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The Breakfast Club BEST OF(T.K. Kirkland, Arsenio Hall, Jill Scott Interview) · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Woke up, woke up, wake you up, wake you up,
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  Speaker 1: wake that ass up, program your alarm to power 105.1
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  Speaker 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. But here's the gag, though, as Kiki
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  Speaker 1: Palmer would say.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, boy. It's Labor Day. We're not really here.
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  Speaker 3: You did not have to say that, yo.
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  Speaker 2: You're right. We here. What's happening? Yeah. They know we
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  Speaker 2: not here. It's not AI.
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  Speaker 3: It's a holiday. They know it's a holiday.
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  Speaker 2: It's not AI, though. This is really us. We just
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  Speaker 2: not here. Oh, boy. Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yes, you are right.
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  Speaker 5: But on today's show, we're going to throw it back
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  Speaker 5: for a little bit to some great interviews that happened
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  Speaker 5: this year, like when the GOAT, Arsenio Hall, stopped through.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about this for a second. Arsenio Hall came.
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  Speaker 1: Up to the Breakfast Club because he put out his
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  Speaker 1: memoir earlier this year. It came out of my book
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  Speaker 1: in print, Black Privilege Publishing. You know, Arsenio is one
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  Speaker 1: of my four entertainment... you know, influences. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: four people that I look to in entertainment the most
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  Speaker 1: for inspiration, Clarence Avon, God bless the dead, P.D. Green,
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  Speaker 1: God bless the dead, Sean J.Z. Carter, and Arsenio Hall.
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  Speaker 1: And I had the pleasure of publishing his memoir. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: why not run that conversation back again?
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  Speaker 2: God damn it.
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  Speaker 1: And thank you to everybody who went out there and
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  Speaker 1: bought Arsenio's book. You made it a New York Times bestseller.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to get that on in a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And also.
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  Speaker 2: Also, we got one of my wife's favorite artists.
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  Speaker 1: My wife has two favorite artists, Erykah Badu and this
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  Speaker 1: woman right here, Miss Jill Scott. Jill Scott, she put
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  Speaker 1: out an album earlier this year. Incredible body of work.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll be talking to her as well.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the album was called To Whom It Just May Concern,
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  Speaker 1: if I forgot to say that. That came out back
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  Speaker 1: in February, right before Valentine's Day. Some of y'all got
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  Speaker 1: pregnant to that album and didn't even realize it.
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  Speaker 6: Period.
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  Speaker 2: Period. All right.
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  Speaker 5: Well, get it off your chest is up next. So
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  Speaker 5: this is the time where people call up and they call.
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  Speaker 5: What's the name of that feature where they call up
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  Speaker 5: and we don't.
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  Speaker 3: Be answering it?
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  Speaker 2: The Talk Back feature, man. The Talk Back feature. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to use it now. You can go to Talk
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  Speaker 2: Back and leave a message on Talk Back. Okay, 1-800.
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  Speaker 1: No, go to iHeartRadio app and go to the Breakfast
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  Speaker 1: Club app and click on the Talk Back.
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  Speaker 2: Feature and you can leave a message.
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  Speaker 3: And we're going to get some of those on next.
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  Speaker 3: So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. Wake it up.
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  Speaker 3: This is your time to get it off your chest.
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  Speaker 2: 800-585-1051.
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  Speaker 5: We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, who's this?
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  Speaker 7: Hi, this is Mary. I'm calling from next door in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: How y'all doing? Mary from Milwaukee. Milwaukee don't be checking
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  Speaker 2: in like they should, man. Salute to Milwaukee. Like they
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  Speaker 2: used to.
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  Speaker 3: They used to check in all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, we don't be answering the phone. Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: That's true, too.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, Mary?
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  Speaker 7: I'm calling to get this off my chest. You know,
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  Speaker 7: every week we talk about Trump and programs he's cutting,
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  Speaker 7: federal programs to take money. The latest is he's talking
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  Speaker 7: about cutting SSI from Sanctuary City. Nobody's asking the question,
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  Speaker 7: where is the money going? The gentleman who talked earlier,
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  Speaker 7: he said it's going overseas.
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  Speaker 8: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 7: Where is all the money going? Last time I checked,
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  Speaker 7: I'm still paying federal taxes out of my paycheck. Where
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  Speaker 7: is our money going? I think you guys have said
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  Speaker 7: earlier how we need to keep in the, you know,
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  Speaker 7: talking about voting.
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  Speaker 3: You need to vote.
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  Speaker 9: You need to vote.
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  Speaker 7: We need to also hammer home. Where is our money going?
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  Speaker 7: Show me where the money is.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably going to the administration.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, this is one of the most, this is the
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  Speaker 1: most corrupt administration we've ever seen. I was reading the
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  Speaker 1: headline yesterday that said Republicans feared Trump will keep the
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  Speaker 1: super PAC money and not spend it on the midterms.
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  Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, I believe that.
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  Speaker 10: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 7: I believe that water thing, that $ 14 million that we spent,
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  Speaker 7: he gave probably $ 500, 000 to his pool boy, and he
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  Speaker 7: kept the rest. But nobody's asking the question, though. Where
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  Speaker 7: is the money going?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't even know if people aren't asking the question.
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  Speaker 1: I think they know. They're just not, you know, saying it. Like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you hear things like, oh, Trump's corruption, but
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  Speaker 1: they don't realize what that all entails.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 7: But I think, don't you think that might change some
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  Speaker 7: of his voters' minds? Like, where is it going? Recently,
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  Speaker 7: we hear about we're getting meat from Mexico and Venezuela.
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  Speaker 11: What happened to our farmers?
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  Speaker 7: Don't get me wrong, but you know, where's the money going?
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  Speaker 7: And finally, Epstein files. We ain't heard about the Epstein
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  Speaker 7: files in months. Keep throwing that out there.
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  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 7: And finally, I wake up to y'all. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 7: like the news.
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  Speaker 11: You know how some people watch the news?
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  Speaker 7: I'll be watching y'all, just so you know. So I
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  Speaker 7: just want to thank y'all for everything you say. And
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  Speaker 7: can you give a shout-out to my mama? Her birthday
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  Speaker 7: was on the 31st. She's a Virgo, and she turned
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  Speaker 7: 90 years old.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Congratulations to her, man. That's a blessing. That is
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  Speaker 2: a blessing. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Now, Mary, just to answer some of your question, Mary,
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  Speaker 5: because I Googled it because I wanted to know where
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  Speaker 5: the money's going to. They said the east wing of
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  Speaker 5: the ball of the White House, the ballroom, they said
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  Speaker 5: 300 million in public funds have already been funneled toward it.
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  Speaker 5: They said the plane, that 400 million dollar plane that
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  Speaker 5: was given to us as a gift, even though that
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  Speaker 5: was a gift, which was great. They said, however, because
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  Speaker 5: it's a foreign gift, retrofitting a plane with massive military
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  Speaker 5: grade security systems. cost about a billion dollars of taxpayers money.
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  Speaker 5: So that's where some of your money's going. And they
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  Speaker 5: said also that, you know, they, they redid the, uh,
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  Speaker 5: I guess the bowling alley in the white house. I
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  Speaker 5: didn't even know the bowl, the white house had a
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  Speaker 5: bowling alley. And I said, that costs about 260. So
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  Speaker 5: that's what some of your money went. You got to
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  Speaker 5: stop Googling AI overview with me.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're right. That's where taxpayer dollars are going. But
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  Speaker 2: that's not what she asked you.
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  Speaker 7: That is kind of the question. The point is just
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  Speaker 7: for people to talk about it. Like he just did.
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  Speaker 2: He Googled it.
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  Speaker 7: We shouldn't have to Google it. When we talk about
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  Speaker 7: them taking money from people who's on SSI, okay. What
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  Speaker 7: are you going to do with that money? First of all,
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  Speaker 7: he's doing it to punish the sanctuary cities, which has
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  Speaker 7: nothing to do with anything. It's like SSI, immigration, nothing
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  Speaker 7: to do. And then a lot of people, because I
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  Speaker 7: work for the federal government, don't understand that a good
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  Speaker 7: example is that ballroom. You know, I know there are
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  Speaker 7: suits going on left and right, but once.
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  Speaker 11: Again, he thinks both those and everything.
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  Speaker 9: He don't care because Congress does not exist anymore. He's
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  Speaker 9: out of control.
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  Speaker 11: And we need to start.
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  Speaker 2: Asking, where's that money going? I think people know.
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  Speaker 1: That's why when people say the amount of corruption that
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  Speaker 1: the Trump administration is doing, I just think that they.
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  Speaker 2: Just don't know what it all entails.
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  Speaker 1: And the Supreme Court just allowed Trump's ballroom construction to
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  Speaker 1: continue like two days ago.
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  Speaker 2: But once again, it's just too much. It's always so.
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  Speaker 3: Many different stories. Like you said, I forgot all about
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  Speaker 3: the Epstein files.
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  Speaker 9: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Everything.
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  Speaker 9: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. Crazy.
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  Speaker 7: And then one more thing.
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  Speaker 12: I always forget to say hello to Mimi.
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  Speaker 7: I hear Mimi laughing in the background, y'all, all the time. Hello, Mimi, Lauren,
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  Speaker 7: all y'all.
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  Speaker 11: I hear her all the time in the background. Thank
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  Speaker 11: y'all for doing what you do.
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  Speaker 10: Good morning.
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  Speaker 7: And I enjoy listening to you every morning.
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  Speaker 2: You're like my news.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you have a great weekend, mama. Great three-day weekend.
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  Speaker 2: 800-585-1051.
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  Speaker 3: If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's
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  Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 12: Ray, Ray, Ray.
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  Speaker 2: Yo, Charlamagne, Gen Z, what up?
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  Speaker 1: Are we live?
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  Speaker 2: This is your time to get it off your chest.
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  Speaker 11: I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool.
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  Speaker 2: We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 13: We can get on the phone right now.
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  Speaker 3: He'll tell you what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Are we live? Hello, who's this? Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what's your name?
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  Speaker 11: This is Carla from Kentucky.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Carla from Kentucky. Get it off your chest.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, so we have been in Kentucky for.
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  Speaker 11: A really, really long time. And this Mitch McConnell thing
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  Speaker 11: is really.
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  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. I was talking about that yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: We don't even know a lot. No. We do not.
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  Speaker 11: And nobody is saying anything.
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  Speaker 14: Like, everybody is just acting like, oh, this is just normal. Like,
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  Speaker 14: you know, he's just away on vacation and.
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  Speaker 11: We're just supposed to be waiting for him to get back.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 9: It's nuts.
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  Speaker 14: But this is kind of where we're at, you know,
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  Speaker 14: in 2026.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking now.
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  Speaker 1: It says they did give an expected timeline for his return,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, they say next month.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: September 14th when they come back in session.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, it is crazy.
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  Speaker 14: And then the other thing that I wanted to talk
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  Speaker 14: about is I know, Charlamagne, you have a daughter who's
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  Speaker 14: a cheerleader.
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  Speaker 11: I'm a black cheer mom as well. And I run
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  Speaker 11: a group.
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  Speaker 14: On Facebook called Black Cheer Moms, and we are trying
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  Speaker 14: to raise money.
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  Speaker 11: To help cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 9: Stay in cheer and stay.
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  Speaker 3: On the mat.
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  Speaker 11: And so we have a cash app that is.
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  Speaker 14: Called Black Cheer Moms, Venmo, that's BCM Black Cheer Moms,
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  Speaker 14: and also PayPal, that is BlackCheerMoms at gmail.com. And if
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  Speaker 14: anybody can give and help, we know that we want
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  Speaker 14: to give our youth an opportunity to do things, and
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  Speaker 14: we all know that cheer is so expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 14: And so if anybody is able to give and help,
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  Speaker 14: it would be so appreciated.
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  Speaker 11: Last year, within this group, we have 8,000 members in
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  Speaker 11: this group.
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  Speaker 14: We raised $ 15, 000.
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  Speaker 11: And so this year we are looking to do the same.
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  Speaker 11: But if anybody is able to help, that would be great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, cheerleading is expensive. I got it.
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  Speaker 1: My 11 year old is in the chair now and
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get her to be into something else.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do this again. I done did it, okay,
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  Speaker 2: one time.
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  Speaker 3: That's what she want to do.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know if.
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  Speaker 1: That's what she want to do, if that's what she
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  Speaker 1: saw her big sister do. But, you know, I want
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  Speaker 1: her to do something else.
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  Speaker 2: I done did the chair thing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but the problem is if they leave chair, everything's expensive.
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  Speaker 5: If they go to dance, dance is super, super expensive.
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  Speaker 5: You don't want them to go to dance.
