 2: Welcome to our black ass world. OK, we've been.
1:14:54
Speaker 1: Trying to have this conversation with y'all for over 400
1:14:56
Speaker 1: plus years. OK, but I believe in the laws of energy,
1:14:59
Speaker 1: so I will never. wish discrimination on someone if I
1:15:02
Speaker 1: don't want to be discriminated against, okay? All I ask
1:15:05
Speaker 1: for is everything to be equal across the board.
1:15:08
Speaker 15: All right?
1:15:08
Speaker 2: I don't want anybody to experience discrimination, but if.
1:15:11
Speaker 1: You genuinely believe in your white heart of hearts, okay,
1:15:16
Speaker 1: that you're experiencing it, I hope that experience gives you
1:15:19
Speaker 1: a better understanding of what other people have been telling you.
1:15:22
Speaker 1: Because imagine how you would feel if you believed you
1:15:24
Speaker 1: were passed over for.
1:15:25
Speaker 2: A job because you're white. How frustrating would that be?
1:15:30
Speaker 2: It don't even sound right.
1:15:31
Speaker 1: OK, coming out of my mouth is unfathomable to think
1:15:34
Speaker 1: about in America.
1:15:35
Speaker 2: Someone didn't get a job because they were white.
1:15:38
Speaker 1: OK, now imagine being black in America and knowing. That
1:15:43
Speaker 1: for generations, people who looked like you were legally, legally,
1:15:47
Speaker 1: legally denied opportunities because of their race, okay? Couldn't attend
1:15:51
Speaker 1: certain schools, couldn't live in certain neighborhoods, couldn't even sit
1:15:54
Speaker 1: in certain restaurants. And when those laws finally changed, the
1:15:57
Speaker 1: economic and social consequences didn't just disappear. That's why history
1:16:01
Speaker 1: isn't just about what happened. It's about what happened because
1:16:05
Speaker 1: of what happened, okay? And here's what I need everybody
1:16:08
Speaker 1: to understand. Acknowledging that history... doesn't mean white men today
1:16:13
Speaker 1: deserve to be discriminated against, okay?
1:16:15
Speaker 2: Two things can be true.
1:16:16
Speaker 1: White men can experience discrimination and black people can still
1:16:19
Speaker 1: experience the consequences of generations of systemic discrimination, okay? One
1:16:24
Speaker 1: doesn't cancel out the other, but what I find fascinating
1:16:27
Speaker 1: is how some people can recognize unfair treatment immediately when
1:16:31
Speaker 1: they believe it's happening to them, but suddenly become confused
1:16:35
Speaker 1: when someone else describes that exact same feeling, okay? When
1:16:39
Speaker 1: a black person says, They're experiencing discrimination. Some folks want
1:16:43
Speaker 1: proof and they want documentation. You got to have witnesses.
1:16:47
Speaker 1: You got to have a DNA sample. We got to
1:16:48
Speaker 1: have surveillance footage. But when they believe a white man
1:16:51
Speaker 1: is being discriminated against, stop everything. We have a civil
1:16:55
Speaker 1: rights emergency. OK, listen, that standard should apply to everybody.
1:17:00
Speaker 1: And this is why I think America keeps getting it wrong.
1:17:02
Speaker 1: We've turned equality into a competition. OK, we all want
1:17:06
Speaker 1: to play oppression Olympics.
1:17:07
Speaker 2: All right.
1:17:07
Speaker 1: Everybody is so busy trying to prove their group has
1:17:10
Speaker 1: it worse that we've forgotten what we're supposed to be
1:17:13
Speaker 1: fighting for in the first place. And it's simply equal
1:17:16
Speaker 1: opportunity for all. Hey, white men, if you genuinely feel
1:17:21
Speaker 1: like you're being discriminated against, then let this experience teach
1:17:24
Speaker 1: you something. Because if you know how terrible it feels
1:17:26
Speaker 1: to believe somebody is judging you based on something you
1:17:29
Speaker 1: can't control, why would you ever want somebody else to
1:17:32
Speaker 1: feel that way? That's where empathy is supposed to come from, okay?
1:17:35
Speaker 1: The goal of civil rights was never supposed to be
1:17:38
Speaker 1: making sure everybody gets a turn being treated unfairly.
1:17:41
Speaker 2: The goal was to stop people from.
1:17:43
Speaker 1: Being treated unfairly in the first place. So to Andrew
1:17:46
Speaker 1: Ferguson and anybody else concerned about protecting white men from discrimination,
1:17:50
Speaker 1: I say good, okay?
1:17:52
Speaker 2: Now keep that same energy.
1:17:53
Speaker 1: For everybody else because if you can recognize discrimination when
1:17:57
Speaker 1: it happens to white men, then you have no excuse
1:18:00
Speaker 1: for pretending you can't recognize it when it happens to
1:18:03
Speaker 1: historically marginalized communities, okay? Don't be a honky-ass hypocrite either, okay?
1:18:09
Speaker 1: If discrimination is wrong, it's wrong regardless of who's experiencing it.
1:18:13
Speaker 1: You can't demand equality for yourself. and then become allergic
1:18:16
Speaker 1: to it when somebody else asks for the same damn thing, okay?
1:18:20
Speaker 1: Maybe instead of arguing over whose discrimination matters more, we
1:18:24
Speaker 1: should be working to make.
1:18:25
Speaker 3: Sure nobody has to experience discrimination at.
1:18:29
Speaker 15: All, okay?
1:18:30
Speaker 1: Because equality doesn't mean everybody gets a turn being discriminated against.
1:18:35
Speaker 1: Equality means nobody gets discriminated against, period. Please let Chelsea
1:18:42
Speaker 1: Handler give Andrew Ferguson And everybody who only recognizes discrimination
1:18:46
Speaker 1: when it happens to their own group, the biggest hee-haw.
1:18:49
Speaker 16: Hee-haw!
1:18:49
Speaker 5: Hee-haw!
1:18:50
Speaker 2: That is way too much Dan Mayonnaise. It's a lot
1:18:53
Speaker 2: of mayonnaise. Too much mayonnaise for a Monday, Dan.
1:18:56
Speaker 5: Okay?
1:18:58
Speaker 7: For how many cases they get.
1:19:00
Speaker 2: Lord have mercy.
1:19:02
Speaker 3: All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today, sir.
