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FULL SHOW: Stephen A. Smith Speaks On Rihanna Comments, Is Marriage Still The Goal? Louis A Molina, Lala's Rumor Report and More! · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, usc yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
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  Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
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  Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
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  Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo Charlemagne, the Peace
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  Speaker 1: to the planet. Guess what day it is? Guess what
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  Speaker 1: day it is? Good morning, We're back baby, Another Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: on the Breakfast Club. What's happening? How y'a feel allow that? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's Wednesday, It's hump day, middle of the week, and
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  Speaker 1: our guest host is running a little late. You know, listen,
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  Speaker 1: our guest host this morning is La La Anthony again
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  Speaker 1: lot lazy. I don't even like to say that day
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  Speaker 1: running late because you know, I like, they really work here,
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  Speaker 1: that is true. You know you're not getting a check.
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  Speaker 1: She got four hours. She can get here when she
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  Speaker 1: get it, that's right, you know what I mean? Yes, right,
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  Speaker 1: still get here, you know, maybe do a little makeup,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, drink a little Starbucks something.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she'll she'll get right in the groove. That's right. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we got Steven A. Smith joining us this morning. Stephen A.
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  Speaker 1: Smith will be here this morning. He has an amazing
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  Speaker 1: new book out. It's called Great Shooter. You know, I love,
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  Speaker 1: I love reading, I love books, and Stephen AD's book
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  Speaker 1: is really really good for a number of reasons. With
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  Speaker 1: the most important reason it's because you don't be talking
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  Speaker 1: about his personal life, not at all. You've never really
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  Speaker 1: heard Stephen Ai delve into his personal life, and his
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  Speaker 1: books Great Shoot, A Memoir of Second Chances and First
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  Speaker 1: Takes really really digging into his personal life. I thought
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  Speaker 1: he was married for the longest. Nah, he got two
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  Speaker 1: baby mamas though, as you found out in the book.
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  Speaker 1: Found that out in the book, you got two baby mamas.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he talks about he talks about a
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  Speaker 1: relationship that I think that men don't talk about enough,
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  Speaker 1: which is the relationships with our fathers, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, especially when some of them weren't the best.
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  Speaker 1: And he definitely didn't have the best relationship with his pots.
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  Speaker 1: He talks about that a lot in the book. But
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk to Stephen A. Smith this morning's Great Shooter,
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  Speaker 1: A Memoir of Second Chances of First Takes. He'll be
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  Speaker 1: here to discuss that. Absolutely. My dad called me yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: was like, I just want to tell you something's up.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, I love you. So my post was listening
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  Speaker 1: so if you listened to this morning dad in the morning, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I realized the context of I get what you'a with
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  Speaker 1: the discussion he was having yesterday. But man, love you
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  Speaker 1: is just a matter of context. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was saying yesterday. You know, an individual
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  Speaker 1: loves your dad could have called you, I just want
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  Speaker 1: you to know, love you son, right, and it felt
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  Speaker 1: the same way as I love you. You don't think so. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just about context, man. Yeah. You know if you're
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  Speaker 1: on top of somebody breathing and sweating and you know
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  Speaker 1: y'all making love and you say I love you, it's
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  Speaker 1: a different contexts. Yeah, you know. You can't even look
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  Speaker 1: me in the hodge right now. See, I love you, King,
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  Speaker 1: you love me? No, say it to me now? You
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  Speaker 1: say it first. I love you, King, I thank you.
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  Speaker 1: See what I'm saying, I love you back. See what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, I said, I said I you know, I
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  Speaker 1: say I love you more, all right? And that's too
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  Speaker 1: much to Okay, it's too much? Why why I love
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  Speaker 1: too much? Too much? That's the problem with y'all. Need
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  Speaker 1: you gotta hump in your back now? I don't have
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  Speaker 1: you gotta humping your back right now because you can't
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  Speaker 1: accept love except love. Straighten up and accept my back
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  Speaker 1: and straight there you go. Why why are you poking
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  Speaker 1: your nipples out? What? Look at nipples? Looking? Why? What
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  Speaker 1: are you talking about? This is first of all, it's
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  Speaker 1: cooling here. Have nothing to do a tree. I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm not doing this with you today. I
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  Speaker 1: got nipples off top and all right, well let's get
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  Speaker 1: the show cracking with Lila when you need it. Man,
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  Speaker 1: this is too much masculine energy here. It's too much.
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  Speaker 1: That is nothing about me that's masculine. You're right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely all right, we got right now. We gotta tell
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  Speaker 1: you about this winter storm that's about to hit the uh.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even say the east coast to the east
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  Speaker 1: coast to south in a bunch of areas, So we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about it when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Charlomagne the guy.
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  Speaker 1: We are to Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front
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  Speaker 1: page news now. Congratulations to Lebron. I think this is
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  Speaker 1: pretty dope. I think he's like two hundred points away
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  Speaker 1: from beating the old time scoring record. Last night, Lebron James,
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  Speaker 1: his team Lakers were playing the Clippus and he becomes
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  Speaker 1: the first player in NBA history to score forty points
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  Speaker 1: against all thirty NBA teams. I mean, he's the greatest
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  Speaker 1: old player of all time, right, I think it's safe
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  Speaker 1: to say that. I've never seen nobody at what thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight years old player at the level of Broun is
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  Speaker 1: playing at. He's absolutely the greatest whole player of all time.
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  Speaker 1: They're saying, in the next six or seven games, he
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  Speaker 1: will beat that record of all time scoring. Now, be
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  Speaker 1: careful out there, all right. Now they're saying seventeen million
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  Speaker 1: people are under winter storm warnings. Now this is from
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  Speaker 1: Texas to New York. So they're saying winter storm warning
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  Speaker 1: will be hitting today between one and three. They say
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  Speaker 1: some places it might just get an inch or two
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  Speaker 1: inches of snow. Some people are gonna get ten inches
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  Speaker 1: of snow and that will affect Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: and of course New York and New Jersey. So careful
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  Speaker 1: out there. We can't handle though ten inches, bro, Bro,
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  Speaker 1: you can't. Hell no, yeah, but I don't listen I
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  Speaker 1: don't want ten inches though, not right now in January.
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  Speaker 1: And why do they always wait and tell you know
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  Speaker 1: the season is about to change to do stuff like this.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. They should have did this around Christmas
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  Speaker 1: Who's Day, which means they should have did the nature.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to be politically correct. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to miss my goodness. I want to
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  Speaker 1: call her a mother and she well, he's stupid. Now
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  Speaker 1: let's let's talk about classified documents all right. Now, they've
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  Speaker 1: been finding documents all over the place, and Pence actually
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  Speaker 1: spoke out about them finding documents and all these other places.
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  Speaker 1: Did you take any classified documents with you from the
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  Speaker 1: White House? I did not. Hut. Do you see any
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  Speaker 1: reason for anyone to take classified documents with them leaving
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  Speaker 1: the White House? Well, there'd been no reason to have
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  Speaker 1: classified documents, particularly if they were in an unprotected area.
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  Speaker 1: And see, all right, and they found documents a Vice
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  Speaker 1: president X Vice President Mike Pence's house. They discovered a
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  Speaker 1: dozen documents marked as classified at his Indiana home last week.
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  Speaker 1: Now is what are these documents? Because it seems like
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  Speaker 1: everybody got a document. I don't know classified documents be
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  Speaker 1: the new must have items for politicians. And what I
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  Speaker 1: will never understand is why do politicians weaponize actions that
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  Speaker 1: they too are doing. Like Joe Biden called Trump irresponsible
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  Speaker 1: knowing he had classified docs all over the place. Mike
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  Speaker 1: pins Lydon said he didn't have classified documents and said
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  Speaker 1: Biden was irresponsible knowing he had classified does we've got
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  Speaker 1: that clue too, But let's say that classified documents found
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  Speaker 1: as having been in the possession of the president who
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  Speaker 1: was a former vice president and being treated differently, it
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  Speaker 1: just suggests to me once again that last summer was
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  Speaker 1: an overreach. But the kind of double standard that we
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  Speaker 1: see being practiced by the Biden administration in the wake
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  Speaker 1: of this incident in the Justice Department, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what undermines public confidence in our justice system. How
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  Speaker 1: about all of y'all dirty dirty will stop the mudslinging.
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  Speaker 1: It's literally like cheating on your wife, but chad than
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  Speaker 1: other men for cheating on their wife knowing you got
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  Speaker 1: a couple of side checks your damn self. Okay. And also,
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  Speaker 1: if the issue with Trump is obstruction and Trump knowing
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  Speaker 1: and willingly took documents, and that means you know Biden
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  Speaker 1: is just irresponsible, incompetent and playing out stupid because he
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know he took documents. He didn't even know,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't even know what was on. Everybody should come
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  Speaker 1: clean and just put your cards on the table and
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  Speaker 1: shut the FP up forever and properly, you know, do
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  Speaker 1: what y'all can for this country, and stop worrying about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh, the weaponizing actions that all of y'all
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  Speaker 1: are doing against each other. All right, oh boy, boy,
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  Speaker 1: boy boy, my lad is your front page news. Now
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  Speaker 1: get it off your chests. Eight hundred five eight five
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  Speaker 1: one oh five one. If you need to vent phone
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  Speaker 1: lines a wide open again eight hundred five eight five
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  Speaker 1: one oh five one, get it off your chests. It's
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  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Because being
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  Speaker 1: the greatest old player accounts too, because at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, you've never seen anything like this. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it just adds on his legacy, the fact that he's
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight years old and still balling the way he's
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  Speaker 1: balling right now. He's the greatest old player of all time.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't never seen nobody at thirty eight executed at
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  Speaker 1: this level. He never seen nobody. That's that's that's that's
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  Speaker 1: not true. That's not true. That's not true. Is probably liked. Man,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta stop, bro, you gotta stop you. We've seen
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  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant. Hey, we've seen Kobe Bryant. We've seen Alan Ivison,
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  Speaker 1: We've seen Shaquille O'Neill, we've seen Kevin Garnett. What are
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  Speaker 1: you talking about? Right? You mean all around? Listen, Lebron
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  Speaker 1: Lebron is the top five greatest of all time NBA player,
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  Speaker 1: probably top three, But you cannot discount what he's doing
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  Speaker 1: right now at thirty eight years old. Like, yes, that matters.
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  Speaker 1: He's the greatest old player we've ever seen. We've never
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  Speaker 1: seen this before. Hello, who's this v? Good morning, Good
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  Speaker 1: morning coach Davis Man, Sean Man, how y'all doing it?
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  Speaker 1: What's what's up? My brother? I'm good man, And listen,
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  Speaker 1: you know, NBA. I want to say congratulations to you
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  Speaker 1: and you charlot men. You know, you know, dealing with
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  Speaker 1: your health man, and getting these calls as can be easy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as as Wendy used to say, a man
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  Speaker 1: of a certain age, and you know, I'm definitely just
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  Speaker 1: my second call. Not spite that I'm scheduled for in February,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But I also, you know, want you to
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  Speaker 1: talk about these punts exam too, man, because black men
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  Speaker 1: are dying at a hot clip from proper state chancer
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  Speaker 1: as well. Yeah. I just got my pro I got
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: my prop state looked at, I got I got the
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: ultrasound thing done. Did that like a week? Yeah, yeah,
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: that's huge, man, you know, because you know, they have
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: the negative connotation of of you know, black men especially
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  Speaker 1: not going to a doctor and and and getting that
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  Speaker 1: check because of the sexual connotations to it. And that's
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of nonsense. Man. You know, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: you got to worry about your health and life. Let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you something, whether than you you know your sexuality.