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  Speaker 1: I'm cool with that. I just think it's just a
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  Speaker 1: different experience. Like, I've done the chair experience. I've done
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  Speaker 1: the chair experience with... Well over a decade. I want
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  Speaker 1: to do something else.
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  Speaker 3: This is not about you.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about you. Yes, the hell it is, as
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  Speaker 2: long as I'm fitting the goddamn bill.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to fit the bill regardless.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell you mean it ain't about me? And
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  Speaker 2: it ain't about you.
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  Speaker 3: I want to do something else.
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  Speaker 1: Either way, we both want to do something different. We
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  Speaker 1: both want to do something different. We are in agreement
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  Speaker 1: on this one, okay? I had a secret meeting.
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  Speaker 2: Damn. I'm sorry, baby girl. Hello, who's this?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: This is Jace Bell Bell.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what's up, brother? Get it off your chest.
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  Speaker 9: What's up, Breakfast Club family? I was calling.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 9: I sent a book up there, Charlamagne. I just wanted
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  Speaker 9: to find out, did you get it yet out.
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  Speaker 2: Of the mail? What's the name of it? Before I
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  Speaker 2: Knew Better, Running Out of Blessings.
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  Speaker 9: I caught up last week.
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  Speaker 11: Told you I sold over 500 copies.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. Let me see. Before I Knew Better, Running Out
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  Speaker 2: of Blessings. I got to go look at my office.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm looking at a stack of books
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  Speaker 2: right now, and I don't see yours. Y'all ain't no
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  Speaker 2: damn office.
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  Speaker 9: Who don't got an office?
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  Speaker 2: I had a.
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  Speaker 8: On the package, and I had a bookmark of my
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  Speaker 8: book cover.
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  Speaker 9: On it, so it'll stand out.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. I'm going to look this week.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, go check it out. Check it out, man.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: All right, brother.
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  Speaker 8: 800-585-1051.
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's
• 10:51
  Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: It's DJ and V, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
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  Speaker 5: We are The Breakfast Club. Lorna Rose is here as well.
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  Speaker 5: We got a special guest in the building.
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  Speaker 2: One of my OGs.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: TK Kirk. It's always good to see y'all, man.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, love.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for the flowers. I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 15: You're welcome, sweetheart.
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: You're welcome. Let's talk about Lot Patrol, though. Who are
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  Speaker 2: you playing on Lot Patrol?
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  Speaker 16: I'm playing a young man named Mr. Cox, and I
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  Speaker 16: would describe it.
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  Speaker 2: I know. Everybody started laughing. So listen, listen.
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  Speaker 16: I took it as me playing the role like Ari
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  Speaker 16: Gold from Entourage because I'm the boss of the lot.
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  Speaker 16: And I have all these security guards just really doing
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  Speaker 16: all these shenanigans. But every comic who come on here
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  Speaker 16: or any interview will say it's their TV show. That's
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  Speaker 16: the great thing about it. That's the funny thing about comedians.
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  Speaker 16: A comedian's going to say, yeah, go watch my show.
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  Speaker 16: But it's all about shows. And it's just a great situation,
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  Speaker 16: especially for me because I never really cared about TV
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  Speaker 16: or doing movies back in the day. You know, I
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  Speaker 16: was always like, let me go get the money because
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  Speaker 16: that was real for me and being on the road.
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  Speaker 2: And it paid off at my age.
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  Speaker 17: Trending things with you. So I was watching your interview
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  Speaker 17: on Club Shay Shay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 17: The headline that they put, and you just mentioned your reputation.
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  Speaker 17: The headline that they put is TK Kirkland talks about
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  Speaker 17: when he robbed Diddy, which we know is like this
• 12:09
  Speaker 17: old story about.
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: It's an old story. Yeah.
• 12:11
  Speaker 17: So why do you, when you go to places like,
• 12:13
  Speaker 17: why talk about stuff like that? Then if you, you
• 12:16
  Speaker 17: just mentioned, you didn't want to talk about the protecting
• 12:18
  Speaker 17: people with Charlotte.
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: That's true. And it's always a time to start. So
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: we're going to start now. We're not going to talk
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 12:24
  Speaker 15: Don't do us.
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: I guess with a platform like Shay Shay.
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. it's a big platform. And that was your first
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: time on the year. I've been here a hundred times.
• 12:35
  Speaker 17: I was just wondering because when, when he mentioned the
• 12:37
  Speaker 17: protecting people thing, I was like, Oh, he don't really
• 12:39
  Speaker 17: want to go into that stuff.
• 12:40
  Speaker 15: But then when I watched that interview, I was like, why?
• 12:42
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: I think it was because of that. And then he
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: boarded up and it caught me slipping.
• 12:47
  Speaker 16: But I, if you ever noticed my interviews, I never
• 12:49
  Speaker 16: allow anybody to get me caught up in messiness.
• 12:51
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: I always pivot out of the messiness.
• 12:55
  Speaker 16: And, um, Now that things have truly changed even more,
• 12:58
  Speaker 16: there's certain things I probably won't ever talk about ever again.
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: If you know, you know.
• 13:03
  Speaker 17: Have you had to learn to navigate those type of
• 13:05
  Speaker 17: things because business was messing up for you too?
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. I've always been money. God's here
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: to tell you. I always got the bread.
• 13:14
  Speaker 16: The thing with me is as you get older, you
• 13:17
  Speaker 16: just want to be respected more.
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It is. Yeah.
• 13:20
  Speaker 16: The goal is respect. It's about relationships. And, you know,
• 13:23
  Speaker 16: you get to be my age. You just want good
• 13:26
  Speaker 16: things to happen. Good things are happening.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: Have you seen the new Netflix show called The Polygamist?
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: I started to watch it and I didn't like the actor.
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: Which one? The guy that's doing all the sex stuff
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: and cheating.
• 13:38
  Speaker 15: I started and it triggered me.
• 13:39
  Speaker 10: I had to turn it off.
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I don't think he was smooth enough to
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: pull that off.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's based in Africa about a man seeking
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: out wealthy women and marrying them, and he got a
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: bunch of wives.
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What are your thoughts on just
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: that premise, though, on polygamy in that way? It happens. Yeah.
• 13:54
  Speaker 16: You know, it depends on how good you are to
• 13:58
  Speaker 16: get away with it. And do I recommend? I just
• 14:02
  Speaker 16: believe men just, they say, I know you guys are married.
• 14:04
  Speaker 16: Half the world is married. And I'm happy for y'all
• 14:07
  Speaker 16: because I know when y'all was young and y'all was
• 14:09
  Speaker 16: out there doing what I used to do.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: You know, and how you got settled down and got
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: a family. You know, why.
• 14:15
  Speaker 16: Are you laughing? Because Charlemagne was something else. Charlemagne was
• 14:18
  Speaker 16: something else when he was young.
• 14:20
  Speaker 15: I see what you're doing here. You're getting him back.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: But I do remember TK used to say in a set,
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: TK used to say, you don't want no girl that
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: don't ask you for nothing.
• 14:27
  Speaker 9: No, no, no.
• 14:28
  Speaker 16: You want to find somebody that don't need to be
• 14:30
  Speaker 16: taken care of and then take care of them.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: There you go. Okay, it was something like that.
• 14:34
  Speaker 17: Dang, why can't you, what's wrong with girls that ask
• 14:36
  Speaker 17: you for stuff?
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: Because you just said the opposite of that. Expound on that.
• 14:39
  Speaker 16: So here's the thing about what women don't understand. Young girls, like,
• 14:44
  Speaker 16: You just don't get it. It's psychology even when it
• 14:47
  Speaker 16: comes to men. A man wants to feel that he
• 14:51
  Speaker 16: wants to help you. But as you get older and
• 14:53
  Speaker 16: you understand life, we all have bills. So if I
• 14:57
  Speaker 16: meet you and you are another bill, the goal in
• 15:00
  Speaker 16: life is to get rid of your bills every month.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Like what?
• 15:05
  Speaker 16: Like your bill, you know? And just because you like,
• 15:09
  Speaker 16: would you text me? You call, you have sex with me.
• 15:12
  Speaker 16: I was supposed to continue paying your bills. My thing
• 15:14
  Speaker 16: is your parents sent you into the world unprepared. And
• 15:18
  Speaker 16: when men wake up and they understand it, it bothers
• 15:22
  Speaker 16: them because they want someone who's thoughtful, who's considerate, who's
• 15:27
  Speaker 16: not complaining all the time. And some, our women just
• 15:31
  Speaker 16: don't get it. They'll go back and forth in conversation.
• 15:35
  Speaker 16: And some guys stay in it. But when they ask me,
• 15:38
  Speaker 16: I tell them to leave.
• 15:39
  Speaker 15: You said they'll go back on for a fun conversation.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: They'll stay in the relationship. I believe break it off.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: I believe you protect your peace at all costs. Break
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: it off and meet somebody new.
• 15:50
  Speaker 15: Oh, when the girl's asking for things.
• 15:52
  Speaker 16: Not enough she's asking for things, she's complaining. Giving is
• 15:56
  Speaker 16: out of your heart. If you're feeling someone and you're
• 16:00
  Speaker 16: really feeling her and she's thankful, I'll get you flowers.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? But if you don't text
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: and say thank you or call, oh, okay, I'm.
• 16:08
  Speaker 16: Glad you let me off the hook because I see
• 16:11
  Speaker 16: that you wasn't raised right. Because to me, a man
• 16:15
  Speaker 16: wants a phone call if I get you flowers. Call
• 16:17
  Speaker 16: me and say, oh, my God.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I don't care if you're married. I buy
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: a woman flowers that's married. But if you're married, call me.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: I need a phone call.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: You know why he making sense? Because some women have
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: such a sense of entitlement.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: There you go. They expect things.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: I don't have to get you no flowers. That's right.
• 16:34
  Speaker 15: Do you have daughters, TK?
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: I have daughters, yes.
• 16:36
  Speaker 17: Okay, all y'all have daughters. So what do you guys
• 16:38
  Speaker 17: teach your daughters about the entitlement? Where entitlement, sometimes it's
• 16:42
  Speaker 17: a boundary that women set up to make sure that
• 16:44
  Speaker 17: they're not getting less than they deserve. How do you
• 16:46
  Speaker 17: guys teach them to navigate that?
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: So here's what you're saying. You're talking about parents that
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: don't raise their kids.
• 16:51
  Speaker 15: No, I'm asking.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: No, this is what I'm saying.
• 16:53
  Speaker 17: I'm sharing with you.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Men who raise their.
• 16:56
  Speaker 16: Children, their daughters don't go around thinking like that because
• 16:59
  Speaker 16: we take care of our children.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Ask what her father does.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Shut up.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Shut up. When you're ready, write. Shut up.
• 17:05
  Speaker 16: See, when a father don't take care of his daughters,
• 17:09
  Speaker 16: that's the results that you get.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: Is what?
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Entitlement.
• 17:12
  Speaker 16: You feel like you're supposed to get certain things. But
• 17:15
  Speaker 16: when a man takes care of his daughters, she's not
• 17:18
  Speaker 16: looking for nothing for a man. Because she's got a dad.
• 17:21
  Speaker 16: She'll never come to another man and expect anything. Because
• 17:26
  Speaker 16: all our lives, we took care of our daughters so much.
• 17:29
  Speaker 16: they don't even process that thinking.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: And don't let daddy be touching some paper. If we
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: touching some paper.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 16: Daughters who've been raised by good dads, that ain't coming
• 17:39
  Speaker 16: out they mouth though.
• 17:40
  Speaker 17: So my question then is, what I was trying to
• 17:42
  Speaker 17: ask is.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: You asked what you wanted to ask.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: No.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: No.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: What I was.
• 17:47
  Speaker 17: Trying to ask is, because you guys are like that,
• 17:50
  Speaker 17: what are you doing and what are your, like what
• 17:52
  Speaker 17: should the girls who are the opposite be learning from
• 17:54
  Speaker 17: your daughters?
• 17:55
  Speaker 16: They can't learn from us. Everything starts in the home.
• 17:58
  Speaker 16: We could sit here and explain this all day. It's
• 18:01
  Speaker 16: already in their DNA because.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Of their parents.
• 18:04
  Speaker 16: This is the reason why we have the confusion that
• 18:06
  Speaker 16: we have out here in this country. Everybody has a
• 18:10
  Speaker 16: platform to give knowledge and gain. Nobody's paying attention. Your mother,
• 18:15
  Speaker 16: your father has to teach you this. I'm going to
• 18:18
  Speaker 16: hold And when they don't say thank you, when they
• 18:20
  Speaker 16: don't open the door, when women feel or using profanity
• 18:24
  Speaker 16: and talking any kind of way.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: A real man, when he see that, he don't want
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: to deal with that. You know what's interesting? Lauren don't
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: curse a lot. Lauren's a nice young lady. I don't
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: know how.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: You are in relationships, but she has a lot of gratitude. No,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I could tell by her personality. I watch you on
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: this thing a lot. Thanks.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Very nice woman. And it comes across on the screen.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Now, Lauren's a good person.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's a good person. Yeah, she's a good person.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, we don't know how she is in relationships.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 18:52
  Speaker 17: I'm the same way in relationships until it gets to
• 18:56
  Speaker 17: a point where I shouldn't be.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Nah, she cares. She rides.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Okay. You ever take your man shopping?