1:19:04
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed.
1:19:04
Speaker 3: Well, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.
1:19:07
Speaker 11: Yes.
1:19:07
Speaker 2: That's right, man.
1:19:08
Speaker 1: So my guy, Anton X, Natani means in two for one.
1:19:12
Speaker 15: Two for one.
1:19:13
Speaker 2: It's pronounced just like that. Two for one.
1:19:14
Speaker 1: Two for one.
1:19:15
Speaker 7: For real?
1:19:16
Speaker 5: Yes.
1:19:16
Speaker 7: He made that himself?
1:19:18
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know. Oh, all right, all right.
1:19:20
Speaker 3: Okay, activists, hip-hop artists.
1:19:22
Speaker 1: They're indigenous hip-hop artists and activists, man. So they're not
1:19:24
Speaker 1: just here celebrating indigenous people's day. They're here to talk
1:19:27
Speaker 1: to us about, you know, their music and their culture,
1:19:30
Speaker 1: you know.
1:19:30
Speaker 2: All of that good stuff.
1:19:31
Speaker 3: And we're going to talk to them next. So don't
1:19:32
Speaker 3: go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club.
1:19:34
Speaker 2: Good morning.
1:19:34
Speaker 3: Morning everybody it's dj envy just hilarious charlemagne the guy
1:19:38
Speaker 3: we are the breakfast club laura rosa's here as well
1:19:41
Speaker 3: we got a special guest in the building.
1:19:43
Speaker 1: Today is indigenous people's day and we have antoine x
1:19:46
Speaker 1: natani means and two for one hair good morning my guys.
1:19:49
Speaker 23: Good morning yeah nice to see you guys good to
1:19:54
Speaker 23: be back how's your energy.
1:19:55
Speaker 3: You know it's always 100 man we we uh.
1:19:59
Speaker 2: We're here.
1:19:59
Speaker 3: We're happy to be here.
1:20:00
Speaker 23: We all have gigs actually booked right after this. So,
1:20:04
Speaker 23: you know, we're just blessed. Blessed to be booked and busy.
1:20:06
Speaker 15: Word, word.
1:20:07
Speaker 1: You know, we celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day, right? But how
1:20:09
Speaker 1: much do Americans actually know about Indigenous people? Do you
1:20:13
Speaker 1: feel like they're getting more education or less?
1:20:15
Speaker 14: Nah.
1:20:21
Speaker 23: I think I think everybody knows what's happening in this
1:20:23
Speaker 23: country right now. It's just right in our faces.
1:20:25
Speaker 2: So that's right.
1:20:26
Speaker 3: A lot of the history is being rewritten, erased.
1:20:28
Speaker 23: So being able to be out here in the open
1:20:33
Speaker 23: is very important and it's very it's very needed right now.
1:20:36
Speaker 18: Yeah, I think just the fact that there is not
1:20:39
Speaker 18: curriculum in the schools that's giving like an accurate, you know,
1:20:43
Speaker 18: account of our history still, you know. We're basically still
1:20:47
Speaker 18: being erased because of it.
1:20:49
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
1:20:49
Speaker 18: There should be required units in every school program that
1:20:54
Speaker 18: really gives an accurate account of our stories.
1:20:57
Speaker 9: You know what I mean?
1:20:58
Speaker 12: And that's also a very important reason why we're here.
1:21:02
Speaker 12: As artists, as creatives, anything really, it's more than just music.
1:21:07
Speaker 12: If someone's making film, it's more than just film. It's
1:21:10
Speaker 12: about representation because there's so many stereotypes and just lack
1:21:14
Speaker 12: of knowledge of who we are. So it's like a
1:21:17
Speaker 12: lot of pressure on us always to represent in the
1:21:20
Speaker 12: right way. We can't be out here moving like... It
1:21:23
Speaker 12: has to be sharp everywhere. You know what I mean?
1:21:24
Speaker 12: Because people got questions. And if you don't know your
1:21:27
Speaker 12: history or who you are, the world's going to keep
1:21:29
Speaker 12: on misrepresenting you.
1:21:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
1:21:31
Speaker 6: Well, since I've been here at The Breakfast Club, I've
1:21:33
Speaker 6: gotten a chance to talk to you guys another time
1:21:35
Speaker 6: before this. And I feel like y'all are really intentional
1:21:37
Speaker 6: about the education piece of it and the movement, but
1:21:39
Speaker 6: also intertwining the arts. What successes have you guys seen
1:21:42
Speaker 6: in correcting some of those misconceptions or... on things that
1:21:47
Speaker 6: people didn't understand just from being on platforms like breakfast
1:21:50
Speaker 6: club or whatever.
1:21:51
Speaker 23: You know, um, it's, it's, it's, it's a, it's, it's
1:21:56
Speaker 23: hard to describe successes, but even being on a platform
1:21:59
Speaker 23: like this, you know, being able to be asked back
1:22:02
Speaker 23: is a success for us, you know, just stepping off
1:22:04
Speaker 23: the reservation or getting, getting to be able to perform
1:22:07
Speaker 23: in places that a majority of non-natives are at.
1:22:10
Speaker 14: Yeah.
1:22:10
Speaker 3: That's a success.
1:22:12
Speaker 23: Um, beating stereotypes, being sober, um, You know, that's a
1:22:15
Speaker 23: success for us being from the reservation.
1:22:18
Speaker 18: Yeah, we do a lot of public speaking, too, as
1:22:21
Speaker 18: well as the music. You know, when we perform, we
1:22:23
Speaker 18: also get asked to do a lot of panels, keynotes
1:22:27
Speaker 18: and things like that to speak about our experience in
1:22:31
Speaker 18: front of non-native crowds like like me and Natani.
1:22:34
Speaker 1: We'll go out and we'll tour around Europe.
1:22:36
Speaker 18: And a lot of, you know, the community out there,
1:22:39
Speaker 18: they don't really know about. our struggles and what we've been,
1:22:43
Speaker 18: you know, fighting up against, you know, as far as
1:22:46
Speaker 18: settler colonialism and the current struggles of, of today, you
1:22:49
Speaker 18: know what I mean? And so we try our best
1:22:52
Speaker 18: to get in front of crowds that are non-native because
1:22:56
Speaker 18: there's an, there's an intention behind, you know, um, the
1:23:01
Speaker 18: miseducation or not getting any education.
