FULL SHOW: Breakfast Club Heads to Netflix, Young Thug Proposes, Ray J Clarifies Diddy Claim 🤨 + Tamar Braxton & Isaac Hayes III Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club – Dec 17, 2025

Episode: “Breakfast Club Heads to Netflix, Young Thug Proposes, Ray J Clarifies Diddy Claim + Tamar Braxton & Isaac Hayes III Interview”
Hosts: DJ Envy, Lauren LaRosa, Charlamagne Tha God, Jess Hilarious
Guests: Tamar Braxton, Isaac Hayes III

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EPISODE OVERVIEW

This lively episode of The Breakfast Club mixes major media moves, hot celebrity news, and candid personal growth conversations. The crew celebrates their new Netflix video podcast deal, discusses viral rumors and music milestones, spotlights trending headlines on politics and culture, and leans into deep, honest interview segments—especially Tamar Braxton opening up about heartbreak, healing, cheating, and new beginnings, and Isaac Hayes III breaking down Black tech entrepreneurship with Fanbase.

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KEY THEMES & DISCUSSION POINTS

1. The Breakfast Club Heads to Netflix (25:09, 26:30)

• iHeartMedia & Netflix announce a major exclusive video podcast partnership.
• Multiple major iHeart shows (including The Breakfast Club) will no longer post full episodes to YouTube, shifting to Netflix as the exclusive provider.
• Hosts discuss what this pivot means for podcasting, streaming, and broader media distribution, reflecting on Netflix’s remarkable evolution from DVD rentals to global streaming powerhouse.

Notable Quotes:

• “It’s just incredible to see the business of podcasting expand in this way.” — Charlamagne (26:30)
• “Remember, Netflix just started as that red box outside of these stores... How they grew to where they're at now is just crazy.” — DJ Envy (27:55)
• “You gotta meet people where they are—Netflix has over 300 million paid subscribers.” — Charlamagne (27:13)
• “Watching the Breakfast Club in other languages? That will be hilarious.” — Charlamagne (27:35)

2. Front Page News: Politics, National Stories & Viral Events

(11:00, 37:13, 53:34, 111:00)

• Trump White House Drama: New Vanity Fair exposé about Trump’s second term and senior staff. Commentary about Trump’s public persona, the Jeffrey Epstein docs, chaotic inner circle, and Susie Wiles calling Elon Musk an “odd duck”—with audio receipts to prove quotes.
  • “You better have those audio clips ready because the Trump administration will sue.” — Charlamagne (12:18)
• Obamacare Subsidies: Republican leadership will allow enhanced ACA subsidies to expire, risking higher premiums for millions.
• Latest on Brown University Shooting: Details on the ongoing manhunt, criticism of police response, tech surveillance, and public safety.
• TSA & ICE Data Sharing: TSA now regularly sends passenger lists to ICE for domestic travel, making airports domestic checkpoints for immigration enforcement.
  • “Damn, I didn’t even know you get deportation orders.” — Charlamagne (41:37)
  • Tamar shares a personal immigration/ICE scare involving her husband.
• Instagram Reels on TV: IG is piloting a new app to bring vertical videos to Amazon Fire/TV platforms, signaling a direct challenge to TikTok and YouTube.
• Powerball Mania: The jackpot climbs to $1.25 billion; playful banter about lottery dreams.

3. Community Calls: “Get It Off Your Chest” (15:03–20:22)

• Callers shout out HBCUs, discuss community events (like a Sneaker Ball fundraiser), post office woes (“I don’t scrè the stuff, I just deliver it”), and dog-attack postal hazards.
• Friendly banter about the holidays, work-life, and listener engagement.
  • “I love all the HBCU love.” — DJ Envy (15:29)
  • “Getting bit by a dog is hilarious, bro.” — Charlamagne (21:02)

4. Music & Relationship News:

• Young Thug Proposes to Mariah the Scientist (33:59):
  • On-stage Atlanta proposal, social media reactions, and wider relationship talk.
  • “She’s happy, we should be happy.” — DJ Envy (34:44)
• Sports Updates: New York Knicks win NBA Cup (Jalen Brunson named MVP). Terence Crawford retires undefeated (“one of the greatest boxers of our generation”).

5. Tamar Braxton Interview: Healing, Cheating & “Heartbreak Retrograde”

(starts 45:53–67:14, continued throughout hour)

• Tamar’s new album and accompanying movie “Heartbreak Retrograde” birthed from previous conversations on The Breakfast Club, especially around cheating.
  • “Heartbreak Retrograde is about a woman who cheats on her spouse and breaks her own heart by breaking his heart.” — Tamar (47:07)
• She discusses using her art to process guilt, take accountability, and ultimately find peace:
  • “I felt really bad...I really did hurt a person that bad. I’m really, truly sorry for that.” — Tamar (51:25)
• Deep dives into why women cheat, comparisons with men, and the complexity of love—can you love two people at once?
• On owning pain and growth:
  • “I don’t regret that I found myself.” — Tamar (58:55)
  • “When you really, truly let something go...I feel like I’ve completely let it go.” — Tamar (64:20)
• Advice on emotional transparency, relationships, dating after heartbreak, and embracing “soft love” moving forward.

Notable Moments & Quotes:

• “There’s never been a man who has experienced Tamar who didn’t want to marry me.” — Tamar (50:17)
• “Healing is realizing you hurt someone and you take responsibility, you’re honest about it.” — Tamar (54:40)
• “That’s why you can’t be laying down with everybody, because you really do be exchanging energy.” — Charlamagne (57:00)
• Tamar pokes fun at “uterus shifting” texts and relationships:
  • “Once again, you shifted my uterus.” — Tamar, recounts a real text from her ex (53:32)
• Candid group discussion follows on love, dating openly, keeping your relationships private vs. public, and learning through accountability.

6. Ray J's Viral “Diddy” Comments Clarified (74:00–79:51)

• Lauren recounts a wild viral clip where Ray J joked on live about “Diddy took my ass,” sparking major social media confusion.
  • Ray J calls into the show to clarify: he was in character, referencing someone else’s allegations, and not speaking literally about himself.
  • “I was in character being Lil Rod...They clipped it, but this is not okay.” — Ray J via Lauren (75:00)
  • Charlamagne laughs, “This is basically a digital enema—he’s got to clear his ass from all these accusations that he started, by the way.” (79:41)
• The show reflects on the speed/insanity of rumors online, as well as 50 Cent’s constant trolling and power within hip-hop media.

7. Isaac Hayes III Interview: Fanbase, Black Ownership & Tech Entrepreneur Reality

(starts 91:09)

• Isaac returns to discuss raising capital for Fanbase, a Black-owned social media platform that integrates micro-dramas, subscriptions, tipping, and more.
• Breaks down why equity crowdfunding is crucial for Black tech founders, the uphill battle in Silicon Valley, and how ordinary people (for $399 minimum) can become investors in real tech infrastructure.
  • “People of color only get half of one percent of all capital raised...This is a mission. This is my calling.” — Isaac Hayes III (96:21)
• The conversation details the slow path to ROI (typically 6–8 years or longer), why crowdfunding is more transparent but much harder, and the bigger goal of generational wealth.
  • “I built a tech company so that people could put $400 in, $250 in, and together we build something worth hundreds of billions of dollars.” (102:25)

Notable Questions:

• “How fast can you build, how well can you build, and who’s making the money?” — DJ Envy (99:13)
• “This is breaking a whole system down that a lot of people don’t...They want to lock us out of the best deals.” — Isaac (103:02)

8. Hot Trending News Briefs

• Howard Stern’s New 3-Year Deal (73:08): Celebrated as a media longevity milestone in a difficult time for radio.
• Rob Reiner Tragedy Update (110:39): Son Nick formally charged with murdering his parents; group contemplates legal/ethical implications and the lawyer’s motivations.
• Kai Sanat’s Mental Health Journey (115:01): The young streamer goes public about his struggles and desire to create more intentionally, inspiring a positive response from the crew.
  • “The fame, the money, everything...it takes a lot. So I’m glad he’s making sure his mental is good.” — DJ Envy (115:58)
  • “Sometimes it’s okay to feel like things are ending, some things are supposed to come to an end.” — Charlamagne (117:30)

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MEMORABLE QUOTES & TIMESTAMPS

• “I’m mailing everything that’s going on, and you want to mess up? I’m mailing it in.” — Charlamagne Tha God (04:05)
• “Getting bit by a dog is hilarious, bro.” — Charlamagne Tha God (21:02)
• “Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU pride going.” — DJ Envy (31:23)
• “You gotta meet people where they are.” — Charlamagne Tha God (27:13)
• “When you really, truly let something go, guilt go. That’s what I feel like. I’ve completely let it go.” — Tamar Braxton (64:20)
• “I built a tech company so people could put $400 in, $250 in, and together we build something...worth hundreds of billions of dollars.” — Isaac Hayes III (102:25)
• “This is the year of the snake. It’s time to shed everything that no longer serves you.” — Charlamagne Tha God (119:07)

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TIMESTAMPS FOR IMPORTANT SEGMENTS

• 03:48 — Show officially starts, hosts check in
• 15:03—“Get It Off Your Chest” listener calls segment
• 25:09–27:07 — Netflix/iHeart/Breakfast Club podcast deal discussion
• 33:59—Young Thug's marriage proposal news
• 45:53–67:14 — Tamar Braxton in-studio interview (continuing)
• 74:00–79:51 — Ray J calls in to address viral Diddy rumor
• 91:09–109:50 — Isaac Hayes III interview on Fanbase, tech, Black equity
• 110:39 — Rob Reiner murder charges news update
• 115:01 — Kai Sanat’s mental health message

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EPISODE TONE & STYLE

Irreverent, candid, comedic, frequently playful but unafraid to get serious—hosts blend personal, cultural, and business insight with unfiltered honesty and plenty of inside jokes. Every topic, from viral memes to music to mental wellness to Black entrepreneurship, is tackled with authenticity and real community engagement.

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FOR THOSE WHO MISSED IT

This episode will go down as a modern Breakfast Club classic, marked by breaking media industry news (Netflix), a vulnerable, no-holds-barred Tamar Braxton interview on pain and growth, Isaac Hayes III transparently educating listeners on building Black economic infrastructure, and the crew both clowning and clarifying the week’s wildest rumors—reminding listeners why the platform remains so influential in both hip hop and Black culture at large.

Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

Whoa, what a vibe we've got, y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[DJ Envy]

As always, it's classic HBCU energy. Nonstop action, the band is rocking and the crowd lit. Chants echoing, drums beating, everybody showing that school pride. Moments like this, yeah, they call for an ice cold Coca Cola. Crisp and refreshing. That's a game changer right there.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Mmm.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that taste always hit the right note. Just like the band at halftime. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere, and an ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo. No matter the place, no matter the moment, everybody knows fan work is thirsty. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU pride going. Hey, what up, y'?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All?

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy. And the holidays are here. The time of year that's all about connecting with loved ones in person or over the phone. In fact, hearing someone's voice can emote a similar emotional response as a hug. And while most of us can hop on a video chat to really bring that connection to life, using tech isn't easy for everyone, especially some of the older folk in our lives. AT&T has been doing something special here to help. They offer digital literacy workshops that help older adults learn how to use technology to do things most of us take for granted, like video conferencing and sharing photos. Take Nancy Shand. She joined one of AT&T's workshops to learn how to video chat. For the first time this holiday season, Nancy won't just be hearing about family gatherings. She'll be a part of them. Sharing stories, opening presents, and making memories all through a screen. Nobody should have to go through the holiday season alone. So be sure to connect and stay connected to your loved ones this holiday season.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Connecting changes everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

AT and T.

[Tamar Braxton]

So let me get this straight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your company has data here, there, and everywhere, but your AI can't use the data because it's here, there, and everywhere?

[Isaac Hayes III]

Seems like something's missing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Program your alarm to power 105.1 on iheartradio.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[DJ Envy]

Just Larry be here in a second. Charlemagne to God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace to the planet.

[DJ Envy]

Guess what day it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, no, that's not what it is. Say my name again. Say my name again.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness. What's wrong with you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's start over.

[DJ Envy]

What's wrong with you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm mailing everything that's going on, and you. You want to mess up? I'm mailing it in.

[DJ Envy]

Everything. Three more days. Crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, usa. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[DJ Envy]

Just to be here in a minute. Charlemagne the God, peace to the planet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Guess what. What is it?

[DJ Envy]

Piece of the planet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Piece of the planet. Guess what day it is. Guess what day it is. Hump day. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed, black and highly favored. Happy to be here.

[DJ Envy]

I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

You okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy Wednesday. You having a show? LL Cool, Babe.

[Isaac Hayes III]

What's happening?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stop. Stop. I know you want that Christmas present, but you will never get it.

[DJ Envy]

I just want to make sure my brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You will never get it. Your children will never see Daddy kissing Santa Charlotte. Okay, that will never happen.

[DJ Envy]

I just want to make sure my brother's good. That's all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's just Wednesday. You know. And we got a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. So what's that? Three more days of kiss?

[DJ Envy]

You okay, man? You see what's going on in this space.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know if you count the day, but we here, we here, we're here, we're here. How. How y' all feeling, man?

[Isaac Hayes III]

It's all right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

Well, Tamar Braxton will be joining us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, she will. She has a new album out called Heartbreak Retrograde. Plus, y' all be on Tamar about all types of stuff. Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, Y' all be on her body.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all be on Tamar about her. Y' all be on Tamar head. She'll be here to talk about all of that.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And Isaac Hayes III will be joining us. I'm sure you know of the popular social media site fan base.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you don't, he will be here to talk to you all about it like he does every once in a while.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because he's always giving you a chance to invest in fan base. So he'll be here to talk about.

[DJ Envy]

That and breaking down what fan base is and how it's grow. How it's been growing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They do micro dramas now.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. So he'll be here to discuss all of that.

[DJ Envy]

So we'll talk about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How was your evening? Anything festive happen? I think the holidays are coming too fast, man.

[DJ Envy]

They all come.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Christmas is next week. This. We're a week away from Christmas.

[DJ Envy]

Well, you know, yesterday was the holiday party. The I heart holiday party. Our company holiday party. They didn't invite you? I didn't get invited either. I seen it on the ground.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I seen it on the ground.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. Yeah. Oh my God.

[DJ Envy]

I thought it was just me, but now that I know it's you two, I'm not playing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, we not. No, we not. No, we not. No, we not. Let's start to show up with boys have been into the road. Right.

[DJ Envy]

Pull that up. Right. No, do not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

End of the road.