• 19:01
  Speaker 15: I love taking care of my man if he's taking
• 19:03
  Speaker 15: care of me.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: And here's the thing about it. What big and tall
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: still you take him to? Because he a husky.
• 19:07
  Speaker 15: First of all, stop playing with my man.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: That is a grown-ass, 6'4, beautiful chocolate man.
• 19:12
  Speaker 15: Beautiful chocolate man.
• 19:13
  Speaker 17: But if I am in a relationship that I feel
• 19:15
  Speaker 17: like he's treating me great, that's.
• 19:19
  Speaker 15: Bare minimum for me. But it's not about financial things either.
• 19:22
  Speaker 16: You can get him a card and put it under
• 19:25
  Speaker 16: the pillow. He will swear you bought him a Bentley.
• 19:27
  Speaker 16: be going crazy that's that's how little things to men
• 19:30
  Speaker 16: are and i always tell gentlemen to wear pajamas around
• 19:33
  Speaker 16: the house i think pajamas gives a edge to you
• 19:37
  Speaker 16: for you to practice mentally about success it makes you
• 19:40
  Speaker 16: feel a certain way what's from rich man pajama it
• 19:43
  Speaker 16: don't have to be expensive as long as the.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Material feels good on you you.
• 19:47
  Speaker 15: Got to know what material to buy from Walmart.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Right, right.
• 19:49
  Speaker 16: And I'm not saying wear pajamas to bed as a
• 19:51
  Speaker 16: presentation walkthrough. Especially men who have horrible bodies. If you
• 19:55
  Speaker 16: got a horrible body, you should wear a robe and pajamas.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: You got, like, your feet are horrible. Like, your nails
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: is yellow. You got cracked ankles and heels. Slippers. Because
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: your woman will find you attractive. What about women?
• 20:10
  Speaker 15: Because y'all love women in certain type of pajamas.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: No, women have fallen off bad.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: They've been talking about that.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Y'all come to bed looking any kind of way.
• 20:21
  Speaker 16: And I always say when you're in a relationship, you
• 20:22
  Speaker 16: got to be prepared for lovemaking 24-7.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: You got to always take a shower. You got to
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: always take your wig off. And women should take their
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: wigs off.
• 20:31
  Speaker 16: And eyelashes at least once a month so the man
• 20:34
  Speaker 16: can know who they are because as you get older,
• 20:35
  Speaker 16: things happen.
• 20:36
  Speaker 15: So you accept a woman who takes her wig off.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: No, you can fall down the stairs.
• 20:40
  Speaker 16: You could be in a car accident. And if that
• 20:41
  Speaker 16: man comes to the hospital, you'd say, Doc, my wife
• 20:44
  Speaker 16: is here.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Where is she? Oh, she's in 14B. And you walk
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: in like, Doc, I thought you said my wife was here.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: That's her right there. Ah, baby, put the wig back on.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I ain't recognize you.
• 20:55
  Speaker 15: Ain't no woman taking her wig off around you. You
• 20:57
  Speaker 15: got me in jokes.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: But that's my point. Am I right or wrong? That's real.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Have you done, you did 85 South Show, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: You never did Poor Minds Podcast? You should do Poor Minds. No, no,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. You should do Poor Minds. They
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: under the 85 South umbrella.
• 21:11
  Speaker 17: Okay, so they recently did Club Shea Shea and they
• 21:13
  Speaker 17: talked about a couple things. First thing was, they were
• 21:15
  Speaker 17: talking about, okay, splitting the bill or growing with someone.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: They said women not splitting the bill.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: That was the conversation about. So here's what I've been
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: doing for years.
• 21:22
  Speaker 16: I've been telling men before they even start dating to
• 21:25
  Speaker 16: have their money together. Stay low key, flex occasionally. Meaning
• 21:29
  Speaker 16: you stay low-key, get your money up.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: You work hard.
• 21:33
  Speaker 16: And as you grow together, you pick two, three times
• 21:36
  Speaker 16: a year when you can flex.
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: Right?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: You can flex.
• 21:39
  Speaker 16: Put on your MasterCard, American Express, and you pay that
• 21:42
  Speaker 16: bill later on. It depends on the female that you with.
• 21:46
  Speaker 16: Some girls will don't mind paying half.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Some women.
• 21:50
  Speaker 16: Don't even mind picking you up. I had a beautiful
• 21:52
  Speaker 16: lady who tried to pick me up on the date.
• 21:54
  Speaker 16: I was like, you ain't picking me up because that's
• 21:55
  Speaker 16: the kind of guy I am. And even when we
• 21:57
  Speaker 16: leave the restaurant, you ain't dropping me off unless you
• 22:00
  Speaker 16: staying with me because I'm not the female.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I take that very seriously.
• 22:05
  Speaker 16: But I tell men get their money up and always
• 22:07
  Speaker 16: go out with someone that you like because you know,
• 22:09
  Speaker 16: it's a horrible feeling. That takes someone to a good
• 22:11
  Speaker 16: restaurant and you don't like her. I'm not trying to
• 22:13
  Speaker 16: say you have sex with anything of that nature. I mean,
• 22:15
  Speaker 16: you just don't like her.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: And you're eating good and drinking good. And you're looking
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: at her.
• 22:23
  Speaker 16: I remember in the 90s, Houston, Park Avenue, texting and
• 22:29
  Speaker 16: all that stuff started coming out.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: That's how long I've been around.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: And what if the woman asked you out and she
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: got people like a lot of people, probably more.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I've had that. I actually had a woman really pay
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: me a thousand dollars a month. True story. She just
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: loved me that much. But like, what were you like?
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I wasn't doing nothing. She just loved me.
• 22:48
  Speaker 16: Like sometimes she would send me money, cash out, just
• 22:50
  Speaker 16: say buy lunch and all that kind of stuff.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: But it got to a point.
• 22:54
  Speaker 16: I had to stop it because I felt like the female,
• 22:57
  Speaker 16: I felt like I didn't want to get bored.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 23:00
  Speaker 16: So, I was always taught with a female gives you money.
• 23:04
  Speaker 16: You hung out with a few times. My mom always said,
• 23:06
  Speaker 16: don't ever give it back. That's for your time.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: My mom gave me that game. My mom said, that's
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: for your time.
• 23:15
  Speaker 15: That's what the girls with the dads be saying, too,
• 23:17
  Speaker 15: and then y'all be mad at them.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Say that one more time.
• 23:18
  Speaker 15: The girls with the dads be saying that, too, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 15: then y'all be mad.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. I told you. I told you when.
• 23:23
  Speaker 15: The girls without the dads.
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: Oh.
• 23:25
  Speaker 17: First of all, and I'm the complete opposite of what
• 23:27
  Speaker 17: y'all think. Like, I'm not just out here like, give me,
• 23:29
  Speaker 17: give me, give me.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: No, we know you're not like that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: No, they don't know.
• 23:32
  Speaker 15: They don't.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Baby, trust me. I'm looking at you. Thank you. If
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I was a little younger, I'd try to holler at you.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: And also, I seen her a few years ago when
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: she ain't had no paper. So I know she wasn't
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: after nobody for no damn reason.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Right, right, right, right.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: You try to say you can run down.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: That's why I didn't say all that. You really be
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: playing with me. I see the little thing, your little neck.
• 23:49
  Speaker 15: This was a gift from my dad.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, see?
• 23:52
  Speaker 16: You've been a nice person. When I first met you,
• 23:54
  Speaker 16: I could tell you were struggling.
• 23:56
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Wow. No, I could tell her scalp was dry.
• 23:59
  Speaker 14: Wow.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: She didn't have the moisture in her hair like she
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: got now. I don't even.
• 24:02
  Speaker 15: Remember what hairstyle I had.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 24:04
  Speaker 15: I had the bob and it was flowing that day.
• 24:06
  Speaker 15: That's crazy.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: That's true. No, I'm sorry. You did. And you look
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: extremely beautiful now. But when you first came on the show.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Let me see. You ain't lying, TK. Look. Look, I
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: got hair. That is not how he met me.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: No, you didn't look a child good there.
• 24:23
  Speaker 15: No, I had a bar the day I met you.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I'm frowning looking at that picture.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: I had a bar the day I met you. Don't
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: play me.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Don't frown it.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: The interview, let's wrap this up.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Like, they paid you good. You look amazing now, you know?
• 24:33
  Speaker 15: I'm actually making the same thing now that I was
• 24:35
  Speaker 15: making that.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: No, you were not. No, you weren't. Don't even tell
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: that goddamn lie.
• 24:39
  Speaker 15: Black effect kicked in a little bit.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, but you... A lot of it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 16: Yeah, but you do it, but you do it, and
• 24:44
  Speaker 16: you got a wonderful personality.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I don't say I was dry.
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: I know.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's going to marry. No, no, no. Don't say
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 24:49
  Speaker 15: I do know.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. Listen to your OG. Never assume that
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: that's going to happen.
• 24:56
  Speaker 15: But if that's what he's saying, why not?
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Listen to what I'm telling you. Never assume that's going
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: to happen. Why, OG?
• 25:04
  Speaker 16: Because life just takes turns. Life is unpredictable. You hope
• 25:10
  Speaker 16: that he keeps his word. You hope that he doesn't meet.
• 25:13
  Speaker 15: I don't even like that, though.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Listen to your OG.
• 25:15
  Speaker 15: The hope is a lie.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, listen to me.
• 25:18
  Speaker 16: Because you girls go through life with this fairy tale.
• 25:21
  Speaker 16: I'm trying to tell you the truth. The Lord sent
• 25:23
  Speaker 16: me here to deliver this message.
• 25:25
  Speaker 15: I'm not really like a fairy tale type, though.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
• 25:28
  Speaker 16: It's not about you being fairy tale. Call 10 women.
• 25:31
  Speaker 16: Nine of them have been lied to.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's my point.
• 25:34
  Speaker 16: So just because this guy said he's going to marry you.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: It's not definite, sweetie.
• 25:41
  Speaker 15: I'm going to put a ring there. I'm not worried
• 25:43
  Speaker 15: about it.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: The ring going to be there or it's not.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: If it happens, it happens.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: How long have you been together?
• 25:48
  Speaker 15: Two years now.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't push. I don't see it happening. I see
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: this ending by the end of the year.
• 25:55
  Speaker 15: This interview might do it.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: We're praying that you get married. I'm going to get married.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: But if you don't, I need his number.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: For what?
• 26:02
  Speaker 16: If he doesn't marry you, I'm going to have a
• 26:04
  Speaker 16: conversation with him. Because I'm going to be mad that
• 26:07
  Speaker 16: he led you on. Because you can see the glow
• 26:09
  Speaker 16: around you. You really are praying that this happens. And
• 26:12
  Speaker 16: I think that you'd be devastated if he said that
• 26:15
  Speaker 16: it was over.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you'll do. I think you might
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: go back to that hairstyle. I think you might have.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I think you might go back. It's T.K. Kirkland.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: It's The Breakfast Club.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Good morning. Morning, everybody.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Now, if you're just joining us, we're asking, have you
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: ever had an HR complaint filed against you? Now, this
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: story comes from a woman who... who didn't invite a
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: co-worker to her wedding. So her co-worker said that she
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: was being exclusive and creating a hostile work environment for
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: not inviting her.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: That is very petty, by the way.
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: 800-585-1051.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Have you ever been filed a complaint at HR?
• 26:58
  Speaker 15: Um, no, I've never been sent to HR.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: You never had a real job, though. What? Hold on.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I definitely did a real job. Isn't this your first
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: real corporate job?
• 27:05
  Speaker 13: Wow.
• 27:06
  Speaker 15: Wow, yeah, this is my first real corporate job.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: But don't play with me like that. Actually, this is
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: a corporate job? Yes, this is a corporate job.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Didn't know that.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: You worked at Fast Food before, though. Yes, I worked
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: at Fast Food. Did you have an HR department at
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Fast Food spots?
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Yes. Oh, sorry.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Because I worked at one of the biggest McDonald's.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 27:22
  Speaker 15: Yes, yes, and I got five for stealing.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Don't quote me on that.
• 27:25
  Speaker 18: But no, seriously, I've never been sent to HR and
• 27:29
  Speaker 18: I never got, I never sent nobody to HR, right?
• 27:33
  Speaker 15: There are times that I feel like I probably should
• 27:36
  Speaker 15: have ended up.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: At HR, but I didn't.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: What?