1:23:03
Speaker 2: At all about who we are.
1:23:05
Speaker 12: And then also I feel like on my end, I
1:23:08
Speaker 12: feel like a success is that, I'm starting to take
1:23:14
Speaker 12: steps into mainstream spaces with artists. More so, I try
1:23:18
Speaker 12: to focus on independent successes. That's my goal, is to
1:23:22
Speaker 12: reach those. I'm not trying to preach to the choir.
1:23:25
Speaker 12: Native people know what's going on. It's always a collective
1:23:30
Speaker 12: understanding about a lot of stuff that we see. It's
1:23:36
Speaker 12: not necessarily sitting here telling the people, hey, we made it.
1:23:39
Speaker 12: It's more like, yeah, we're doing it, but also we're
1:23:41
Speaker 12: here to try to reach out you know what i
1:23:43
Speaker 12: mean so as far as like the music i've been
1:23:45
Speaker 12: able to work with more artists you know uh really
1:23:48
Speaker 12: trying to bridge the gap um between black and native
1:23:51
Speaker 12: communities like we talked about last time about the divisive
1:23:54
Speaker 12: languages and things that go on between the communities it's
1:23:58
Speaker 12: always going to be there between any community but we're
1:24:00
Speaker 12: trying to be the ones that bridge it you know
1:24:03
Speaker 12: like there's natives on the res and the struggles overlap
1:24:06
Speaker 12: with people in the hood And it's just like, people
1:24:10
Speaker 12: don't understand that. So we're out here trying to get
1:24:12
Speaker 12: on these, my bad, but trying to get on these
1:24:13
Speaker 12: platforms and keep on pushing so we can tell the
1:24:16
Speaker 12: people who we are.
1:24:17
Speaker 2: And, like, a lot of struggles ain't exclusively Native.
1:24:21
Speaker 11: Yeah.
1:24:21
Speaker 12: You know, and a lot of the good and teachings
1:24:24
Speaker 12: that we carry aren't exclusively Native either. So that's why
1:24:27
Speaker 12: we can connect to other cultures easily. A good person's
1:24:30
Speaker 12: a good person. You know what I mean?
1:24:32
Speaker 5: Yeah.
1:24:32
Speaker 2: Yeah. Some success is just seeing mainstream space.
1:24:35
Speaker 1: I think one of the issues, too, is people don't
1:24:37
Speaker 1: know what... like discrimination looks like for indigenous people. Like
1:24:41
Speaker 1: you can look and see what discrimination is against a
1:24:44
Speaker 1: black person or even a Jewish person or even a Latino.
1:24:48
Speaker 2: Like what is discrimination?
1:24:50
Speaker 1: What is racism towards an indigenous person?
1:24:56
Speaker 18: I mean, I feel like there's, and this is where,
1:24:59
Speaker 18: where we can continue to build solidarity between indigenous and
1:25:03
Speaker 18: black people is that a lot of our struggles are,
1:25:06
Speaker 18: really similar or almost identical. For example, like the two
1:25:11
Speaker 18: demographics that get murdered by the police the most in
1:25:14
Speaker 18: the United States are native and black people.
1:25:16
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
1:25:17
Speaker 18: And so I think when we continue with the education
1:25:20
Speaker 18: piece and letting people know, people start to wake up
1:25:23
Speaker 18: to the fact that like, wow, there's a lot of overlap,
1:25:26
Speaker 18: you know, uh, mass incarceration rates, uh, you know, crazy high,
1:25:31
Speaker 18: even in Minnesota, native people are 1% of the population
1:25:34
Speaker 18: in Minnesota, but make up 10% of the prison population.
1:25:37
Speaker 18: And you have similar numbers in black community, similar numbers
1:25:41
Speaker 18: in the Latino community, et cetera. You know what I mean?
1:25:44
Speaker 23: In South Dakota, it's close to 70% of the population
1:25:46
Speaker 23: is native and we have the lowest population. And that
1:25:49
Speaker 23: goes for in the, in the country too, per capita, we're,
1:25:52
Speaker 23: We're incarcerated and killed by police at the highest rate
1:25:55
Speaker 23: per capita. But we have the lowest population. You know
1:25:57
Speaker 23: what I mean? Like we're under 10%. I think we're
1:25:59
Speaker 23: under 5% of the population. So violence against indigenous people
1:26:04
Speaker 23: is violence against the land. It's violence against black and
1:26:08
Speaker 23: brown communities.
1:26:10
Speaker 3: And erasure.
1:26:11
Speaker 23: Erasure is violence. And that's what's happening right now. I mean,
1:26:16
Speaker 23: a complete erasure of our history, of knowledge, of sacred sites.
1:26:22
Speaker 23: Is going on right now.
1:26:24
Speaker 2: You know?
1:26:25
Speaker 14: And.
1:26:25
Speaker 2: I feel like they've been doing that since day one.
1:26:27
Speaker 3: Day one.
1:26:28
Speaker 23: I was on here 10 years ago during a pipeline
1:26:30
Speaker 23: fight and we were still talking about this issue.
1:26:32
Speaker 3: We were saying, we're a war in America.
1:26:34
Speaker 2: Hey, man, this is going to happen.
1:26:35
Speaker 3: This is what's going to happen to you.
1:26:37
Speaker 23: It's happened to indigenous peoples. Well, now all Americans are
1:26:39
Speaker 23: feeling the effect. You guys all feel the effect. And
1:26:42
Speaker 23: black Americans have been feeling it.
1:26:45
Speaker 5: You know?
1:26:45
Speaker 2: As far as struggles, just like simple ones, I guess,
1:26:48
Speaker 2: that are like unique. Something... I speak on, too.
1:26:53
Speaker 12: It's just like, if you go to the res, you know,
1:26:55
Speaker 12: it's like, you'll see, like, third world conditions an hour
1:26:58
Speaker 12: from the cities. And I say that a lot, but it's, like,
1:27:00
Speaker 12: people don't understand. There's food deserts. So natives will be
1:27:05
Speaker 12: on the res a radius of, like, I don't know.
1:27:08
Speaker 23: It's a radius of, like, 100 miles around, and they
1:27:12
Speaker 23: only shop at.
1:27:12
Speaker 2: And there's one grocery store in one district. It's not
1:27:15
Speaker 2: even a grocery store. And they jack the prices up.