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  Speaker 1: I got, I got four daughters, king right, I'm forty
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  Speaker 1: four years old. I need to live there at least
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  Speaker 1: be ninety something years old, close to a hundred. So
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  Speaker 1: I let him man look at my butt all day
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  Speaker 1: long if if it allows me to do that. Facts.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Hey, I got I got one thing to say, man,
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you our question. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if y'll know about the young man from Ohio since
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  Speaker 1: they read nah, but all right, well, Um, in October,
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  Speaker 1: he got into an altercation with a white man and
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  Speaker 1: the white man end up killing him. Young man was
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  Speaker 1: thirteen years old. Nah, let's see that. Yeah, we're looking
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  Speaker 1: up for the dude. The dude that killed him got
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  Speaker 1: arrested forty eight hours. He's old. They dropped all charges
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: and and um, the young man is dead. Like they
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  Speaker 1: not recharging this dude, They claimed self defense school bullet
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  Speaker 1: since they read s I N Z A R ET.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna look into it. Thank you, Ray, get it
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  Speaker 1: off your chest eight hundred five eight five one h
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  Speaker 1: five one. If you need to vent, hit us up now.
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: It's the breakfast Luggle Morning, the breakfast Club. It's a
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  Speaker 1: new thing. Is your time to get it off your chest? Wait? Wait,
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  Speaker 1: whither you're man or black, sid me get up and
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  Speaker 1: get something. Call up now. Eight hundred and five e
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  Speaker 1: five one oh five one. We want to hear from
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  Speaker 1: you on the breakfast club. Hello. Who's this yo? Big
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  Speaker 1: chocolate the toasucker. How are we doing? Man? God? So
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  Speaker 1: listen two quick things now listen listen. I'm sitting here
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  Speaker 1: trying to enjoy my breakfast. I don't have to stop,
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  Speaker 1: all right, And him be careful protection. Hey, can you
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  Speaker 1: say good morning to Lila? Say good morning the people
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  Speaker 1: before you just start talking? Bro Oh, I'm sorry, hey, Lola,
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  Speaker 1: how you feel? Hey? I just wanted to address the
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  Speaker 1: toe sucker part. No you don't. Yeah, I'm a toe
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  Speaker 1: sucker for high if you so decided, birl, I show
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  Speaker 1: you last night and think like a man. I was
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  Speaker 1: looking for the pretty toes, but I didn't see him.
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  Speaker 1: What's up? What do you mean? Shoes on my feet?
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  Speaker 1: The next movie? I want to see some toads baby?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Oh lord, hey man, what you got to say?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Yeah, so listen now all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: I love you talk MVB careful, don't bend over in
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  Speaker 1: front of Charlotte And you got them on and on
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  Speaker 1: and worked up with that love? Can you can you?
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: Can you make me a promise? And when a new
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: show starts, can you just call her and not call
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  Speaker 1: her ever again? And listen too. I think DJ Kalied
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: comes out Super Bowl halftime show and says DJ Khalid Rihanna,
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: bring me another salad. Now that's funny, right, t J Kalid,
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  Speaker 1: bring me another salad? Salad? Hello, this's what's up? Broke
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  Speaker 1: it up your chest. I do want you to prison
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  Speaker 1: my daughter four three weeks twenty four weeks, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: twenty four weeks early? Al right, definitely and putting friends
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  Speaker 1: up sure, well, good luck brother all and then that's
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  Speaker 1: something for you on DJ what you got? And he
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  Speaker 1: just blew you without asking? No, right, I have a
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: going man, Hello, who's this you're tearing down here in
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: Newport News? How y'all doing seven five seven without terence?
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: Get it off your chest? But I'm sending in a
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: country where the previous president and the former president both
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: under federal investigation. Well we might as will. Well, Biden's
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: not under federal investigation yet, and I doubt they will
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: because you know the whole double standard. You know, Marylyn
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: Garland might not do the same thing the president Biden,
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: but we'll see the way he's looking. They're trying to
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: legalizize criminalization. Where you see in Lates in prison running
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  Speaker 1: a campaign and what I'll be home in ninety eight
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  Speaker 1: vote for me. Have a good day, all right, Get
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  Speaker 1: it off your chests. Eight hundred five eight five one
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  Speaker 1: oh five one. If you need to vent, you can
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: hit this up. And a lot leazy has joint that
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  Speaker 1: she came in this morning. She came in hot, came
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  Speaker 1: in hot, as of things on my mind. All right, now,
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  Speaker 1: we got rooms on the way lot. You're ready, Yes,
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: we're ready. Well, we tease, We just teasing. So we're
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: teasing that Justin Bieber sold his music catalog. We want
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: to talk about that. I saw our interview where Nia
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Long got emotional talking about, you know, some of the
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: things she's she's she's been through. I want to touch
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: on that. It's some it's some good stuff. It's some surprises,
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: a lot going on. And Lil said, you want to
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: talk about marriage that she sure did, Sure did. She
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  Speaker 1: came in hot. So we'll get to that next. It's
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: the breakfast Club. Good morning, the breakfast club. All right, morning,
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  Speaker 1: everybody is tg V Scholomae the guy. We are the
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: breakfast Club. I guess ho's lies here. Make sure tune
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: in the eight o'clock album. This topic. We're gonna talk
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: about goodness, graciously on fire. There is a settle down.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: They'll still cheat. Whoa, whoa, whoa lea favorite Jesus. All right,
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: let's get to the rooms. Play drop. Let's go from
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  Speaker 1: my or gossiping report. I mean, I guess we're on
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: the breakfast club. This is where the tea spills, right
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: right on the breakfast club where we're starting. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about OSCAR nominations for this year. So everything
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  Speaker 1: everywhere leads with eleven nominations. Shout out to Angela Bassett.
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  Speaker 1: She is she This is her first acting OSCAR nomination,
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  Speaker 1: which is a great for Black Panther, everyone's super happy
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  Speaker 1: about that. And Brian Tyree Henry is Best Actor in
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: the Supporting Role nominated for Causeway And pretty much all
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: the nominations are from Black Panther, Best Supporting Actress Angela Bassett,
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  Speaker 1: Best Original Song Rihanna and the Crew, which is amazing
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  Speaker 1: for Lift Me Up. Best Visual Effects, Black Panther, Best
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  Speaker 1: Costume Design. Black Panthers nominated, Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Black
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  Speaker 1: Panther is nominated, but the snubs. Let's go ahead, well now,
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  Speaker 1: i's Angela is the first person from Marvel to be
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  Speaker 1: nominated for it because she's been nominated before she got
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  Speaker 1: there for What's Love Got to Do It? Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: Angela Bassett snacks the Marvel's first acting not OSCAR nomination,
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  Speaker 1: which is awesome, but the snubs. The Woman King Till
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  Speaker 1: and Nope, they were shut out from the Oscar nominations,
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  Speaker 1: and Holly Berry still remains the only black woman to
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  Speaker 1: win the Oscar for Actress in the Leading Role for
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: her performance in Monsters Ball. There's no way in hell
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  Speaker 1: that Daniel Deadwalla, who played Mammy Till and Viola Davis
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have been nominated for Best Actors. Definitely, Like y'all,
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: don't that eyes ears like she killed Woman King? Yeah,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: boa killed Woman King. Have you seen Till Daniel body
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: tail man? What but the prep she had to do
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: for Women King and all? Oh man, she killed it.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: If you haven't seen Woman King, definitely check it out.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: But I don't care about the Oscars no way, though,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: And that's why even say more, say more. You know,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: when they had the whole oscars, you know, so white.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Nothing has really changed since then, you know, And I
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: don't think that, you know, people like Viola Davis and uh,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: you know, Daniel Deadwalla need Oscars to validate them. But
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I do understand why actors and actress want those awards.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Of course makes the stock go up, of course, of course,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: And it's just like, why are we continuously overlooked. It's
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: just it's it's it's a problem. And the other thing
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I would say, the movies, they'd be nominated. I don't
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: be watching no way, so I don't be knowing that
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: those people should be nominated. So it's so true. I'm
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: looking like and I watched movies and stuff. I'm like,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: never heard of that, of that, don't know who that is,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: never heard of that top Gun. I did see top Gun.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know how many they nominated for, but top
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Gun was pretty good, like top Gun was two years
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: ago at least A Yeah, I don't know. I didn't
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: see them on the list, but I could be wrong.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I was looking for everyone black. That's right, all right.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: So going to the next thing, Justin Bieber sells his
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: entire back catalog in a historic deal for two hundred
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: million dollars. So this is a historic deal. His manager,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: scootle Braun said, this is historic. Weever had sold over
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million records globally, and he sold
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: it to this group called Hip Hip No Sist Management
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: for two hundred million dollars, more than two hundred and
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: ninety songs. I wonder why I was gonna ask that
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: why I give it to your masters? Why not? I
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: mean that isn't that something you keep for your kids
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: and it continues brings you money every year. It's not
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: like I mean, he doesn't asset. Yeah. I was having
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: a conversations with somebody the other day because I saw
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the same thing. I forgot who was it? Somebody sold
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: its future. So I think for fifty million d doctor
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Dre when Doctor Dre sold his, And they was like,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: you know, why not. It's like, yo, you get unprecedented,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: unprecedented money. You know, it's generational, well for your kids.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Like they're not making no two entred million dollars off,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: no one time off their catalogs. They might not even
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: make that a course of a lifetime. It's definitely saying
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: here that it's just becoming more increasingly popular to sell
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: your catalog Shakira just struck a deal. She sold one
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: hundred percent of her publishing rights justin Timberlake, and they
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: said that there are several reasons artists look to sell
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: rights to years of work. Some are looking to sell
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: their catalogs before President Biden's proposed plan to increase taxes
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: on capital gains is potentially instituted if artists were to
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: wait until after this tax plan goes into effects, they
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: will be paying a higher tax on the sale of
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: their cattle. They got to pay taxes on it. And
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: they said artists are looking to get a lump sum
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: of cash upfront instead of royalty checks over a period
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: of time. Yo, you're never you know, two hundred million
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: dollars and no lifetime off, no music, but lose your masses.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: You know when people samp for your music and all that.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't care. Give me the money
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: up front, and it's all. It's not like Bruce Springsteen's
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: doing it, Pink Floyd is doing it, Jimmy Ivan's doing it.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Get the lump sum of money. Man, it had to
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: be a reason why Michael Jackson was buying everybody's masses
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: and instead of salon. Is that is true too? Yeah,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: that's true. You know what I mean? True too? That's true. Um.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about Nia Long, who recently did
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: an interview we have we have a clip and became
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: a little bit emotional talking about, you know, some of
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the recent stuff personally she's been through. She's just an
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: icon of classic A friend I love nia long, but
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: let's go go to the clip. I still have my anonymity,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: and I appreciate that about my career. I appreciate that however,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I've I've managed to you that that it's it's the
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: thing that allows me to stay connected to the people
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: and to be human and not try to to to
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: be this perfect being. And you know, I've had some
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: pretty devastating moments in my life over the last couple
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: of months, and I've had to just say sorry, you'll
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: pick yourself back up, and oh my god, I'm about
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: to cry. Um, you pick yourself back up and you
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: keep it moving, class act in every way possible. And
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I just think there's like this, I don't there's like
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: this thing I don't know, like when people in the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: public eye go through stuff, it's like this kind of
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: idea of like, well, people don't feel bad for them,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: or what did you expect or what did you think?