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: Huh?
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah. What about you, Charlamagne?
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: If I was to go, all of us was going. Yeah.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: No, I've never been sent to HR.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: I feel like he lying.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I know we got written up once. Yeah, we got
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: written up. It was an all-in view. I promise you
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: it was all-in view.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: It's when we first started at Breakfast Club way, way
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: back in the day, 2010, 2011. Slutard guy, Cadillac Jack,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: he was the program director here at the time. And
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Envy told us that we could go to lunch and
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: we didn't have to be to the meeting on time
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: because we the breakfast club. And we ate lunch, walked
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: into the meeting like 20, 30 minutes later. And what
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: did you say when we walked into meeting, Envy?
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: The party don't start till we walk in.
• 28:18
  Speaker 15: Oh, wow.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: He thought he was hosting a party. He thought he
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: was DJ.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: He literally walked in and said, the party don't start
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: till we walk in. Really?
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: So y'all always did what y'all wanted up here.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: No, that's not true.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: We got written up that day.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: He definitely got written up. Crazy.
• 28:31
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Well, let's go to the phone line. We got Ace
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: on the line.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Ace, good morning.
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: Good morning, man.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Ace, what you got written up for?
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: Yo, I got written up because I drew this picture
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: of this fat dude that I used to work with.
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: But it wasn't like no... No crazy, disrespectful picture.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: That is kind of crazy.
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: It was like a, it was a fat stick figure, bro.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Hilarious.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: How do you draw a fat stick figure?
• 28:55
  Speaker 9: Yeah, but that's what made it funny.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Hilarious.
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: A fat stick figure.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Hilarious.
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: The weird part is he made copies of it and
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: then passed it around to everybody in the place so
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: I could get fired.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Did everybody laugh?
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Did you get fired?
• 29:11
  Speaker 9: Yo, listen, the HR ladies, They're my boss, the actual supervisor.
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: Everybody thought this shit was hilarious, but it was just like, yo,
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: I couldn't believe it. It was funny, but it wasn't
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: supposed to be no, all right, well, let me get
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: this dude fired like I drew it and gave it
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: to him.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Tell me some of the nicknames y'all have for him.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: I know y'all have some fire.
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: Nicknames for him. Oh, he got the best one. You
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: know those, the Hoka sneakers?
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: What?
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, the Hokas.
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: Hoka.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Let me look them up.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Be nice.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: They good for your feet.
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: Yo, they're like orthopedic.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, the shoes.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: The running shoes. You seen them on the shoes?
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at them now. The hocus shoes.
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: But I think that's what made him upset because I
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: drew the hocus sneakers on the stick.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: Yo, what job do you have where you can sit
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: there and draw all day?
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: Yo.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: What kind of job is this? Where you work, bro?
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Yo. Hilarious.
• 30:13
  Speaker 9: I ain't about to do that. I don't even work
• 30:15
  Speaker 9: there no more.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Damn, so you did get fired.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Huh? Stop pressuring the young man. All right.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Yo, real quick. How did you make the stick figure?
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Did you bowl the sticks?
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: What you mean? You just draw a big-ass circle?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm going to draw somebody in here right now.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Give me a picture. And I bet y'all know who
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: I'm drawing.
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: No.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: What you mean?
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: No.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: I'm not looking for a pencil.
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: No.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: No, who's this? Hello, who's this?
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: This is H-Town Diva Comedy.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Hey, H-Town Diva Comedy. What you got sent to HR for?
• 30:44
  Speaker 11: Okay, so I worked in a hospital. I used to
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: be an administrative assistant at a very prestigious hospital.
• 30:49
  Speaker 12: And so the doctors would move into a different hospital,
• 30:53
  Speaker 12: and all of them had to move there instead. Unbeknownst
• 30:57
  Speaker 12: to me, one of the nurses, she didn't want to
• 31:01
  Speaker 12: move her there.
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: So she went to HR before I even knew it.
• 31:05
  Speaker 11: I never had a conversation with her or anything. We
• 31:07
  Speaker 11: never got into it. She went to HR and told
• 31:10
  Speaker 11: them that I threatened her, gave her the middle finger
• 31:13
  Speaker 11: and was like.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: F her.
• 31:14
  Speaker 11: I ain't got time for this. You're going to move
• 31:16
  Speaker 11: your desk. And then I told her that I'm going
• 31:18
  Speaker 11: to come back and shoot her just for a desk.
• 31:22
  Speaker 11: HR called me to the office and they had both
• 31:25
  Speaker 11: departments sitting there.
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: And they were like, yeah, we're.
• 31:28
  Speaker 11: Here because of your actions towards another admin. And because
• 31:32
  Speaker 11: I have a big personality, it's real easy to think
• 31:34
  Speaker 11: that I said I'll shoot bitch, but that ain't the truth.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: That ain't got nothing to do with a big personality.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Don't blame that on a big personality. Okay, that's just
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: being violent.
• 31:41
  Speaker 11: But I wasn't.
• 31:42
  Speaker 12: I didn't even know we had beef.
• 31:44
  Speaker 11: And so because of that, they were like, I thought
• 31:46
  Speaker 11: I bust out laughing when I figured out what I
• 31:48
  Speaker 11: was there for.
• 31:49
  Speaker 12: And they just said, well, we're just going to keep
• 31:51
  Speaker 12: this on record just in case y'all ever get into
• 31:53
  Speaker 12: it in the future.
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: But she lied.
• 31:55
  Speaker 11: We never even had a conversation.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Can I ask you a question? What did she tell
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: the truth about? Be honest now.
• 32:02
  Speaker 11: You did give it a middle finger.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: You gave it a middle finger.
• 32:07
  Speaker 11: I did not give her a minute. I didn't even
• 32:09
  Speaker 11: talk to the girl like she was a weirdo. We
• 32:11
  Speaker 11: didn't even have any problems.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: So she just made up the whole story? The whole story.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: She lied.
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: She made up the whole story because she didn't want
• 32:17
  Speaker 11: to move her desk.
• 32:17
  Speaker 10: It wasn't a big deal to be honest.
• 32:19
  Speaker 12: I didn't want to be by the doctor because I
• 32:21
  Speaker 12: used to come to work late all the time.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, mama.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: The crazy thing about it, we've been doing radio for
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: a long time.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Could you imagine if we went to HR for some
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: of the things that happened to us.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Early on in our career?
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: By the way, first of all, I'm going to tell
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: you what I say behind the scenes all the time.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: The reason I am the way I am, because if
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I ever get written up to HR, I want it
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: to be funny. I want y'all to read what he
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: said and what he did and die laughing.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Okay? I can't wait for him to report me. I'm
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: going to report you.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: He has so many things to report about you, though.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: I'm just making a file. I'm just going to just
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: walk away. You thought Diddy Freakoff trial was funny. Oh,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: my God.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: I'd be in the bathroom using the urinal. He'd be
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: whispering behind me. Like, I cannot wait.
• 33:00
  Speaker 18: How the hell does he get behind you and, oh,
• 33:03
  Speaker 18: I'm thinking about a stall.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: That never happened.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: That never happened. You know what I like to do, though?
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Sometimes when me and him be in the bathroom, if
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: somebody else be, like, in a stall, he'll walk in
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and he'll be like, there you go.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: And I won't say nothing. So the person in the stop.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Thing, he talking to, talking to, talking to him. You
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: know what I, the wildest, no, the wildest thing I
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: saw in the bathroom, though, I walked in one time, man,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: and this dude was doing a number two.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: He just yelled out Envy's name. No. For no reason.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: And he said, Rashawn.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: He's lying. Yeah, he's really lying.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: He was just in there going crazy on the toilet,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: and he just goes, Rashawn?
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: And I didn't say nothing.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's lying.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: All right. Morning, everybody.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: It's DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: We are The Breakfast Club.
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: Now, coming up, we're going to replay our interview with
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: Arsenio Hall. Now, Arsenio is a goat when it comes
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: to this entertainment business, the things that he was able
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: to do, pushing the boundaries, and his book that came
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: out under Charlamagne's publishing company.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Yes, Black Privileged Publishing with Simon & Schuster, man. Thank
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: y'all because y'all made it a New York Times bestseller.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: And let's get into that interview now with The Breakfast Club.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Morning, everybody.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is here with us as well.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: Now we got a special guest.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: A legend. A cultural icon. An OG.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: A legend in this game.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Arsenio Hall. Yes, sir.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: How are you feeling, brother?
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: I'm feeling great.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: I'm thanking God for the day that Charlemagne called me.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Because I wouldn't have done this without the voice of
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: respect on the other end of the phone. I mean,
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: I'm 70 years old. I could have written a book
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: many times, but that's adult work. It's a really hard
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: thing to do. He talked me into it, and I'm
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: so glad I did for my son and for my legacy.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Man, I'm so glad you did, too, because I want
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: to talk about your legacy today, man. You know, I
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: always say that I got four entertainment icons, right? Jay-Z,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Clarence Avon, Petey Green, and Arsenio Hall. And I feel
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: like people don't truly understand the risk you took to
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: put black culture at the forefront at a time when
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: nobody was putting black culture at the forefront.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was hard.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: I was coming along at a time when you go
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: to Paramount and say, let's book Bobby Brown the first
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: Friday night because people won't have to work on Saturday.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Really show him what show this is.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: He has this song, Don't Be Cruel, and my prerogative,
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: let's let him break one at the top and one
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: at the bottom. Well, Johnny Carson only does three minutes
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: of a song at the end of the show.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, I'm not Johnny. I'm not Johnny Carson.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: So let's try this. But what was crazier is one
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: of the ladies in the room said, and why would
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: we give a model that much time? And I didn't
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: realize that there was a Bobby Brown. in the modeling world.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Oh no, the makeup artist. Yeah, so I didn't know her.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: And I realized my battle is that they have no
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: idea what I'm about to do.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: You know, you say, Michael Bivens.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Called me and he got these four dudes that call
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: boys to men.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Or Dr.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: Dre called me and this kid Calvin. And he wants
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: him to come on and do this thing. And this
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: is how, you know, I was.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Not hip to it, but he wants... to freestyle.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: You'll just give him a beat and he'll just come
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: out of his head with whatever is in the environment.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: And when his album is ready, then you can have
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: him on to do one, two, three, and to the
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: four with Dre. And I'm like, okay, we call Snoop
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: and he doesn't want to do the show. And like
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: why he says, he's talking about the streets of Long Beach,
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: I have respect.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: And I don't want to lose the respect.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Of the streets to do this late night television type stuff.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: I had to go to the studio and talk him
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: into it. This is a guy who, Snoop Dogg is
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: more popular than Lassie now.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: The most popular dog ever. He was the most.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Popular dog ever.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: I did not want to be on television.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: But I'll never forget, he walked in the door with
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: a blue hockey jersey on.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: I remember. And we gave him a beat. And I
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: don't think we'd.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: Ever seen freestyle on television. But those kinds of things.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: I saw a little kid on a tape do an
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: Elvis impression. And I tell Paramount, I want to put
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: this kid on. They said, well, you need tune-in numbers. Names,
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: if you put... Prince, you get a tune-in number. You
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: can put it in TV Guide two weeks ahead of time.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: That was the game back then. And if you put
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: some unknown, you know, this is not Star Search. You
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: can't put an unknown kid on until.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: You, maybe in the fifth year. And so I would
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: put people on in a monologue. And I created this
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: little spot where I put people on.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: But the kid was Bruno Mars.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: And stuff like that. They didn't want Eddie Griffin. Because
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: he's too edgy.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: So during the monologue, I said, oh, Eddie Griffin. Because
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: Ed Sullivan used to point in the audience when I
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: was a kid. There's Diana Ross. Stand up, Miss Ross.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: And so I'm like, Eddie Griffin, what's up, man? Hey,
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: come here for a minute. And it's not on the
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: booking sheet. Paramount don't know what's going to happen. Now,
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: that one backfired on me because Eddie Griffin did Michael
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Jackson snorting cocaine.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Because he used to be a dancer, so he does that.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: You know, he does all this little stuff.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: And the lawyers had a hard time that next day
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: at Paramount because... Basically, he had done a routine on
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: television about Michael Jackson snorting cocaine and then dancing really well.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: But it was hilarious. Yeah, it was. It was hilarious.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: We'll never have that kind of monoculture ever again where
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: everybody is tuned in watching one thing at once. Because
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: I remember all those moments. We had no DVRs back then,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: no on-demand. You couldn't go back and watch it on YouTube.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: You had to turn it on.
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: Before we go back to, because I like to go
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: back to the beginning so people understand the story.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: That's why you bought a book. And that's why you're
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: in this business.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: But you know what?