1:27:18
Speaker 2: And then.
1:27:19
Speaker 12: the border towns to the reservations are typically the most
1:27:22
Speaker 12: racist and the border towns are usually white.
1:27:25
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
1:27:26
Speaker 12: So you go there and there's the assumptions that natives
1:27:29
Speaker 12: are uneducated, drunks, natives get free money.
1:27:33
Speaker 2: We don't, you know what I mean?
1:27:34
Speaker 12: And there's just, there's so many stereotypes that they just,
1:27:38
Speaker 12: people assume, oh, this person has it easy and makes
1:27:41
Speaker 12: their life hard, but it's not even the case. It's,
1:27:44
Speaker 12: we go through the struggles, but because of all the assumptions,
1:27:47
Speaker 12: even from, you know, black people, people, it's like, bro,
1:27:52
Speaker 12: we're fighting and trying to fight.
1:27:54
Speaker 2: Our fight is never with the people.
1:27:56
Speaker 12: No matter what we're doing, our fight is never with
1:27:58
Speaker 12: the people.
1:27:58
Speaker 2: It's always, like, for the people.
1:28:00
Speaker 1: Antoine, what do you think the entertainment industry still doesn't
1:28:03
Speaker 1: understand about indigenous artists?
1:28:05
Speaker 5: Everything.
1:28:06
Speaker 2: We just need to be in it, bro. I mean,
1:28:08
Speaker 2: it's like....
1:28:10
Speaker 12: I mean, there's movements, bro. Like, take the move. My
1:28:14
Speaker 12: brother's got the same thing. I'm just speaking to myself. But, like,
1:28:18
Speaker 12: like I said, I... Looked up to certain artists.
1:28:21
Speaker 2: Not a lot. One was Nick Nipsey Hussle. Rest in peace, bro.
1:28:26
Speaker 12: How important he was for his community. The influence that
1:28:31
Speaker 12: he had on his community. That's why I sent the
1:28:34
Speaker 12: invite to come to the power, bro. And if you
1:28:37
Speaker 12: used to come out, bro, go to the res where
1:28:39
Speaker 12: they're like. hey, you can sell tickets there. Bro, it's
1:28:42
Speaker 12: 2,000 people popping out for the Anton X show. That's
1:28:45
Speaker 12: what gave me kind of like leverage to go into
1:28:47
Speaker 12: other spaces. Like when I went to LA, I was
1:28:50
Speaker 12: able to get in with no ID and have really
1:28:53
Speaker 12: good conversations, get a stamp, you know, and, you know,
1:28:57
Speaker 12: we're going to get some work in, but It's because, like, well,
1:29:00
Speaker 12: how do you sell the show? Was that an opening? No,
1:29:02
Speaker 12: it was my headlining show. But the people believe in
1:29:06
Speaker 12: the movement. You know what I mean? So there's movements,
1:29:09
Speaker 12: like I said, that relate to human beings, not just Native.
1:29:13
Speaker 1: Man, I was in Arizona earlier this year getting my
1:29:16
Speaker 1: hair cut. And I really wish I could remember the brother.
1:29:18
Speaker 2: Navajo Barber, Elijah. That's Elijah. There you go. Yes, Navajo Barber.
1:29:22
Speaker 16: Yes, man.
1:29:24
Speaker 1: I was getting my hair cut and he would not
1:29:26
Speaker 1: stop talking about Antoine X.
1:29:27
Speaker 2: He was like, yo, you had Antoine.
1:29:28
Speaker 1: On The Breakfast Club.
1:29:29
Speaker 2: You know, I love them.
1:29:30
Speaker 1: And he was telling me about the shows and how
1:29:32
Speaker 1: it goes down on the reservation.
1:29:33
Speaker 2: And I was just like, oh, he really got a
1:29:35
Speaker 2: movement out here. Uh-huh.
1:29:37
Speaker 14: Yeah.
1:29:37
Speaker 2: To Elijah, man. Navajo Barber. Yes, sir.
1:29:40
Speaker 12: So what happens is, bro, it's like across Canada, across
1:29:45
Speaker 12: the states. Natives everywhere. So it's not just the Navajo Nation.
1:29:48
Speaker 12: It's everywhere that it's blowing up. Secret Sauce is natives.
1:29:53
Speaker 12: For artists that want to be, you look at artists
1:29:55
Speaker 12: like Bone Thugs. They ain't really getting booked out here
1:29:57
Speaker 12: like that.
1:29:58
Speaker 2: But they'll go to the Reds, get full rate, and
1:30:01
Speaker 2: just have thousands of people pop up. Oh, yeah. And
1:30:03
Speaker 2: natives just rock with people that rock with them. You
1:30:06
Speaker 2: know what I mean?
1:30:07
Speaker 12: But as far as people understanding us, I mean, I
1:30:09
Speaker 12: think it'd be cool to just get in and show.
1:30:11
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Show the people who we are.
1:30:13
Speaker 2: It's a lot of intention.
1:30:15
Speaker 12: Last time we were here, we offered up some prayer
1:30:17
Speaker 12: and medicine for y'all and for just the people, the airwaves,
1:30:20
Speaker 12: which we want to do again today. But we bring
1:30:22
Speaker 12: a lot of medicine with us. And you see young
1:30:25
Speaker 12: people where you think, oh, they don't really got nothing
1:30:27
Speaker 12: on their minds. They got a lot. And a lot
1:30:30
Speaker 12: to say. No matter what they dress like or look like.
1:30:32
Speaker 12: You think it's a YN, a young native?
1:30:35
Speaker 2: Nah, bro. They're young. Young intentional natives. The yins. You
1:30:38
Speaker 2: know what I mean? But it's like so much goes
1:30:41
Speaker 2: into our being. You know, who we are.
1:30:45
Speaker 1: Leave us with something, man. A prayer like we did
1:30:47
Speaker 1: last time. You know, we still got that in the system.
1:30:49
Speaker 15: Yeah.
1:30:50
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
1:30:50
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
1:30:54
Speaker 12: Again, appreciate y'all, you know, always having us. And the
1:30:58
Speaker 12: song that we'll sing right now is composed by Santee Witt. So,
1:31:03
Speaker 12: Santee is a well-known song maker. So, if you ever
1:31:06
Speaker 12: need to hear some traditional songs, prayer songs.