[DJ Envy]

Then we not pull it up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. Yes. Man. We didn't get invited to the holiday party. Subscribe to my YouTube right now at sea to God CTHA G O D please. It's God dang damn. All right.

[DJ Envy]

My only fans, DJ Envy's Feet. I know there's been many different pages, but there's only going to be one page. You want to see these cute light.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Skin tones and waffle colored toes.

[DJ Envy]

The waffle colored toes. We'll do all types of stuff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Toes is the color of dirty urine.

[DJ Envy]

I'll paint the nails for you. Whatever you want.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I can't start the show off like this.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Come on, give me something.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Give us a minute now. Congratulations to the New York Knicks. That's right. We won the NBA cup last night.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know what that means.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think you should be screaming that loud for that. It's a good accomplishment. You should be screaming that loud for that stepping stone. That's kind of crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Front page.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Next is the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. Morning, everybody. Is DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Congratulations to the New York Knicks. The New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs. 124. 113.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

And they won the NBA Cup. Jalen Brunson was named MVP at 25 points, eight assists, four rebounds. And also we got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The New York Knicks should absolutely be in the Eastern Conference finals this year.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, we should have been there last year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I thought that last year when we saw Tatum get hurt and Halliburton got hurt for the Pacers, like, you know, they should make it to the Eastern Conference finals.

[DJ Envy]

Giannis was injured last year. Yeah, it was our year last year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But no, no, I'm talking about now going into this year.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, this year we should. But you should have did it last year, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hurt.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Now also, we got to salute Terence Crawford. He announced he's retiring at age 38. He's hanging up the gloves with a record of 42 and 0.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crossing the clues Bombs with Terence Crawford. Man. Salute to Terence Crawford, one of the greatest boxers I've ever seen. I only doubted that man once in my life.

[DJ Envy]

Yep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When he fought Earl Spence, you remember?

[DJ Envy]

And when he came up, he sat in Charlemagne's seat and said, I dare you, move me.

[Tamar Braxton]

I wasn't up here.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, who was he?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I just wasn't here then.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, he was on maternity. He was on maternity. He was on maternity. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But, yeah, that's one of the. The greatest boxer of our generation. That's by far.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I think so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is Mayweather our generation? I guess. I mean, we old. I got a couple generations now. When you get to. I'm almost 50. Yeah, I've been around a couple of generations.

[DJ Envy]

Well, both of them. Yeah. Mayweather would be an also.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've seen a few generations at this point in my life. I was born in 1978.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, you world. What's up, Mimi?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, Envy. Charlamagne. Jess, How y' all doing this morning. Good, good, good morning. I'll say. So we started this morning with a rare behind the scenes look at the Trump White House. So in a new Vanity Fair profile, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, she is offering an unfiltered look at the president, his inner circle and the decisions driving his second term. So the interviews, they were conducted for the first 11 months of Trump's second term. And the profile, Wiles, she starts with the president and then she moves through his inner circle and some of the administration's most consequential decisions. Now, while she describes President Trump as having what she calls an alcoholic personality, not because he drinks, but because Trump operates with a belief that there's nothing he can't do. And on the Jeffrey Epstein files, Wild says Attorney General Pam Bondi, she, quote, completely whiffed the rollout, underestimating how much of Trump's base would care about the documents and how badly the messaging would land. She also acknowledged that Trump's name appears in the Epstein related records saying he was on the flight manifest and he had been on Epstein's plane, but insists there is no evidence that tying him to any wrongdoing. And as for Elon Musk, while she called the billionaire, quote, an odd, odd duck, she says he's difficult to manage and refer to him as an avowed ketamine user. She also strongly disagreed with how Musk dismantled major parts of the federal government. And when it comes to tariffs, she described those as thinking out loud. And on Venezuela, she says President Trump wants to, quote, keep blowing up boats until Maduro cries uncle. Now, during this interview. Yes, during this interview, but now, while she's now pushing back, claiming that Trump is on a political retribution tour. Oh, she's pushing back on the fact that Trump is. People are claiming that Trump is on a political retribution tour, but she did carve out one exception, saying that a New York Attorney general, Letitia James, she might be the one retribution, pointing to that roughly $500 million civil lawsuit that James won against Trump. Now, after this profile was published, Wiles accused Vanity Fair of taking her comments out of context and portraying the administration as chaotic. But the journalist behind this story, Chris Whipple, he is standing by his reporting, noting that the interviews, they were recorded over 11 months and that the audio, there are audio recordings that exist that will back up each one of these quotes. And the White House, they quickly rallied behind Wilds. And of course, they are calling this fake news. Let's hear what Caroline Levitt and J.D. vance had to say about this. Vanity Fair article.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is unfortunately another example of disingenuous reporting where you have a reporter who.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Took the chief of staff's words wildly out of context, did not include the.

[Tamar Braxton]

Context those conversations were had within.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then further, I think the most egregious part of this article was the bias of omission that was clearly present.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And we see a lot of this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When dealing with the media every day. You know, many people in this building spoke with that reporter. And those comments were never included in the story, probably because it didn't push this false narrative of, of chaos and confusion that the reporter was clearly trying to push.

[DJ Envy]

Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true. Susie and I have joked in private and in public about that for a long time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You better have those audio clips ready because the Trump administration will sue. And I would like to hear the context as well.

[Mimi Brown]

They've already had to play, I think it was a New York Post who they had to play an audio clip for because someone said, I think it was a while. She said something didn't happen. I think she called, she said that Elon Musk was micro dosing. She said that he did not say that. The New York Times, they called the reporter. The reporter played that audio clip. And that is, in fact what she said.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow. Well, she seems like a very honest chief of staff. So my question is why, why is she in the Trump administration with that type of honesty?

[Mimi Brown]

Good question. Well, it's not just those quotes that are drawing attention. I don't know if you guys saw those. Those, those photos, those blow. Those blurred, not. They're not even blurred. They're just blown up really big on those extreme close ups. They're sparking a lot of talk online with viewers calling those images everything from jarring to a jump scare. But the photographer, the photographer who took those portraits, he said that they weren't meant to embarrass anyone, but to just strip away the performance of politics and show something even more real. So those photos are making their way on social media and actually trending this morning. So if you haven't seen them, take a look. And turning now to Capitol Hill, where inaction on health care could soon mean higher costs for millions of Americans. So Speaker Mike Johnson, he says Republicans will not allow a vote to extend the enhanced Obama Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, despite the pressure from moderates who want it to go on the record. Now, Johnson said about a dozen Republicans in competitive districts they pushed for a vote, arguing it would help lower costs for their constituents. But leadership, they could not come to an agreement. But the House is still expected to vote today on a broader Republican health care bill, but it does not include those ACA subsidies. So that means that those premiums in about 15 days will expire if Congress does nothing. And just on a quick note on a separate issue, President Trump, he is expected to address the Nation tonight at 9pm at the White House, delivering a live primetime speech and expected to touch on issues from border security, the economy, and what's ahead in the coming year. So we will watch that and report on that tomorrow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He about to lie to y' all and tell y' all that y' all not feeling everything that y' all feeling. Happy holidays.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, well, coming up at 7, one of the biggest apps in the world is trying something new, and it involves your television. We'll tell you what's changing and why it matters in the next hour.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

And everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. You can call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Ray.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ray, Ray.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, Charlamagne, Envy. What up?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are we live?

[Isaac Hayes III]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool.

[Isaac Hayes III]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

We can get on the phone right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He'll tell you what it is.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Drea.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey. Hey, DJ Envy.

[DJ Envy]

How you feeling, Dre? Y', all.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm feeling good.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I want to give y' all a huge shout out because Y' all allowed HBCUs to get recognized during Norfolk State homecoming. I want to thank you, Charlamagne, Jess, and Lauren.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, I mean, you know, I went to Hampton. No, she was like, y' all recognizing HBCUs. You know, I went to Hampton. Lauren went to Delaware State. But I just love all the hbcu love.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got an honorary degree from South Carolina State University.

[DJ Envy]

Shut your ass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do got an honorary degree from South Carolina State University. And my mom is a alma mater at South Carolina State. And I got a Ford and a scholarship fund at South Carolina State.

[DJ Envy]

Salute to your mama. But, yeah, we just like to recognize all the HBCUs.

[Tamar Braxton]

Man.

[DJ Envy]

We really love them. We respect them, and we try to do as much as we can to support the HBCUs. Did you go to one?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, I went to my sixth day.

[DJ Envy]

Sorry for you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I do have a question for you and Charlemagne. Yes, I Am part of the NAACP of Chesterfield.

[Mimi Brown]

And I'm throwing a huge sneaker ball.

[Lauren LaRosa]

For the kids and their moms. I wanted to raffle off y' all book and possibly dress as eyewear.

[Mimi Brown]

Is there any way that I could do that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of course. Easy call. That was easy call.

[DJ Envy]

If you just put you on hold, I'm sure I got my books up here. Charlamagne has his books.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'll send you my books. I send you my comic books. I see you a whole bunch of.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Stuff they know as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely. Yes, absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

I'm going to put you on hold. And it says you also. You're going to Justice Comedy show tomorrow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, I am. I want. I guess I want to let you know that I will be there in support. And I'm proud of you, girl. Dope. I'm proud of you too, baby.

[Tamar Braxton]

That's where you can get the messy vision. I'll have like a box of stuff for you then, so you can just get it.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

If you come and I tell you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm feeling my breakfast club.

[Tamar Braxton]

Absolutely. Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Now, the auction is for adults, correct?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. It's gonna be for the moms.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Because we gotta. We got a bottle of. Of Kevin Hart's liquor, too. We could sign and send out there as well, too. That'd be pretty dope.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is my first big event and I'm doing everything by myself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Signing Kevin Hart Liquors. Exactly.

[DJ Envy]

We try to give a bunch of things to give away, man. That's just a whole breakfast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Crazy. I got a Kevin. This is his. This is his merch for his liquor.

[DJ Envy]

You want to send him that shir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I'm wearing his sweatshirt. That's crazy. You bought that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Listen, send it all, and if y' all want to come, y' all come too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just send it.

[Tamar Braxton]

Well, I'll get some more information about it from you tomorrow. Thank you, baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And get her address and stuff.

[DJ Envy]

And where's it at? Where's it gonna be located? And can people go? How can they donate? Give all the information people might. You might want to support.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Sorry, I'm nervous. It's the NAACP of Chesterfield in Richmond area. Okay. And it's going to be April 5, but due to me being my own committee, I'm starting early. So you can donate. But can I call back in with that information? Because I have to run it by the president?

[DJ Envy]

Of course.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, ma'.

[DJ Envy]

Am. But we'll send you the information. We're going to put you on hold.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay. Thank you all.

[DJ Envy]

Hold on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Make sure she get her pack to Eddie. Please make sure she get it before Christmas.

[DJ Envy]

Eddie, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's a new day.

[Isaac Hayes III]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wait. Wake up.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Whether you're mad or blessed, it's time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To get up and get something.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Call up now.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051.

[Isaac Hayes III]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning. It's Nika.

[DJ Envy]

Nika, what up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, Nika.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning. Hey, DJ Envy. Hey, I'm Prashala.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How are you?

[DJ Envy]

Hey, boo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, guys.

[Isaac Hayes III]

What's up?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, so, first and foremost, I want to say that I am forever grateful for my job.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Be grateful for your job. She said there's a but.

[DJ Envy]

What's the but?

[Lauren LaRosa]

The but is, you know, you gotta. I'm about to go to work and just smile and hear people ask the same questions. Oh, where's my check? Oh, do you got my package and. Yeah, why I'm not getting no mail, and I ain't see my light bill in four weeks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you work at the post office, sir?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you got some good jobs.

[DJ Envy]

Those are all valid questions. You looking for your mail? You looking for your package? You wonder where the light bill at?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, that's a.

[DJ Envy]

That was a valid question. Mama, she's sick of it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Listen, I deliver what I have. I don't scre the stuff. I just it out. What they give me is what I give you. I don't even know you to be giving to.

[DJ Envy]

Where's my check? N. You know, my check's supposed to be coming, and I need it before.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I get what she's saying, though. I get what she's saying, like, don't. Don't. Don't act like I'm the one issuing the check. You know what I mean?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. And then it's the worst one of them all. Stay dry.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Oh, my God.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I be wanting. I hate that one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't you? Hey, Nica, can I ask you a question? Don't you. Don't you feel like you got to be a certain age to work at the post office? Because I love the post office in our town, but they got some really older people there who can never find the packages, but the packages be right there. Yeah, you gotta. We got. I literally gotta go there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They need to leave so that people like me can move up and get better routes and get the one you know. They got the routes with the apartments, only they don't go outside. They don't see no no outside until it's about time to go home. They don't want to leave. They've been in the post office 40, 50 years. Never want to leave. Don't got nothing else to do, don't want to travel or nothing.

[DJ Envy]

Nika, you ever got chased by a dog?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I got bit by a dog last year.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My first time for real. You've been in the post office 11 years and I got bit by a dog.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What'd you do to the dog? What'd you do, Nika? What'd you do to the dog?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't see the dog. I was in my own world. It was a stray dog on my route. And I turned around and, oh, my God. Honestly, I think we both panicked because it was a pit bull. He could have done more. It was two of them, but I just got a light. I got two light bites on each of my arm. I think they were playing, and I think we both did.

[DJ Envy]

They wasn't playing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't gonna lie, man. I don't see enough videos of people getting bit by dogs. Because it's funny. I got bit by a dog before. Getting bit by a dog is hilarious, bro.

[Tamar Braxton]

A mom Curry and her son got chased by a dog. She was on the way, taking him to school, and that dog dragged her.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yes. That is not funny.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It is not funny.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

At all.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was terrified. I was shaking. I ain't know what to do. You know, I took them 45 days off of work because I was hurting. I was traumatized.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

As you should have.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You have a good one, y'. All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Have a good one. Love y'.

[Isaac Hayes III]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got bit by Toto from Wizard of Oz, man. One of them little dogs like that. Yes. No, I wasn't working at no post office. I was at my people's house messing with the dog, getting on all fours, barking at it, making it back into the corner, back into the corner. And I did it like, three, four times. And that dog waited till I was nice and comfortable minding my business. And it latched on right. Right at the top of my ass. Okay. Like, right at the.

[Isaac Hayes III]

That's the only way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You right between my lower back and my ass. Since you want to get on all four, man.

[DJ Envy]

That's right, though. Got you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It bit me and it hung. I tried to shake it off, and it hung on me for a while. I'd never forget that as long as I live.

[DJ Envy]

Speaking of back shots, what up, Trav?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, what's up, Envy Club listeners? Favorite caller, y' all blessing the airwaves this morning.