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: One thing I've noticed, I've watched a lot of your
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: interviews in the last week or so. To mine, when
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: I look at your face, I see a light that
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: comes on. Like, it's almost either a surprise light, like,
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: i'm surprised they really f * * * with me
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: like you like you look amazed when when these guys
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: like like i'm thinking myself i see no no no
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: he's the b * * * * You know G,
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: the icon. And then another thing that popped in my
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: head is, I know you retired. Maybe he's ready for
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: that comeback because it's just the feeling, the energy. When
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: I watch you come out and just delight and you're
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: pointing at people and you're pointing at the band, I'm like,
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: God damn it, bring Arsenio back. So what is going
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: through your mind when you are doing these press runs
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: and you're doing TV? What's going through Arsenio's mind?
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: The light you saw, I mean, that was the light
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: of a fan. The light of a kid from Cleveland
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: who did a talk show in his basement.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I had a little record player. I'd put the record
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: player on.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: There was a Temptations Greatest Hits album. I'd play Get Ready.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: I'd come out, I'd do a magic trick. I'd do
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: a joke after taking the needle off the record. And
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: I would entertain the kids in my neighborhood with this
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: talk show.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: So you see a.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: Guy who's dreamed it all his life and can't believe
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: that I've dreamed it into existence. My mother used to say,
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: if you get good grades, you can go to Detroit.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: and watch the Motown review with your cousins for $ 5.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: You could see Stevie wonder, you could see the temptations
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: and they give you two pips.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Well, sometimes for $ 5, what you want. Right. Um, and
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: And you grow up and then you tour with the
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: temptations when they have to stand in on the top tour.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: Rick James wrote them that track. Um, Then one day
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: Michael Bivens calls you and says, hey, I got four
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: guys that idolize The Temptations. They're from Philly, called Boyz
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: II Men. But their album's not ready yet. When it's ready,
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: I want to come. I said, oh, I got an idea.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: If they love The Temptations, I got The Temptations on Thursday.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Let them come.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: And blend in with the Temptations. And you can imagine
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: Paramount every night. It was a nightmare because they wanted
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: less black. Now I got 15 things. But my thing
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: was like, I'd rather do six years my way than
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: 20 years Johnny's way.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: And Johnny dug the show because I wasn't trying to
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: be him.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: There was never a competition. I was looking for friends
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: of the show. I remember Alan King. a legendary old
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: comic called me. And he says, your show put out
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: an offer to me. And I just want you to know,
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: I love what you're doing, but I'm a Johnny guy.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: And that's when it hit me. You got to get
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: your guys. And so that's when I started trying to
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: go for the audience that didn't have a talk show.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: And that made it work, you know, because I'd been
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: the Ed McMahon figure on a thing called Thick of
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: the Night, you know, where I.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Was like, Alan Thicke.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: And so I got to watch It go on, and
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: I got to learn from Alan's experience, don't try to
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: be Johnny. Try to come up with an alternative. By
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: the way, when I was working for Alan Thicke, there
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: was a little boy. I brought Johnny Gill on Alan
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: Thicke's show. I met Johnny Gill in Cleveland with Gerald LaVert.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: I bring Johnny Gill on the show, and he gets numbers.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: And that let me know.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: Hey, it's not that black people don't get numbers, it's
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: that we ain't trying it. He came on with Stacey Ladisaw,
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: and they did perfect combination. Mm-hmm. On the side, there's
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: a little white boy with a Cubs cap on. It's
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: Alan Thicke's son who always surfaced when there was R &
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: B on the show. That was Robin Thicke. That's another
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: example of how we know who we are. We know
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: who we want to be. And that kid then knew
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: he was Dwight Marvin Gaye.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Is this book, is your memoir a closure for you
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: or is it correction? A lot of correction. I don't
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: know if I.
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a little closure, too, because I loved putting that
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: letter of resignation. A lot of people, barbershop journalists would say, well,
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: you know, one night he snuck Farrakhan in there.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Paramount didn't know about it, you know, and interviewed Farrakhan.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: And, you know, when the fact is, Paramount has to
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: greenlight that. They have to approve that. And so all
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: the barbershop journalism you get, because basically studios, people think studios.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: Are above the fray.
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: And the And what they don't understand.
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: Is that studios, just like a relationship, you ever break
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: up with somebody and then you hear that he said, I.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Left her because I was sick of her. No, no, no.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: That is lying.
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: And unfortunately, businesses like that, too. They want to position
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: it sexy their way. And they say, well, we'll come
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: over Tuesday and we'll talk about crafting a release to
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: the press of.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: What we're going to do from here on. And then Monday,
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: some come out.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: And you're like, you know, but I get to correct
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: those kinds of things.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: And, and, and yeah, and have closure too.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Cause I said, you'll actually quit the show. And I
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: remember when you first told me that in my mind, I'm.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, really?
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: When I heard that, that little thing, that, that dental tongue, you.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: Know, the thing.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: You did, I, I had my woman go in the garage.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: And I said, you got to find that letter.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: And she found it.
• 44:42
  Speaker 17: Because there were so many people that believed that, though,
• 44:44
  Speaker 17: that you didn't quit the show. If you had never
• 44:46
  Speaker 17: written this book, how would you have ever like tried
• 44:49
  Speaker 17: to clear it up any other place?
• 44:51
  Speaker 15: Like, was that something that was sitting with you.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: For a while?
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: And I had a lawyer say, why do you care?
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Look at your bank account. Why do you care?
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, because truth matters.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I mean, forget television. We as a people.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: The Puerto Rican gentleman also. We as a people.
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: Have to be careful not to let truth be buried.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Mine is insignificant.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: How about the history of our people and the way
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: it's being changed, buried and hidden from future generations?
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: Children uh truth is.
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: Important it's important when it's on y'all's side so let
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: it be important for us too.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: By the way either way you left is gangster walking
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: away because hey man i want to do my black
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: stuff if it ain't working for y'all it ain't gonna
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: work for me i'm out or yeah i bought farrakhan
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: on one either.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: Way it works oh yeah yeah you get a free
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: bean pie for that second you know Brothers be very,
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: very supportive of you. But, you know, here's the deal.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: Here's how you can understand it. At the end of
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: the day, entertainment is cool. But Quincy used to tell
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: me the word business is larger than the word show.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: And my ratings and my income were attached. The higher
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: the number, the more money I get. When Letterman gets CBS,
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: because I'm in syndication now, I'm on stations most places,
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: but my CBS stations help me succeed. When Letterman comes
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: into the game and all my CBS stations leave at
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: the end of their term, I'm like, what am I
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: going to do now? And so basically, and the money
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: goes down. And now you're like, well, I have to
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: look at a movie every night and read a Jackie
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: Collins book. I'm like, I don't know if it's worth
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: it for a million a year. And the bottom line is,
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: I dashed when the money also I'm from Cleveland. I
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: grew up down the street from Jim Brown and I
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: watched him leave on top. I watched him start doing
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: movies when they were still calling him to the locker room.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: I always wanted to leave on top.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: So the bottom line, when the money changed a little
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: bit and the numbers changed a little bit and I
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: didn't see a future for syndication because I'm like, they're
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: going to put somebody at ABC. I'm going to lose
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: those affiliate too. So eventually there's a Kimmel and there's
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: a Letterman. And the bottom line is the money changed.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: Let's do something else.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: I've gotten six years out of this. I've been on
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: the cover of Time magazine. I spent two years knowing
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: I was leaving and building a house on the beach.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: And bottom line is I'm cool with how it all
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: went down.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: I was always shocked that Fox just didn't get into
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: the late night game.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: It's funny.
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: I just sat with Conan O'Brien and he told me
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: a cool story. He says he was in a lunchroom
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: cafeteria at Fox and he says, You were very nice
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: to me. You won't remember me, but I was getting
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: coffee and you showed me where other stuff was. What
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: I didn't realize is while I was taking over for
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: Joan Rivers and doing the late show, because she eventually
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: got fired and her husband killed himself.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: You remember all that stuff? I'm doing the late show.
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: I'm doing the last 11 weeks of her contract before
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: I go to do Coming to America.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Conan had been hired to.
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: Create a show to replace me so while i was
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: there they had decided that i wasn't the guy wow
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: and they created a thing called the wilton north report
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: i went and did coming to america and paramount was
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: like when we finish this if you want a talk
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: show let's try it in syndication now something in syndication
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: will never work again other than byron allen no one's
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: going to ever be able to make syndication money because
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: um The network's got it. You know, when I came
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: into it, CBS and ABC didn't want to be in.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: The late night game. So they bought my show. You know,
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: it was a perfect time. Life is all about timing. Yeah.
• 48:34
  Speaker 9: And effort.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: Now you mentioned Coming to America, my favorite movie of
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: all time.
• 48:38
  Speaker 8: Yes, right.
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: Let's talk about that movie and how it came together.
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: And what was the decision to play so many different
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: characters for both you and Eddie?
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: The decision for me to play characters was Eddie saying, yeah,
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: him too.
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: That's cool.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: You know because he's the king you.
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: Know but the movie the the movie was all hinged
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: on the fact that america missed eddie doing characters they
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: wanted that again and i remember now yeah yeah and
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: i remember his manager saying to me they want eddie
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: to do characters so when you guys go to america
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: he'll be some of the people that you meet and
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: i'm like that's really cool now i'm just a straight
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: out stand-up i'm not an impressionist and I'm not an
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: actor I was honored when he asked me to also
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: do some characters but that movie was supposed to be
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: me as you know like a personal assistant or an
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: undersized bodyguard coming to America from Zamunda with Eddie he
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: saw me do stand up and I did this bit
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: about going to church in Chicago and going to the
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: South side.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: So I do this preacher character and he's like, that's
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: all it is, man.
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: You know, we do the prosthetics and you do that
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: and you're a preacher, you know? And of course my dad,
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: my dad was a Baptist preacher.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: And so at any moment, I'm ready to preach. I
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: was laughing the other day because I saw you post
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: a video.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: You was like, I'm walking like the preacher and coming
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: to America, but not because I'm pretending.
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: Life is crazy because, you know, at one point you're
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: in your 20s and you're standing in front of a mirror. Jess,
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: you've been through this. You're standing in front of a mirror.
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: You're practicing the character. You're looking at how Red Fox
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: walks and you're breaking it down. And then one day
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: you turn 70 and you realize, now that's my walk.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: But if loving you is wrong, I don't want to.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: Do that.
• 50:37
  Speaker 17: I was going to ask, coming to America, I read somewhere,
• 50:39
  Speaker 17: I think it was one of the interviews you did
• 50:40
  Speaker 17: or something. It almost didn't happen, though, a couple of
• 50:42
  Speaker 17: times at first because of the pitch. And then there
• 50:44
  Speaker 17: was an issue with Eddie Murphy and somebody on set.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, they wanted him to do characters. And
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: that made the... Treatment, perfection.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: And he decided different things I can do when we
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: come to America. And the other thing you reference is
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: he had a conflict with Landis. And Landis is a
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: brilliant director. And they worked that out. thank god yeah
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: thank god uh my business manager thanks god every day
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: uh for me.
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: Residuals gotta be crazy right residuals royalty.
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: Not not as crazy as one might think okay okay
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: you know but because you see it all the time
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: um on vh1 and on things owned by skydance i
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: guess it is now by the way the checks eddie
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: get are probably what you just described, you know? But
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: the bottom line is I was a lucky actor to
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: be involved, and mine sometimes will be 13 cents.
• 51:42
  Speaker 18: In your show, right, has there ever been anybody that
• 51:45
  Speaker 18: would talk about you, but didn't want to come on
• 51:48
  Speaker 18: your show, and you didn't let it happen?
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, once.
• 51:51
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one time. But for the most part, you know what? Who? Oh,
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: I forgot her name. It was somebody.
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: Who, you know, now that I think, maybe there are
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: jokes that were too much.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: But I forgot it, but she was a comic.
• 52:10
  Speaker 10: Okay.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, another comedian. Yeah, it was a young comic. And
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: I was like, no, not now. Keep that same energy. Yeah.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: When you was calling me the F word on stage,
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: you know. The Gaisler from the 90s. Yeah, yeah.
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: Which is rough on a black man because, you know,
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: that whole history. I was one of those guys that
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: would put the business before my personal feelings. I've had
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: Spike Lee call me an Uncle Tom. But when it's
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: time for Spike Lee to promote his shit, I'm like, dude,
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: I'm here.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: Come on. As a matter of fact.
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: Spike was mad at me because I probably didn't give
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: him the date. I think he wanted a certain date
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: and it sweeps and, Oh, that date's taken that Friday night.
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: And he got mad at me and, you know, call
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: me an uncle Tom. And it's like, you would think
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: that we would never speak, but I walked up to him.
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: At a Laker game, a Laker-Knicks game.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Grabbed him. Dude, come on through sometime. Next price. I
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: never understood that, though.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: Like, how could Spike Lee call Arsenio Hall an Uncle Tom?