1:31:10
Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
1:31:10
Speaker 2: Again, it's about the intention.
1:31:12
Speaker 12: And as far as Native music, it's about the intention
1:31:14
Speaker 12: of the song rather than the delivery.
1:31:17
Speaker 2: I'm just getting my voice back, so excuse that. That's
1:31:20
Speaker 2: my excuse, too. But, yeah, well, the brothers know it,
1:31:24
Speaker 2: so it'll help out.
1:31:25
Speaker 11: We choni eloi, we choni eloi, tunka shila.
1:31:38
Speaker 20: Wopila yellow, we choni yellow. We choni yellow.
1:31:49
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
1:31:54
Speaker 17: Ampetuaka yellow, ho, ho, ho. Thank you.
1:32:00
Speaker 5: Thank you.
1:32:24
Speaker 3: Thank you.
1:32:49
Speaker 17: Ape tu waka yeloho Peju tu waka yeloho Tungkashi la
1:33:03
Speaker 17: wopila yelo Wi choni yeloho Wi choni yeloho Hei.
1:33:15
Speaker 20: Hei hei hei hei ohoi I wanted.
1:33:21
Speaker 3: To give you this. This is a braid of sweet grass.
1:33:24
Speaker 23: Normally, it grows out free in northern parts of the country,
1:33:29
Speaker 23: southern Canada, up to mid-Canada.
1:33:32
Speaker 3: It looks different from other kinds of grass, but it's sweet.
1:33:34
Speaker 3: It burns sweet.
1:33:36
Speaker 23: When you burn it, it cleanses the space. It brings
1:33:38
Speaker 23: in good energy. I want to give this to you guys.
1:33:41
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
1:33:42
Speaker 5: Burn it.
1:33:43
Speaker 3: Think good thoughts when you do.
1:33:44
Speaker 23: Good intentions. What you need for life. I just want
1:33:47
Speaker 23: to thank you guys again, Wopila, for having us, man.
1:33:50
Speaker 23: It's all about representation and bringing us back on here.
1:33:53
Speaker 23: It means the world to us. It means the world
1:33:54
Speaker 23: to our youth. You know, our young kids that are
1:33:56
Speaker 23: out there struggling, man. They're dealing with suicidal thoughts and
1:34:00
Speaker 23: addiction right now, so. I just want to say thank
1:34:02
Speaker 23: you so much.
1:34:03
Speaker 3: Thank you, brother.
1:34:03
Speaker 2: So I'm supposed to burn it.
1:34:04
Speaker 1: You know, in South Carolina, in Charleston, we have the sweetgrass,
1:34:07
Speaker 1: but they use the sweetgrass to make baskets.
1:34:10
Speaker 5: Oh, really?
1:34:11
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, okay.
1:34:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
1:34:13
Speaker 23: So, yeah, just burn that and, you know, it'll cleanse
1:34:16
Speaker 23: the space, man.
1:34:17
Speaker 18: This is really what solidarity looks like, too, and that
1:34:20
Speaker 18: y'all are supporting what that solidarity looks like. So it
1:34:23
Speaker 18: means a lot to us, for real.
1:34:24
Speaker 2: I appreciate you, man. Two for one. Antoine X and
1:34:27
Speaker 2: Natani Means, thank y'all for joining us.
1:34:29
Speaker 3: Thank you.
1:34:30
Speaker 2: It's The Breakfast Club.
1:34:30
Speaker 3: Morning, everybody. It's D-E-J-N-V, Jess Hilarious, Charlemagne the Guy. We
1:34:34
Speaker 3: are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.
1:34:37
Speaker 7: Lauren be coming with straight facts.
1:34:39
Speaker 5: Tell her!
1:34:41
Speaker 3: She gets to be somebody that knows somebody. She gets
1:34:43
Speaker 3: the details.
1:34:44
Speaker 6: I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
1:34:47
Speaker 2: She be having the latest on you.
1:34:50
Speaker 3: The latest with Lauren La Rosa.
1:34:52
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
1:34:54
Speaker 1: have a little bit of everything.
1:34:56
Speaker 2: Brought to you by Top Dog Law on The Breakfast Club.
1:35:01
Speaker 2: Top Dog Low.
1:35:02
Speaker 7: Yes, y'all.
1:35:03
Speaker 6: So to start off the latest this hour, real quick,
1:35:05
Speaker 6: I want to say congratulations to Tank and Fantasia. But Tank,
1:35:09
Speaker 6: because remember he was here and he was talking to
1:35:11
Speaker 6: us about some of the projects he has going on.
1:35:12
Speaker 6: He said he was going to be doing a Christmas movie.
1:35:14
Speaker 6: And he mentioned Tyler Perry. So over the weekend, we
1:35:17
Speaker 6: got more information about that. Tyler Perry let us know
1:35:19
Speaker 6: that it is called The Gospel of Christmas. It is
1:35:21
Speaker 6: starring Fantasia Barrino and Tank. And this upcoming holiday drama
1:35:26
Speaker 6: will explore the importance of faith during difficult times. So
1:35:29
Speaker 6: It's about a pastor who inherits his family's church in
1:35:32
Speaker 6: a troubled New York neighborhood and tries to keep the
1:35:34
Speaker 6: congregation together.
1:35:34
Speaker 2: That's crazy. They ain't even shot it yet. I heard
1:35:36
Speaker 2: they're going to shoot it on Christmas Eve.
1:35:39
Speaker 3: You'll get on my nerves.
1:35:41
Speaker 2: You just need seven hours from Fantasia and Tank on
1:35:44
Speaker 2: Christmas Eve.
1:35:44
Speaker 7: You'll get on my nerves.
1:35:46
Speaker 6: Yeah, and on the cast, we have Miss Cece Winans,
1:35:48
Speaker 6: Miss Yolanda Adams, the Clark sisters.
1:35:50
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's going to be, it seems like it's going
1:35:53
Speaker 7: to be good.
1:35:53
Speaker 3: Real dope, dope, dope.
1:35:54
Speaker 7: Black and heartfelt, you know, for the holidays.
1:35:56
Speaker 14: Yes.