[DJ Envy]

They love you.

[Tamar Braxton]

They love you downtrend.

[DJ Envy]

No, they did somebody. Somebody yesterday. Yeah, they was mad at you yesterday, Trav.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's all right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They. They listen. They be my DMs, like, oh, my God, it's been years. You still calling. I almost said to this one girl, like, girl, it's been years, and you still a big back, but I ain't say nothing. Good comeback, though. Oh, God. All these years, you still big. But, y. Congratulations on the Netflix deal. Y' all dropping the clues bombs for y'.

[Isaac Hayes III]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all gonna be on there partners radio, baby, up there blasting your videos out to everybody.

[DJ Envy]

I heard that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, and hopefully they take up your documentary that y' all already dropping.

[DJ Envy]

Come on, Trav.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got a documentary.

[DJ Envy]

Too much inside information.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What they say? Next year is a year and a horse, baby.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. I don't know what that means for you, Trav, but you better relax, okay? Rectal prolapse is real, right? You better relax. Them damn horses, baby. It is the year. The horse next year. Yes, it is.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus Christ. All right, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Now we got the latest coming up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning. We do. Netflix announced yesterday that they are partnering with iHeartMedia for video podcast exclusively. We got some things. Yeah, we got some things I think we need to talk about up here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

We'll get to that. Next. You went to the holiday party?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You ain't drunk today. I did go to the holiday party. I was in and out. What you mean? What you mean? Stop playing, okay? I'm trying to make sure I still have a job. Oh, you have something you want to talk about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We didn't get invited. We didn't get invited.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't got nothing to do with that.

[Tamar Braxton]

I was there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I was. I was greeted.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They knew who you were.

[DJ Envy]

Yep.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That does happen.

[Tamar Braxton]

No, that does happen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Look, as long as ain't no one of us still here.

[DJ Envy]

My goodness.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ladies is coming up next door.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Move.

[DJ Envy]

Is the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy Wednesday. Happy Holidays.

[DJ Envy]

Happy holidays. Morning, everybody. We are the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What? Christmas next week.

[DJ Envy]

I was ready to say eight days.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I say I enjoy the Christmas season so much. We got to start Christmas in October. Now what do we do? We gotta stop. I see why everybody's starting it earlier now. Because it's about to be over. Wow.

[Tamar Braxton]

It took you eight days before Christmas to see you.

[DJ Envy]

Say what?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm a listen, where my black in there.

[Tamar Braxton]

It took you eight days.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you talking about?

[DJ Envy]

There's a thing there. Just plug into the thing there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Another one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. They already got rid of your headset.

[Tamar Braxton]

I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Shut up, y'.

[Isaac Hayes III]

All.

[Tamar Braxton]

I still work here. Dang.

[DJ Envy]

Stop. You don't see it. She went to the Lauren becoming a.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Straight f. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody. Some she gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on the.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit of everything.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to me, LL Cool Bay. Lauren LaRosa.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, guys. So we have some things to talk about. Okay. Because yesterday I heart and Netflix announced a deal for exclusive video podcast with full episodes of these podcasts no longer being on YouTube but now being on Netflix. Some of the podcast.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Tamar Braxton]

That is so crazy. Like what?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just want to thank God. Some of the podcasts include the Breakfast Club period. Yes. My favorite murder.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You talk to y' all about that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Who? You know, don't nobody talk to me.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, oh. Y' all better stop talking to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go ahead.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Bobby Bones presents the Bobby Cast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My guy, Bobby Bones.

[DJ Envy]

What up, Bobby Bones?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Behind the Bastards, Dear Chelsea with Chelsea Handler. Okay, this is important, which is with Adam Devine. Devine Anderson Anders. Home in Blake Anderson, Rory and Mile. They have a sports podcast called Rory and Milesu Sports. There's some Joe and Jada listed on here as well, too. The psychology of your 20s is here. Stuff they don't want you to know it's here. That's a curiosity.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One of the biggest podcasts in the world.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Stuff you missed in history class. Stuff to blow your mind. Three and out with John Middle. I'm gonna say his name wrong. Metcliffe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, as a person who loves podcasting, who's been watching podcasts and evolved from the beginning, it's just incredible to see the business of podcasting expand in this way.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yeah, that's dope. No, I. Because to be honest, back when it first started, I never thought. I never saw this. Or podcasting.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Really? Yeah.

[Tamar Braxton]

No, not Netflix and all this.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, because I wasn't able to see it. TV's going out the window, so you got to put stuff somewhere. People don't sit down and watch cable TV the way they used to. They Watch streaming. They watch Netflix.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but it's still tv.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, but y' all know what I mean. Like, traditional cable television is a lot different nowadays.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So it only means traditional cable television has gone the way of the streaming service.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I missed one, too. I wanted to mention this one, Bird Bones. It's a history and true crime podcast with journalist Kate Winkler.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think it's beautiful. You know. You know, back in the day, they said if you build it, they will come. Nowadays, you have to meet people where they are. And you know, Netflix has over 300 million paid subscribers and they're in 190 million countries, so.

[Tamar Braxton]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, we will. We will be meeting those people where they are. Let me not say we, but people will be meeting those people where they are. And I look forward to watching some of those podcasts in other languages. That's gonna be hilarious.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, that will be funny watching the Breakfast Club and other languages too. But I just want to say what.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You mean the Breakfast Club in Spanish, Which Breakfast Club?

[DJ Envy]

The Breakfast Club will come in Spanish, maybe. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are you translating?

[Tamar Braxton]

You know, I. I am.

[DJ Envy]

I'm gonna be able to do that.

[Isaac Hayes III]

It's gonna be dope.

[DJ Envy]

But, you know, I just want to say, I just love to see what Netflix has done. Remember, Netflix just started as that red box outside of these stores.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

You could go get these movies and blockbuster.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Environment.

[DJ Envy]

How they grew to where they're at now is just crazy. It's just amazing. That vision of Netflix.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is why audio is the best form of entertainment too. Because you can take audio and do so many things with it. You know, I mean, whether it's radio, podcasting, you can listen to it first and you can record it for a visual and then you can watch it and you can, you know, do to do the audio scripted content. You could take that content and just, you know, it could turn into so many different things. Documentaries, TV, film. Like this is.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yes, this is amazing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Beautiful.

[Lauren LaRosa]

100.

[DJ Envy]

Hi, Netflix. Good morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning. But one of the questions, Pizza, the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Planet Charlemagne, the God here now, you know, the end of the year is when, like a lot of business owners, I really lock in. All right, this is the time to set the foundation for next year. You got new ideas, new product drops, new goals. And when I'm building anything meaningful, I need the right tools. That's why I always tell folks, especially black entrepreneurs and small black owned businesses, Shopify is the move. Okay? We use it at the Black Effect Podcast network. And I've seen firsthand how it helps creators and Business owners grow with confidence. Entrepreneurship is very important to me. Okay? There's nothing wrong with working for people. There's nothing wrong with partnering people. But you should strive to own your own as well. And Shopify can help others grow into entrepreneurs. It's like having a whole team behind you. Your chief of staff, your personal assistant, your co founder, all in one platform. Whether you're running a side hustle or a full storefront selling locally or worldwide, Shopify takes all the guesswork out. Shopify brings everything into one place. You can sell on your website, on social media, and even in the real world. Like some of our partners at our Black Effect Festival coming up in April. Wherever your people are, Shopify makes sure your business can meet them where they're at. Plus, you got Shopify, Sidekick and their AI tools. Total game changers. I love how it's like having an assistant giving you insights, content ideas, edits. Shopify's got your next move covered. So let me ask you this. If you're ready to take the next step in your life, whether it's merch, products or anything in between, get on shopify.com ben that's shopify.com ben and make it happen. It is time to stop putting off your future and start your new role as your own boss today.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what up, y'?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All?

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy. And the holidays are here. The time of year that's all about connecting with loved ones in person or over the phone. In fact, hearing someone's voice can evoke a similar emotional response as a hug. And while most of us can hop on a video chat to really bring that connection to life, using tech isn't easy for everyone, especially some of the older folk in our lives. AT&T has been doing something special here to help. They offer digital literacy workshops that help older adults learn how to use technology to do things most of us take for granted, like video conferencing and sharing photos. Take Nancy Shand. She joined one of AT&T's workshops to learn how to video chat for the first time this holiday season. Nancy won't just be hearing about family gatherings. She'll be a part of them, sharing stories, opening presents, and making memories all through a screen. Nobody should have to go through the holiday season alone, so be sure to connect and stay connected to your loved ones this holiday season.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Connecting changes everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

AT&T. Whoa.

[DJ Envy]

What a vibe we've got, y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[DJ Envy]

As always, it's classic HBCU energy. Nonstop action, the band is rockin' and the crowd lit Chants echoing, drums beating everybody showing that school pride. Moments like this, yeah, they call for an ice cold Coca Cola. Crisp and refreshing. That's a game changer right there.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Mmm.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that taste always hit the right note. Just like the band at halftime. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere and an ice cold Coca Cola. That's a winning combo. No matter the place, no matter the moment. Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU pride going.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Tamar Braxton]

10 athletes will face the toughest job.

[Mimi Brown]

Interview in fitness that will push past.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Physical and mental breaking points.

[Tamar Braxton]

You are the fittest of the fit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Only one of you will leave here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

With an IFIT contract worth $250,000. This is where mindset comes in. Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Trainer Games on Prime Video January 8th. Watch the trailer on trainer games.com so.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It'S for the so for the podcast. If things are going off of YouTube. I'm told that the exclusive content will be on Netflix.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But told you that ain't nobody talking to you about none of this.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Somebody just did as I was walking in here and made sure that I said make sure I say it sources.

[DJ Envy]

You don't know what is going on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Who knows because people have questions about what that means, where the content will be.

[DJ Envy]

Nobody knows nothing. Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I won't be censored. Like it like I don't know that I didn't. I wasn't told that line.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I won't say that because on.

[DJ Envy]

The radio but no name was Netflix.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Audio.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh she means like as if you were headed to like eight like you know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, exactly. Why? That's why I'm like well damn if.

[DJ Envy]

I gonna be on the radio part to see a special somewhere. So I'm a cuss anyway I can.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay. Well in other news, speaking of announcements yesterday or not even announcements but things that just popped up in that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Huh? Cuz you just. It just dawned on you like damn, I don't know what the hell is going on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I I was giving you some information, but y' all are making it seem like y' all don't want me to say it. So I'm moving on, right?

[Tamar Braxton]

Right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm moving on. I'm doing my job.

[DJ Envy]

If you don't. If you don't talk to your handsome co host or the guy with the short arms, it's not true.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Who's the handsome one?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the next story?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Moving on. Yesterday. Yesterday, Young Thug proposed to Mariah the scientist at his homecoming show in Atlanta. We talked about her since she was ready for marriage and boom, it happened yesterday. Let's take a listen to what we can hear from the proposal on stage. So there's like this huge stage. She's on the stage behind Mariah is, will you marry me? She turns and Young Thug is down on one knee. The ring is ringing, baby. Okay. And she says, yes, I guess we're getting married. So congratulations to those two.

[DJ Envy]

I'm happy for them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She's happy. That's amazing.

[DJ Envy]

I'm happy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Y. I am too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He said it like, this is child.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is she happy?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm happy because she said, I don't care if you happy.

[DJ Envy]

No, meaning if she's happy, we should be happy. She just. She talked about it yesterday that she wanted to get married. If she's happy, we should be happy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And sometimes you gotta leave a person.

[DJ Envy]

To get exactly what you want.

[Tamar Braxton]

Remember she had left them.

[DJ Envy]

And then he.

[Tamar Braxton]

He started professing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then she got.

[DJ Envy]

We just talked about it yesterday. She wants to start our family.

[Tamar Braxton]

She wants to be married.

[DJ Envy]

She's happy. We have.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's why him. He had. Because he. Remember being up. Up here under this table.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. Why you threw that back at me?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because yesterday you was talking about my boss.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now talking about her ringworm.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You shouldn't. Why would you know?

[Tamar Braxton]

That was a near death experience.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly.

[DJ Envy]

It's Christmas time. Pop's not gonna show up for Christmas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm gonna let him leave.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now you could have left it at the right word. That was too low.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This right here, probably we won't make it. That was crazy. Too low for no reason.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, dad, if you're listening.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. Oh, yes.

[DJ Envy]

Daddy, I don't know if he's listening. Listening.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm just saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Lauren, if you happy, I'm happy, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now in the next hour as we wrap up, Ray J called me yesterday because he wanted to clear up some things about his ass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you a. I called you too, Ray. Why you a. Pick up for me. I need you to get some laughs off real quick. What you going to say to Ray? That don't matter. I needed to pick. I wanted to call him. He ain't pick up. Got. God damn it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, he called me and we cleared up some things about his ass. So we gonna talk about it. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Imagine this translated in another language. Exactly. Why?

[DJ Envy]

Next hour. Next hour we'll be talking about Ray J's ass. Coming up next, we got front page news. And then Tamar Braxton will be joining us. My girl, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Brexit Fist Club. Let's get back to some front page news now. Salute to all the New York Knicks fans. Let's start off with sports. Yesterday. Last night, the New York Knicks won the NBA Cup. They beat the San Antonio Spurs 124, 113. Jalen Brunson was the MVP, 25 points, eight assists and four rebounds. Also, we got to salute to Terence Crawford. He announced him himself retiring. He's 38 years old. He has a record of 42 and 0. So congratulations to Terence Crawford.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Terrence Crawford is one of those fighters that you really going to miss when he's gone. Like, you know what I'm saying? Because I think sometimes when we.

[DJ Envy]

When.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We live within the greatness, like we watch it, you kind of tend to take it for granted. And then when it's over, that's when everybody starts doing their retrospective. Like, damn, he really was that dude.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. The sad thing about Terrence, I don't wanna say the sad thing about Terence Crawford, but the sad thing about Terence Crawford is for a lot of casual boxer fans, they just started hearing his name a couple of years ago, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Which is sad. But he didn't really, I feel, get the light from the casual boxer fans. They just started diving into his career as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He went out on top, you know, beating Canelo Alvarez, you know, on Netflix. Can't get much bigger than that.

[DJ Envy]

You're right. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, Envy. Judge Charlamagne. How y' all doing this morning?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Left black and highly favored. How are you, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. So we start this hour with the latest on the manhunt following that deadly shooting at Brown University. As investigators, they move into day five with no suspect in custody. Now, authorities in Providence say they are still searching for the person responsible for the attack that killed two students and injured nine others inside the engineering building on campus on Saturday. Afternoon. Now, investigators, they released new enhanced images and video Tuesday, yesterday, and they're asking the public to look closely, not just at the person's face, but how they move and in hopes that someone may recognize this individual. Let's listen to what investigators said during that briefing yesterday.