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Especially even when Dylan went athletes it's kind of like, well,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: what did you think was going to happen? And guess what.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Nobody goes into a marriage thinking that that's gonna happen. Yeah,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: it's just like this, what did that mean? It all?
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: No you don't go into a marriage thinking that. If
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: you thought that and believe that your connection with that
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: person wasn't something different, then you want to get married
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to that. Well, hold on a lot. Just now. You know,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: when you were riding the ribbing behind the scene, you said, uh,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: what people gonna cheat. I'm not saying you should accept it,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: but I'm saying no. But I'm saying I did not
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: go into a marriage with the idea of I'm doing
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: this but I know I'm getting cheated on. Oh, I
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: know I'm going to get cheated on. I wanted to
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: a marriage saying I found a connection or someone that
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do it different. Absolutely, and regardless of you're
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: an athlete, whatever, you're entertainer, any kind any kind of
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: business you're in. Can't just say like, well, you married
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: an athlete or you married a rapper or whatever, so
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: you should expect what you should expect it. And then
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and then some people go further and say you should
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: expect it and you should be okay with it. Now
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: there's another piece to it. Yeah, like just accept it,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: but be okay with it is a stereotype, right, because
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: it's not like, you know, not like pastors don't be cheating.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: All people that you don't expect to cheat, they sometimes
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: they jump out the window. But that's why you got
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: to get you a black man, because black men don't cheat.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about eight o'clock because I have more
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: to say, talk about it. We talk about the next hour,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: all right now, don't forget when we come back, Stephen A.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Smith will be joining us a little bit. And we
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: got front page. We need to push Stephen back on
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: one right now. I need to know what's going on.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I need to say something. Something happened that she like,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you just don't coming here with this now, Well we
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: got front page. Who was next? Imagine being killed by
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: your dog and not your homie, like, yeah dog. We'll
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: explain when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club the morning.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Everybody in stej Envy, Charlomagne the guy. We are the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: breakfast Club. We got our special guest host here morning.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Let's get in some front page news. Now, let's talk
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: US airlines, meaning the airlines in the in America all
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: right now, because I said us, it's gonna sound like
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I said US air lives. But we're gonna talk about
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the top nine airlines. All right, number one, who's number one?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Jet Blue? No way, Delta's number one, Number two was Alaska?
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: What number two is Southwest Airline? After damn line? Number four?
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Busting the sky? Southwest Airline? Yes, so I'll tell you
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: number nine. Number nine is jet Blue, Jet Blue. I
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: actually have a great experience before jet Blue. Number eight Frontier.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I am almost say member, and I'm very proud of
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: that number seven before jet Blue. But from front tier spirit,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that is a goddamn lie. And that's from the Wall
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Street Journal, well, Wall Street Journal of it. Okay, Southwest
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Airlines is the busting the sky. Okay, you're going in
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: you play musical chats that rank number three? Sir, there
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: ain't no damn way in hell? How is that possible?
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Do that? First class? Do they give you so dead
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: in water? Last time I checked you? When you get
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: on southwe the airlines you pick you on maybe having
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the music playing. When the music stop, everybody got to
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: sit down. Literally. That's so that's the airlines. Now, this
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: is a sad story. So a hunter, I guess he's uh,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what town he is O Kansas, Okay.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: So he's thirty years old. He was driving in this
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: truck with his dog, and the dog accidentally I guess
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: bumped the rifle or stepped on the rifle and the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: gun went off and killed him. Well, he needed to
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: press charges on the dog. Well they can't press charges.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: No if Alec Ballwin is being charged with manslaughter and
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: this dog needs to be charged with manslaughter too. We
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: cannot live in the country with dogs get better treatment
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: than humans. Okay, when dogs get killed in this country,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: humans get held accountable for killing those dogs in the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: same rule should apply. I recommend the death penalty. The
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: dog needs to get put down. For the dog, he
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: didn't grab the trick, bumped into it accidentally, or stepped
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: on the track. It was back when the ball when
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: did it too? Damn it? He's being charged. Horrible dog. Now.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: In some other sad news, a grandmother held in a
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: chokehole by grocery workers after refusing to give him the
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: fifty dollars she found. Now she was in a grocery store.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: What stop, funny man, come on, man, stop, She found
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: the money and on the ground and everybody, you know,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: when you find money, that's my money, that's my money.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: But if it wasn't the fifty dollars. She refused a
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: hand over the money, and she was confronted by the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: store employees and physically restrained. Come on, man, come on, man,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: with the grandkids that when you need a man, Come
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: on man, you can't be doing grandma like that. Now.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: The three employees that held her down she was sixty five,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: have been fired. Why it took three? Was that my dayes?
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: My god? I need to see pictures, man, gotta be
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: a video or something. I need to see what's happening man. Now,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the store owner has issued an apology to Smith, in
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: addition offering to pay bail for her daughter because her
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: daughter came up there after and wild out. You think
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: that's grandma, that's grandma. Roger store for grandma, And we
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: have audio of wonder family members. This beautiful elderly black
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: sister who is suffering and fighting caps up. The fight
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: over that fifty dollars escalated. At one point Smith was
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: put in a chokehold one employee snatched the money from
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: her hand. DA Travis Cohen sending back twenty six this
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: statement saying they're carefully reviewing the video and witnessed statements
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: from the incident, and that the investigation is ongoing. If
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: you had extensive video footage of some black people in
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: this county choking a white woman the way they choked
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: up and beat O what you're calling on going investigation
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: when you'll turn around and stop on one of us,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: we all coming and that lack lust the letter that
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: you had, mister Da, we're not hearing this because we're
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: going based on a Texas fironal code. Come on, man,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: you ain't say they was black and white. Now you
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: just read the story. I just read the story. You
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: ain't put the racial element into it. You ain't there
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: a bunch of white people doing that to an older
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: black woman? Now, bro, could you imagine them? No, I
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: can't somebody grab your grandma and put in a choked
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Oh I can't. You gotta go beat them up? Well,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: it ain't hit nothing but no violence. No violence happening
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: after that other than them choking grandma. I'll just tell
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: you the door that I'm posted to be hearing consequences
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: and repercussions happening, and I want to hear you know,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: charges being pressed as well. But I still want to
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: hear about, you know, some things happening in that story
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to those people that did that the grandma. But violence.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: You choke out somebody grandma, but they need to hold
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: down grandma. And grandma was going to they said, grandma
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: was going to the store to get ice cream and
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: a honeybum for her son. Come on, man, listen, I
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: am promoting violence in that situation. You choke out somebody's
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: grandmother sixty five years older than three people hold them down,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: and you expect me to come up in and keep
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: my cool. No, no, no, no, something I agree not okay,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I agree? All right, Well that is your front page news.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Now when we come back, Stephen A. Smith will be
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: joining us. He has a new book out called Straight Shooter,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: a memoir of second chances in first takes. That's right,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: we'll talk to him next. It's The Breakfast Club. Go Morning,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. I knew that it was. If I
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: was going to write a book, there was only one
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: way I could go about doing it. Ain't gonna do
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: some damn sports book. It's got to be about me,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: who I am, how I think, why I came to be,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: how I am, the way that I think, et cetera.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: I thought I owed that to the audience, and the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: only reason I hesitated once I got left let Go
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: by ESPN in two thousand and nine. In two thousand
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and eleven, people were coming to me to write a book,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and I knew I wanted it to be about, you know,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: my life, et cetera, et cetera. And my mother at
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the time, who had just gotten diagnosed with cancer, one
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: that she lost in twenty seventeen, got rested soul. She said.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: She made me swear you will never write this book
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: while I'm alive. I understand why after we reading it,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: because I'm sure it had to do with your relationship
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: with your father, yes, which I felt like exactly why. Yeah,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: you addressed the topic most men don't discuss enough, and
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: that is our relationship with our fathers. How difficult was
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: it to explore that topic? It was hard. And the
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: reason why it was hard it wasn't the writing process.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: It was the editing process, which y'all all know. You know,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: you write it, but they look at it the editing process,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: and so when they're editing, it's calling upon you to
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: revisit and revisit over and over and over again. And
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't wait until the book was finished to like
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: show it to my sisters. I got four older sisters,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and I didn't wait until the book was finished. When
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I wrote those specific chapters, I sent it to them
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: and they didn't talk to me for two weeks. And
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I thought they were originally upset. They weren't upset. They
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: were just saying, we had buried these memories a long
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: time ago. And they said, and you brought it back up,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you don't. We ain't knocking you for it, We understand,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: but it just hurt a lot to revisit some of
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: those experiences because we had buried them for the longest time,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: and the details that you had they couldn't believe that
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I remembered because I reminded them, and they were like, yeah,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: this happened. That happened. No hero, Yeah, my dad, he wasn't.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I feel like the things you said about him in
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the book are the things you wanted to say about
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: him at his funeral. Yeah, that's accurate. Yeah, I told
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: him to his face. I didn't say anything in the
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: book that I didn't tell him to his face, So
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: let me be clear about that. In twenty eighteen, he
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: passed away, fourteen months after my mother passed away. And
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: when he passed away, I caught my sister Carmen the
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: morning of his funeral and I said, I'm doing the eulogy.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: And Karma was like, God, no, Steve, please please Steve,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: don't do this. Don't do this. She said, what are
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: you gonna say? I said, you'll find out when you
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: get to the funeral. And she's like, Steve, don't do this.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: What would mommy want? What would mommy want? You know
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: what mommy was? Say said, I got it, and I
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: was gonna go in and I was gonna literally say
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: everything that you see in the book. And and I
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: pet supposed. I called past the Arbor. No. Something told
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: me to call him. You know, I've been going to
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: see CC. I've known Pastor benar for thirty years. And
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: so I said, let me call him. And I called
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: him and told him what I was feeling. And he
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: was like, you right to feel that way. I'm very
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: familiar with your story. He said, you're not wrong. He said,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: but the Bible talks about God's grace and God's mercy,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: and he said, and you might want to think about
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: that before you decide to speak your truth. And when
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I eulogized my father, I went up on this. I
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: went up on the stage after everybody gave all the portables,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: all of you know, all all the nice things, the
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: pleasant geese they had to say about him. And I
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: walked up in the first words out of my mouth was,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: that's y'all memories of him, memories of my family. We
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: have an entirely different story. And I saw my cousin
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Derek kill over like, oh no, please. And I saw
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: my brother and lay was like, oh lord, he's about
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: to go in. And I saw neighbors that were in
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: the audience that I hadn't seen in years that just
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: showed up for my dad's funeral, and they were like,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: literally lip sacred to me, don't do this. And I said,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: my father was not a good man, I said. But
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: then I brought up my mother. I said, my mother
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: knows nothing about sports. I'm Steve and A I work
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: for ESPN. World knows the sports world knows who I am.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: My mother says EPs and whatever it is, I don't know.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: But she didn't even know the letters, I said. But
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: she knew what a home run was, she knew what
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: a no hitter was, she knew what a stolen base was,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: and she knew it because of him because she loved
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: my father so much that she knew baseball because of him.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I said, so, there evidently was something very special about
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: him to have a woman like my mother. And then
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I talked about a lot of the happy moments that
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: he gave us, and then I ended it by saying,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, he's still my dad
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: and I love him, and I don't think I would
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: have gotten to that point if it wasn't for Albornow.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: What made you change your perspective of how to talk
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: about him for the book was because you could add
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: more context, because I could add the full context. And
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: not only that, I owe it. If I'm gonna write it,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: you know, well, then you know they. I didn't know
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: it was gonna be like seventy eight to eighty thousand words,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: but I literally wrote ninety thousand words. I wrote the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: book myself, and when a ghostwriting it was me. I
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: wrote this book. I did the audio, and when there
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: was another voice, it was me, and I just said,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: if I'm gonna do this, then I owe it to everybody.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, and you know, because of the business that
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I'm in, I imagine talking to you, you or you
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I can see the questions, you know, because I'm experienced
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: enough to know what's coming. I know what I would ask,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I know what I would think about, and I wanted
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: to make sure that I left no doubt as to
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: where I stood. And you know what I was trying
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to say, and that's what I did. And I have
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: a question, even though obviously you know how you felt
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: when you were writing the book, because it was your
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: thoughts and feelings, was there a sense of like that
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: therapeutic element, like you know, and people actually put the
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: words on paper and write it down and read it
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: and look at it. A lot of authors say like