1:35:57
Speaker 6: Now shifting gears a bit, this announcement, I don't really
1:36:00
Speaker 6: know what is happening here. So Soulja Boy posted himself
1:36:04
Speaker 6: in front of an American flag over the weekend. And
1:36:07
Speaker 6: the caption is leading people to believe that he is
1:36:10
Speaker 6: announcing he's running for president. It says, Soulja Boy 2028,
1:36:13
Speaker 6: a new chapter, a bigger vision, a commitment to creating
1:36:15
Speaker 6: opportunities for the next generation. My focus is on four things,
1:36:18
Speaker 6: economic opportunity, criminal justice reform, education, a future of technology
1:36:22
Speaker 6: and AI. From music to business to technology, I've always
1:36:25
Speaker 6: believed in thinking bigger and challenging what's possible. Now I'm
1:36:28
Speaker 6: exploring what it means to bring the same vision to
1:36:30
Speaker 6: public service. The future starts with a conversation.
1:36:34
Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy how, you know, a person can
1:36:36
Speaker 1: post something like that and people act like they don't
1:36:37
Speaker 1: know what he's talking about.
1:36:38
Speaker 2: He said he wants to, you know, do acts of
1:36:40
Speaker 2: public service.
1:36:41
Speaker 20: Yes.
1:36:42
Speaker 6: And whatever it is that he is going to be doing,
1:36:44
Speaker 6: this was the greatest marketing campaign for it because everywhere
1:36:46
Speaker 6: right now is trying to figure out if that is
1:36:48
Speaker 6: a platform for him to run for president.
1:36:51
Speaker 2: Why running for president, though?
1:36:53
Speaker 6: Maybe because it was so patriotic in front of the flag, but.
1:36:57
Speaker 6: Soulja Boy just celebrated one billion streams on YouTube. He
1:37:00
Speaker 6: knows how to get the people to the platforms. Whatever
1:37:02
Speaker 6: he's going to do, this is the biggest rollout for it.
1:37:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, the news channel this morning was like, Crank That
1:37:06
Speaker 3: Rapper is running for president.
1:37:08
Speaker 1: He must have said that somewhere. There's no way that
1:37:10
Speaker 1: people just out of the blue would say, hell, he's
1:37:12
Speaker 1: running for president.
1:37:13
Speaker 7: It ain't in his post.
1:37:14
Speaker 2: But salute to Soulja, man.
1:37:15
Speaker 1: Whatever public service you're doing, man, those four things that
1:37:17
Speaker 1: you listed, I agree with you.
1:37:18
Speaker 2: Those are things that are necessary. So do your thing,
1:37:20
Speaker 2: my brother.
1:37:21
Speaker 14: Yeah. Yeah.
1:37:23
Speaker 6: Well, shifting gears a bit, Summer Walker. So over the weekend,
1:37:26
Speaker 6: we also found out about a new lawsuit that is happening.
1:37:29
Speaker 6: So there's a $ 50 million showdown that is happening with
1:37:32
Speaker 6: Summer Walker and her record label. Now, her record label
1:37:36
Speaker 6: Interscope is declaring or saying that she's trying to walk
1:37:38
Speaker 6: away from a contract that a lot of people have
1:37:41
Speaker 6: described previously as brutal. So they claim that Summer Walker
1:37:45
Speaker 6: still owes the label two studio albums and an EP
1:37:47
Speaker 6: under an evolving deal that she first signed in 2017.
1:37:51
Speaker 6: And it says that there's a lot of things that
1:37:52
Speaker 6: have been undelivered and remain doing outstanding, even though she
1:37:55
Speaker 6: recently invoked a law. It's called the California Labor Law,
1:37:58
Speaker 6: known as a seven year rule, which generally will allow
1:38:01
Speaker 6: you to terminate a contract, including recording agreements after the
1:38:06
Speaker 6: seven years.
1:38:07
Speaker 11: Yes.
1:38:08
Speaker 6: So they're saying that she will owe 50 million dollars
1:38:11
Speaker 6: because of the suffering that they will.
1:38:13
Speaker 7: Damn.
1:38:13
Speaker 5: Yeah.
1:38:14
Speaker 7: Yeah.
1:38:16
Speaker 6: And then our last story here. Speaking of labels, I
1:38:20
Speaker 6: thought that this was a good story. Did you guys
1:38:21
Speaker 6: see that Gunna is launching his own label?
1:38:23
Speaker 14: No.
1:38:24
Speaker 3: No, I didn't see that.
1:38:25
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:38:25
Speaker 6: So Gunna is launching his own record label. And, you know,
1:38:28
Speaker 6: this comes after people were trying to figure out. if
1:38:30
Speaker 6: his last project that he did was his last, what's
1:38:32
Speaker 6: his last one under YSL, which was Young Stone Alive
1:38:36
Speaker 6: for Young Thug.
1:38:36
Speaker 7: So it's called SB the Label.
1:38:38
Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
1:38:39
Speaker 6: And it's going to, he released his Pop That, or
1:38:42
Speaker 6: Pop It video under that, the one with Coco Gauff.
1:38:44
Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
1:38:44
Speaker 6: Yeah, so he's stepping into his like big business there.
1:38:46
Speaker 6: I mean, he's been doing a lot of business in branding,
1:38:48
Speaker 6: but yeah, now he's trying to put everything under his
1:38:49
Speaker 6: own label.
1:38:50
Speaker 2: Well, salute to Gunna.
1:38:51
Speaker 9: Nice.
1:38:51
Speaker 7: See him grow in that area.
1:38:53
Speaker 15: Mm-hmm.
1:38:54
Speaker 7: It's good.
1:38:55
Speaker 2: It's good to see you do positive stories on a Monday, Laura.
1:38:59
Speaker 7: Thank you.
1:39:00
Speaker 3: You got anything else?
1:39:01
Speaker 7: I do have something. Somebody got married or something.
1:39:05
Speaker 6: I do have something else. It is very positive.
1:39:08
Speaker 1: You went to Delta Homecoming this weekend and got it back.
1:39:11
Speaker 1: Getting back rooted.
1:39:13
Speaker 3: Let me keep it, okay?
1:39:14
Speaker 2: Be quiet. She just tired.
1:39:15
Speaker 3: She didn't get a chance to research.
1:39:18
Speaker 20: Shut up.
1:39:18
Speaker 6: In our last story this morning, I think I'm sending
1:39:21
Speaker 6: a congratulations to Kershawn Rock and Blue Face. There was
1:39:25
Speaker 6: a video of them on the stream in the club
1:39:27
Speaker 6: and There's a sign that comes.