[Isaac Hayes III]

We believe that he was actually casing.

[DJ Envy]

Out this area to commit the crime.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's a pattern that criminals do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You want to focus on the body.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Movements, the way the person moved their arms, the body posture, the way they wait, they carry the weight. I think those are important movement patterns that may help you identify this individual.

[DJ Envy]

Which is extremely important.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, police are really leaning on the public and the tips to help find this individual. They say that that person of interest who was detained earlier in the investigation, they have now been cleared. But security analysts say that that focus early on that individual may have set the investigation back by as much as a day. Now, authorities believe the shooter spent more than five hours in the area before opening fire, possibly casing that location, then disappeared into the surrounding neighborhoods when camera footage, where camera footage is limited. Now, investigators, they are working through hundreds of tips, reviewing new video and collecting DNA samples from potential leads, suggesting they may have physical evidence, but no match yet in that in the national database. One victim remains in critical condition this morning while others are recovering. And of course, classes and exams, they remain canceled.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I honestly be feeling like with all this technology that we have today, they already know who the person is. I just think that they, for whatever reason, they just take their time going to get them. I think just to see what else he is doing to see if that first individual may be connected to others. Because with all, like I said, with all the technology we have today and everything on being under surveillance, they know who this guy is already. I really, truly believe that.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. And I think because they made a mistake the first time around that they're being extra cautious this time around before they give, you know, a lot of information to the public on what they do know. We'll continue to watch that. So if you're flying anywhere in the US here's an important update involving airport security and immigration enforcement. Now, according to the New York Times, TSA is now sharing passenger lists with Immigration and Customs Enforcement several times a week. So that means CSA is giving ICE the name of people except expected to pass through US Airports. ICE then checks those names against its database and and against the people it believes are subject to deportation. So if there's a match, agents can be sent to the airport to detain that person. TSA and ice, they are both part of Homeland Security. And it's unclear how many people have been arrested because of this information sharing, but the paper said that it reviewed documents showing at least one case tied directly to the program. So, back in November, a college student headed home to Texas to see her family for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving, she was arrested at the airport in Boston, and she was deported just two days later. Now, according to her family, she was brought to the US From Honduras when she was seven years old. And they say that she did not know that she was under a deportation order. And as people get ready to travel for the holidays, it is a reminder that routine domestic air travel is being used as a immigration enforcement checkpoint. That means simply boarding your plane inside the US can now trigger immigration enforcement.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn, I didn't even know you get deportation orders.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, that's great.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. Well, to that point, civil rights advocates say this raises concerns about transparency and due process. So whether people really understand the risk of traveling, especially, you know, people who have lived here in the US for years, they may not even realize that their. Their immigration status is unresolved. And so there is no deportation order. Really? It's like your name comes up and they come get you. Really? That's what's happening?

[DJ Envy]

That's crazy.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yeah, yo, go ahead. Listen, because my husband got a call last week, right? I'm like, I swear. From ice, right?

[DJ Envy]

So he's hide at my house. Listen, shut up.

[Tamar Braxton]

So he called me.

[DJ Envy]

He was like, yeah, you funny. And I'm like, what are you talking about?

[Tamar Braxton]

He was like, yeah, all right. You try to. You know, the ice.

[DJ Envy]

ICE joke ain't funny.

[Tamar Braxton]

And I'm like, no. He was like, yo, they're calling people. Like, they're calling people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They just got to make sure.

[DJ Envy]

No, ain't no make sure nothing.

[Tamar Braxton]

Like, I. Even if somebody is playing on this phone, he thought it was me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It ain't me. They just gotta make sure it's the fault. Just be careful if y' all doing any traveling over the holidays, okay? That's all I'm saying. All right? Especially with your in laws. Just be careful, Justin.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, y'. All switching gears, would you guys watch Instagram reels on television, or would you just stick to watching them on your phones? What do you think?

[Lauren LaRosa]

If you watching TV and they already come up?

[Tamar Braxton]

I mean, it's like, whatever, because phone is tv. TV is the phone now.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, that's a good point, because Instagram is now testing a new Instagram for TV app. It's officially bringing reels to your television screen. So the test is rolling out on Amazon Fire TV devices, letting users who watch those short term, short form videos on much larger screens. You can stay at home, you can watch it straight from your couch instead of your phone or. So the idea is to take those same reels that you already scroll through on your phone and hook them up to your TV. But Instagram, they are trying to compete with TikTok and YouTube now. So the videos, they won't be reformatted for your television, they'll still play vertically, just on a much larger screen. There'll be three minutes or less and families, they can link up to five Instagram accounts to that one TV shared profile. Viewers can browse reels by interest based. So if you're into sports, music, travel, and you can make it less about endless scrolling and more about what you actually want to watch. So for now, Instagram says the focus is on making the experience feel natural. So they're not adding ads just yet, but it sounds like if this is a hit that they will start adding. Yep. To your scrolling and the expansion. They said they plan to expand to other platforms, not just Amazon, Amazon 6, but that is expected later and they have not given a timeline on when they expect that. And lastly, have you guys bought your Powerball tickets yet?

[DJ Envy]

I'm about to now.

[Tamar Braxton]

I hear Charlemagne Envy talking about it all the time. I'm about to stop.

[Mimi Brown]

I know Charlamagne about to pull it out of his wallet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's mine from Monday. I gotta buy mine for the day.

[DJ Envy]

But this mine, I'm gonna get mine.

[Tamar Braxton]

So you gotta buy every day.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Monday, Wednesday is Powerball.

[DJ Envy]

And how much is it? $5 or $2.

[Mimi Brown]

Is $2. There was no winner on Monday, so that jackpot is jumped to $1.25 billion.

[DJ Envy]

I need that.

[Tamar Braxton]

Okay.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes. It is the sixth largest jackpot ever, you guys. And the cash option is about $572 million.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus Christ. And how much of that, if you.

[Tamar Braxton]

Win, how much of that do you.

[DJ Envy]

Got to pay for? 572 minus taxes. So half of that taxes.

[Tamar Braxton]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Yep.

[Mimi Brown]

So you better get your ticket tonight. The drawing is tonight and we'll see if there's a winner. The odds are like 1 in 292 million, something like that. Yeah, but you never know, you know, could be. Could be the lucky winner.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Mimi Brown]

So we'll, we'll see if there is a winner tomorrow. And that is it, y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

That is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown tv. For more stories, follow the Black Information Network, Download the free iHeartRadio app or visit binnews.com.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Mimi.

[DJ Envy]

Thanks, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

All right, when we come back, Tamar Braxton will be joining us, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren laros is here as well. We got a special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed.

[DJ Envy]

A new album, Heartbreak, Heartbreak Retrograde, is out right now. Ladies and gentlemen, Tamar Braxton.

[Tamar Braxton]

Hi.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Welcome back.

[Tamar Braxton]

Hey, friends, how are you?

[DJ Envy]

I'm excellent.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You look good.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Do I?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Yo, Q. She asking questions and she look good. You gotta do a better job, Q. Damn.

[Tamar Braxton]

Thank you, friend.

[DJ Envy]

How you doing? How the kids?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hello, kids.

[DJ Envy]

I won't.

[Tamar Braxton]

Logan is great. Yeah. He's on break, and so, you know, I can't even reach him.

[DJ Envy]

I'm not mad at you.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got a lot going on.

[DJ Envy]

New album. See, I'm going positivity.

[Tamar Braxton]

That's great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Heartbreak Retrograde.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What does retrograde mean to you, like, emotionally?

[Tamar Braxton]

Well, you know, like, Mercury retrograde. And so it's like, a long period of time where, like, things are just, like, not adding up, not making sense, where you just, like, feel like you're not yourself. And I chose to take it as something that is positive instead of a negative. This is a time where I can evolve. I can be myself and figure out things that will best suit me in the future. And I feel like I want to say this. You know, Heartbreak Retrograde was born here. Really, the last conversation that we had about cheating.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Tamar Braxton]

So Heartbreak Retrograde is about a woman who cheats on her spouse and breaks her own heart by breaking his heart.

[DJ Envy]

Cause you talked about it, that you cheated on her ex and you heard about it.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So are these old wounds resurfacing, or are you finally releasing them?

[Tamar Braxton]

I'm releasing it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Tamar Braxton]

You know, and I couldn't figure out. Remember, I was still feeling bad about it. I couldn't figure out how. How to break it. And, you know, putting together this project along with the movie was very therapeutic for me, and so I'm just so grateful about it.

[DJ Envy]

Did you ever call that ex and have that conversation?

[Tamar Braxton]

I did.

[DJ Envy]

How did that go?

[Tamar Braxton]

Well, okay. So we went out to lunch, and I explained to him that this was about that portion of the relationship, and he appreciated that. But there were some things about the movie that he didn't like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, you know what's so good about this. I don't know. You know, 2025 is the year of the snake. So we got, like, what, 14 days left to, you know, shed old habits and embrace personal growth. Just like a shake, a snake sheds its skin.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So this album, you know, it's divine timing.

[Tamar Braxton]

It helped me and I believe, like.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It spent a lot of time.

[Tamar Braxton]

People like, oh, my God. I've listened to it, and I feel like this is the medicine that I needed to get over my heartbreak Retrograde.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

And what didn't he like? He said he didn't like parts of it. What didn't he like?

[Tamar Braxton]

I think that it was a lot of ego, you know what I mean? Because it was based on a true story. It wasn't everything that happened. Right. And so he was just, you know, I think it's hard to see your ex or somebody that you once cared about or care about in, like, those positions with someone else, because I'm sure it brought him back to that moment.

[DJ Envy]

Did it reunite feelings? When y' all had that dinner, did y' all read? Did anything, like, sparks pop off and say, let's try this again, since we're being so open, or.

[Tamar Braxton]

Nah, I don't think that person is healed in that capacity for that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did you choose something on him?

[Tamar Braxton]

Well, not necessarily. It's a long story. I tell y', all off camera.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because women don't ever have that conversation. Men do.

[Tamar Braxton]

Exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, but.

[Tamar Braxton]

And I think it's time to have that conversation. I think we need to normalize it, both of us. That's not just men, you know, it's. It's women, too. Because just, like, the same reasons why, you know, a man will cheat is because, you know, things are not all the way together at home or things are all the way together with themselves. It's the same thing. Women go through the same thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, Charlamagne, don't cheat.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Explain to her what you mean before you trigger her. Please explain.

[Tamar Braxton]

What do you mean, black men don't cheat? What do they do? Is another word for it must.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, Black men, comma, don't cheat. Like, I don't want black men to cheat.

[Tamar Braxton]

We don't want black men to cheat. However. Thank you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, Tamar, I was wondering if the ex you were referring to is in the. The movie.

[Tamar Braxton]

You tried it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No. Okay. I just was wondering because.

[Tamar Braxton]

Absolutely not.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right.

[Tamar Braxton]

Y' all don't believe that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I wasn't talking about that.

[Tamar Braxton]

Because I know y' all can't wait.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, like.

[Tamar Braxton]

But let's just talk about common sense. And first of all, we've been knowing each other a long time. Let's. Can we stop that? Can we. Can we dead that now? Okay, Because I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna be honest about. There has never been a man who has experienced Tamar who didn't want to marry me. And so if that was the case, he would be over here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Everybody clear?

[Tamar Braxton]

Now let's move on.

[DJ Envy]

Get them together. What? Y' all do this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lauren, I'm like, who.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was talking about Vince because he's in the. The doc. Yeah, he is. He is. But I didn't know if the reason why I asked that is because. Because he's in the. Your visual giving you relationship. People seeing him on screen again, we always just wonder, you know, where the relationship is, like, what. What that looks like. So I didn't know if that was the person you had to sit down, have dinner.

[Tamar Braxton]

No, that's my baby daddy cousin. And that's where that stops.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Baby daddy cousin. I saw. When you get to that point, you're in a good place.

[Tamar Braxton]

He's a family member, and that's that on that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you watch the video with Vince?

[Tamar Braxton]

I saw him here taking pictures. You know, Vince being the pictures.

[DJ Envy]

Vince being the picture.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Vince being the picture.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They was killing Vince. When Vince was sitting in the background, they was like, there go Vince back there with his mouth open. Leave Vince alone, man.

[Tamar Braxton]

We love Vince.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was this album about reliving heartbreak or reclaiming your power from it?

[Tamar Braxton]

It was about taking accountability, you know, and being responsible for someone's hurt that I caused. And like I said when I was here, I felt really bad. That's really when it, like, zoned in on me, like, oh, wow, I really did hurt a person that bad. And I'm, you know, I'm really sorry for that. And I. I hope that that person doesn't take that into, you know, their future. I hope it doesn't stifle their growth and, like, really, truly finding love.

[DJ Envy]

Was he surprised when you called to have dinner and talk about it? Because a lot of times they say women don't apologize. So was he shocked and surprised?

[Tamar Braxton]

I don't. I don't know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I can't.

[Tamar Braxton]

I don't know if I can answer that. I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I also don't think men cheat because you said that earlier, but I don't think men cheat because there's something wrong at home.

[Tamar Braxton]

I. I do. I think there's something that's missing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think it's something missing within you as a man.

[Tamar Braxton]

You think so you think it's all about the man. Has nothing to do with the woman. It's nothing to do with the. With another person.

[DJ Envy]

I think every situation is different, but I think a lot of times man trying to feed his ego, you know what I mean? And I think that's the main. I think men need to grow up at times. And I don't think they've got to the place where they understand what the word love really means and what it really is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because you don't really love yourself. Correct. And it's like, you know, it's like pouring water into a cup that ain't got no bottom. So you just constantly think, he's feeling. This feeling is feeling and it's not. That's why most of the time you feel very empty after you, you know, cheat.

[Tamar Braxton]

But what if you can't reach that other person? What if you can't reach your. Your partner?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, yeah, that's a different circumstance. I'm not saying that there can' when you know, it's problems at home, but it's really the guy. Yeah.

[Tamar Braxton]

Well, I learned something today. I didn't know that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, how did you feel like on the other side? Like, did you feel like it was something missing or did you like, was there like some self searching you had to do when you.

[Tamar Braxton]

It was definitely some healing that I needed to address. And also I was just really confused. And if I'm being honest, I just wasn't ready. I just wasn't ready.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was there any moments while you was recording this album where you had to stop because it was too real?