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: it's a form of therapy. It's like I finally got
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: it out my head on the paper. Possibly, So I'm not.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not saying that I didn't feel that way,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: but there was a bigger emotion coming from it all.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I when you know, when my mother passed away, to
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: see her in the grave before him, and to see
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: her deprived. She was seventy six years old. My mother
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: was at a point where let her go on a
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: couple of cruises a year and she's in heaven. What
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: was unforgivable to me was not paying any bills allowing
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: her to work the hours you were supposed to be working,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: to have the obligations you were supposed to have supposed
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: to take off. Said you had a conversation with him,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: when you had the conversation before he died, what was
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: his reason? Well, this was your years early. I would
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: tell you about five years early. We were in my
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: dining room. Were in my mother's dining room. He's in
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: there and his older brother, my uncle Freddie, was sitting
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: next to him. And my father was like, you don't
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: know what the hell you're talking about. You don't realize
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: what I've done for you. I said, you haven't done
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: anything for me, you know. He started arguing with me,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: and my uncle Freddie looked at him and he said,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: by Soul that was his middle name, by Soul, and
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: he said, shut the up. He said, this is Stephen.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: He's a journalist for a living. You know he knows
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: what you what You haven't have not done chapter in verse,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: You have no shot. Just be quiet. And my father
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: just sat back and just took it, and I just
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I just left it alone from me. All right. We
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: got more with Stephen A Smith when we come back.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Don't move it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, like everybody's
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: dj V. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: We got our guest hosts La La joining us. Now
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: we have Stephen A Smith in the building. Charlemagne, just
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: keep ever get in trouble for anything, he said on
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: first take, because you talk about the times your first take,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: or can you talk about it the you've got in
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: trouble off for a pick, And I'm like, well, Skip
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: had crazy opinions too, and the opinions you had weren't
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: necessarily like SI. I never recalled Skip getting in trouble
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: ever in terms of a suspension or anything like that.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: When I got suspended, I was furious. I did not
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: believe I deserved it. I was pissed off to the
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: highest degree because I just thought that, you know, it
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: was made into something that it wasn't. And so for me,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: whatever my opinions are, I don't mind anybody coming at
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: me about that. This is what we feel about what
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: you said. It's when they try to branch it out
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: and turn it into something that it was not. That's
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: what pisses me off. Because what happens is when you
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: have Disney, Disney and I'm not knocking Disney for this
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: at all. Listen, man, we got stockholders, got shareholders, You
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: got people to a piece, and so you got to
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: pay attention to everybody. You ain't after black white, hispanic appeal.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: You have to mass appeal. You want it all. And
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: so as a result of that, you have to pay
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: attention to everything and everybody. And so when that noises made,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: my boss at the time felt compelled to respond to
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the noise. And when he got suspended forty eight hours earlier,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: he told me I wasn't gonna be suspected, and then
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: you know, he turned around selected me. And so for me,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: it was I've learned a lot, I'm a lot better
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: and what I try to do. And all of y'all
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: can attest to this. At one time or another, We've
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: all had private conversations. I whispered something in y'all ear
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: about something to watch out for. I'm very, very big
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: about these are the mind fields watch out because what
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I'm saying is, as a product of corporate America, somebody
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: that's been in corporate America for over thirty years, I
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: kind of know where the mind feels up. And so
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: as a result of that, I might see cats on
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: to come up that I think is going to be
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: in my position or an even higher position, and I'm saying,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: come in, let me make sure I tip you off
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to this, watch out for this, watch out for this,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: watch out for that, because I want y'all to succeed.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I don't want y'all to field who the hell wants
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: to be successful alone. Oh oh j it shocked me too,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: But he didn't listen. He he walked off the set
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: that I ain't coming back until my man comes back
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: on because he knew it was wrong too. But I
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: was really shocked that he took that position. I certainly
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: didn't ask him too, and I'm appreciative of that. Doesn't
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: mean I mean we still disagree ninety nine percent of
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: the time, but I did appreciate the fact that he
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: took that position on my behalf. Who are the worst fans?
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Are they cowboy fans fans or the Navy fans? Cowboy fans?
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Nobody's worse. Nobody's worse. But I will tell you I
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: would tell the Navy got at you a little bit.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: First of all, let me be very very clear, but
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: I don't give a damn I want to be very
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: very clear about that doesn't phase me. It really really doesn't.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I'm just after you know, you know me for years.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I'm just built that way. Rihanna, if she had a problem,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: that would have bothered me, not her fans. I want
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I challenge anybody to tell me one negative thing I
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: said about that wonderful performing young lady. Are you excited
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: for this halftime show? I don't want to say I'm
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: not excited. She's fantastic. That's not where That's not where
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I'm going with this. Where you going, ladies and ladies
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: and gentlemen. She's a lot of things. She spectacular acts. Yes,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: and congratulations on new mama hood. Yes, I think there's
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: one thing she's not Huh, she ain't Beyonce. I no
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: nuanced to it. And you just said Rihanna. Let you
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: say Rihanna doesn't perform as well. Let me give you
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: any time, Let me give you Let me keep on
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: the inside. Sherry Shepherd's team. I'm promote my book last Tuesday.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Sherry Shepherd's team comes up to me and they said,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: since you're here, we want a debate like format. We're
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: gonna have fun with it. I said, Okay, we're gonna
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: get a problem. I didn't know what they were gonna ask, right,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: But let's show the problem. So I'm expecting your debate, right,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Rihanna's great, but I'm thinking you got a lot to
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: live up to because there's only one Beyonce. Now you agree, fine,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: you disagree? Fine, How we get to the point why
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: he got to pit two black women again? Really? Well,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: I can't. I can't. I just can't be a fan both.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: But I prefer Beyonce over Rihanna. That's a crime. Now,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: and I didn't know that. In your book you talk
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: about learning lessons, yes, and you have gotten in trouble
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: for that before. When us Curry against Savantage, that's right,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: listen first of all this yeah, yeah, fair question, la la,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna talk. I'm gonna I'm I didn't know.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Yes, yes, let me explain what happened.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: So Steph Curry is in Game six of the NBA Finals.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Lebron and Kyrie are coming. They won Game five after
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Draymond got suspriended, bo getting Ega Dollar got hurt. They
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: win Game five. Game six, they coming at Golden State.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: They down twelve with about four minutes left. As Steph
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Curry fouls out. Steph Curry pulls out his mouthpiece tries
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: to throw head the official, but missus HiT's a fan
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: by accident. Blah blah blah, i Issia Curry goes ballistic.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: What y'all may not have known was that, And I
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: love i Usia Curry. I mean, and no problem, no throwing,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: no shade on her whatsoever. I'm just telling what happened.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Prior to the game, she had tweeted that she was
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: upset because they were backed up in traffic. Now Jay
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Z and Beyonce were coming to the game, but nobody knew.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: So the Cleveland, the reader and the gunder or whatever
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: it was the quickest loan as the reader, they held
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: up the traffic. So she was mad about that and
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: was talking about how the wives and the family of
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: the players were Golden State would be inconvenience. She complained
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: something else about the officiating blah blah blah. So crazy,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: but stop so so. So what happened is that she
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: did that and then she went off after Steph Curry,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: you know, fouled out all of that other stuff. What
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I was, you are representing your man at that particular
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: moment in time. Anything that you do, it's not you,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: it's the wife of him, and so because of that
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: you have to guard yourself and be careful. But now
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: that they've lost too straight and Lebron and the Cabs
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: have been given it to them, suddenly stuff is rigged.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: She's an adorable young lady with an incredibly promising future.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: I wish a nothing but love, respect and happiness. But
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: you can't do that. You just can't do that. And
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: I'm quite sure somebody got to her, which is why
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: she ultimately deleted the tween. My other point that I
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: would like to make, which will be deemed somewhat controversial,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: but I don't particularly give it damn. I will present
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: in question form rhetorical or otherwise, if that was Savannah
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Lebron's wife, what would we be saying? And I got
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: news for you. It is beautiful, as everybody wants to say,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: how ancient Curry is and she is Savannah is something special.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Skip comes back at me and says, oh, please, you
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: know what are you talking about? Blah blah blah blah,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: And I'm jumping in like, wait a minute. You will
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: get on Lebron about anything, how all of a sudden,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: this escapes you. You know what I'm saying. So that's
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: how the whole Savannah Asia thing came up, because what
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: I was saying was, if this with Lebron, you would
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: have found an excuse to jump on him. And we
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: all know that Savannah, it's phenomenal. So what are you
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: talking about? That's all I was saying. If La La
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: is in a public position, if you or you are
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: in a public situation in the moment and there's a
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: tension that some your spouse or your significant other could
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: potentially bring to you that could detrimental, that can make
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: a detrimental to what you're trying to accomplish, they can't
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: get in the way of that. That's all I was
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: trying to say. I've been in that position. The thing
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: is that also nobody in this room has been married
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: to an NBA player before. Day in and day out,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: you're hearing about things that are going on, You're getting
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: invented to about everything. You have emotions, You act off
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: emotions sometimes, so every night you're hearing about this whatever's
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: being said, and it's just building up and you get
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: protective and then something just set you off and you
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: want to say something because you realize your spouse has
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: continuously taken the high road. I said earlier, I remember
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: a time we talked about it before you came, when
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: I think I treated something at Skip Bayliss because I
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: was like, yo, enough with the mellow slander every single
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: day and he's not saying anything, and I'm just like,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: this is enough because now it's affecting the household, it's
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: affecting the mood, it's affects so it becomes a bigger thing.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: That's like somebody got to say something. Now. Is it
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: a right time and place for those things? Of course,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: But when you care about somebody, when you're protective, and
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: when you're competitive, we're all competitors and you act off emotion,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: you say things that might not be the right time
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: the right place, but at that time you're not thinking
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: like that. That's absolutely true. And my point is is
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: that I didn't blame how he should curry for anything.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: You know, I was saying in that moment, you can't
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: do that. I've never said a word about her prior
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: to that, right, and so I said that. And when
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: I said that, horror response was you pay two black
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: women against each other? And I was like, what how
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: we get to that son? Whether or not? Okay? Fine,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: I didn't look at it that way, but that's fine.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: If you're saying that I did, okay, well, then now
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: I'll correct it. I find out weeks later the sports center,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: the six o'clock sports Center, that was supposed to be
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: given to me, and it was taken away from me
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: because of that. It's gonna be taken away from you
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: because Rihanna nothing nothing, and you know something and and
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: and and if it ever does fine, because at the
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: end of the day, there's a level of authenticity that
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: has to come with what we do. I'm gonna be me,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: damn it. That's how I feel. All Right, we got
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: molways stephen A. Smith when we come back, don't move.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, but everybody the guy.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got our guest hosts
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: La La joining us. Now we have Stephen A. Smith
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: in the building, La La. So do you just feel
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: like in your position you really just cannot care what
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: anyone thinks about you? Because I feel like people always
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: want to say like, I don't care what anybody but
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: there is a point that everyone does care and everyone
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: has a place where they truly do want to be.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: But I'm not saying I don't care about what people
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: think in general, La la. I'm saying there are certain
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: things we can't care about because we know it's not
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: as unfair and as inhumane as people are trying to
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: make it out to be. If I sat up there
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: and I disrespected Rihanna and I said I don't care,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: that's a problem because she doesn't deserve that. She's home,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: she's a new mom, she's a beautiful artist, she's doing
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: her things. Most people would dream to have the life
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: that she's had. She's earned it. I got nothing but
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: mad lover and respect for her. If I said something
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: disrespectful like that and I didn't care, that's a problem.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: That's a lack of humanity. I would never do that.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: What I'm saying is it's not a crime to say
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I'm a huge Beyonce fan. There is only one and
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: you about to go on the same stage. She has
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: blessed not once, but twice, and there is a standard
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: to live up. Yeah, there's nothing wrong. You come on
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: first take. I'm sorry, y'all, there's a bar that's been set.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I've said it. You come on Breakfast Club. There's a
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: bar that's been set. Y'all said it. You do what
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: the things, all the different things that you're doing with
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: power and now being method. I'm seeing you. I'm watching
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: what you're doing. You know you continue to assend well, damn,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: everybody can't measure up to you. Now that doesn't mean
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: they're whack. It doesn't mean they're not gifted. It means
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: they're not you. You gotta line, that's all. You gotta
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: line of the book that kind of sums that up.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: You say on first take, we capitalize on the kind
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: of polarization people supposedly at horror. What's the word I believe?