1:39:29
Speaker 7: Out, a proposal sign, will you marry me?
1:39:31
Speaker 3: In the club?
1:39:32
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're in the club.
1:39:33
Speaker 16: Okay.
1:39:33
Speaker 7: You can't get proposed to in the club?
1:39:36
Speaker 19: I mean, it's not everyone's taste. It's a very acquired taste.
1:39:40
Speaker 3: But is it real? Because they're bringing the bottles out
1:39:42
Speaker 3: on that same sign.
1:39:42
Speaker 7: That's what I'm saying. I don't know if this is real.
1:39:44
Speaker 2: Oh, congratulations.
1:39:45
Speaker 7: But she's like, you know, they're like, you know how
1:39:47
Speaker 7: the people get that.
1:39:47
Speaker 3: Was there a ring?
1:39:49
Speaker 7: She grabbed something out of his hand. I'm assuming it
1:39:50
Speaker 7: was a ring. She grabbed everything out of his hand
1:39:52
Speaker 7: all the time.
1:39:53
Speaker 6: Regardless of where it is, I'm just confused all the
1:39:56
Speaker 6: time with them. And I don't know. I don't know
1:39:58
Speaker 6: if I want to be in this group chat anymore.
1:39:59
Speaker 6: Just got back from homecoming. It was a lot going on.
1:40:02
Speaker 1: But yeah.
1:40:04
Speaker 6: They was in the club. I woke up this morning
1:40:07
Speaker 6: and I'm.
1:40:08
Speaker 7: Like, what's the story?
1:40:09
Speaker 3: He allegedly proposed to her in the club. They were
1:40:12
Speaker 3: out in the club. You know how the signs that
1:40:14
Speaker 3: come with the bottles? The sign said, will you marry me?
1:40:17
Speaker 2: It was on his knee.
1:40:19
Speaker 7: The bottle girls came out, will you marry me?
1:40:21
Speaker 6: You gotta say allegedly with them though because you just
1:40:23
Speaker 6: never know what's real and what's not.
1:40:25
Speaker 3: The sign said, will you marry me?
1:40:27
Speaker 7: Okay. And he never got up. Didn't he have another girlfriend, like,
1:40:30
Speaker 7: last week?
1:40:31
Speaker 2: He still has girlfriends, though.
1:40:32
Speaker 1: When it comes to Blueface and Creshawn, she has to
1:40:35
Speaker 1: check all her sources.
1:40:35
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying?
1:40:38
Speaker 2: When it comes to Blueface and Creshawn, now I got
1:40:40
Speaker 2: to make sure it's real.
1:40:41
Speaker 7: I try to make sure it's real and everything. I'm
1:40:44
Speaker 7: going to just be up here talking the talk.
1:40:45
Speaker 3: He got, like, three families.
1:40:47
Speaker 7: It's totally fine. Like, they all know about each other.
1:40:49
Speaker 7: Creshawn know he got, like, 30 other girls. Oh, there
1:40:52
Speaker 7: is a ring. There is a ring here. There's 30
1:40:54
Speaker 7: other girls.
1:40:55
Speaker 2: What'd you say?
1:40:56
Speaker 19: I said Nevaeh knows he has 30 other girls.
1:40:59
Speaker 7: He told her on stream. He told all of them.
1:41:02
Speaker 7: She put a ring on her finger. She did put
1:41:04
Speaker 7: a ring on her finger.
1:41:05
Speaker 2: She's just the one that got proposed to.
1:41:06
Speaker 7: So I guess this somehow moves her up in rank.
1:41:09
Speaker 5: Wait.
1:41:09
Speaker 7: Congratulations.
1:41:10
Speaker 6: Yeah, then there's another video where they started arguing.
1:41:12
Speaker 15: Ah, damn.
1:41:15
Speaker 2: Okay.
1:41:16
Speaker 8: Listen.
1:41:16
Speaker 7: Period.
1:41:17
Speaker 2: Shout out to Blueface.
1:41:18
Speaker 7: He's smarter than we think he is.
1:41:21
Speaker 6: All right, guys, if y'all missed anything today from the latest,
1:41:23
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Speaker 3: All right. Well, thank you, Lauren.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: I'm glad you had a great time at Homecoming. Salute
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Speaker 3: to all the HBCUs that had Homecoming last week. And
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Speaker 3: I see Morgan State had one.
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Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Norfolk State. Delaware State.
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Speaker 7: North Carolina Central.
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Speaker 3: North Carolina Central. You said Virginia State or Virginia Union?
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Speaker 6: I saw Virginia State. I don't know Virginia Union too,
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Speaker 6: but I saw people at Virginia State.
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Speaker 3: All right. Well, salute to all the HBCUs, all right?
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Speaker 8: All right.
1:42:01
Speaker 3: Let's get to the mix. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.
1:42:03
Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody.
1:42:04
Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are
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Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club. I just want to say salute to...
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Speaker 3: A bunch of people that were out in China that
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Speaker 3: held me down. I really had an amazing time.
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Speaker 2: Why'd they do that? Nobody was there to rescue you?
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Speaker 2: Why'd you let them hold you down? Yeah, what is
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Speaker 2: wrong with you?
1:42:18
Speaker 3: Are you jealous? Are you jealous that somebody's holding me
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Speaker 3: down and not you?
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Speaker 7: And I saw Jackie Chan as soon as you left.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I seen Jackie Chan.
1:42:24
Speaker 15: Oh, you did?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 7: What'd you say? You told him what I told you
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Speaker 7: to say?
1:42:28
Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 7: Hey, Jess told me to.
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Speaker 3: Like, yeah, like, damn. Nah, you was still looking for somebody.
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Speaker 3: Did you find your friend that was out there?
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Speaker 7: Nah, I didn't even find Wong. I don't know where
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Speaker 7: he at.
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Speaker 3: No, well, salute to us.
1:42:39
Speaker 2: Try to find a Wong in China.
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Speaker 16: Okay?
1:42:41
Speaker 11: All right.
1:42:43
Speaker 2: The hell?
1:42:44
Speaker 3: Salute to Reggie and everybody at the NBA. Really, really
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Speaker 3: appreciate you guys. Had a great time. I'll see y'all
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Speaker 3: next year. Next year, the game is the Pacers versus
1:42:51
Speaker 3: the Trailblazers, Portland Trailblazers.