[Tamar Braxton]

Yeah, a lot. And the film too, because it just bought back a lot. Like, I'm gonna tell you one part that was really, really real. He shifted. Once again. You shifted my uterus. That is what he read.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, that was a real text.

[Tamar Braxton]

That was a real text.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You got explained for the people.

[Tamar Braxton]

So we know what the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That means.

[DJ Envy]

He's having flashbacks. He's having flashbacks.

[Lauren LaRosa]

See that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You mean he shifted your uterus once again? So in the vision again, how would you say that? Like, that's such a hard thing about you.

[DJ Envy]

Calm down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just saying you already cheated him. All that detail.

[Tamar Braxton]

When a woman, like really understands and falls into her masculine energy, we become you all. And that's what that text was. I was just basically macking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't never said being honest the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Way I've never told a girl.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've never told a woman that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wait.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Imagine you imagine a man cheated on you and then told you that the woman he cheated with.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, okay. Is that equivalent?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. Does it matter? I'm just trying to hurt you because you hurt your.

[Tamar Braxton]

No, no, no. He went through my phone and read that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And did you clear that with the person that you actually. Your ex before you put that in the visual? Because that. I know that still hurts. And he had to watch it.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yeah, but, you know, I only have to address it with honesty. You can't have accountability without honesty. I had to have honesty. That's it. That's it. I had to address what I know. That hurt you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's different. God damn.

[DJ Envy]

I'd have to go get peniler surgery after that.

[Tamar Braxton]

Like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, I wish we could get a ppl.

[Tamar Braxton]

I'm searching for it now, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you. Jesus Christ.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So, okay, the way that the album lines up and the way the visual goes, it tells the story, right? Because in the beginning, it's like you're happy. It's like you're. Y' all are just discovering each other. When you know, you know is the first song in the visual writing. When you know, you know, about your existence. What is it that you discover? You lost from that point to the point where you get to, like, you know, Letter to a Leo man.

[Tamar Braxton]

What you mean? What.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, what changed in your relationship, like, at that point? Or what changed in you where you were like, okay, I just was so sure about this. And then it went from so sure to like, you met somebody else and you just completely forgot about what you were sure about.

[Tamar Braxton]

I didn't meet nobody else. I basically revisited something that I was asking about that completely over and. And if I'm being honest, I was honest with that person about that. When we first started dating, you know, we were still talking, but we wasn't. We were still platonic, but I still had feelings. And I told that person, for the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Uterus shifter or somebody else for.

[Tamar Braxton]

For the uterus shifter. You are something else.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Really hurt.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know if you really hurt over there.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yeah, we're devastated.

[DJ Envy]

It's bringing back flashbacks.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Explain. Thank you, though. Yeah. What's that conversation like then? Like, when y' all first meet up and you're like, okay, I want you to know I still got feelings for my ex. Yeah.

[Tamar Braxton]

But I. I never thought that I would act on them. I just thought that they were feelings that would eventually go away. Does that make sense? Because we kind of. I think that when we're in the single outside moment, Sometimes we go into situations having unresolved feelings. Right. That you never think that you're going to, like, revisit. And I think that's honest, and I think that's normal. You're not gonna, like, if. Especially if you really. You really, truly love a person and spend time with the person, it just doesn't go away overnight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's why you can't be laying down with everybody, because you really do be exchanging energy.

[Tamar Braxton]

You really do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And there is a piece of you that, you know, you have shared with that person forever. Like, you can't people.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yeah, but I was after. I was very, very sure that I wanted to be with the other person.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The person after the ex.

[Tamar Braxton]

I was very, very sure.

[DJ Envy]

Does it hurt you to talk about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It over and over and over again?

[DJ Envy]

Does that bother you?

[Tamar Braxton]

I'm completely healed. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So safer on the app, on the project, right? You talk about, like, I feel safer beside you. You make me want to pressure wine or which person are you?

[Tamar Braxton]

Both. Anybody been in love with two people at the same time?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nope. Yes, you have never.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yes, you have. What do you mean? No, of course you have.

[Lauren LaRosa]

A long time ago.

[Tamar Braxton]

You get what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, it's like a couple weeks ago.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But no, that's not true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We used to call her too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's not. Don't listen to me.

[Tamar Braxton]

I mean, you outside, so you kind of got to have a rasta pasta.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, not.

[Tamar Braxton]

No more. But my.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My last relationship before I became single, a variety. A bowl of variety at the time. But my last situation before I became single, I. I was experiencing like, how the heck am I still have love for you, but in love or feeling like I might be able to be in love with a person again. Like, is that a thing? Like, I was kind of like, confused. And I know you had that conversation in your visual as well. Like. Like, what is happening right now? Because you don't know if it's just butterflies and lies, because a lot of times it's not love. It's butterflies and lies. Or if it's actual love with this new person that you and you got.

[Tamar Braxton]

It was actual love with the new person, but I had to button it up with the other one. Does that make sense?

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Because if you was really, truly in love with somebody, right. Your feelings would take over where you would never want to hurt that person and you would. There would be no way that you could love two people the same way. Well, one could be an infatuation. One could be you just love the. In the uterus. Moving one could be just a butterfly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Clip that, Please don't clip that, don't clip that, don't clip that.

[DJ Envy]

Whatever you do, don't clip that.

[Tamar Braxton]

Or it could be the memories or the what could have been. And am I walking away from something that is truly meant for me? You know, was I mature at the time? Was I, you know, healed at the time? Was I a good enough woman? Did I understand myself at the time? It was all of those things that I had to figure out, you know, what with those two situations. And I regret that I hurt that person. I really do. But I don't regret that I found myself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love this honest conversation. I mean, I do. Do you feel lighter now that this music is out?

[Isaac Hayes III]

I do.

[Tamar Braxton]

It really, truly healed me. It really did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You feel exposed in a way.

[Tamar Braxton]

Not in a scandalous, bad way, as some people want it to be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Tamar Braxton]

Max, no.

[DJ Envy]

If somebody dates you now, can they truly believe that you're into them and not possibly have feelings for an ex or possibly.

[Tamar Braxton]

Well, I was honest with that person. I'm gonna be honest about it. Hey, we're grown and I hate that I'm outside. I don't believe I'm supposed to be however I am. And I'm just too old and evolved and just secure to just sit around and play a game. I don't really have time.

[DJ Envy]

Well, how's dating for you now? How was that going?

[Tamar Braxton]

I'm not really doing a lot of it, but outside sucks. Sucks, you know, that's it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are you intentionally dating, or are you just, like, having a good time again? A little hasta pasta.

[Tamar Braxton]

I am not having a good time. Not having a good time. But it is what it is. And, you know, I feel like now I put myself in a position to really, truly be with my person and get it and get all that comes with it, and I'm ready for it, and so that situation will never, ever, ever happen to me again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what does being lighter feel like? Because you said now that the music is out, you feel lighter.

[DJ Envy]

What do you feel like?

[Tamar Braxton]

Okay, so, you know when you really, truly let something go, guilt go. That's what I feel like. I've completely let it go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying? This is the perfect time to do it. This is karmic. It's the year.

[Tamar Braxton]

Is it really?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it was a. It's a nine.

[Tamar Braxton]

I love that about you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it's a nine year. So nine is the highest level of change. So all of this stuff, you're literally supposed to shed all of this like a snake shed.

[Tamar Braxton]

So it was supposed to happen, huh?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Tamar Braxton]

It was supposed to have this conversation a few. What was it, eight months ago? To put this record together, get with tricky, put this record together, make this film, make my wrongs, try to make my wrongs right and grow from it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. But you did make.

[DJ Envy]

You did make your wrongs right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You. You.

[DJ Envy]

You owned up. You did what you had to do. Now it's on them to heal. But you did what you were supposed to do. I think.

[Tamar Braxton]

Why, thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what did heartbreak teach you that, like, success never could personally about yourself? What did heartbreak.

[Tamar Braxton]

Well, I've been let down in both areas. I think one of them I can control and one of them I can't.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Tamar Braxton]

Heartbreak I can control. That will never happen to me again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what version of Tamar walked into the studio? What version walked out?

[Tamar Braxton]

Well, I came in here a little heavy because, you know, you're not talking about this studio.

[DJ Envy]

Somebody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When you did the album.

[Tamar Braxton]

Today was rough for me because I think that sometimes, like, it's a lot. Right. And I. And I have anxiety, and I know. And I recognize that I'm not on my medication right now, so it's probably heightened.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're gonna get asked stuff that you probably don't want to talk about.

[Tamar Braxton]

I don't want to discuss, you know, and you know, I don't want to make things worse, not only for myself, but for my loved ones and loved ones being the person heart that I broke or my siblings or. I know it's tough for my mother to see her daughters that way. And I also don't want to give opportunity for anybody to say anything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yeah, yeah. But I'm okay now. Yeah. You know, before I came in, I just centered myself and I'm like, I'm in a safe place. I'm in a safe place because I'm in control of me. I'm in control of what comes out of my mouth. And it doesn't matter what the headlines say. I know that whatever I say, I'm going to stand by and that's it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, the uterus shifting ain't going to come out because this is partially about him. What if he start doing it?

[Tamar Braxton]

He's not going to. He's not.

[Lauren LaRosa]

As the uterus shifter.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That sounds.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not the Man Diddy in jail. Like I should have hired him. Oh, my God. Punisher.

[DJ Envy]

We just want to tell you we love you. We always support you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

We always have your back.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And congrats on Brazila too.

[Tamar Braxton]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do have one more question.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because after heartbreak, retrograde, what does love look like moving forward? Forward. Is it softer? Is it guarded? Is it fearless?

[Tamar Braxton]

It's all of that. But I'm looking forward to a soft love.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Tamar Braxton]

I really am. I'm. I'm looking forward to. To catering to and catering to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's a great place.

[DJ Envy]

There you go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What she don't know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's a great place to be.

[Tamar Braxton]

Do we need to talk about are we open about it? Sensation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are you open?

[Tamar Braxton]

Are you public? Because I won't be public ever again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wait, just four or five months ago.

[Lauren LaRosa]

First of all, she had two.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Tamar Braxton]

She had to figure out which one it was going to be.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Single and I was dating.

[Tamar Braxton]

That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Way before. And you should date more than me. 1.

[DJ Envy]

She's happy. She's glowing now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And it's the same thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That little ball spot still ain't.

[DJ Envy]

I fixed that though. For I fixed that before.

[Tamar Braxton]

Y' all are terrible.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He brought me spray on hair dye.

[DJ Envy]

Like spray paint. Just spray it so it covers it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wait, hold on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let q just look at this is true love dog. The legendary Harlem Zone. Why he do this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

To answer your question, I will talk about being in a relationship. I do want to keep certain things to Myself that crop circle because I.

[Tamar Braxton]

Haven'T seen him on your page. Do not show him. I just don't show him. I think that's when things get a little wild. I mean, don't show up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Justin already posted them, but.

[Tamar Braxton]

Oh, wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I will say I think certain things I want to keep to the chest a little bit just because I just. It's a. People be having a lot to say and a lot going on, and everybody's not built to deal with all of that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you don't know if that man got a whole other family.

[DJ Envy]

Q did the same thing that I did.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly what he got and he don't got. Don't play with me.

[DJ Envy]

That's what I did.

[Tamar Braxton]

Oh, that's your boo boo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, this is girl.

[Tamar Braxton]

How long has it been?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Boom.

[DJ Envy]

Can't even see that. That bald spot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stop lying. How you gonna lie to Tamar like that and say sometimes she asked him how long she been with the man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She said sometime I've been dating him for a while.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's a while?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Lauren, you all in my business. We'll talk.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay?

[Tamar Braxton]

We'll talk. So did he know about the other people you were dating while you was dating him?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When I met him, the people that I was like kind of having a conversation with, we had that conversation.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Awkward.

[Mimi Brown]

100%.

[Tamar Braxton]

So how did he feel about that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That we weren't exclusively together? Like, what he going to. You know what I mean? It was, I think more so because we were friends before this. Like, he's not like a stranger. He wasn't really focused on it. I think he pulled up and understood, like, okay, once I'm here, I know all that is going to go by the wayside. So let's just focus on each other for real in this new space, not as friends.

[Tamar Braxton]

And so how does men feel about that? Women dating, multiple openly dating.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because I was dating.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I used to call her too low because I feel like you like, she young. You know, me and she in the scene in New York. Now go have some fun.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Fun.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I just thought it was ridiculous when he took her on vacation and put, will you be my girlfriend? It's like you went out the country with him.

[Tamar Braxton]

I'm sorry you saw it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was cute.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But all the way out the country to get asked to be his girlfriend?

[Tamar Braxton]

Absolutely. You better, because this is what I think. I think that you were supposed to date several and made and made the best man who steps up win.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you done let the man sweat on you. So it's like, I'm just saying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He's saying that that should have happened.

[DJ Envy]

No, not Tamar. They were, they were seeing each other, but they were joking that she said, you, me, we just came to. It just happened. And he. That was his joke back. Will you be my girl?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They were exclusive.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because I feel like even in my joke, as a person trying to figure out, like, how to go into a relationship, because I was in a relationship young and then it ended when I was like, 30, 31. So when I was single, I'm like, this is my first time being an adult and being single. Yeah, I don't even know how you get back into a relationship at this point, but we've had that conversation. And so that was him being like, okay, day. Even if you don't know and you're joking, I want to make sure you feel as secure as you need to about everything. He doing what he need to do. And Big Fatty over there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know you ain't calling me Big Fatty. And your man built like Drew. That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Just ignore him.

[Tamar Braxton]

Before. Remember this used to be be.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh.

[Mimi Brown]

Sh.

[DJ Envy]

He about to say Fat Vince.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I met him and he was a really nice person, but I, I, he's not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Vince ain't even big. Like.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When you was with him.

[Tamar Braxton]

Teddy Rapkins.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, it's not that. But he is a man, though. This is a man.

[Tamar Braxton]

I enjoyed my Teddy Rubskin era.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't think I would be able.

[Tamar Braxton]

To enjoy that, but I enjoy the little thickums. It's okay to be thickums.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The word you use was hustle. That's what you said.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't think it's for me.

[Tamar Braxton]

It's not for me now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I couldn't do. He's not built like Drisky. He's just angry and he's happy for you.

[Tamar Braxton]

He's just playing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think so too, because when I was.

[Tamar Braxton]

And he's super happy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now I'm inside and being.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not happy for her. I'm happy when the man proposes and they walk down.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, that's when I get out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nothing to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Don't rush me. Like, that's all he did.