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: Like, you was doing the right thing every night, the
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: way you was fighting for Black. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. And,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: you know, like I said, people, you make mistakes, you
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: say stuff.
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: A lot of times, by the fact that when I
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: hugged him, we talked, and it was over, you realize
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: in the moment, he said that because he didn't get
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: the date he wanted.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: To promote, you know, whatever the movie is. Uncle Tom
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: is strong.
• 53:40
  Speaker 17: Especially when you already had people that were feeling like
• 53:43
  Speaker 17: that about you. So for him to echo it, it
• 53:45
  Speaker 17: made it, you know, bigger.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: And that's probably why he went for that. Achilles heel
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: or that spot. But I think sometimes to hold a grudge,
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: you have to keep that ugly thing with you. Sometimes
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: it's easier for you to let it go.
• 54:04
  Speaker 17: I've been trying to get this in. You got really
• 54:08
  Speaker 17: personal just about your dating life as well, too, in
• 54:10
  Speaker 17: this book. You talk about Pamela Anderson and Paula Abdul.
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: By the way, one of the reasons I wanted to
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: tell the Pamela Anderson story is because I don't know
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: if it's changed, but the older comics, that was it.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: That was the kind of advice. It's like, you know, Johnny.
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: Witherspoon in this book, he stay away from white women,
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: you know, and you're a young guy.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: You're like, okay.
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: You know, cause there were no white women in my
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: neighborhood and I didn't know why. And of course the
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: night I walked into the comedy store with Pamela Anderson,
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: Johnny Witherspoon looked at me and did that tongular thing
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: that you'd, What I tell you, you know, and just
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: I wanted to take people through that growth process of
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: what the OGs told you.
• 54:54
  Speaker 15: And you just had to dip in.
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: You talk about like what you got to do.
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: Me and Tupac had an argument because Tupac in an
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: article said something about Quincy and Arsenio and some of
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: these brothers and these white women you see with white.
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: You know, it's like back then that was a no
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: no to the older brothers who were talking to you.
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: And and they were trying to tell you that's a problem.
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: You know, you know, and it was some people in
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: your demo will not like you if they see you
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: in Jet magazine.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: With a playmate. Yeah. You know, so he was trying
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: to protect me.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: It's definitely the real story of Arsenio Hall. It's not
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: just about, you know, a guy with a late night show, man.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: Go get Arsenio a memoir available everywhere you buy books now.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: And just salute to you, my brother. Word. Absolutely.
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: I don't even know how you got my number. Thank
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: you for the call because you gave me something to
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: do for a couple years.
• 55:48
  Speaker 9: Man.
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: And it was a lot of fun. And I think
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: I did it well. I'm glad you did.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: No, this is one of the best entertainment memoirs I've
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: ever read in my life. That is said with no bias.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: Not just bias for publishing it. Not bias because I
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: look at you as an inspiration. But this is actually
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: one of the best entertainment memoirs I ever read.
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: In my life.
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: Could I just add one more thing when you talk about...
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: dreaming and teaching and what the book does and all
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. What you just said is important.
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: A black man saying to me on the phone, I
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: want to do this because I want more black authors.
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: I want more books in the hands of Nubian people.
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: What you did calling me was so important and to
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: do it with you. And that's what I told my publicist.
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: I got to do it because he's trying to do something.
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: And I believe in what he's trying to do. And
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: I knew your history and Your parents being educators. It's
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: so important for us. Sometimes we don't work together.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: We will work with anybody but our own. I don't
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: know why.
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: And you know how you go. And there's a lot
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: of that in us even when we don't say it.
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: But I f * * * s with this s * * *.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Arsenio freed me a long time ago because I used
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: to want to do late night television because of Arsenio Hall. So,
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: you know, you do radio and you get a talk
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: show and you think like, I got to make it
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: as a late night host, got to make it as
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: a late night host. And when you was on press
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: for Coming to America 2, somebody asked you, they said.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: You know, who do you think is like the closest
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: to you in this generation? And you said, I would
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: say somebody like Charlamagne, but he does radio and you
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: watch it on YouTube. And, you know, that's like where
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: people go to get, I guess, that so-called late night fix.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: I remember you said that. I was like, yo.
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: Hey, that song, Everything Must Change. The business is that way, too.
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: That late night format that Johnny created, he was the king.
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: But for budget reasons and for the advancement of technology,
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: this shit.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: Has to change.
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: And what you're doing now, when Tupac would call me
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: on the landline and say, I need to come on
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: the show, man, because they trying to make me take
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: an AIDS test before I do poetic justice.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: And I ain't going to really f * * * Janet, right? Okay?
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: So why should I have to take an AIDS test?
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: And back then, we didn't have the word Twitter. We
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: didn't have that. It wasn't a bluebird.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: It was a blackbird. I was the guy you called.
• 58:11
  Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: And came and talked about your problems or the business
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: of what you were going through, Ice-T coming on and
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: explaining Cop Killer, explaining, you know, I'm not really killing cops.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: Arnold Schwarzenegger ain't really the Terminator. This is a piece
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: of art trying to give a message.
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: And so what I was doing, when I watch you,
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: when I listen to you, I'm like, he's doing it.
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: And the medium has come to a different place. You know,
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: there's no Curtin, there's no Ed McMahon, there's no Doc Severinsen.
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: But what Charlamagne is doing... is what I did for
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: this time, for this culture. And look how it's evolved.
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: You got the two ladies now, and of course, Envy.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: It was a friend for me because it just teaches you,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: you don't always have to be chasing something, and it
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: goes back to gratitude. Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Hello. There you have it.
• 59:00
  Speaker 5: Arsenio Hall, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: joining us. The memoir is out right now.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: Make sure you pick it up. And we appreciate you, OG,
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: so much.
• 59:08
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you, man. I appreciate y'all. Yeah.
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: And I'm glad to finally meet the other three of
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: the foursome in person.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: And the point we can do with the boss.
• 59:20
  Speaker 5: The Breakfast Club is Arsenio Hall, ladies and gentlemen.
• 59:24
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: Well, salute to the brother Arsenio. And if you haven't
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: picked up his book, pick it up or his audio.
• 59:30
  Speaker 5: He is his voice in audio, right?
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: Or you could definitely pick up his audio book on
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: Audible as well.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: He read it himself.
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, he did. Now, when we come back next hour,
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: Jill Scott will be joining us. Her new album came
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: out earlier this year. What's the name of the album?
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: To Whom This May Concern.
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: And we're going to get that on in a little bit.
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: It's time for Donkey of the Day. There's a bunch
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: of donkeys out here in this street. I'd make Donkey
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: of the Day. Call Donkey of the Day.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: It really caught me off guard.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: We live a life where we bite our tongue based
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: off who we may offend. We never would say anything.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: Give it to him. Give it to him. You are
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: a donkey.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: That is why Charlemagne is here.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 11: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: Some donkey todays just saw themselves.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: On the Breakfast Club.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, Chalamet, who you giving donkey of the day to today?
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Well, donkey of the day goes to the LAPD. I
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: wish I knew the name of this one LAPD officer
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: who decided that he needed to shoot and kill a.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: Golden retriever poodle mix named Jameson. You heard what the
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: hell I said.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: This LAPD officer shot and killed a dog named Jameson.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: Not a pit bull, not a Rottweiler, not a Cane Corso,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: not a German Shepherd. Not saying any of those dogs
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: deserve to die. Just saying those are usually the guard dogs.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Those are usually the dogs that people are scared of
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: that signify danger. This man shot and killed a Golden
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: Retriever Poodle Mix.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: He shot Air Bud, man. Okay, I'm not even a
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: dog person.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: And this story made me extremely sad because this Golden
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Retriever Poodle Mix was wearing a New York Knicks t-shirt. Okay,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: see what happened was the dog's owner, who goes by
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: the name Marie, She's a New York Knicks fan, and
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: she was celebrating in her apartment the night the Knicks
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: won the championship, and her dog, Jameson, was clearly celebrating
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: with her.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: You know when the owner gets hyped, the dog get
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: hyped too.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Well, that prompted one of the neighbors to call the
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: police to do a welfare check, because black joy to
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: her sounds like someone is in danger. Let's go to
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: ABC7 Eyewitness News for the report, please.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 13: This police body cam video shows the moment an officer
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 13: opened fire on a woman's pet.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 16: Is the dog put away?
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: It's all his.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: Put him in. Four gunshots.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 13: Jameson, Marie's golden retriever poodle mix, died in her arms.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: We were just so happy.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: We were in Christ's celebration. The story begins just before
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: 9 p.m.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: Last weekend.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 13: A neighbor calls 911, concerned that Marie was in distress.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 6: I heard my neighbor, she's been screaming, oh my God,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 6: for 20 minutes, like something really bad happened. I just
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 6: was wondering if someone could do a wellness check on them.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 13: We now know Marie was celebrating the New York Knicks
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 13: NBA title win. In an exclusive interview, the neighbor tells
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 13: me she feels guilty.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 19: I thought the worst thing that could happen was that
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 19: I inconvenienced her. And she would just say, I'm okay,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 19: and they would leave. They were very hostile. They were
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 19: banging on that door. It sounded like with a baton
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 19: or something.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Question if all dogs go to heaven does that mean
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: if you murder a dog in cold blood does that
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: mean you automatically go to hell i think so okay
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: see there is two types of people in this world
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: dog lovers who are infuriated by this because the dog
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: got killed in cold blood and people who don't have
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: an affinity for dogs, but understand that the issue here
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: isn't the dog being killed.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: It's the mindset of some police officers. Okay. Excessive force
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: doesn't exist in compartments.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: For whatever reason, police culture is a culture that.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: Depending on whatever community they are in, they reach for
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: violence first.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: Okay. And ask questions later.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: And they see every situation as a threat, which I
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: will never understand because not only do they have the guns,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: They have a license to kill. Well, not an actual license,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: but the law does permit them to use deadly force
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: in highly specific situations to protect themselves or others from
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: imminent harm. So this same law that killed Jameson has
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: also resulted in far too many black and brown people
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: losing their lives during police encounters. OK, this is such
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: an interesting story because this isn't something that can be
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: politicized by race, gender, class. This is simply us discussing
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: the broader issue of escalation. and the use of force
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: by police officers.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: Okay. Every officer doesn't behave this way. All right. Some
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: officers would have let the dog run up to him,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: jump on him. Okay. They would have petted the dog,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: played with him.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, this officer decided to escalate a situation.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: That did not need to be escalated. Okay.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: I don't understand why some police officers, you know, Training, temperament,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: and instinct tell them that every problem requires a gun. Okay,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: it was a wellness check. The neighbor didn't say she
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: thought it was a crime. She just said she heard
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: Marie saying, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: for 20 minutes. She could have been in there with
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: the G-Spot seven seed, you know, sucking clitoral stimulation massager
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: for all we know. But the officers didn't even take
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: the time to find out because some officers have a
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: style of policing that values domination over de-escalation.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: And that's not good. That's not good.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: OK, aggression can become a habit if officers are trained
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: to see danger everywhere. And eventually they'll create the very
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: tragedies they're.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: Supposed to prevent.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: That's how a wellness check turns into a dog being dead.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: And the same style of policing that can't find patients
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: with a dog damn sure can't find patients with people.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: And history has shown us who tends to pay the
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: highest price when that happens.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: All right? This officer must have been bit by a
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: dog before.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: I got bit by Toto from the Wizard of Oz
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: one time. All right. One of those little terriers.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: And I deserved it because I was on my knees
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: barking at that dog, growling at that dog.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: And I backed that dog into a corner.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: And when I got up and turned around, that little
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: terrier ran and bit me right on my lower back.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, in the perfect spot with my lower back
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: and the top of my ass connected. So I understand
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: having a healthy fear of dogs, but that does not
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: justify killing Jameson. OK, because some of y'all police officers
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: have a healthy fear of black people, too. And y'all
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: use that fear to justify killing us. And why are
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: we on this subject? Some of y'all are going to
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: hear this story and be outraged, and you should be.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: But please don't have selective empathy, okay? If you can
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: recognize unnecessary violence when it happens to a dog, then
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: you should be able to recognize unnecessary violence when it
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: happens to human beings, too, okay? Some of y'all are
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: going to piss me off because you're going to show
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: more passion over a dog being killed than when a
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: black person or a brown person is killed in those
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: same encounters, okay?