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: So I'm trying to remember. I mean, I read it,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: I read it loving times, But I'm in terms of
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: what like what you're discussing like, it's the kind of
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: polarization you know people act like that, don't like but
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: what do it? But what I'm saying is this, you
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: wake up and you pay attention. We all do it.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: You have a show, you know what's trending, you know
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: what's newsworthy, you know what's percolating and as it was,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: and not only that, you know who percolates, and so
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: because of that, it determines what subject matter you're going
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: to tackle. Because you're not doing the show for you,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: You're doing the show for the audience you're trying to reach.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: And I have an audience that has an expectation as
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: it pertains to content, and so when we're talking about
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: sports and it's me, there's a level of expectation that
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: they have as it pertains to the issues I'm willing
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: to tackle. I'm mindful and cognizant of that, and I
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: operate accordingly. And when somebody questions that, I would remind
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: them I've been number one for eleven years, every month,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: every year for eleven years, so evidently I kind of
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: have an idea of what people want to see an
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  Speaker 1: ear all right, now, I know you gotta go. I
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  Speaker 1: got one more question. It ties into all of this,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: and then no safe that chapter. You know, you talk
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: about basically personalities who attack other personalities for things they
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: say because you talk about it. I think it was
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: the Ray Rice Cans and yes, everybody got upset with
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: what you said about that, and I feel the same way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, man, if you got a microphone in front
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  Speaker 1: of you, you're going to say something at some point
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  Speaker 1: that you're going to get backlash. Four. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: understand when I see other personalities like calling for other
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: personalities to be fired. Yeah, what it is is And
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: remember this, all three of y'all here, Remember what I'm
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: about to say. When you're winning, they always coming for you, because, unfortunately,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: particularly in this day and age, their definition of winning
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: the closest they can get to it is knocking you
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: off your perch instead of creating one for their own.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: It's inevitable. And it's just like when he used to
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: call me donkey of the day and all of this
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: other stuff that people expected me to have a problem
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: with him when I first met you. What did I say?
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Had no problem with him? Whatsoever? You say, because he
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: didn't attack me. He attacked what I felt about a
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: particular issue. I know the difference. They wanted to create
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: that divide. You're not creating that because I'm going to
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: root for y'all and I want y'all a root for me,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: and I'm a root for a whole bunch of brothers
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: and sisters to make it. But in the same breath,
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: you have to be real and authentic about what's going
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: on in the moment that it's going on, and do
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  Speaker 1: what you can to enlighten folks. If you feel you
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: have an enlightening point of view, that's what you do.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: And you let the tips tore where they make. People
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: who don't win are real good about doing what you describe.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: Let them keep doing it because it reminds you that
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: you a winner. Otherwise they wouldn't be talking about you.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: I learned a lot from you, and I feel like
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: it's vice versa. I do want to say this because
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: I was really sitting here thinking about what we were
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: talking about earlier, and I want to say this. You know,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: it is important. Everyone can have an opinion and who
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: you like better, who is your opinion. But I will
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: say this as a black woman, Let's acknowledge and celebrate
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: the fact that we have two amazing, talented black women
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: who were able to do the halftime show at the
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: super Bowl outside of sports bands and players. The majority
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: of people I know, that's the reason they watched the
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: super Bowl, not for who's playing. They're watching for that
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: halftime show. So let's acknowledge an uplift and applaud the
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: fact that on such a huge forum you had Beyonce
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: and now you have Rihanna as a black woman. I'm
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: proud of that. That's something that makes me proud. That
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: doesn't take away from your opinion on who you like
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: more or whatever whatever, But at that moment, for me,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: it's about uplifting the fact that we need to celebrate that. Well,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: let me say, well, let me end up by saying this.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: I completely agree with that one thousand percent. And what
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: you're saying and what you would prefer is entirely different
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: than someone throwing out an accusation that my sentiment was
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: making it a divide between two black women. That's a difference.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: You're just simply saying they're both great, let's celebrate them,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: no problem, no problem, whatsoever. That's entirely different than and
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: understanding that they're both the reason that majority people are
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: even watching. That's right. You guys are watching for the
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: sports aspect, and majority people are watching, right. But what
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: happens is is that when we question people's intent because
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: they express something differently, what happens is then you didn't
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  Speaker 1: lose those faults. Those folks that they like that because
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: they're like, oh, here they go with this, and I'm
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: like No, At the end of the day, Rihanna is phenomenal,
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  Speaker 1: and she's got her own army or navy as they
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: sat Beyonce, it's got her crew. They're both fantastic, they
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: both sell out stadiums and arenas. They're both making gobs
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: and gobs of money, and they've earned it. Okay, much
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: love and respect to you. Ain't no doubt about it.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: I'm root for I ain't rooting against her. I'm just
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: a Beyonce fan. I think with these microphones, uh, you know,
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: and it's something that we would debate to the end
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: of time. Intention versus impact, Yes, because it's a lot
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: of times my intention wasn't to offend. But then somebody
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: like a lot gotta be like, nah, you offend, you offended.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you impacted that person in a negative way.
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  Speaker 1: Right in those moments. You just gotta follogiy to keep
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  Speaker 1: it moving. Yeah, you know, I understand, we gotta go,
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  Speaker 1: which is which is what I did. But let me
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  Speaker 1: to the rumors. Throw my hat name or you gossip
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  Speaker 1: Shop recently talking about his parenting skills because he has
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  Speaker 1: going through, I love him through it and I can't
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  Speaker 1: say he a great kid enough. But the media don't
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: talk enough about the good point basis. And you know,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: when we're young, we kind of talk about things based
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  Speaker 1: on how we think they should be right rather than
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  Speaker 1: acknowledging them for how we know they are right. And
• 54:32
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  Speaker 1: light on the fact we all got bad as keys.
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  Speaker 1: when there is a kid making bad decisions or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times people just automatically placed all the
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  Speaker 1: blame on a parents or just assume that because the
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• 55:41
  Speaker 1: are performing at the twenty twenty three Super Bowl the
• 55:43
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• 55:47
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• 55:49
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• 55:54
  Speaker 1: also perform with the rendition of America the Beautiful. So
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: that's in addition to see Rihanna performing at the halftime show.
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  Speaker 1: And like I was saying, just eapen as most people
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: that I know are watching the super Bowl for this stuff.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: They want to watch the halftime show. They want to
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: watch the pre show, see who's performing, and get it,
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  Speaker 1: get into it. You said something during Steven as a
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: fit of you that was really You're like, how we
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: should celebrate the fact that, you know, we've had Beyonce
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: and Rihanna before these super Bowl halftime shows. We forgetting
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: RAJ Blige was there last year too. It's unbelievable, and
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's what we should be talking about
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: and being excited about and showing up for them and
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: loving on them and supporting them. I mean, there was
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: a time where you would you would never see something
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: like that as a black woman woman empowerment. It's just
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: so powerful to turn on TV and see that, see
• 56:46
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• 56:49
  Speaker 1: think that's what should be celebrated and talked about more
• 56:52
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• 56:54
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• 56:58
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• 57:01
  Speaker 1: needs our own set, though we can have that discussion.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: I think get headline her own super Bowl halftime show.
• 57:07
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  Speaker 1: for Wednesday, January twenty fifth goes to Carmela and mains
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  Speaker 1: was taken into custody Wednesday and Clearwater, Florida after she
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: failed to show up the court the face shoplifting charges.
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• 58:50
  Speaker 1: processed at the county jail. A body scanning revealed an
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  Speaker 1: anomaly in her genital area. I don't even know why
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: I'm using big words like anomaly for no reason. They
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: found something odd in her genitals. I know what you're thinking.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: Was it the penis? All right? It can be a
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: little confusing when someone tells you they are a woman,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: you know, but that's actually just what they identify at it.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: Then when you get down there, whoa, you're staring at
• 59:11
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• 59:13
  Speaker 1: wasn't a penis, Okay, It was a pipe, right, Not
• 59:16
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• 59:18
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• 59:21
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• 59:24
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• 59:28
  Speaker 1: in her vagina. Okay, yes, When officials conducted the script
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: search of the suspect, they found a glass crack pipe
• 59:34
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• 59:37
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• 59:39
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• 59:42
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• 1:00:02
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• 1:00:08
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  Speaker 1: I look at her muck shot. Let's play a game. Okay,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: here we got clay game of Yes, what race? All right? First,
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  Speaker 1: Carmela and mains of claid Water, Florida. She got caught
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  Speaker 1: with a crack pipe in her vagina, and she told
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  Speaker 1: officers it was a sex toy. Lot lazy, guess what
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  Speaker 1: race she is? What makes you think that? Fla leavy?
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  Speaker 1: This is just what I think. Sticking to it, did
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: I win the money? Where Carmela and mains of claar Water, Florida,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: got caught with a crack pipe in her vagina, told
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: officers it was a sex toy. Yes, what race she is?
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: It's a tough one. Okay, See because my black people,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: they they like the high stuff, they like the maneuver.
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  Speaker 1: They don't master the black thing. Knock it off. It's
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: not just a black thing. Everybody got asses in vaginas,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: were not everybody. Everybody got to ask every Yeah, you know,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: m hmm, I'm gonna go with white. Okay, what the reason?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, She's just a feeling some white crackheadish stuff. Well,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: La La, and both of you are right. She definitely
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: a crackhead tell why. I was a little confused, right,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: what she looks like a crackhead? What do you mean, Well,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: she don't look like a woman. You know what, Let's
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: keep it moving, you crack man. I can't believe that.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: The vagina and this one. All right, thank you for
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: the day. Next, come on whom right, you guys got
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: a vagina? Come on, come on, whosa boom side. Okay,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: all right, Now, this morning Lila came up here and
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: she she was on fire. I don't know why. Yeah,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: she came in at six o'clock this morning, was on
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: five Like, I have something I want to talk today
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: on asshole marriage. Yes, so do we pose the question first?
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  Speaker 1: I was talking about I feel like currently marriage is
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  Speaker 1: not a goal for people. I don't hear people who
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: aren't married saying like I want to get married. You
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: just start hearing it less and less like before that
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: was a goal, like before social media and just the
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: way people interact Now, I'm not in conversations with people
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: who are talking about like I can't wait to meet
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: someone and get married. Now people say, yeah, I want
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: to meet somebody, be in a relationship, you know, have
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: this bond, But I don't need the marriage piece to
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: feel like it's successful. And most not saying all be
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: careful with my words. Most married people that I know
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: are miserable. They're not happy and don't want to be married.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: They would prefer to be single. And what's happening is
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: people look at the stats and they say, oh, well,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: divorce rates are going down, But the issue is less
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: people are getting married. People don't want to get married.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: At the first thing people gonna think is a lot
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: being a lot of weddings. Stop looking at all the
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: weddings you've been in over the last few years. They're
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: gonna look at your friend circle that's married, and they're
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: gonna be like it is saying that day all miserable. No,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. I'm because you're just talking about
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: I'm saying in general, in general, well in general, I
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: don't talk to people in general who are just like marriage, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: love my marriage. Yeah. It's just you guys are a
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: small minority. And what I'm saying is people who are
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: not married hear me out. I don't hear them talking
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: as marriage, looking at marriage as a goalie married. But
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: the reason I want to talk about it because I
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: want to get a better understanding of why. And also
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: people are starting to feel like marriage is really just
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: a business agreement between two people. It's like, I don't
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: need that. I'd rather meet somebody, you know, have love,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: have loyalty, but I don't need the marriage party. Right now,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: people are going to also say, lil feels that way
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: because just got and that's okay. Yeah, yeah, let's let's
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: talk about it. When we come back. We'll take some calls.
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  Speaker 1: Is marriage still a goal? Eight hundred five eight five
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  Speaker 1: one oh five one, Let's talk about it? Call us
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: up right now. Let's be respectful in our opinions. People, Okay,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: respectful conversation. All right, that's the Breakfast Club. Go morning,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. It's topic times. The phone called eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred five eight five one oh five. Want to join
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  Speaker 1: in to the discussion with the breakfast club, talk about it.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: I want to go. Everybody is dj n V Charlomagne
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We have our
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: guest host La La here, who came in this morning
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: on fire gave me with an f marriage T shirt
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: on right, say that I just I'm a person that
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: I like to get an understanding. I want to know
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: why is it like that? People just throwing the why.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: They're like, what, why does it feel like marriage is
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: not a goal for people in this day and age
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: with social media, people aren't even dating like that. People
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: are saying, I pulled up statistics. People are saying dating
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: is not even a priority anymore. They have other things
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: they would rather do than date or meeting people, you know,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: in the traditional way. So people are saying, because of that,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: we have no interest in getting married, or you wouldn't
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: get married again. I wouldn't get married again, but I
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: was married, so at least, like I say, I did it,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: and you know, it didn't work out the way I
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: had planned, but it's not something I would want to
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: do again, but I did it. So I'm telling about
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: people who are saying they have no interest in ever
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: doing it or wanting to do it. It's not like
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: a goal of people. And even people that are in relationships,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of them are not saying like the goal
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: for our relationship is to get married. It's like the
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: goal is to be together, have a dope relationship, you know,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: and be companions forever. But people are not feeling like
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: the measure of success in relationships is like getting married.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: So do you feel like not getting married is the
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: easy way out meeting when you first get married, and
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: let's say you and Melo or me and Gil or
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: Charlemagne and his wife. When I have problems, you're married,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: y'all have to work through it. It's not like you
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: can say I'm out on one. Y'all have to work
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: through it. You're married, so there's gonna be good times.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: But if you're not married and somebody gets on your nerves,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: you could just be like, you know what, I don't
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: want to deal with them out, So it doesn't make
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: the relationship as strong because there's nothing binding to you,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: because it's almost like could be out when I want
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: to be out right. But for a lot of people,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: they'll say that the reason that they don't just want
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: to be out is because it's a business agreement. There's
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: paperwork between the two of you. So if I get
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: out now, I gotta deal with splitting assets or an
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: everything like that, or dealing with lawyers and paperwork, and
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: people don't want to do that. So it's like, is
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: it a union of love and like Charlottage, just a
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: tell death to us part? Or is it a piece
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: of paper that's binding two people. I always say marriage
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: is really easy to get in and really hard to
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: get out. It's it's hard to get out, and people
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: don't really understand that when you're dealing with lawyers and
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: what you have to pay and things like that, it's
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: really hard to get out. I wonder if this is
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: more of a product of us being just connected because
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: of technology and social media, Like folks don't have real
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: connections anymore, and they aren't making real connections anymore, you
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I wonder if this is
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: just a by product of that, like people not being
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: able to establish real connections anymore. So there is no
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: there is no goal to be married, because there's no
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: goal to even make a real connection. But it was
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: always a goal because my parents are married, right and
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: they're still married to the day, fifty sixty years married,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: whatever it is. But for me, it's like, yeah, every marriage,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: we have our problems, right that, we get into argument,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: you get into fights. It takes communication, it takes work.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: But the happiest days of my life is being married.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: My wife comes home today and I'm excited, like I'm happy,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: she's happy, like we can't wait to see each other
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: because I did. It's it's you know, laying next to
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: my wife, but it's also I met it at fifteen.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: That's there wasn't nothing. It was nothing. I had glasses,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: embraces and act he was a nerd, Then you're a nerd.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: Now she loved that nerd the whole way through yescause
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: I'm not a nerd. Now I get what you're saying.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: I love being married. I've been blocked to be the
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: same personal twenty five years. So that's my best friend.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: I was able to marry my best friend. But that's
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: when I go back to we were able to establish
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: a real connection in a time where you weren't dealing
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: with social media and the way people people even talking
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: to each other anymore. It's DMS, it's it's apps, it's
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: all these other things. But that connection of like talking
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: to someone again, that's not happening anymore. So what I'm
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: saying is this conversation that you guys just share me
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: about both of your marriages. I'm saying people are hearing
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: that less and less and less and marriage. Imagine young
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: people dating are saying dating is no longer priority because
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: they have better things to do. But if people getting
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: married because they're actually best friends, like they really are
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: friends or is it she looked good, he looked good.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: Let's taking the time to connect with someone enough to
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: call them their best friend. So what a couple of goals?
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: Then would everybody be online and they'd be like a couple,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: a couple of goals? And who this person's a couple
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: of goals? One olds? What did that mean? They don't
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: want to be booed up. Well, here's the thing, Like,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: obviously Sierra is one of my best friends and she
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: has an incredible marriage, and Russell's an incredible guy in
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: an incredible relationship. I will just say that to me,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: I'm happy that I'm able to see that because that's
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: not the norm of what I see. That's not the
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: normal of what I see. So I'm happy that I'm
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: able to have that example, to still have that hope
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: that that kind of love and connection really does exist.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: But that's not the normal. That's good because what she's
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: saying is true because the normal what we see is
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: the guy cheating and then the woman expected to always
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: be there. You know what I mean? Think about like this,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: if you take care of your wife or your girl,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: and you do too much. They call your sin. You're sucker,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: You're doing too much. You you this with But that's
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: your queen. Aren't you supposed to take care of your
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: best friend, your queen, your girl, you love your I'm
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: supposed to get flowers. Aren't you supposed to do? That's
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: what my dad show me. That's my dad to my mom. Yeah,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: but I'm just saying again, it goes back in this
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: day and age. That's not how it's looked at. The
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: last question before we go to the phone, mind, what
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: do you tell your son about marriage? It's a It's
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: an interesting and sometimes difficult conversation because we're all products
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: of what we saw growing up. So unfortunately, my son
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: saw a failed marriage. He does still see two people
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: that genuinely love and care about each other and are
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: amazing parents to him, and we work collectively as a unit.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: But he did see a broken marriage. So I don't
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: expect him to view marriage as this incredible thing because
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: I saw my parents not be married anymore. That's his
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: view on it. So I have to tell him, like,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: that's not you. You can meet someone and love them
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: and fall in love and want to get married and
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: it's a beautiful thing. And that's like my mom got you.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: I don't like that failed marriage talk, though. I don't
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: think that the marriage failed just because two people you know,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: grew apart or whatever. You know, they don't mean it
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: you failed. Did that. We did it, and we did
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: it for a long time. If I'm saying I was
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: when when it was good, it was good. That's right. Hello,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: who's this bad morning? Vanessa? He La. We're saying this
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: marriage still a goal, Vanessa. Marriage is still very much
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: the goal of mine. How do you I'm thirty sick? Okay,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: all right, okay, so what you waiting on? Are you dating?
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: You got a man I was looking? Um, I am
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: date with a perfect Okay? I think about me is
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: I'm a very confident Um. I'm very tall, but I'm beautiful,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: so like my standards are high. Everybody says sometimes I
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: need to lower my standards. I refuse you than anybody short,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: that's disrespectful. My assistant is six three, and I tell
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: her the same thing. I'm like, you're not gonna find
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: somebody taller like the it's not as many people have
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: you seen? Your assistance bangs me? Sades A very pretty girl,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: somebody needs to draw them bangs back like blind. But
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: the thing about it is is like I have friends
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: and like friends who are married, friends who are single,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: and we all talk um and I've really listened to them,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: my married friends, about like their marriage and stuff like that.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it does turn me off when I hear things
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: about men cheating, women cheating, and I'm just like, what
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: is the purpose. But then I'm feel like very very
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: hope fool that. You know. I don't think every like
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: Charle Mayne say all men, all black men don't cheat.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: I don't think all black men do cheat. But I
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: do think at some point in time men have cheated
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: at one point time. They're live. Queen God, God is
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: telling me to tell you this right now, I just
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: got this dollar. Boy God, your blessing is five foot five.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: Your blessing is five in your blessing Because you want
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: to keep your head to the sky, you should be optimistic,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: but you gotta look down a little bit both right, Like,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: don't block man, I also wear hell. I don't care.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: I know You're blessing is five. That's my time. You
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: look happy. You'll look happy. That's what you look like. Happy.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: But that's don't block it, blessing. I tell my sister
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: at the same time, and let me ask you a question.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: Do people do this here all the time? They come
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: up to you and act like they're playing basketball? Post
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: you up, Yes, I do play basketball. I'm not telling
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: a man like I played basketball. He's like, oh I can,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: I can school you on the court, and I'm like,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. You do you know
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: that doing? Do you know Jesus probably was five five
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: because the average height of men around that time with
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: five point five. Scholars have said this, y'all are missing
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: y'all blessings not dating short men. I agree with you, okay,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. Five a five one oh five one?
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: Is marriage still a goal? It's the breakfast Club. Good morning.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: Can we get into a little marry and math please? Yeah,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: let's get into that. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: Call me to the breakfast Club time five one morning.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: Everybody is dj n V Charlemagne the guy. We are
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. We got our special guest hosts Lilla
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: joining us today and she was talking about marriage and
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: we're asking is marriage still a goal? And lie for
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: herself said no, you don't want to get married because
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: I've done it already. I've done it already. I've checked
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: it off the list. I've done already of good. While
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: it was good, it's ultimately you know, didn't work out,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: and I don't need to revisit that. It's like I
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: told that last call a lot, you might need to
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: just try again with short men. You know what I mean?
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: If my blessing comes in, I size five five? Hello,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: who's this? What's talk this? Jersey? What's up? Broll? Talk
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: to us? What's going on? It's Lola, good morning? Are
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: you doing well? Marriage? And I got married six months ago.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: I love him. I wouldn't had changed nothing ever, Like
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: it's just a beautiful thing. I wanted to get married.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: I quote him my wife for for years and we
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: finally got to not and it's beautiful. Man. But you
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: gotta want to be married. You gotta want to put
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: it in the work. You know, this, this is a word.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: This is another job. You have to want to do it.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: That's real, do it, you know, if you don't want
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: to do it, you know, most people stay single or more. Instagram.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: You know I'm with you. Hello, who's this? This is
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: Ebony from whom he's in Connecticut. How are you guys? Hey? Um,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: I personally feel like it has to do everything with
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: music and who people are listening to now. A lot
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: of the music out now is portraying a lot of
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: no love. Uh, get a whole bunch of holes. Um,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: It's it's just a whole lot of talk about no love,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: even though people are actually looking for love. Like nobody
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: wants to be alone. Everybody wants to have somebody, but
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: everyone's going to get numerous as people instead of just
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: one and settling. But but does not want to be alone.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: Me and you have to be married. You can get
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: a dog boyfriend. That's true. That's true, you can. But
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: the what I'm saying is that the view of music
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: now is what is making people feel like they don't
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: want to go and actually find love, fall in love,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: and then allow themselves to settle down. But I also
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: would say this, you know, growing up on how Oldie So,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: growing up you heard music the same way. You know,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: you could go back to jay Z, whether it was
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: Big Pimping a Girls, Girls Girls, or some of those
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: other songs that we grew up to as well, was
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: kind of the same thing. R and B has changed
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: a lot, but we grew up the songs like that
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: as well. That's true, that is true, But I think
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: it's a lot like um. The music videos are just
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: a little bit more graphical now, and I guess people
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: are able to express themselves a lot. I agree with that,
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: and I think there was more of a balance back then.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: It was of a little bit of both. Now it's
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: it's not so much of that. I agree, even in
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: R and B. Hello, who's this Hi? This is Michelle, Michelle, Michelle,
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: what are you calling from Jersey? Okay? Talk to us.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely believe that marriage, in the sense that we
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: have been indoctrinated to believe in, might be played out
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: not necessarily a goal. I think you have to understand
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: what people you married as, because a lot of people
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: don't think that it takes standing in front of a judge,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: a preacher, or signing pay that you pay the state
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: bore to be married. Marriage is largely about commitment, because honestly,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: if it takes a piece of paper for you to
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: be faithful to me, I don't know if I want
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: you anywhere. You don't need a ring to be my wife?
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: Won't I say truly. Yeah, that's y'all. Even for the Bible, sumpers.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: If you look at in the Bible and the Old Testament,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: all it took for marriage was sex and a commitment. Well,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: that's what the commitment was, what made the difference between
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: your wife and your concubine. You're right, but you know
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: the problem with the Bible dump was somebody putting there
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: that you can't have sex before marriage. So a lot
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: of people started getting married. I don't think anybody put
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: in there that you can have sex before marriage. People
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: really got to read their Bible because that's not in
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: the Bible. That's the thing that man has begun to
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: doubt because sex is the marriage. Actually, so all of
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: this about shafting, all of this about for anication. If
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: you really understand the transmitteration of the word for an,
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: if you are a real he Drew Greek scholar, and
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: you go and look into the meaning of these words,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: Fornication is not about sex. Fornication is idolatry, idolizing other gods.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: So you telling me that everybody that we've had sex with,
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: we've been married, No, not if you didn't make a
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: commitment to be with that person. Remember there is a
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: clear delineation you have to make that commitment. You have
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: to decide, because honestly, marriage is a contract between people.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: But whether that requires a signature from somebody at the
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: state and a license where you're literally paying to be
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: committed to someone, I think that's really the question. Yeah,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: I say your point on that part. Yeah, on that part.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: That's why the new the Lebron James version of the
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: Bible said I don't let him hold You got very
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: clear about not being committed to people. The story of
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: the story, the moral of the story to me is
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: that times have definitely changed. It actually said me a
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: little bit that that's not the goal anymore for a
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: lot of people. But we're living in a new day
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: and age, a new way of meeting people, a new
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: way of socializing, a new way of communicating with each other.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: And I do feel like you can have an amazing
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: commitment with somebody without necessarily that piece of paper that
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: binds you to that. But you did catch the bouquet
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: at the last weather you at she catch the bouquet everywhere.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: A lot of best wide receiver in the game they
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: throw it right at my face. I can do. It's
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: coming right towards me. Well, if you decide to do
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: it again, lot, just know, short men make better husbands.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: These are statistical facts. Okay, you can google it. All right.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: We make up and with them what we lack in stature.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: Short guys make better partners, okay. And if you marry one,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: your relationship is more likely to last. And you can
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: carry on your back if you need to walk around.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: I'm not even making this up. The research it seems
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: short of men make more faithful partners. A survey done
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: by Ashley Madison, which is the dating type for marry people. Yes,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: it says taller men are twice more likely to cheat
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: than the ones whose height is less than five peaked
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: in inches. Your blessing ladies is five foot six? All right,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: five five? And you know what else? Think about when
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: you're tall. When you're tall, you see everything correct. When
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: you shot the women, I cann't see my eye. I
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: can't believe there's a stat that does that. Wow't you
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: a short man, blessing ladies? All right? Well, thank you?
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: All right? Well, we got rumors coming up talking about
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: kim Ka. You staying, I'm out of here. It's the
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: breakfast club. Good morning, the breakfast club morning. Everybody is
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: dj NV Charlomagne the God. We are the breakfast clubbing
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: at our guest hosts in the building. A la la.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: Now let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Kim Kardashian
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: from my hat, sit from name? Or you gossiping or
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: you chatting? Is the rumor report? I mean, I guess
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: we're on the breakfast club. This is where the tea
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: spells right now, on the breakfast club. Now it looks
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: like Pete Davison removed all his tattoos that he dedicated
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: to his ex Kim kardashing Now you know, Pete Davison
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: is twenty nine years old and he got a bunch
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: of tattoos on his body. Uh, I guess saying that
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: my girl is a lawyer, and a couple of other tattoos.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: He even he got one that says k N SCP,
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: which people believe it's for Kim's four kids North Saint
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: Chicago in PSALM. So he got him all removed. God damn.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: But what kind of witchcraft kardashis doing? The pe What
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: you mean? Yo? You look, you know what kind of witchcraft?
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: You must have? Have more people to be having them
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: get tattoos like that and not married. God damn. But
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: you know, Pete, my little bro. I love Pete, but
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: not only hard. But the kid's names that's not yours. Whoa, whoa, whoa?
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: What kind of voodoo is in that? Vaginado is in that?