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Speaker 2: Next year?
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Speaker 3: Next year.
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Speaker 7: Oh, they already pre-picked everything for.
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Speaker 5: Years to come?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they had a three-year deal. So they had a
1:42:59
Speaker 3: three-year deal with other teams. So they're going to go
1:43:01
Speaker 3: to different markets. They're going to go to Korea. They're
1:43:02
Speaker 3: going to go to Abu Dhabi. They're going to go
1:43:04
Speaker 3: to different places.
1:43:05
Speaker 5: That's what's up.
1:43:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, salute to everybody. And then, Charlamagne, you had your
1:43:08
Speaker 3: mental health?
1:43:09
Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am. My sixth annual Mental Wealth Expo was this weekend.
1:43:12
Speaker 1: Salute to everybody who pulled up to Newark, New Jersey,
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Speaker 1: to Joelle and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center. Salute
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Speaker 1: to my good sister, Debbie Brown, for curating a fantastic
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Speaker 1: day of programming. Salute to Paris Alexandra. Salute to Jennifer Arne.
1:43:25
Speaker 1: Salute to Tiara Banks. Salute to the good.
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Speaker 2: Brother, Dr. J. Barnett. Salute to Dr.
1:43:30
Speaker 1: Mark Brackett. Salute to Elliot Connie. Salute to Judge William Dawson.
1:43:34
Speaker 1: Salute to Kiara Gaines. Salute to Trent Outloud. Salute to
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Speaker 1: Savannah Stevens. Salute to Dr. Julius Thomas. Salute to Dr.
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Speaker 1: Rita Walker, Koya Webb, Jovion Zane. Salute to the good sister,
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Speaker 1: Michelle Williams. Let me tell you something about Michelle. Michelle
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Speaker 1: Williams is.
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Speaker 2: Really a light.
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Speaker 1: And the way she takes time to just pour into everybody,
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Speaker 1: it just says a lot about her character. Like, I mean,
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Speaker 1: she takes the time to make sure everybody that she
1:43:59
Speaker 1: runs into, you know, gets a moment with her. And
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Speaker 1: I was telling her this weekend, it's a nightmare for security,
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Speaker 1: but it's a blessing for the people. So, salute to Michelle.
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Speaker 1: And salute to Dr. Ayan Levanzant. Thank you, Dr. Ayaan
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Speaker 1: Lavonzan for pulling up. We actually awarded her with the
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Speaker 1: first ever Mental Wealth Alliance Legacy Award for all her
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Speaker 1: years in service in the mental health mindfulness space. I mean,
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Speaker 1: she was fixing people's lives and healing people way before
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Speaker 1: it was even a conversation.
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Speaker 2: So salute to you, Dr. Ayaan Lavonzan. And thank you
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Speaker 2: to everybody.
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Speaker 1: Can't wait to see y'all next year or maybe again
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Speaker 1: early next year because, you know, we're talking about doing
1:44:33
Speaker 1: smaller expos throughout the country.
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Speaker 2: So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
1:44:37
Speaker 3: Now, you guys have an amazing day. Salute to Mahershala Ali.
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Speaker 7: Mahershala.
1:44:42
Speaker 2: Mahershala Ali.
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Speaker 1: Make sure you check out his new movie, Your Mother,
1:44:45
Speaker 1: Your Mother, Your Mother, in theaters now.
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Speaker 3: Oh, and also, today is Indigenous Peoples Day, so salute
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Speaker 3: to Antoine X.
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Speaker 2: Antone.
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Speaker 3: What'd I say?
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Speaker 2: Antoine. That's what I thought it was, too.
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Speaker 7: Antoine. Okay, so it's Antone.
1:44:57
Speaker 2: Antone.
1:44:58
Speaker 3: Antone X. Natini means... Natani, man.
1:45:01
Speaker 2: You're trying to be funny. And I hope they jump
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Speaker 2: your stupid ass. Okay? I hope they jump you and
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Speaker 2: rain dance.
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Speaker 3: All over you. And two for one.
1:45:10
Speaker 2: And two for one. And two for one. You're doing
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Speaker 2: that on purpose. I'm not. For no reason. Salute to
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Speaker 2: my guys, man.
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Speaker 1: Indigenous hip-hop artists and activists, all of them. And they're
1:45:20
Speaker 1: actually coming back in November because they're doing something in New.
1:45:22
Speaker 2: York in November, man.
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Speaker 17: Oh, dope.
1:45:24
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I want to really focus on their music
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Speaker 2: when they come back.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
1:45:29
Speaker 3: All right. Well, you got a positive note?
1:45:31
Speaker 2: I do.
1:45:31
Speaker 1: And the positive note comes from Key for Success Mind.
1:45:35
Speaker 1: It's an Instagram page I follow. And they post really
1:45:37
Speaker 1: good stuff, man. And this morning they posted, being calm
1:45:40
Speaker 1: is the loudest flex, okay? Anyone can lose their strength. OK,
1:45:44
Speaker 1: you can react fast. You can talk loud and make noise.
1:45:46
Speaker 1: That takes zero strength. Real power shows up when chaos
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Speaker 1: hits and you don't fold. OK, when drama tries to
1:45:52
Speaker 1: pull you in and you stay grounded. When life pokes
1:45:55
Speaker 1: you again and again and you still choose control over impulse. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it takes work. It takes unlearning BS reactions, okay? Sitting
1:46:03
Speaker 1: with discomfort and not letting emotions run the show. Calm
1:46:05
Speaker 1: isn't weakness.
1:46:06
Speaker 2: It's mastery.
1:46:07
Speaker 1: It's knowing you don't have to prove anything, explain everything,
1:46:10
Speaker 1: or react to everyone. While others burn energy panicking, you
1:46:13
Speaker 1: move quietly, clearly, and on purpose. In a world addicted
1:46:17
Speaker 1: to noise, staying calm is a damn superpower.
1:46:20
Speaker 2: Have a great day. Breakfast club, bitches.
1:46:22
Speaker 3: You done finished or y'all done?
1:46:23
Speaker 16: Woke up.
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Speaker 14: Woke up.
1:46:25
Speaker 3: Wake you up. Wake that ass up. Program your alarm
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