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: So don't march for a dog and make excuses for
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: a man.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: Some of y'all will demand justice for the golden retriever
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: poodle mix, but debate whether a black person deserved what
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: happened to them. That's the contradiction I don't like. Empathy
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: isn't supposed to stop at species. It isn't supposed to
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: stop at race or politics. If your compassion has conditions,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: then it's not compassion.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: It's preference.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: And if a dog's life can remind you that excessive
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: force by police is wrong, great. But maybe it's time
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: to ask yourself why that lesson becomes so complicated today.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: When the victim is black, please let Remy Ma give
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: the LAPD the biggest hee-haw.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: Hee-haw, hee-haw.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 10: You stupid mother f * * * er.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: You dumb. Morning, everybody.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 5: We are The Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 5: it's a three-day weekend. Of course, today is a holiday,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 5: Labor Day. Salute to all my Caribbean people, my West
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 5: Indian people. That's a huge holiday in New York City,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 5: which we celebrate. I know the parade was crazy this weekend.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 5: All types of Caribbean and West Indian culture.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: So salute to all of you. And myself, too, because
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: my father's from Dominica.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: Because you're Dominican.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: No, Dominica. It's two different things.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry. It's Dominica. Dominica.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: Dominica.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 8: Dominica.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: Dominica. Dominica.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 5: Now, let's get into our interview with Jill Scott. She
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 5: came early this year to promote her new album. What's
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 5: the name of the album, y'all?
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: To Whom This May Concern.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: Let's get into it now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: Morning, everybody.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 5: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 5: The Breakfast Club. Lawn LaRose is here. And we got
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 5: a special guest in the building.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: The legend, the icon, has returned to bless us with
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: her presence once again.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, Jill Scott is back.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: Welcome. How you feeling?
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 10: How do you feel, Miss Jill?
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: Excited.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 10: Excited.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: First album in a decade.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: Ten years.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 10: That's what I hear.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: To whom it may concern.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 10: Yes, sir.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: By the way, I love the way you release music
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: because it feels like you release music when you feel
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: like you want to, when the spirit moves you.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: How do you know when is the right time to
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: release music?
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 10: Because I have too much. And then it lets me relax.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 10: When it's not finished, I keep tweaking, touching, touching, tweaking,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 10: finding new flavors, seasonings, musicians, producers. And when it's done,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 10: it leaves me alone. And then I can just listen.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 10: And I have so much that I could just listen to.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 10: I knew I was done. I was like, okay, now
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 10: I can create.
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  Speaker 17: I saw you talking about when you took the time
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 17: off and how intentional you are with just being a
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 17: mom in that time that you took off. And then
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 17: explaining to your son about why you got to get
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 17: back to work and teaching him that. How has it
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 17: been now that you're back out on the road and
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 17: you're doing all these things and getting back into the
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 17: swing of things?
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 10: Well, he's 16 now. And I didn't have to explain
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 10: anything to him.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: He knew.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 10: He was in the studio with me. You know, he's
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 10: the one that suggested JID. He's the one that suggested
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 10: Tierra Whack. You know, he's been a part of the
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 10: whole process.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: So you got him working.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 15: So he's an A & R.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: He is.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 10: He is an A & R. Absolutely. We'll see what
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 10: else he can do. Right now, he's a... scuba diving, cross-country, singing,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 10: writing person thus far.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: All of that.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: Thus far.
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  Speaker 10: I'm just watching to see, you know, what I can do.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 10: You know, how I can help out with the thing.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 5: Does he know how special his mom is and how
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 5: powerful his mom is?
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 10: Well, he loves me. You know?
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 10: Whether I do well or what I have or don't have,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 10: he loves me. We love each other.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're special and powerful to him in ways that
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: we would never understand.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: You his mom.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 10: I love him. I appreciate him. I respect him. I
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 10: try to help him in any dream that he has.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 10: And I don't even know what that'll even mean. I
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 10: don't know. I don't care. As long as he's happy
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 10: and he can take care of himself financially, that matters
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 10: to us. I'm straight. He's a good person. He's so funny.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: He's cool.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 10: So I'm glad he suggested J.I.D. We listened to him.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 10: This is our music in the kitchen. This is what
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 10: Jet and I do when we have time together. And
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 10: He said, Mom, why don't you call J.I.D.? And I
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 10: was like, I don't know him yet. And he's like,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 10: just DM him.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: And that's what you did? Yeah.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 10: And like minutes later, he texted back like, what's up, queen?
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 10: What you want? What you want to do? And I
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 10: was like, well, he said, send it. And within 24 hours,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 10: he sent his verse back.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 10: And when I tell you, I asked him specifically, I said,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 10: I need you to paint a picture with words. This
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 10: is what I require of the emcees that I love
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 10: and the emcees that I put on my projects. I
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 10: need you to paint pictures. Less than 24 hours.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: Bars.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 10: You could see it. You could taste it. He painted.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: Brilliant.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 10: So proud of him and so happy that he's on
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 10: my project.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: So what made you put Ab Soul on Ode to Nikki?
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Because I feel like Ode to Nikki would have been
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: such a personal record to you that you wanted to
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: keep that to yourself.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: What made you reach out to Ab Soul?
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 10: Because Nikki Giovanni inspired writers. She inspired poets. And Absol
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 10: is an ill emcee.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 10: He's so thought-provoking. I have to go back and listen
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 10: again and again. And then I pull out books and
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 10: pick up Wikipedia or whatever to find out exactly what
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 10: he's talking about. Because he's that thoughtful. He's that prolific.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 10: He's had quite a life experience before. And it represents
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 10: in his writing deeply. So when I did Ode to Nikki,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 10: she's the first poet that I ever found out about
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 10: at school. Black poet, black woman. And it was just
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 10: awesome to see myself on paper like that. My people,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 10: my neighborhood, you know, my love on paper. So when
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 10: I did Ode to Nikki, she had just passed away.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 10: Absol seemed like the right guy to me.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, no, he sounds great on it.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 10: He does sound great on it.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to know the meaning because I'm like,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: you know, that's a big compliment for Absol.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 10: Because we spent a lot of time talking. We clicked
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 10: really easily. So we talked about the Celestine prophecy like
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 10: within minutes of just talking to each other and moved
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 10: on from there. So, yeah, he was the right person
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 10: for me to choose.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 5: So you look so happy. Like you look so glowing.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 5: I've been watching your rollout, right? I seen you with
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 5: a demo and I seen you doing a lot of pressing.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 5: You just look and feel like a positive vibe.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 10: I feel good. I did something that I really wanted
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 10: to do. And it means a lot to me. And
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 10: I have an opportunity to share it and perform it
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 10: in front of people that will be looking at me
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 10: like I look at them. And I get a chance to.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 10: To travel some more and make some money.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 5: But even when I see you do these interviews, you're blushing.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 5: It's like you're overly loving it. I love it.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 5: Even when you got here this morning, you said, what
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 5: time do you guys get here in the morning?
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: But you were smiling and happy about it. I love it.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 3: And I love to see artists like that that love
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: the craft.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 5: You can tell when an artist has to do something
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 5: for money or when an artist has to do something
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 5: because a label is requiring it.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: Or management requirement. Then you can tell when somebody just
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: loves putting out music.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: She puts out albums every 10 years. She doesn't do
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: anything because the label wants her.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 9: To do it.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. You can tell the difference.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 15: Even your rollout felt like a hug.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 17: Like, I saw you, you went from Gillian Wallow, then
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 17: I saw you on Angie Martinez, then eventually you started doing, like,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 17: you were posting, like, the letters on your Instagram and
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 17: kind of explaining the project. And I'm like, this just
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 17: feels like I'm being ushered into, like, a whole new, like,
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 17: world of things.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 10: That was the plan.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: Um.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 10: I have a new publicist. I think she's absolutely wonderful.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 10: Her name is Erica Tucker. I think she's fantastic. But
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 10: we had a whole other idea like two days before
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 10: we started doing the rollout. Two days before I just
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 10: was like, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 10: hold on. We're talking about beautiful people. If we're going
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 10: to put beautiful people out as an introduction to the album,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 10: because really that's who I'm calling. I'm calling the people that,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 10: that light up from the inside, you know, that, that.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: Love, love. Yeah.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 10: Love, love that, um, are again, financially respectful to their lives.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: Make sense.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 10: Okay. And, um, so if that's the, if that's the
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 10: intention is this is the call out. Well, let me
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 10: represent the people that have been so beautiful and, in
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 10: helping me with this project. It's all been organic. I
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 10: met a guy at a party. He was like, I'm
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 10: too sure it's engineer. And I was like, I believe you.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: That record, the church going to be mad at you.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 15: Oh, yeah, possibly.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: That's like part two of Drewski's skit.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 10: Possibly.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 17: It's the church and the education system too, though, right?
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 15: Because you mentioned education in there as well.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 10: Yes, and the pharmaceutical.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 15: Yes, big pharma.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: You ain't lying, though. I know. You didn't lie.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: And even just the choice to go get too short
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: to come on there and describe pimping.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 10: The mentality of a pimp. What is it? So we're clear.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 10: I'm not saying anything. I'm not trying to be mean
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 10: to you. What do I want to be mean to
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 10: somebody for? That's not it. This is what it is.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 10: This is what it is. And I have a thoroughbred pimp.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 10: To tell you so. It feels like the player's ball.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 10: It feels like it's pimpy. It's a failure. It's like
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 10: revolutionary at the same time. And I was like, yeah, okay,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 10: what am I going to talk about? This is what
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 10: I want to say. I say, preacher man, what you
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 10: trying to do? Trying to get this money. Is that
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 10: all you do? When mama ain't got squat, but you
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 10: take that joke. When you ain't good for the people,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 10: I ain't moved. Where's the universities? Where's all the food
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 10: for free? People can't pay the bills, but you're still
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 10: riding around in a coupe de ville. Biggest pimp of
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 10: the year.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 5: So if everything's a sign, do you ever see a
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 5: sign that says, I'm not going in that direction or
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 5: I'm not going there?
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 3: Or management, let's not do that because that does not
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: feel right.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 10: It's not as easy. It's abrupt. It's harsh. It's a
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 10: jerk back. And I don't know how to navigate that
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 10: part yet. But I will get away. I will get away.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 10: I've learned that too. When the spirit says no, when
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 10: your whole energy says no, what are you doing? Don't
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 10: talk to this person. I remember talking to somebody at
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 10: a party and I was like, why are you talking
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 10: to me?
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: Got COVID.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 10: All in my face. And I was like, got COVID.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 10: I was like, see, girl.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: Pay attention. Everything makes so much sense now because, you know,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite records on the album is Pay
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: You On Tuesday, right? And it's so funny because my
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: niece had put out a tweet yesterday and she put,
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: if you're young, black, and gifted, get away from niggas
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: and niggas shit ASAP, right?
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: And I just thought that was hilarious.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: And then I heard pay you on Tuesday, but now
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, she's staying away from the poor me
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: energy type. I mean, now that I hear you talk
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: about the book so much, I'm like, oh, that's why
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: she wrote that record.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 10: Part of it.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: Part of it, yeah.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 10: Part of it. And I know I keep saying financial,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 10: but I am really over us spending and buying things
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 10: that we can't afford. For who? For what? It's so
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 10: many things to do, to taste, to see, places to be. Like,
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 10: I just don't see how it profits us. I like
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 10: nice stuff, too. I really do. But I buy the
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 10: stuff that I can afford. And somebody else will be like,
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 10: you can afford? You don't know what I could afford.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 10: And you don't know what I want.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: But you act your wage.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 8: I do. I do.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 10: I think it's a wise decision. I save properly. I invest.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 10: I really want to switch out of this poverty mindset
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 10: or the lacking mindset of some you know my family
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 10: break away from these things I'm not interested in doing
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 10: that anymore I want to grow and I want to
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 10: make a whole lot of money like a whole lot
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 10: and I'm going to do great things with it enjoy
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 10: it I already do enjoy the money I have. It's
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 10: been so nice. Oh, my God.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: You know, my.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 10: Son went to Tanzania to get his school certification.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 15: That's so fly.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: Tanzania is beautiful.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: I was like, ah!
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: I've never been. I went to Zanzibar and Tanzania. Beautiful.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 10: I've never been, but he has.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 15: Like, yes.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 5: But that's the most important thing, right? When we get
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 5: to a place where it's like none of this matters.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 5: You just want your kids to be happy. Whatever it
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 5: takes to be happy. Like I tell my daughter, my son,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 5: I don't care what you do. If you want to
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 5: do nails, if you want to do hair, if you
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 5: want to do sanitation, as long as you're happy.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: Life is too short.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: Joyful.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 10: Happy is fleeting.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: Joyful.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 10: Joyful. Look for it. That's an insight as well. To
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 10: constantly look for the joy. Taste the food. Taste it.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: Feel the water.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 10: It's nice. And it sparks creativity.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: But I can't afford to eat that, Jill. And I
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: can't afford to go there to swim in that water.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: So can you loan me something?