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know? All right, now, I didn't hear y'all.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: He's in the bathroom. Break now. Kanye West was spotted
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: dying with his new I guess wife because they're saying
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: that it got married, but the thing was was the
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: daughter North was with them. I don't like that either, man,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: I think. Yeah, I mean the same way we say
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: that about women when we see you know, you know,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: men that they just started getting with around the kids.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: It's the same thing for the guys. I agree, you don't,
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think you. I don't know, but
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: I would just assume just you don't know that young
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: time like, man, Yeah, make sure that that person's going
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: to stay around. Yeah, man, yeah, yeah, I think. But
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: let me mind my business. Yeah. Now, lastly, um, this
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: is a story people are mad at Aretha Franklin. That's
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: not real. It's not real. No, that's not a real story. No,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: that's a parody account. Trust me, I was already I
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: was ready to go in on day when I saw
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: that story. Okay, but it's not real, it's not real,
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: it's a satire, it's a parody. Or let me just
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: tell the people what's not a real story that our
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: producers up here gave to me. They said, a wreath,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: this uh Franklin song a natural Woman was offensive by
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: the LGBTQ community. But we got to be very careful
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: in regard to things like that simply because those are
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: the type of stories that people put out there just
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: to cause divisiveness amongst communities, you know what I mean.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: Like you know, cointel pro is real, you know, especially
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: in this day and age of the Internet. So you know,
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: you got to be very careful when you see stuff
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: like that. You know, not because anybody's afraid of the
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: LGBTQ community community in any way, because you know, folks
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: know they will raise holy hell, you know, and they
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: will try to get you canceled. But the reality is
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: those stories just cause divisiveness, you know what I mean.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: So you really got to like double check and triple
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: check you know, before you go out there and see
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: if situations like that is real. But I saw mad
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: people from the LGBTQ community, you know, denouncing that story,
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: like my man David Johnson. Luke to David Johns. David Johns,
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: he's one of the people who said the same thing
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. He was like, ye, these stories are made
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: to cause divisiveness, you know amongst us. We actually should play, David,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: Let's put let's play with David said about that story. Okay,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: let's play right now. I really want people to put
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: some respect on quitt Aretha's name and to stop using
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: lgbt Q y A plus folk as weapons of mass
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: distractions the activists in question in the story that was
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: sent to me so many times. It's a parody account
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: that was started in January of this year by organization
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: in Norway for folks that have questions about things impacting
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: the trans community that are translated, organizations that do that work,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: because what this does play on is some of the
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: worst fears about conversations to ensure that we can all
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: be free and have access to the rights and privileges
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: that so many people take for granted. Let's stop this,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: good people, Let's spread positive messages that actually learned to
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: look for sources and citations. Yep, he's absolutely right. Oh
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: and let me put some respect on David's name. Man
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: if doctor David Jay Johns. Okay, doctor David J. Johns. Man,
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: there you go glue to my god, David John all right,
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: and that is your room of report. Now, we got
• 1:27:57
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• 1:28:00
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• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: She's been guests hosting yesterday and today. Hopefully we can
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: get it for a couple of days. But she's looking
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: at like this four o'clock in the morning. NBA, ain't it.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: She's writ in Brooklyn. Maybe may know, maybe you know
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: what it is. Once you get up and get going,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: then I have all the energy. It's just the initial
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: like the initial like yes, that makes it makes it hard.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: And Lola has somebody very special joining us this morning. Yes,
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm so honored to welcome Commissioner Low. It's
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: Molina here to the Breakfast Club. And you know, Commissioner
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: Marina is a huge part of the reason why I'm
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: able to go to Rikers with my initiative through sixty
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: and do the work that I do. And I just
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: wanted him to come and talk about Rikers and some
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: of the incredible changes he's making there and just just
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: chop it up a little bit. Welcome, Welcome, good morning,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. Yes, I'm so happy for
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: you to be here. So, Commissioner Millina, I just wanted
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: to ask you, and we've talked about it before, but
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: like you're you're so passionate about what you do, You're
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: so passionate about changing the narrative of Riker's Island, and
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to ask you, like, where does that
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: passion and that heart that you have come from? Because
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: it motivates me, It wakes me up every day and
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: gives me that extra push to do what I do.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm learning so much from you, Like where
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: does that passion and commitment come from? Well, for me,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: it comes from just my lived experience. You know, I've
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: had very close family members that have been incaustulating on
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: Rikers Island. I'm back when we had adolescence and that
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: impacted my parents marriage, It impacted our family unit, and
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: I had opportunities growing up. You know, I grew up
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: with both my mom and died in my life. A
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: lot of kids don't have that, though we did have struggles.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: And when I think people that look like us are
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: blessed with opportunities to manage agencies where you're dealing with
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: the majority of individuals are black and brown, that's just
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: the reality of the criminal justice in America, then I
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: have an obligation. People that look like us have an
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: obligation to really make a difference so that our lived
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: experiences are within the policies and operations of how we
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: manage and really care for that population. Absolutely and Commissioner.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, like, how do you
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: keep that passion and stay with that passion? One every
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: day it's you're getting, you know, criticized about something or
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: everything is just a negative narrative is constantly being put out,
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: and I'm I'm the one constantly screaming from like the
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: mountaintops like look what's happening, Like there's so many amazing
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: things happening at Rikers that you never hear about. There's
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: so many lives being changed, so many incredible programs, and
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: so many things that you are doing. Like how do
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: you deal with that? Because you gotta beat I just
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: have a strong backbone for that kind of thing. Sure,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: I mean for me, human beings are worth it, right,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: I think for the people that are justice involved, for
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: the men and women that work there. You know, we
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: are a majority agency black and brown, forty four percent women.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: That is a big, big compared to other law enforcement
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: agencies in our country. So the work is worth it.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: And the people that we're fighting for, those that are
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: incarcerated and those that are working their contract providers, volunteers
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: like yourself. We really need a holistic approach to really
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: solving America's criminal justice issue, and for too long, I
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: think as a country, we've done just enough to make
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: people seem like we're doing a lot, and we just
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: keep individuals just in a state of mediocrity and in
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: a state of poverty, right, and we really need to
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: make a difference and really disrupt how we manage criminal
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: justice in this country. What's the biggest things that you
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: face your biggest obstacles. I mean, I've had family members
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: that rikers and and everybody that ever gets locked up
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: in New York City, the biggest thing is they want
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: to get bailed out before taking a trip over the richet.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: So what is the biggest thing that you face in
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: the biggest obstacle. Well, I think there were a number
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: of big obstacles when we came in in January. First,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, we had a staff in crisis. We're a
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: significant number of staff were and coming to work right.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: We stopped programming, and I think we mere dealing with
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: a vulnerable population. Correction of correction officers were a lot
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: we're out at the beginning of the year, and that
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: was an ongoing thing in a lot of part of
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. So we needed to get a staff
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: back to work, but we needed to also recognize that
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: we didn't have an organizational health strategy to support the
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: staff that's dealing with a very challenging population, while at
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: the same time during a pandemic, they also shut down programming.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: And I think when you're dealing with people that are
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: in custody, whether it's patients in a hospital, you need
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: all of the ecosystem to still continue to work in
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: order for that to happen. So our biggest challenge really
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: has been the mismanagement and really the dismantle or really
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: of a core part of the criminal justice system in
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: the city. When you think about corrections, the corrections department
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: spends the most times with those that are justice involved.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: If you get when you get arrested by the police,
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: you may not see that police officer unless you go
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: to trial. And then in many cases, defendants are not
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: really engaging consistently either with the prosecutor or even with
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: their own defense attorneys. Right they go to court every time,
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  Speaker 1: there may be a new defense attorney that's managing their case,
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  Speaker 1: So we have a time to try to engage with
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  Speaker 1: the individual to deal with the root drivers of why
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  Speaker 1: they are justice involved. And I think that's very, very
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  Speaker 1: important work that has to be done. So I think
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  Speaker 1: there's a number of complex challenges. We've come a long
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  Speaker 1: way over the last year, but we have a long
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  Speaker 1: way to go. You know, you're a commissioner of the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Corrections and they call these institutions correctional facilities, right,
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  Speaker 1: but what is actually being done the correct You know,
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  Speaker 1: these prisoners, like a lot of times they get thrown
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  Speaker 1: in jail, they don't get any resources, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: don't learn any trades that when they get out they
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  Speaker 1: can actually you know, be productive in society. They're not
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  Speaker 1: getting great education, the food is terrible, to their health
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  Speaker 1: isn't you know, being benefited. So what is actually being
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  Speaker 1: done the correct President, Sure, that's a great question, and
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  Speaker 1: I think the mayor talks about this all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But solving these upstream problems. So we have to understand
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of people that are injustice involved are
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: there because of a lack of a nationwide public health
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  Speaker 1: strategy to deal with issues like mental illness, substance abuse, ediction.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes that's co occurring, and you have both. I think
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  Speaker 1: when you look at corrections, you have to understand that
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: there's two parts of it. New York City Department of
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: Corrections is a jail. So it's a temporary detention place
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  Speaker 1: and that's what it's meant for. Now. That doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that we don't have a responsibility and try to improve
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: people's outcomes. So we do not determine who comes to us,
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  Speaker 1: but we have an obligation as an organization to try
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: to improve their outcomes. Now, in many cases, we're dealing
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: with individuals that we're offering educational opportunities, access to healthcare
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: and treatment that they didn't have in their own communities
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, trying to deal with Voca National Training.
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  Speaker 1: But because their time with us is so temporary, the
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  Speaker 1: level of engagement that you have it at jail, while important,
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: is not the same time of long term engagement that
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: you may have an a state prison. Okay, you know
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  Speaker 1: our last question. You know I think about jail right.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: Jail should be humane, but not necessarily nice because it's
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: jail right, So I want to ask you, on a
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: scale of one to four seasons, what do you think
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: the conditions of like a jail should be. So, I
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  Speaker 1: think jail at its core has to be on a
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  Speaker 1: foundation of humanity and managing individuals. Right, You're still dealing
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: and dealing with human beings, right, especially for those that
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: are young adults. Their brain is still going through brain development,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: and you want to take all of the drivers into
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: consideration why somebody's justice involved. So yeah, you want to
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: be a humane but understand that again, we don't have
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: a role in punishment, right. We have a role in
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: making sure that we're providing a state and secure environment
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: so for programs can be successful for those that want
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: to engage in programming to deal with their issue. We
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: remind ourselves at the jail level that those they have
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: not been convicted, so they still presumed innocent, and that
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: adds a certain layer of making sure that we're empathetic
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: to that. But remind ourselves our job is not to
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: punish people. Our job is to provide a custodial service
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  Speaker 1: of those that the court has deaned need to be
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: within the care and control of the government versus being
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: out in public. All right, thank you for joining us,
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, you're so happy, happy to have
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  Speaker 1: you here today, and thank you for opening up the
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: doors and allowing me to come in and do my
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: work and fulfill my passions. It's incredible what you do
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: and you're such an amazing leader for all of us.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you. Film. The name of the program law
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  Speaker 1: for you. So my program is three sixty. Hey, my
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: three sixty crew, your shout out is coming soon, so
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: get ready, get ready, get around the radio. It's coming soon,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: the three sixty Initiative. I'll talk a little bit about
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: it when I shout out the whole crew. All right,
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  Speaker 1: it's the Breakfast Club Positive Notes up next. Thank you, commissioner,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Want to everybody is dj n V Charlemagne
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  Speaker 1: the guy. We are to Breakfast Club. We got our
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  Speaker 1: guest hosts for today, La la. Yeah. So my initiative
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  Speaker 1: at Rikers Island is called the three sixty Initiative, and
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  Speaker 1: it's made up of some incredible young men who are
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  Speaker 1: really really committed to doing a three sixty in their
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  Speaker 1: life and changing their lives around and just being incredible,
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: you know, members of the community upon release and those
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: that have to continue on to their journey and serve
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: some time just changing how they're thinking to just be
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: productive while incarcerated as well. So I got some shout outs.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: I got a shout out my family double Les DEGs
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: Noe Yadi, Mo Diggs, Benny les Rondo Jr. Dre was
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: up to the whole crew and all of this can't
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: be possible without Big White DC pastor T Brittany podcasts
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: be definitely for holding us down in the staff there
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  Speaker 1: who have just been so incredible and helping us every
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: step of the way. I just want to show them
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  Speaker 1: some love. You always just here so many negative things,
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: and there's so many people that work in Rikers that
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: are just so passionate about what they do and just
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: have such amazing hearts and really do want to make
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: a change. And I think some of those people that
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  Speaker 1: I know should be acknowledged. So shout out too, obviously
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: Commissioner Molina, who were going to talk to Miss Torres Tavares,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: con Curry, Madard, holds us down, Miss King Cadero, Emily
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: T and Cove. I couldn't do the work I'm doing
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: without this amazing group of people. And if I missed anyone,
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but this crew right here really helps me
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: do what I do. But shout out to the young
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: men in my initiative. I love them so much and
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: when you see the changes that are taking place in
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: this group, it gives you chills. People just need an opportunity,
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: people just need resources, and some people just need somebody
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: to lean on, somebody to tell them I got you,
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: I love you. You'll be surprised, like how many people
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: just don't have things that some of us take for
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: granted every day. And I'm just proud of my crew.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: They're leaders in their housing units, they're they're going to
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: be leaders in the community, and I'm really proud of
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: the work that they're doing. Now do you say I
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: love you to them? I just love you. I say
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: I love I love you. Yeah, it means a lot. Yeah, right, well,
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: thank you, and you got a positive No, Charlemaine, I do, man,
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  Speaker 1: I've really been thinking about that before you do the
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: positive note. Okay, you gotta schedule us to come to
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: Rikers one time. Absolutely. I don't know Charlemagne's but I'm
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: sure he would, but they'd be dope. We know what
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. We could broadcast out of there one time. Wow. Wow,
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know the Christian is coming right, Tell me
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: to pull up somewhere. Got be dope, yeah, be awesome?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Note Yeah, the positive note, man, I've been
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: thinking about that. Tall sister who called him, who wants
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: to be married but doesn't want to date show men,
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: and I'm telling you, telling her her blessing is five five.
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  Speaker 1: And with that said, the positive note, it's simple. Don't
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: miss out on blessings just because they aren't packaged the
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: way you are expecting. Breakface Club, you don't finish for y'all,
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  Speaker 1: dumb