[Tamar Braxton]

Oh, no. Let me see the ring.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Make sure he walk down the aisle now. That's all. Yeah, you good.

[DJ Envy]

Take your time.

[Tamar Braxton]

Do you need. No, don't say that.

[DJ Envy]

It's only been like five months. Six months.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I've known him for years.

[Tamar Braxton]

He knows. So why we wait there?

[DJ Envy]

Things they got to do well, what I advise. I live with each other so you really see the true meaning. You know, have those conversations about bills and finances and have that conversation about the future. How many kids you want? How many kids he wants?

[Isaac Hayes III]

Ones.

[DJ Envy]

You need to have those conversations before you just get into it. And I'm just saying have those conversations.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not rushing, but I am also like, you know, I'm in. I'm. I'm good.

[Tamar Braxton]

Got it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm in a really great place.

[DJ Envy]

Well, we appreciate you for joining us. Happy holidays and all that.

[Tamar Braxton]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Happy holidays to the family. It's Tamar Braxton. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's get right to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight thing made it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets him through somebody that knows somebody. Get the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on.

[DJ Envy]

The.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit of everything.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Well, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to me. Talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, guys. So before we get to Ray J and his body parts, I did want to congratulate in announcements yesterday, I saw that Howard Stern announced his new three year deal live on his show, the Howard Stern show with series of xm. And there was conversation around him about whether he would be returning, if the show would be returning or not. So wanted to just send a quick congratulations to him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's some good news because all we keep hearing about is radio firings. It's good to hear somebody actually get a contract and get signed. That's amazing Howard stuff.

[DJ Envy]

And I want you to think about it. Howard Stern is what, still dominating at what, 71 years old?

[Lauren LaRosa]

How long have you been in the game?

[DJ Envy]

Still kicking ass?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

40, 50 years?

[DJ Envy]

Still getting millions of dollars for doing something that he loves.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hundreds of millions. Yes, exactly. Howard done forgot more than we've ever.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Learned now in shifting. Shifting gears. Yesterday, Ray J. Called me because we covered him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

His butt.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, Himself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Diddy rectal prolapse.

[DJ Envy]

He didn't cover his butt.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's the problem. Yeah, well, Ray J called me because we did that story yesterday about him saying that Diddy took his butt, allegedly, and he wanted to clear it up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ain't no clearing that up.

[DJ Envy]

Ray. He said it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Clearly know what he was doing.

[DJ Envy]

That wasn't AI.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let's take a listen to what Ray said. Ray J said, and then we'll take. Then I'll let you guys hear him clear it up. Let's take a listen to what Ray J said about Diddy taking his butt.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Number one, my ass.

[Tamar Braxton]

Should I say I have to take everybody?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everybody. You got one. My running Diddy. Yo, did he took my ass.

[DJ Envy]

My ass open more than it's been.

[Tamar Braxton]

Ever in my life.

[DJ Envy]

When I try to fart my come out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now here is Ray J really putting this on Netflix. Now here's Ray J on the phone with me yesterday, attempting to clear this up in a very straightforward way. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Play it back.

[Mimi Brown]

Yep.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, let's take a listen to Ray J clearing the allegations.

[DJ Envy]

Agency's mad at me. My. My street is mad at me. Everybody's like, I'm on a super crash out. Right. I always take accountability for everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And karma.

[DJ Envy]

Karma's a mom. But I'm in character being Lil Rod. And guess what? I shouldn't have did that either. I shouldn't have been talking about Lil Rod. He might. I don't know if he. If what happened with his ass, but I was insensitive about his ass, and then it turned on me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It turned on your ass?

[DJ Envy]

It turns again. So I'm looking at it. I'm like, I said the same ass is Ronnie and all that on the bus talking about lil ride. I'm. I'm in character. I'm telling the homies this is what he said, and then they clipped it right there. But this is not okay. This is not okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad.

[DJ Envy]

He's a good guy, and he would never take my ass like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I feel like I said that. Didn't I say that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I Like he was acting like somebody else.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We caught in the middle of the joke, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. We're always caught in the middle of the joke with Ray J. I mean.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That, like, the camera caught him in the middle of the joke, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everybody knew he was pretending to be Little Rod or somebody or being one of the victims from the dock.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yep.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So he says that Sheila was live because I told him. I was like, I tried to find more of the video, but I couldn't. Do you have. He said she took it down once. It went crazy, but that's what was happening. Now he also says, because I'm like, well, why would you just be outside acting like little. Little ride? Like, why even give people that to be able to clip? Let's take a listen to what Ray J said. Why are you outside in public in character as Little Ride? Like, why?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because.

[DJ Envy]

Because is telling me. Okay. So just like y' all post everything. 50 posted it. It went viral. Saw me on the booth talking about it. So when I was in the casino, everybody was talking to me about what they saw. And they was like, that was, wow, funny, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[DJ Envy]

And we just started getting into it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Got you.

[DJ Envy]

I wouldn't troll on my own ass because I don't troll my own ass.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Don't you think being outside in character as little ride is TR on your own ass?

[DJ Envy]

It's not trolling on my ass. It was trolling on his ass. And I think that's the karma behind it, is that I shouldn't have been even talking about it and joking about it because look what karma did. It made people think I was talking about my own ass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First of all, Ray J knows what he's doing. Dropping a clues bomb for Ray J. We are all part of the reg rhythm, okay? It's a lot of different algorithms, but then there's a reg rhythm. And, you know, Ray J creates his own regular rhythm every day. He's doing it right now. He called you yesterday, told you to record him, and now you playing it back on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He didn't tell me to record him. I. He said, can you please clear things up about my behind? And I said, what if you did it yourself? Can you speak to the people yourself?

[Mimi Brown]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Either way, this is the regular for today.

[Tamar Braxton]

And Laurod is owed some money. Everybody need to pay him because all of this is built on the trolling of his ass. So, like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can't get on no documentary talking about, sometimes you want woke up next to girls. Sometimes you woke up next to Diddy.

[Isaac Hayes III]

And.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you was so.

[Tamar Braxton]

But. But now it's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I feel like you trying to make me laugh.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But no, he wasn't laughing.

[DJ Envy]

Lil Leon was not laughing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on. That Diddy gave him a little pet. The role play happened too, though. Like, I've seen that before. Remember that time was you with me in Puerto Rico? No, I was not with you in Puerto Rico.

[DJ Envy]

No, I was not with you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When F.W. bentley was like, look, he said, how much I'm. I'mma tell y' all about the time I met Diddy. And he said, charlamagne, you be Diddy. And I be. I'mma be me and what you do. And he walked up to me and he was like, hi, I'm fond dwarf. And I was like, you want to. You. You wasn't definite.

[DJ Envy]

I was not with you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Tamar Braxton]

Did he laugh at that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, everybody laughed.

[DJ Envy]

Laugh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Tamar Braxton]

With the umbrella.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They have the umbrella. It was years ago. This was like 11, 12 years ago. Maybe you was there Somebody was there. I wasn't there with you.

[DJ Envy]

But salute to Farnsworth. He just stayed quiet.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He stayed out the mix, right?

[DJ Envy]

People been trying to so successfully salute to Fonz.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, in. In clearing this up and in ending this, Ray J says he's now on this, like, campaign that he's starting. Let's take a listen.

[DJ Envy]

This one went everywhere.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I bet.

[DJ Envy]

To the point where I gotta defend it. Because a lot of times when I do crazy, it'll just blow away. Pause, but blow away is crazy. But this one is going way too viral. And then I was like, gonna think about letting it slide again. And then I click on it and I see you, you talking about. And it said, Ray J said Diddy took my butt. I said, enough's enough. It's time to go on a clear and clean, Clean my campaign. Clean my clean my ass campaign.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So what's the moral of the story? Like, what did you learn?

[DJ Envy]

Moral of the story is my bad little ride. I might be kicked off the board of the Gagency because they don't know if I'm. If I'm real or not. You know what I mean? Only straight guy on the gaugency. And so for me to say somebody took me leaves them with no choice to say, well, you wasn't being who you was.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is basically a digital enema is what he's doing. He's got to clear his ass. Yeah, this is a digital enema. He's got to clear his ass from all of these accusations that he started, by the way.

[DJ Envy]

That's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just want Ray J to know you the one put Diddy in your ass. You did this. Nobody thought about this. You did this. And then I saw 50 post a clip of Diddy talking about Ray J on Drink Champs. Sounded crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, you know what I mean? 50 also posted yesterday too, talking about the doc. And we talked about this yesterday too with the podcast. Rap about. Let's rap about with Jim Jones may know Fab and Davies. He says, I didn't have this on my list of things to do, but if you insist, I'll make time. I'm working on buying the space where you film and 50 in. In 50 of your podcast. Buying 50 of the podcast. You know, I don't cap. That is his message to the guys over. Let's rap about this. This Diddy documentary is never going away.

[Tamar Braxton]

How many staff do 50 get? Like, he's everywhere all the time. He does is like who?

[DJ Envy]

He does it himself.

[Tamar Braxton]

He does.

[DJ Envy]

He posts himself.

[Tamar Braxton]

But like, how this is.

[DJ Envy]

He posts himself.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is like prime time special just on his Instagram.

[DJ Envy]

He's up right now. Say Goodbye.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, 50. I'm subscribed. Every time he posts, I just click what's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You subscribe?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, I'm subscribed. There are certain celebs. I subscribe to their social media because I don't. Yes, you can. Don't want to miss a thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What difference between that and just following them? I don't know. School lung.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It'll send you a notification. So like whenever you post.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I told you had to pay. So you ain't got to pay for something.

[Lauren LaRosa]

There aren't paid subscriptions too.

[Tamar Braxton]

But I Instagram.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, you can do pay paid subscription on Instagram. But I have like notifications set for your pages and for 50.

[DJ Envy]

Let me ask you a question. I think the executives of Netflix woke up this morning be like, is that the show we sure want? We're talking about Ray J's ass all morning long.

[Tamar Braxton]

Hey, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I mean, they just did a whole documentary.

[Tamar Braxton]

Look, Netflix is with the square.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was about to feel bad, like, dang.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, well, speaking of, ask the sh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who you giving your.

[DJ Envy]

Your donkey to?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not giving my donkey. Nobody. Okay? But donkey of the day is going to a young lady named Sophia Malak. She is a career shoplifter, but I just think she wanted to go to jail. We'll discuss.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Some donkey today just saw himself.

[Isaac Hayes III]

I've been watching Charlamagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was ready for. I never heard old donkey of the day.

[Isaac Hayes III]

What is it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Say it again.

[Tamar Braxton]

Charlamagne.

[DJ Envy]

I'm a donkey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, you are a donkey. Man saying is true. Yes. Donkey Today for Wednesday, December 17th goes to 24 year old Sophia Malak, okay? She is a career shoplifter from Harford, Wisconsin. And what I've realized during this holiday season is some people just need a warm place to stay, okay? It's really just that simple. Some individuals I refuse to believe are this stupid. They just want to be in jail right now, okay? They want to be in jail. They need a warm place to stay. I have a theory that some humans are fully aware of the crimes they're committing and how they are committing them. And the plan is for them to end up in jail because they know they will at least have a place to stay for a few hours, okay? A few meals and some heat. If the jails they're in have heat. But that's clearly a risks, you know, some folks are willing to take because there's no possible way some folks are this stupid. But maybe you are because I've been doing Donkey of the day every day on breakfast club for 15 years. Never a shortage of Hee Haws to deliver. And Sophia Malake is the latest. See, Sophia was quickly arrested in a Wisconsin Walmart because she is a career shoplifter, all right, that folks know by name and face. In fact, this most recent time she got arrested, shoplifting was the second time in just a matter of days case. All right, she had allegedly stolen over 600 worth of merchandise just days prior and was found with a cart full of items. But either Sophia don't know, don't show or don't care about the police because she decided to shoplift from Walmart while a Shop with a Cop charity event was happening. I can't make any of this stuff up. Let's go to ABC12 for the report, please.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Surveillance photos from A Hartford Walmart December 3rd show a woman walking out of the store with a cart overflowing with more than $600 worth of toys, decor and cloth clothes. One problem.

[Mimi Brown]

Police say she never paid.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hartford Police Chief Scott McFarland says the woman returned to the same Walmart a few days later. This time it was crawling with cops.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We were kind of incredulous that she would come back, considering there probably wasn't.

[Isaac Hayes III]

A corner that you could turn around.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In the store and not see a police officer.

[Mimi Brown]

Police were there for Shop With a.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Cop, an annual event where officers help kids fill holiday wish lists. The Hartford police chief says there were.

[Mimi Brown]

More than a dozen officers inside the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Store with their squad cars visible parked outside front. Still, he says she continued to walk inside the store and began filling up a cart. The chief says officers arrested her out of the view of the kids finding $900 worth of stolen toys in her car.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The criminal complaint says she told detectives.

[Mimi Brown]

She would have shoplifted again but changed her mind after seeing the police presence.

[Lauren LaRosa]

In the Walmart toy section.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shop with a cop, Sophia, not shoplift with a cop. Okay. She walked into a Walmart. Walmart. Now this is walked into a Walmart and shoplifted during a Shop with a Cop event. This is what the Hartford Police Department posted on their Facebook. Unfortunately for her, she walked straight into a Walmart during the one time of year when the store is basically a satellite police station. Right? The police officers knew who she was because they already labeled her a career shoplifter. Sophia never has a human needed a Change of environment more than you. Okay? This is why people send their nephews to live with their auntie and uncles in Bel Air. Okay? This is why Keisha had to move and transfer high schools in the Mar Brock Kill show, based off Judy Bloom's book Forever, that's on Netflix. Okay? She needed a change of environment due to the fallout from a sex tape her boyfriend Christian let everybody see. Sophia, you are in the same exact boat. You need a change of scenery, okay? Because if soon as you walk into a retail store, people know what you coming into do, that's the problem. All right? The Hartford Police Department said with a few quick observations and a whole lot of you've got to be kidding me, they confirmed who you were and took you into custody. Right there in the midst of Christmas cheer. My God. They got pictures of her dragging a loaded cart of stolen goods towards the exit. And the cops approached her and saw $250 worth of merchandise in her cart. And she told them that she was trying to get gift for her kids, but just eventually admitted she was just trying to steal. My God. Okay, she said she planned on stealing the goods, but decided against it after seeing the number of police in the store. Sophia, if you wanted to go to jail, just say that, okay? You saw all those cops when you walked in the store, when you was going from aisle to aisle filling up your cart, you saw all those cops, but you was probably thinking like I was thinking back in the day. See, I wouldn't say I was a career shoplifter, but I have shoplifted, okay? But what I would do is walk in the scope, walk in the store, take what I want. Never. Nothing serious, you know, Six pack of butt ice, some White Owl, Blunt, Source magazine, and just walk out. All right? Don't try to hide it, don't try to conceal it. Just walk in and walk right out. That's what I think Sophia was thinking. In her mind. She thought the police would never think I'm stealing with all them in here, so let me just try them real quick. But also, stealing out of Walmart is crazy because they always got the overzealous person that checks your receipt when you walking out. So I don't even know what Sophia was on, but cops also found $900 worth of toys in her trunk already, and now she faces felony retail theft charges. The Hartford Police Department had a little word of advice. They said if you're planning felony retail theft, maybe avoid the day when the building is basically 30% law enforcement and 70% rapid paper. Please Give Sophia Malake the sweet sounds in the home. The Hamiltones.

[DJ Envy]

Of the day. You was about to call them the homo tones.

[Tamar Braxton]

I heard you. But the crazy thing is I was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not about to say that.

[DJ Envy]

You said give them the sweet sounds of the homotones.

[Tamar Braxton]

That's what you was ready say, you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just want to be on that. That list, so.

[DJ Envy]

No, I'm not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's not a day going by anyway.

[DJ Envy]

Anyway.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[Tamar Braxton]

Only thing that where she went wrong and she got greedy. Because I ain't gonna lie. That's a lick. That is a lick.

[DJ Envy]

That is Booster A1 all day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, but 30 like the police said on a day on. On a time when it's 30. Law enforcement. So it's mad police in there. And then 70 wrapping paper. Meaning ain't nothing but put a lot of Christmas stuff in there for the most part.

[DJ Envy]

I. I just want to play a game.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh God.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What?

[DJ Envy]

I want to play again. Why you don't play again?

[Tamar Braxton]

Well, we obvious.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, let's play again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You think it's obvious? Okay, let's play a game of guess what races. Sophia Malay.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hartford, Wisconsin. Walked into a Walmart as a career shoplifter. Already had 900 worth of stolen goods in her trunk, but decided to walk in during a shop with the cop event and shoplift some more. Guess what? Racist white. I can see why you say that.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you say that?

[Tamar Braxton]

First of all, Wisconsin. Wisconsin.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Tamar Braxton]

And she thought like she was.

[DJ Envy]

She wouldn't be caught amongst all, all them cops. That's white people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Okay. All right. DJ Envy. Yes. 24 year old Sophia Malake, career shoplifter from Wisconsin, walked into a Walmart during a shopping with a cop event and decided to shoplift even though she already had $900 worth of stolen goods already in her truck. Guess what?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

White.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, just hilarious. And DJ envy. I want both of you to know that you are absolutely, positively correct. She hails from the Caucus Mountains. She is absolutely, positively Caucasian. She's had white Christmases for the last 24 years. Yes, yes, yes. Only white person gonna go into a.

[DJ Envy]

Store with a bunch of cops outside and still think they could get away with it.

[Tamar Braxton]

She thought she was gonna blend in. I'm telling you, that's how. That's how them white people think.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like this is. And this is a different. This is a privilege white. You can look at her and tell like she's like, I can't believe y' all arrested me.

[DJ Envy]

But y' all arrested me. She was mad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

She had no money to dye her hair. She ain't got no money. Wanted to.

[Tamar Braxton]

She tried to lie and say that the kid, the. She was stealing for our kids. All them damn toys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's like, walmart is mine. Okay. Career colonization. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today. Now when we come back, we have Isaac Hayes iii, one of the owners, the owner of fan Base, of course, a social media app. We're gonna talk to him. He's raising some money to make sure the app stays alive and continue some of the great features that the app has. We're gonna talk to him next, so don't go anywhere.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got Bing cry. That's been crazy, brother. I'm about to say I dreaming of.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yes, you are.

[DJ Envy]

Envy Christmas Y Breakfast T. Morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren laros is here as well, and we got a special guest in the building. We have Isaac Hayes iii.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, brother.

[Isaac Hayes III]

What's up, guys? How you doing?

[DJ Envy]

Good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Black and highly favored. How doing you, my brother?

[Isaac Hayes III]

All right. Excellent. I am highly favored and blessed as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what are we doing today, Isaac? What we doing? What are we doing?

[Isaac Hayes III]

What do you mean, what we doing? We're closing this round for fan base. We're closing this equity crowdfund for fan base. It closes today. I feel like this is a great opportunity for everybody to give an investment as a gift for people. You know, I've been here before, talked about the importance of investing, but especially with social media media, I think we really need to to galvanize right now at this time because the world is shifting. And so I'm telling everybody to go to startengine.com fanbase and invest to own equity in the company. 399 is the minimum investment, but it's a bigger story than just investing in fan base, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So when people ask the question, they say, okay, you know, you raised. You've raised millions of dollars for fan base. You know, they may want to invest. Walk us through line by line how that capital gets to deploy number one. What a matchup we got, y'. All. This is that classic HBCU vibe. Non stop action. The band is rocking and the crowd lit. Chance echo drum beat, everybody. Showing that school pride Game like this. Yeah, it calls for an ice cold Coca Cola. Ah, crisp and refreshing. That's a game changer right there. Yeah, that taste always hits the right note. Just like the band at halftime. And just like that, we're back at it. Passionate fans, school colors everywhere.

[DJ Envy]

And in ice cold Coca Cola.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a winning combo no matter the sport, no matter the yard. Everybody knows fan work is thirsty work. So grab a Coca Cola and keep that HBCU pride going. Do you like free money? Well, today's your lucky day. Better Picks is offering a free $10 just for signing your up. Download the Better App, pick more or less on your favorite player's stats, watch the games and win some cash. It's that simple. Better Pick is available in 33 states, including Texas, California and Georgia. Download the Better App today that's Better Betr and get a free $10. No deposit necessary. Must be 21 or older. In a jurisdiction where Better Picks operates, terms and conditions apply. Better Picks sports just got better 10.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Only one of you will leave here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

With an IFIT contract worth $250,000. This is where mindset comes in. Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

Your ticket to big savings is that big blue envelope in your mailbox. Valpak. It's brimming with deals from big name brands and your favorite local spots, dining services, stuff you're already buying, all for less. And you could score 100 or other instant prizes just for opening it. Or save even faster with mobile coupons you can use right [e-mail] Valpak there's definitely something in it for you.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Infrastructure. So we just built a brand new algorithm. You know, we spent almost half the year working on that. We have some new key hires. All this capital gets deployed in hiring better people. Like really people that used to work at Meta, they used to work at Tick Tock, they used to work at Snapchat. And those salaries aren't cheap. We also have to hire engineers to build what we're building and develop those Products and it takes time. Honestly, the amount of capital that I've raised over a five year period, period. Some people get deployed five times that capital in one year and they burn it all and they go out of business. And so we've had to really stretch. You know how they say, you know, mama say you make, make the, make the money stretch, make the food stretch. Yeah, we've had to really make this capital stretch with this company. But it, it's a testament to our ability to spend wisely, hire effectively and continue to be, build the best product.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I agree with you because, you know, we see these tech companies, they get, you know, crazy donations all the time, raised a lot of capital, a lot more capital than you have. How much have you raised over the last, what, five years?

[Isaac Hayes III]

20, $23 million.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

$23 million, like that? Yeah, that's, I mean, I'm not gonna say that's nothing because it is something, right? But compared to the other tech companies, you know, they get $100 million in a off, man.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Listen, some of these, Charlemagne, some of these companies have raised like 150, $300 million and have not built but one feature and they're not even around anymore. And that's because they blow the money. It's really, it's really tough for black founders. People understand like black founders get less than half of 1% of all capital raised. They don't want DEI, they're not trying to give us money. And especially someone like myself that is disrupting the tech space place in building something that we can own. And then, you know, black people are on the side of ownership. Like, you know, we, we don't own nothing. I know we talk about a lot of this, you know, a lot about building generational wealth and you know, those types of things. But we don't own the sports teams, we don't own the record labels, and we don't own, you know, Hollywood. And we help build up all of these infrastructures and we don't own them in social media. We help build up social media and they tell us to kiss their behind and they don't want DEI and all that kind of stuff. And so for me, this is a mission. This has been my mission, will continue to be my purpose and my calling to continue to build this company, allow us to finally have the infrastructure of something that can be worth hundreds of billions of dollars and pull us all up and give us opportunity.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We do have to acknowledge the black people who do own things though. Isaac, I think we, I've heard You say that before, but you know, I think, okay, you know, the urban ones of the world, you know, Kathy Hughes, you know, worldwide technology, you know, like there, there's, you know, play things like Uncle Nearest. Like there's a lot of things that black people do on.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Yeah, but, but look what's happening. Looks what's happening in a lot of these spaces. A lot of these companies either don't get the capital that they need. They're tried to, they're, you know, handcuffed in what they're able to do. And you really just name like three businesses out of like, you know, half a million.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh yeah, I can keep going. I mean there's, there's hundreds of black owned businesses. I'm just saying, like we, I think sometimes we put that narrative out there and I think we got to be more specific. Like black people can own more in the tech space. For sure. We do own things. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

But the biggest problem about it, Isaac and Charlemagne, I feel is, is sometimes we talk to people like they should know, right. A lot of these businesses that are getting these millions and 20 million and 50 million and raising $150 million are investors that have the money and know why they're investing, investing and hopefully know where their money's going. But for like somebody like you, Isaac, who, you know, who's been on the Breakfast Club numerous times and, and asking for money for, for crowdfunding, I think people want to know where that money is going and why. Break it down on a level where people will understand and what's next for the reason I'm asking and break it down for what fan base is and how much money is needed to make sure this gets to the place of a meta or a Twitter or, or Facebook or you know, Instagram. Because you have to tell people like, like what's the overall goal and what's needed to this. The fan base is self sufficient, so we don't have that. Or will it always be a thing like that for people that don't understand and don't know?

[Isaac Hayes III]

No, I think to explain how capital's deployed is, you know, it's kind of what I said earlier. Tech companies are not social media platforms are not cheap.

[DJ Envy]

Right, Correct.

[Isaac Hayes III]

And so there's two things is how fast you can do field, how well you can build. You know what I'm saying? And so if you don't have capital to build the right product, then it's not gonna, it's not going to happen. So we have salaries, we have infrastructure, we have all the tech Stack, you know, all the things that we do like we, we employ about 40 people. We have a lot of C suite executives that are, that are working and all this stuff is, is built enrolled into a company that is trying to fight the fight against major tech corporations. Now to explain what fan base is and understand why that it, that it costs what it costs. Fan base is basically social media through the lens of black ownership. But the functionality is the same, right? We do have posts, we have stories, we have live, we have short form, we have long form, we have audio chat, we have an algorithm, we have dms, we have subscriptions, we have tipping. All of those parts are put together in one platform, right? And, and integrated so that people can have the ability to monetize their content content from the moment that they sign up, build community. And when you think, and when you compare fan base like and I'll tell anybody to do this, compare fan base to your experience that you get on a tick tock or experience that you get on Instagram and just grade us based off that. But remember that those companies have 30, 000 engineers and have, you know, billions of dollars of capital. And here we are, you know, building up from the ground, up from scratch with a small team team and we're still here. And I think that's really the most important part. And then the things that we're, things that we're actually breaking, we're actually breaking the opportunity for black people to get into the micro drama space for users to actually monetize their, their data and have it trained by AI if they want to. But on Instagram, Tick tock, Facebook, they're training off your data right now, not paying you anything. And so this is a real challenge. But it's a lot of moving pieces and parts that come together to make this machine run.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How many months of Runway does fan base currently have?

[Isaac Hayes III]

We have about 18 months of Runway, a little bit longer than that. And, and you understand like even in that amount of time there's so much that you have to accomplish in that, in that period of time because you're always going to be raising capital. I think the difference between what I do and what everybody else is you publicly hear that I'm raising all the time. But startups are raising all the time. 50 million, 100 million, 200 million, 300 million. But it usually comes from VCS and private equity. And those deals aren't always made public. This is made public because the people that are investing are not the rich guys and the billionaires and the Oligarchs, it's you, it's me, it's the people that we know that are putting their money into the business. And so that's why it's so public and you see everything all the time.

[DJ Envy]

So when you say people are investing, so you say the minimum investment is 399. So if somebody invests that 399, what percentage are of the company or how much of an investment are they getting? What's the ROI on that for somebody who, you know, because it's tough out there, but so if somebody wants to give 3.99, they want to know what they're getting back.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Yeah. So every investment that you make, especially in the early stage company, you ride the life of the investment.

[DJ Envy]

Correct.

[Isaac Hayes III]

So you're here from the beginning all the way to we either IPO or somebody acquires the company. So you see like, like if, if Warner Brothers is about to get acquired and that's a different scenario, but when that company is acquired, the shareholders in that company will all be bought in, out. Right. And then Netflix or whoever will acquire that company. So when you do early stage investing like that in seed startups, that's what you get. And so for 3.99 you're getting a small, small, small piece of the company. But the upside of what I tell people is that the value in which these tech companies get to is where you see a return on your investment. So we're valued at $160 million right now I want to put that in perspective of what Met is valued at. Met is a 1.9 trillion dollar company company. So you think about 1.6 billion, 16 billion, 160 billion. That's a thousand X return. So someone that invests 399, even if we get to something that is 10 times less valuable than Meta, 5 times less valuable than Tick Tock and Instagram, that's still a thousand x return on the type of investment that you're putting in there. And that's the, that's the part that people don't understand. When you invest in anything business, they tell you like 15 is an amazing return on investment. And I didn't, I didn't raise capital this way to give somebody 15 back. I didn't want somebody to put in $400. Right. And give $440 back. I'm not doing it for that or 445 back. That's not what I'm doing. I'm investing. I built a tech company so that people could put 400 in 250 in. And together we build something that can be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, that's still far below what other tech companies have, and exit that company. And then at that time, you know, we're distributing generational wealth to our people because it's tech. The fastest way to grow wealth right now currently is in the tech space. And you can't save your way to wealth. You have to invest. We don't think a lot about investing nowadays. We're not really thinking about, you know, putting our money into things that we can see a, a long return. They will tell us to go do prize picks and gamble and, and play the lottery and go to Vegas. Like that's all, all that, all of that is the stuff that they push on people of color. No one in these other rooms, people are getting together quietly and saying, hey, put your money in this startup, put your money in that startup. And they're not telling the average person to do this kind of thing because that's the lockout. They want the access to the best deals, all the VCs and investors want the access to the best opportunity to invest. And so that's why this is important. This is breaking a whole system down that a lot of people don't. I've seen more people now use equity crowdfunding funding, especially people of color, since I started. And I was one of the first people to really start doing this, to have major success at it. Now everybody does equity crowdfunding. I've seen startups and I've introduced multiple people to equity crowdfunding because it's a way to circumvent the racism, the discrimination and all the things that exist. And so that's why it's important.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So when should, when should investors reasonably expect the return? And in what form would that ROI look like?

[Isaac Hayes III]

So that ROI would be probably eight years. I always say, like, you know, six to eight years is when you invest, right? And, and you see a return. Like prime example, again, like Uber had seed investment in 2010, in 2019, they went public. So it took nine years. But the people that invested in that nine year period saw a 5000x return, right? On those, on, on that investment. And that's, those are people that put $5,000 in. And so $24 million come back, right? And so any early stage company, you would think between, you know, six to nine years, you would get a return on your investment. And then how that happens is through a liquidity event. And the liquidity event is somebody either buys the company, like somebody who Says, okay, we're gonna buy fan base at a higher valuation than it was before, or we go public, which is still selling the company. And that's when we, you know, you ring the bell in the stock market and everybody can sell their shares that day. Oh. And that's what money comes in. And people and buy shares. So that's how it works.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold on now. You said five to six years. So, you know, people are going to be looking like, wait a minute, I. I put money in back in 2019, 2020. So you show you.

[Isaac Hayes III]

We didn't rate.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, we didn't.

[Isaac Hayes III]

We didn't really raise capital. We didn't close our first round till 2021.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, right, okay.

[Isaac Hayes III]

So that's what I'm saying. We didn't close our first round till 2021.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And again. But again.

[Isaac Hayes III]

And also, those are people that get, like, VC dollars, charlamagne. That's what I'm saying. Like, this is. People don't understand how incredibly hard this is. But it. I love it because it's the, The. It's the biggest challenge of my life. And it. And we're being successful at it, and we'll continue to be successful. But, man, like, this is like, you know, this is. This is. This is an amazing. A journey and process for me. But yeah, this is also, it's also.

[DJ Envy]

It'S also teaching because we talk about generational wealth, and it talks about some of the times where people don't understand because we've never been taught. It's not like we've had millions and millions of dollars passed down from generations like, you know, other backgrounds have. So it's also a teaching method.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

So you're teaching people what it means to crowdsource and to get money and to put money down and how much money you can get back. So it's also a matter of teaching. So answering the question shouldn't be really a problem because you're teaching a generation that might not know.

[Isaac Hayes III]

No, absolutely. That's why. That's why I consistently have, you know, told other people to actually invest. Right. And I mean, other people to use equity crowdfunding. I've helped like, five or six other companies raise through equity crowdfunding and told them about equity crowdfunding. And that's a really good thing because. Because it's an alternative to black people going to banks, an alternative for black people trying to get loans and trying to ask venture, you know, go for venture dollars or angel investing, where those deals can be predatory. A lot of what I do is Disruptive because of what I knew coming from the music business. Right. So I knew that I had to create two classes of stock and, and make sure that no one else has voting shares because that's when people try to force you out of your company. Company. Right. And, and I, and I knew that the, the deals that you get from angel investors are sometimes predatory. So somebody gives me $200,000 to invest in fan base. When I first had the idea, they get 20 of the company and I put my own $200,000 in it. So I saved that 20. Right. So those are the things that most people don't know because a lot of my friends that are founders got forced out of their companies, they got taken advantage of, they got in bad deals that, that don't allow them to raise capital from other people. So it's really real. It's, it's a dirty game. It's not as dirty as the music business. But for me it's something that I was very, very familiar with because I know, you know, a lot of founders just come in with a great idea and then they get some guys in there like, yeah, here's half a million dollars, but I want a board seat and XYZ and all that kind of stuff. You get vote out of the company. Ask as Stacy Sparks. I know, I don't know if you've ever seen Movie Pass, but the guys that invented Movie Pass for two black guys, they took in capital, they had board seats that got voted out of their own company. The guys ran up a huge battle bill on Movie Pass and destroyed the whole company. Some white dudes. And that's what I'm saying is like, that's what happens when, when we try to build our businesses. It's very, very predatory. But I'm, it's going to take, it's going to be harder and it's going to take longer, but it's going to be well worth it because people can follow my blueprint and do exactly what I did. And I'm paving that way so that you know, you can own your company, not get voted out, have as much equity as you possibly can to give yourself more the ability to raise more capital. All that stuff is important.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So how do they invest? Excited.

[Isaac Hayes III]

They go to startengine.comfanbase to invest. That's, you know, startengine.comfanbase to invest. A minimum is $399. You get 60 shares of stock and fan base and you will own the infrastructure of social media and micro dramas in the future.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

Well, thank you, Isaac Hayes. The third week and it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You fill me up Swallow me up.

[DJ Envy]

Whoa, you didn't say that.

[Tamar Braxton]

Crazy.

[DJ Envy]

He didn't say that. I don't know what's going on with you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no. I'll be thinking about the video when Chris Brown was mocking Bishop TD Jake. Remember Bishop Jake says, have you ever been swalled up?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I did not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's so funny. Swallowed up can you swallow me up?

[DJ Envy]

All right, let's get to the latest with Lauren. This guy's crazy. Lauren becoming a straight face.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets him from somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on the.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit everything.

[Isaac Hayes III]

What was the latest on the Breakfast Club?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, guys, good morning. So we have another update. I know we've been following this case. Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Reiner who were killed in their home over the weekend allegedly by their son Nick. So yesterday the LA District attorney attorney Nathan Hochum announced that they formally filed charges against Nick Reiner. The charges are two counts, two counts of first degree murder for the death of his parents. Let's take a listen to the D A talking about Nick.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Today I'm here to announce that our office will be filing charges against Nick Reiner who is accused of killing his parents. Actor director Rob Reiner and photographer producer Michelle Singer Reiner. Minor these charges will be two counts of first degree murder with a special circumstance of multiple murders. He also faces a special allegation that he personally used a dangerous and deadly weapon, that being a knife. These charges carry a maximum sentence of.

[DJ Envy]

Life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No decision at this point has been made with respect to the death penalty penalty we have requested. And currently Nick Reiner is being held without bail. Was there a murder weapon found? He has been alleged one of these.

[DJ Envy]

Special allegations is that the murder was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Committed with a deadly weapon or a knife. As to where and and how the weapon will be was located or will be located that will actually be evidence will present in court. I pray he has no access to his parents money. I pray that they didn't leave him anything in their will because if he's able to use his parents resources to fight his case, that would just feel wrong.

[DJ Envy]

Hell yeah.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And to leave something in your will to somebody who actually took your life.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I hope he gets none of that. I hope he gets no access to that. I hope he can't use that money to. To pay lawyers. I. I hope not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wonder how that works. I wonder how legally how that works if I. Because you don't expect to get taken out by your own children. Right. But you leave them stuff and they will. I wanted. I wonder how that works.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm not for sure, but I know yesterday his attorney, who is a powerhouse attorney, and when I. That. Because this is the same attorney that just got Karen Reed off as well. She was going through a case about. So Karen Reed is a woman who they alleged had like, backed up. She would. That she was driving under the influence of something and that she had backed up and hit a man who was a police officer with her car and left him for. Basically for dead. And he was able to get her off of basically all of the serious charges in that case. But. So he showed up to court yesterday on Nick's behalf and he's a powerhouse attorney. That's like, literally, if you look him up, like, he's known as like a big attorney, so I'm assuming he's pretty expensive. But yesterday, Nick Reiner was not in court because he didn't pass like a medical clearance. And remember I told you guys that I reached out when the whole suicide stuff was mentioned to see if this was procedural or if something was said. And yesterday Alan Jackson, who is the attorney that I'm talking about for Nick Reiner, said that the fact that he didn't pass the medical clearance or get the medical clearance done before court and was able to not able to come to court was something that was procedural. And he says that they're going to be back every day until that clearance or whatever is needed because Nick is supposed to make an appearance in court, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gotcha. I wonder what goes through a lawyer's mind when you have to take a case like this. You know what I mean?

[Isaac Hayes III]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, like, for such a heinous case like this, like. Yeah. What are you trying to do?

[DJ Envy]

I mean, I'm sure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Makes me think of that movie, Devil's Advocate. Remember?

[Tamar Braxton]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Love Devil's Advocate for some movie.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sure it's publicity. I'm sure it's press, but I wouldn't want to. This type of press, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, but if he said money. Unk. Duh. I know that, but damn, I'm scared.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I. But if he's used to doing cases like this, it's just something that he takes on because I know that Karen Reed case was a, was a big deal. Like I remember seeing headlines about it, you know what I mean? So I, I don't know but Nick is still being held at Men's Central Jail in la and we'll just, you know, keep, I guess bring you guys updates on what happens and when it happens. Okay, now switching gears a bit. So Kai Sanat celebrating his birthday and he posted a video. You guys remember back at the streamer awards he got on stage and he talked about some of the mental health things that he's been battling in just different new ventures he wants to try and explore. So he posted a video in celebration of his birthday kind of explaining further. Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A few days ago I spread awareness on mental health and how important it is to take care of yourself. And honestly for the past few months I've been struggling with mental health out of self doubt and fright of pursuing goals that I really want to achieve.

[DJ Envy]

And the reason I really been in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My head is because I just wanted to do more. I've gained to realize that I'm a true creator and I'm very passionate about creating and I have other goals and things that I just want to achieve. I would love to show you guys what I've been working on for the past few months through my more personal page which is KC3 hidden. I just want to let you guys know that sometimes it is important to take care of your mental health and honestly it's been getting better. But out of frustration and fear I just been in my head for some reason. I never had this feeling before but I truly want to create and I.

[DJ Envy]

Don'T know if I'm getting mature or.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just looking things at a broad point of view but I am so passionate about creating in general and I'm excited to show you guys what's going on. Thank you.

[Tamar Braxton]

Shout out to Kai.

[DJ Envy]

Shout out to Kai. You gotta remember Kai's only 23 years old.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So the fact that this is coming fast, the fame, the money and everything, everything, it takes a lot. So I'm glad he's getting him making sure his mental is good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I'm glad that he's focused on his mental and emotional well being and you know, don't put too much pressure on yourself Kai. Like everybody just said, you're only 23 years old, you've achieved so much, you got a long life and career ahead of you, man. And you know, anxiety comes with worrying about things that are out of your control. So you Know, I'm glad that he's focusing on his mental health. And you gotta, you know, you gotta let God get your steering wheel.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And just be an obedient passenger, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I'm glad he's got his vulnerability. Yeah. And on this new personal page, he's already started posting. So, like, a lot of people who, like, identify with what he's saying, he's like, okay, we're gonna do this together. I'm gonna take you step by step. He posted a book that he's been reading, Atomic Habits. He says, notice I've been speaking better because I've been reading.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fantastic. Atomic Habits is a fantastic book.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So he's. I followed the page because I identify with some of the stuff he's saying. So he's gonna take us on the journey. Atomic habits, huh?

[DJ Envy]

Don't play with me.

[Tamar Braxton]

Don't tell me not to worry about it.

[DJ Envy]

I need to talk about. What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

It.

[Tamar Braxton]

Look.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do want to tell one more thing, though. And I've been saying this a lot to a lot of people, and I want y' all to remember this, man. 2025 is a nine year. Nine means completion. So if you feel like some things are coming to an end, it's because they are. Okay? And it's the year of the snake. So you're supposed to shed everything that no longer serves you and make way for new beginnings. So any shifts you are feeling in your mental and your emotional, you're supposed to be feeling. Okay. It's supposed to be happening. Embrace it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got, what, 14 days?

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

14 days until the. The. The year of the horse. So embrace it. Shed everything that no longer serves you. Leaving 2025, it's about endings because it's a nine year and it's about new beginnings. So please. So it's okay to feel like that right now.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The mix is up next.

[DJ Envy]

It's all about my New York Knicks. Congratulations, New York Up Mix.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did you hear what she just said? What? I'm gonna go to God and ride a horse.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They do it on the beach. It'll help me bring. I'm going into the new year. All right.

[DJ Envy]

It's the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We gotta salute to Tamar Braxton for joining us this morning.

[Tamar Braxton]

That's my girl.

[DJ Envy]

Her new album, Heartbreak Retrograde, is out right now. And also Isaac Hayes iii, of course, he's the owner of Fan Base, he stopped through this morning as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

Now you're in D.C. this weekend.

[Tamar Braxton]

I am in D.C. this weekend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big D.C. start thirst.

[Tamar Braxton]

Yeah, I start Thursday. We got shows tomorrow, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So dc, y' all got me for four days. It's a four day weekend because I just gotta keep adding shows.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Four shows has sold out, so we.

[Tamar Braxton]

Had to add five and six. Hopefully I' ma keep adding them because I got to make up for the two free ones that I just did. But we did. We collected over a thousand toys and we will be able to to serve the Baltimore communities, the less fortunate families who cannot give their kids Christmas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yep.

[Tamar Braxton]

But D.C. if you have not gotten your tickets yet, new shows were added. Jessalariusofficial.com Me and Desi will be doing meet and greet.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I will be doing meet and greet.

[Tamar Braxton]

And I will have merch available, guys. So get your tickets if you haven't yet.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'll see y' all tomorrow.

[DJ Envy]

D.C. all right. Charlamagne, you got a positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do, man. I've just been reminding y' all every day, and I'm gonna remind y' all every day that this is the year of the snake. It's 14 days left. And you know you're supposed to shed everything that no longer serves you to go into 2026 to make way for the year of the horse. And I know people always like to say snakes are bad, but just know that snakes are a symbol of transformation. They teach us how vital it is to shed what no longer serves us. Serves us. Snakes must literally shed or die. So as painful as letting go of what restricts us can sometimes be is what allows us to survive, grace, grow, and thrive. So share job. Y' all got 14 days left to shed what no longer serves you. Have a great day. Breakfast Club. Wake you up. Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Isaac Hayes III]

Program your alarm to power 105.1 on iHeartradio.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Isaac Hayes III]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Brilliant. Just brilliant. This week the west coast action heats.

[Isaac Hayes III]

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[Tamar Braxton]

10 athletes will face the toughest job.

[Mimi Brown]

Interview in fitness that will push past.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Physical and mental breaking points.

[Mimi Brown]

You are the fittest of the fit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Only one of you will leave here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

With an IFIT contract worth $250,000. This is where mindset comes in. Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Trainer games on Prime Video January 8th.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Watch the trailer on trainergames.com this is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed human.