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: Let me get Tim's eyes in real quick.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 10: I've learned this. If someone wants to borrow something from you,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 10: you give them a job.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: Word.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 10: If they do the job and do the job well,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 10: then you're showing me something. I'm going to give you
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 10: a small reimbursement contract. I'm going to say, $ 25 a month. Fair?
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 10: You don't pay the $ 25. I don't know how, when
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 10: it's going to stop. It's going to stop. If you're consistent.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 10: If you're consistent. If you're not consistent, you never have
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 10: to worry about me again. You never have to ask
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 10: me anything again. Because this was a contract. It didn't
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 10: have any interest. This was respect. So, I enjoy helping people.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 10: But I have to see what they want. I have
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 10: to see what they're doing. I got to see something.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 10: You got to show me something. You can't just tell
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 10: me a dream.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 8: Okay?
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 17: When did you get to that point in your life?
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 17: Because I saw you talking to Angie Martinez about that, right?
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 17: And setting these boundaries. But then I also hear you
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 17: talk a lot about, like, you carried so much for
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 17: your family for a long time because you were trying to, like,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 17: y'all were trying to get out of the situations that
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 17: you guys were in. And I think that there's like a,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 17: sometimes there's like this tug of war of, like, I'm
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 17: able to help, so I want to help. But at
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 17: the same time, I got to set these boundaries. When
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 17: did Jill Scott say, I didn't get enough? I got
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 17: to stop this.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 8: Now.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 3: Something had to happen.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 10: I turned 50. And the light popped on.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: Again.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 10: Yeah. That's what happened. Time creates wisdom. You know, if
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 10: you're paying attention. If you're not paying attention, it just
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 10: creates age. But... Yeah, I've been paying attention. And I
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 10: know that that doesn't make me feel good. To watch people...
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 10: do things that are outside of their particular space, financial space,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 10: like going on a cruise, okay? You're going on a cruise,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 10: but you didn't pay the mortgage. I can't help you
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 10: with that. And the fact that you would ask me
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 10: to is ridiculous. You made a choice. That is your choice.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 10: It wasn't like something happened, like, You know, the car
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 10: broke down or, you know, the tuition is behind or
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 10: it's nothing like that. And even if tuition is behind,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 10: how them grades? How they doing? What activities are they in?
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 10: Because it's mine. And I can share with you as
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 10: I seem fit and deem fit. It might seem harsh,
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  Speaker 10: but I don't know. It feels right to me. I
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  Speaker 10: feel better. I don't feel weighed down by people's stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's harsh.
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  Speaker 1: And also, what about when you give somebody money for mortgage,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: but then you go see them on a cruise after
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: they just asked you for money?
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 10: I didn't get invited to the cruise.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: What is his favorite blues to you?
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 3: That's his favorite song, by the way.
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  Speaker 5: It's called Pay You On Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: I got a lot of favorite records, but that record
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: was hit for me yesterday in a real way. I
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: got a lot of favorite records on that one, but
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: that one really wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 10: Music is medicinal. It'll hit you when you need it.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 10: So what do you mean by, like, what does it
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 10: do for you?
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  Speaker 1: Man, for me, it just put things in perspective based
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: off what you're saying, because you're saying a lot of
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: that throughout the song as you're singing.
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  Speaker 2: But it's also, it's like, I don't want no more
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  Speaker 2: n * * * a blues.
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  Speaker 1: Stop putting your problems on me. I can wake up
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: in the morning and be good. And then by the
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: end of the week, I'm feeling weighed down. And then
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: when you realize why you're weighed down, it's because you're
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: trying to help everybody else with they s * * *.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want no more.
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  Speaker 10: It's exhausting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: It's exhausting. I love to inspire. I want people to
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 10: do better. But if they don't want it, what am
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 10: I supposed to do? Just keep pouring into an empty well?
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 10: I can't do it. The things that you do don't
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 10: benefit you. So why do I have to?
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  Speaker 2: Damn. That's a bar.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: I wonder when you do records like Pressure, when you
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: do records like Me4, is that... When you do the
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: actual record, is that when the closure comes or do
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: you have closure before in order to do the record?
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  Speaker 10: I've never thought about it. I don't know that I'm
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 10: looking for closure necessarily. I need to say it.
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  Speaker 14: Mm-hmm.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 10: I need to say it. It is true. I need
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 10: to get it out. I think that's how I feel
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  Speaker 10: about that.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: And then when I listen to it, it becomes an
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 10: affirmation for me because I've said it. And I was like, yeah,
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 10: you said that. Because that's what it is. That's exactly
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 10: what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 3: You ever went too far and was like, let me
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: take this out.
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  Speaker 10: Man, many, many times.
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  Speaker 6: Really?
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 10: Many times. Many times. I typically write the thing before
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 10: I get into the studio so I can find how
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 10: it feels when I get in there. Or I already
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 10: know how it feels. It wasn't something... I don't know
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 10: if I necessarily went too far. Let me be clear.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 10: I just said some shit I probably shouldn't have said.
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  Speaker 3: That might be too far.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 10: I don't know. It was the right thing. And when
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 10: I listened to it, I'm like, yeah, that's right. You know,
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 10: that was that was real there. But I probably shouldn't
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 10: have shared it.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: You went hard on this album. Oh, yeah, I did.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: You say you married a bitch.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: That's pretty self-explanatory.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I just needed to
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 10: get stuff out, too. You know, music is healing for
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 10: the artist as well, supposed to be.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 5: What's the moral compass with that? Is it yourself saying no?
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 5: Is it your son?
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: Is it your homies?
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: I haven't had that. It didn't come up. Nobody said anything.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 10: You know, and my son listens to everything. And we
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 10: talk about everything. Yeah, so it didn't come. Nobody said, hey,
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 10: you probably shouldn't say that. Nobody did. And I don't
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 10: know if I would agree or disagree about it. Did
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 10: you see how everybody's going crazy about squeezing my meat?
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: Mm-mm.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 10: It's a song called Don't Play.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I didn't see people going crazy about it.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 10: Oh boy, I did. They were like, squeeze my meat.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 3: And I was like, she said squeeze my meat.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: She was like.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 4: Squeeze my meat.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 3: And I was like, I did.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: They're not used to that from you yet at this point?
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 15: It's a new generation of people who just be on Twitter.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 10: I'm just confused. Maybe you all can help me out
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 10: here because I would love to know. I've heard lyrics that.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, way worse.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: Lob on my n * * * a like corn
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: on the cob. They singing about eating n * * *
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  Speaker 1: a now, Jill?
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  Speaker 3: I heard.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I heard.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 8: I heard.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 10: I listened to a lot of music. And because I
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 10: listened to a lot of music, I was just like,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 10: what exactly is so radical about Squeeze My Meat?
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: They're not real Jill Scott fans, then.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 10: No, but what, but beside being a fan or not,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 10: like what's radical about that? I just thought I'm missing something.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: Probably the way you sung it when you sing it with,
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: you know, cause it sounds amazing. So you might be
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: just randomly finding yourself singing it even as a guy.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: you know what I.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 17: Mean I also think it's I think it's too like
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 17: with the new generation they get it different ways like
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 17: go ahead I'm sure.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: I will at some point the end of the spirit
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: will move me and I'll just be coming around the
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: corner squeeze my meat you better never sing that if
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: you in the bathroom with me bro I'm just saying
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: it might can happen that's all.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 10: I think it's the fact that you gotta say.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 20: Squeeze like I said they said it was they was
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 20: demon the big areola music I heard that too yeah
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 20: I was like, okay.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 17: Because basically, if you don't know what to do with it,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 17: don't come over here. That's the conversation. And I think
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 17: it's just right now in music, you either get stuff
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 17: like that very straightforward to the point where it's not sensual.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 17: And that has always been you to be able to
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 17: communicate those type of things in.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 3: A very unique way.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 15: Right.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 17: But there is a new generation of like creators and
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 17: artists who are listening to this and discovering your ability
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 17: for the first time.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 15: And they, They just think it's so powerful and forward.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 15: And I'm like, welcome.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: That's what's up. People like that. That's what's up. I
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: hate people that... I don't want to catch up with you. Okay?
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: We over here celebrating Jill Scott because of who Jill
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: Scott is and always has been. I don't have time
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: to explain to you the greatness of Jill Scott.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: Catch up in your own time.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 10: Fair enough.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: She'll get there. Catch up in your own time.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: I ain't got to explain it.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: They'll get there.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 10: Life will happen. And then there I'll be. Your loving auntie.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 10: With so many stories to tell. So many life experiences.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 8: To share.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 10: So many lessons learned. So much music.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: My last question.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: When it's all said and done, what does peace look
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: like for Jill Scott? And did this album bring you
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: closer to whatever that is?
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 10: Life is bringing me closer to my peace.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: And.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 10: My kid doing well for himself and my mother living
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 10: so comfortably and she's happy my private my personal life
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 10: is solid I love my home I love my friends
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 10: I have beautiful friends y'all you would f * * *
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 10: with them anybody would like they're so dope so many
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 10: levels of it there's not a lot of them But
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 10: they're powerful. You say you're happy. You say you're joyful.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 10: And people get upset about it. I feel sorry for that,
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 10: for you.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 15: People get upset about you saying that?
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 10: People are upset about other people feeling joy and being happy. Yes.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 10: They do it all the time. I see it.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know what it is. I don't care what
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 10: it is. It's not my bag to carry. I'm going
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 10: to let this little light of mine shine.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 2: And that light going to irritate some demons and others.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 10: You see what I'm, that's what I'm saying. That's what
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 10: I'm saying. I have a force field. I put it on.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 10: It goes under my feet, above my head. Anytime I
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 10: think about it or I just put my force field
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 10: on and I walk through my life. We're superheroes. We
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 10: can do really anything we want. Anything we can imagine.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 10: You just need the power to do it. The power
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 10: is love. The power is sincere friendships. The power is guidance.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 10: My mentor is outside somewhere. Like having that is, and
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 10: anybody can attain it. Anybody at any time in any
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 10: state of their life can get all of the things.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 10: My mentor sometimes, life will be a little stressful. She'll
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 10: come in swinging.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: Swinging.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 10: Like boys in the hood.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 8: Swinging.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 10: She'll kick. It's a physical manifestation of a spiritual thing.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 10: She's fighting off whatever can't happen. And then she says, whoo.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 10: And I love that. I'm like, damn.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 18: I'm really like, I got everything I asked for.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 3: I got everything.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: Praise God.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 8: Amen.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 9: Oh my God.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: Oh my God. Oh my God.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 13: Everything.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: Wow. It's okay.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 8: Feel that.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 17: That's what I've been feeling all interview. I'm like something. She,
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 17: there's a feeling here. I just don't know what it is,
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 17: but I'm so glad that you in this space, you
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 17: deserve it. You worked hard. ma'am for a long time
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 17: ma'am you've been literally like the Jill Scott my whole
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 17: life I'm.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: 34 I just want you to know what you mean
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: to so many people like I hope you know that
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: we really love you and we value you and we
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: appreciate you and even you putting out new music means
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: so much like this is an event like oh my
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: god Jill Scott putting up putting out new music like
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: that matters like a lot of people that put out
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: music I can take it and leave it some people
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: put out music the world stops for me and that
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: that is what you're doing to whom it may concern.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 10: I'm going to have to take a nap.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, Jill Scott.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: The album is out today.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: Make sure you buy it.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 2: I hope you get that nap. That's divine. Go get
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 2: that nap. You deserve it. Your soul deserves it.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 10: Oh, my goodness.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: Here we go. All right.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 5: It's jill scott it's the breakfast club good morning morning
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 5: everybody it's dj nv just hilarious charlemagne the guy we
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 5: are the breakfast club we will see y'all tomorrow hope
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 5: you had a great three-day weekend now just where you
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 5: at this weekend.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 18: I'm home man 410 baltimore i will be there uh
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 18: baltimore comedy factory we got six shows me and my
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 18: brother desi alexander so get your tickets if you have
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 18: not yet i also have a book meet and greet
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 18: i mean Also, I have a book signing at Barnes &
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 18: Noble's out in the Rundle Mills.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 10: That's Saturday, September 12th, y'all.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 18: So make sure I get y'all tickets for that as well.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 18: All of that is on my website. I'll be doing
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 18: meet and greet, and I will have books on hand, Baltimore.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 18: So this is the homecoming stop of the tour, justhilariousofficial.com.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 5: Well, we'll see you guys tomorrow. Charlamagne, you got a
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 5: positive note? Yes, I do have a positive note since
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 5: it's Labor Day, man. This comes from the great Dr.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 5: Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: Once said, all labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. OK, so
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: thank you. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity. So
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: whatever it is that you're doing out there.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: Thank you, man. It's the Breakfast Club. Breakfast Club, bitches!
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 2: You all finished or y'all done? Woke up, woke up,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: wake you up.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 3: Wake that ass up.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: Program your alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartRadio.